Facebook has announced a new ‘Like button’ to share content from third-party apps along with other changes on Wednesday at its f8 developers conference. The feature is currently on iOS in beta
Indian frontrunner for prime minister Narendra Modi predicted defeat for the Gandhi political dynasty as he voted Wednesday in his home state in the latest stage of the country’s mammoth elections. Voters
A new method can identify what information will be relevant on social networks such as Twitter and predict what will “go viral” across the Internet up to two months in advance. This
The Facebook Messenger app for iOS is now receiving an update that takes the current version 4.0 to 5.0. The official changelog notes that the Facebook Messenger app (version 5.0) for iOS
Pinterest on Thursday announced a new milestone for the company, and also discussed its growth over the past six months, at an event at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. The visual
Facebook profits tripled to $642 million in the first quarter on a 72-percent surge in revenues helped by strong gains in mobile users and mobile advertising. Demonstrating that it is successfully following
Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a feature allowing users of its mobile app to use smartphone location to discover friends near them.The optional “nearby friends” feature “helps you discover
Dutch police said on Monday they were questioning a 14-year-old girl in connection with an apparent threat she sent to American Airlines via Twitter over the weekend. A spokeswoman for Rotterdam police
Indian law enforcement agencies requested Facebook to block content in 4,765 instances citing local laws between July and December last year, the largest by any country. The social networking giant said it
How frequently do you Tweet? You could well be one of the millions of ‘silent users’ who seldom tweet, a study says. Almost half of Twitter’s 974 million active users have
Fed-up with the massive rigging that took place in previous elections, Afghan voters have been using social media to highlight alleged fraud, and officials are starting to take notice. Smartphone videos of
Cuba plans to launch its own social media networks to counter “subversive” ones such as a Twitter-like app the United States was funding, an official said Wednesday. Last week, the White House acknowledged