San Francisco : Aimed at reducing hateful content on its platform, Twitter will start penalising accounts from Monday that include "hateful imagery and display names", or those who "use username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behaviour", the media...
London : Downplaying claims that Kremlin-backed groups helped swing the Brexit vote in 2016, Facebook has told EU investigators that less than one pound was spent by Russians on ads posted on its platform during the referendum, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. On...
San Francisco : With political pressure mounting on digital giants to pay more taxes, Facebook has announced plans to move to a local selling structure in countries where it has an office -- a move aimed at paying tax in the country where profits are earned....
San Francisco : Google has beaten Facebook to become publishers' main source of external page views over the course of 2017, a new data showed. Google used to be the main source of referral traffic for web publishers. Then Facebook eclipsed it, ReCode reported late on...
San Francisco : WhatsApp is testing new features for its over one billion users that include tap to unblock and private replies in groups, among others. In the latest WhatsApp Android Beta version, spotted by the popular fan website WABetaInfo, "when you want to...
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : Social media has fast emerged as a market of its own where selling and buying are both easier and more practical. But there has been a slow and steady rise of "promoted content" on such platforms, where one can increase the reach of one's...
San Francisco : More than a year after launching "Instant Games" -- a new platform for gaming with friends on the Messenger chat app, Facebook has announced support for live streaming via Facebook Live and video chatting with fellow gamers. "First, we're launching...
London : YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children. In an interview to The Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned...
London : Facebook has opened a new office in London and has announced that it would hire 800 people which will take the total strength of its employees in Britain to 2,300 workers by the end of 2018, the media reported on Monday. The new seven-storey office building...
San Francisco : Taking US President Donald Trump's side once again, Twitter has retracted its previous explanation for why it did not remove Trump's tweets that included graphic anti-Muslim videos. Trump this week retweeted videos by far-right British politician Jayda...