In a rather interesting revelation, a study has shown that China uses a staggering 488 million fake profiles on internet to divert some real discussions from going deeper into the layers of…
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Man Deletes His Entire Company with a Single Line of Code
Here is a piece of news we hardly hear from the IT industry. In a world where every IT guy keeps hundreds of backups to make sure they have all the important…
The FBI has Issued a PSA Warning about Car Hacking
Yesterday, three U.S. organizations released a public service announcement regarding the dangers, necessary precautions, and what to do in the event of a remote exploit of your motor vehicle, aka car hacking. The Federal…
Facebook rolls out live streaming app ‘Mentions’ for verified users
Facebook on Thursday rolled out its live streaming app, Mentions, for journalists and other verified users to help then share more of their work on the social networking platform. Released in July…
Majority of Americans turning to Facebook and Twitter for news consumption: Report
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are turning into influential news sources for majority of Americans, a new survey has found. According to a survey conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center…
Facebook finalises nine launch partners for its “Instant Articles” program
Facebook has partnered with nine news publishers to roll out new feature dubbed “Instant Articles” which will allow them to publish news stories directly on to the social network’s mobile news feeds….
Facebook to roll out ‘Instant Articles’ feature as early as this month: Report
Facebook is reportedly planning to roll out a new feature dubbed ‘Instant Articles’ which will let users browse through news articles without leaving the social network. According to The Wall Street Journal,…
Facebook updates News Feed to take on fake news stories
Facebook on Tuesday announced it has updated its News Feed with a new feature that will work to take on “hoaxes” and fake news stories. The social networking giant said it has…
Snapchat to open doors for advertisers
The popular messaging network is reportedly in talks with a dozen media companies for the new service – Snapchat Discovery.
Twitter, CNN come together to develop Dataminr for News
Twitter has joined hands with cable news company CNN to develop a new tool for journalist that would help them identify and cover breaking news faster than ever. Dubbed Dataminr for News…
Facebook may launch its own news reader as early as this month [Rumour]
Facebook is all set to launch its own news reader similar to Flipboard sometime later this month. Re/code, citing an unnamed source “familiar with the matter”, has revealed that the news reader…
Twitter tames Event Parrot to deliver breaking news
Twitter is one of the most sought after go-to resource for breaking news and real-time information and it seems that the microblogging platform now wants to cash-in on its popularity as an…
Google Fights Proposed German Copyright Law
Google has launched a campaign calling for the German people to petition against proposed legislation that could allow German websites to charge search engines a fee for featuring their content in search…