San Francisco : Hit by the growth of Facebook-owned Instagram 'Stories', photo-sharing platform Snapchat managed to add only seven million daily active users (DAUs) in the second quarter of 2017. Announcing financial results for the quarter ended June 30, Snap Inc...
Beijing : China's largest social media platforms -- Weibo, WeChat and Baidu Tieba -- are under investigation for alleged violations of cyber security laws, the country's internet watchdog announced on Friday. The Office for Cyberspace Administration said the three...
San Francisco : After rolling out 'Night Mode' feature for smartphones earlier this year, Micro-blogging platform Twitter may soon bring it to desktops. The 'Night Mode' has been seen on desktop in select users' accounts, 9To5Google reported on Wednesday. This mode...
San Francisco : Google CEO Sunder Pichai has reportedly cut his vacation short to deal with the crisis over an anti-diversity "manifesto" that went viral inside the company and infuriated thousands of employees. The tech giant has also reportedly fired the engineer...
By Abdul Hafiz Lakhani, Ahmedabad : The Gujarat government is preparing a draft bill, which is likely to be tabled in the state assembly during the two-day monsoon session that starts from August 8. The proposed bill has raised a controversy with many alleging it may...
San Francisco : Facebook has leapfrogged Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet in securing maximum profit per employee in the second quarter of 2017 while Twitter suffered a hefty loss, a media report said. Facebook, which employed 20,658 persons in the past...
San Francisco : Amid allegations of fake news on Facebook affecting election results, social networking giant Facebook is testing a feature that slips "top posts" from local politician's into your News Feed. The feature will appear not more than once per week, and...
San Francisco : Search engine giant Google had offered $30 billion to buy Snap Inc -- the parent company of popular messaging app Snapchat -- in 2016 and a similar offer is still open, a media report said. Google had held informal dialogue with Snap and floated an...
San Francisco : After the success of "Stories" feature on Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook has begun testing the feature on its desktop site now. "Stories" are ephemeral posts that include photos or video that are visible for 24 hours before they disappear. According...
San Francisco : In the coming months, Facebook is updating its News Feed to show more weblinks that load faster and less stories which take time to open. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook executives said they had heard from people how frustrating it is to click on...