By Qais Abu Samra, Ramallah, Palestine: Facebook has unilaterally closed several pro-Palestine pages for “incitement” in a move Palestinians describe as a flagrant violation of the freedoms of opinion and expression. According to Palestinian daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida,...
San Francisco : Facebook is testing a new feature where it will have city-specific local news, events and announcements available on its platform. The test is currently live for a new section called "Today In" in six US cities, CNET reported on Thursday. Users in test...
San Francisco : Sidestepping once again whether Donald Trump's tweets violates its terms of service, the micro-blogging platform has clarified that it will not block the US President's tweets because he is a world leader. In a blog post called "World Leaders on...
London : Users in India and other parts of the world went into a frenzy after WhatsApp went down puncturing their plans to wish their friends a "prosperous 2018" at the stroke of midnight. It was restored in two hours. At midnight, a large spike was seen in the number...
New Delhi : At a time when bitcoins are in focus for all the wrong reasons, cryptocurrency dealer Pluto Exchange on Thursday announced the launch of India's first mobile application for transacting in the virtual currency. At a press conference here, Pluto Exchange...
San Francisco : A month after Twitter doubled its 140-character restriction for people to express more in a tweet, users were divided on the new 280-character limit with only 38 per cent approving the change, a new survey has found. According to the survey by...
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme "Mann Ki Baat" was the most trending hashtag on Twitter in 2017, followed by #jallikattu and #GST, the micro-blogging platform said on Thursday. #Mannkibaat sparked a great deal of commentary all over the...
Kolkata : With less than one-third of India's internet users being females, the country's girls and women risk becoming further marginalised in society and at home if they remain digitally illiterate in the backdrop of the country making a public push towards a more...
New York : Several big companies are posting recruitment ads on Facebook which are only visible to a certain age group and selectively exclude older workers from seeing those job postings, an investigation has revealed. The joint investigation by US-based non-profit...
San Francisco : The Indian government requested Facebook for data 9,853 times in the first half of 2017 - up from 6,324 times in the first half of 2016 -- Facebook's latest 'Government Requests Report' revealed on Tuesday. Facebook restricted access to 1,228 pieces of...