San Francisco/New Delhi, (IANS) : Facebook has announced that it is piloting new tools that will give people in India more control over who can download and share their profile pictures. "In India, we've heard that people want more control over their profile pictures,...
London, (IANS) : Governments and individuals are widely using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda to manipulate public opinion around the world, an alarming nine-countries study has said. According to the...
San Francisco, (IANS) : In what could revive the future of Snap Inc, parent company of popular photo-sharing app Snapchat, cable television company Time Warner has announced to produce shows for the social media platform as part of a two-year deal valued at $100...
New York, (IANS) : Adding to the fear that full artificial intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race, researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) have found that while they were busy trying to improve chatbots, the "dialog...
New York, (IANS) : Online retail giant Amazon announced on Friday that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. In a news release, Amazon said it would acquire the upscale supermarket chain for $42 a share in an all-cash...
California (IINA) : Google Company has created an application recently to its Muslim users this Ramadan that show them the direction of the Qibla. The company is making it easier to search for Qibla the direction in which Muslims turn to pray by launching a Qibla...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : As billions of people share a plethora of emotions on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and what not, advertisers see a future market -- more mammoth than they could ever conceive of. If you have gone through occasional bouts...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Facebook-owned Instagram has introduced a new feature called "Archive" which lets you move previously shared posts into a private space much like photo-sharing app Snapchats "Memories". Instagram hopes that "Archive" will not only stop people...
New York, (IANS) : In line with its plan to enter the original content business, Facebook is set to revive the reality competition series "Last State Standing". The social media giant has recently closed a deal for reviving the reality competition series "Last State...
London, (IANS) : To enable financial institutions monitor data on WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging platforms in line with the upcoming European Union (EU) directive, BlackBerry has partnered with the leading mobile surveillance and compliance firm VoxSmart....