With an aim to expand its global presence, Pinterest, has been taking a lot of steps recently and the latest one is the revamp of its mobile site. Pinterest recently updated its…
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Mt. Gox pauses Bitcoin withdrawals citing technical issues
World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has temporarily suspended Bitcoin withdrawals with immediate effect citing technical issues. Mt. Gox revealed that a number of customers are facing issues while withdrawing Bitcoins and…
YouTube turns strict on ‘fake’ video views issue
In an attempt to crackdown “fraudulent views” and keep a check on artificially inflated view counts, YouTube has announced its plans to audit video views stats on its website. The new system…
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s 10th birthday: ‘We just cared more’
The ten year old journey, which started with founding of Facebook on February 4, 2004, has been ‘extremely amazing’, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the world’s biggest social network….
New DotShabaka domain goes live
The launch of Arabic dot-shabaka (شبكة.) extension has marked the beginning of a new era for internet registrations. The Arabic net address ending in شبكة. – pronounced dot shabaka, and meaning web…
Tech giants reveal government data request details
Leading tech firms Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn, on Monday published their reports which mentioned in detail the government’s snoop-data requests as part of its mass surveillance programme. The tech giants…
NHS website redirected users to malware infested website
Hundreds of page of UK’s National Health Service (NHS) website were known to redirect users to malware infested website it has been revealed. First noticed and reported by Reddit user Muzzers, over…
Extratorrent was down due on issues with hosting provider
One of the most visited torrent site on the Internet, Extratorrent, suffered from connectivity issues with many believing that the site was taken down by law enforcement authorities on piracy grounds. The…
Kaspersky: Facebook is after your SMS, other confidential information
Facebook for Android requests permissions that are overly intrusive and in case of one particular such permission the social networking giant fails to provide a reason.
WeChat processed 10 million messages in one minute on Chinese New Year Eve
Growing popularity of WeChat in China is evident from the fact that more than 10 million messages were sent in a single minute on the eve of Chinese New Year. The information…
UK Gov compiling ‘whitelist’ to counter porn filter over-blocking
The UK government is reportedly making changes to the adult content filter system to prevent over-blocking of legitimate, age-appropriate sites, run by charities with the aim to educate young people about health,…
Facebook turning 10 on February 4
With an aim in mind to build a website that would change the way people interact with each other across the world, a curly-haired 19-year-old boy, Mark Zuckerberg, launched “The facebook” from…
Yahoo planning its own search engine?
Yahoo, which currently uses Bing search technology to power its search engine, is looking out for an alternative and may break up its “Search Alliance” with Microsoft, new reports have claimed. According…
Gmail iOS bug might have accidentally deleted emails
Google’s email service was recently struck with a nasty bug that resulted in inadvertent deletion of some emails and other related issues. The issue reportedly happened days before the downtime that struck…
Indian, Pakistani hackers battle it out on cyber turf
Hactivists from both the countries battle it out to commemorate the 65th Republic Day of India – over 2200 websites hacked and defaced.