Washington, (IANS) : Joining the list of global companies who have faced users' data breach in the recent past, a Yahoo investigation has confirmed that at least 500 million user accounts were hacked in late 2014 which, it believes, was a "state-sponsored" attack. The...
New York, (IANS) : Between January and June this year, the Indian government made 139 account information requests and requested for 42 accounts to be removed from the micro-blogging website, Twitter's biannual transparency report revealed on Thursday. Twitter is,...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Signalling how important India is for its growth, Facebook has hired Anand Chandrasekaran, a former Yahoo executive who was working as chief product officer at e-tailer Snapdeal, to boost future prospects for its Messenger app. Based out of...
London, (IANS) : Technology giant Microsoft is planning to close its London office of Skype and to lay off most of the nearly 400 people employed there, a media report here said. "Microsoft made the decision to unify some engineering positions, potentially putting at...
New York, (IANS) : Facebook and Twitter have joined a network of more than 30 international media companies and organisations in an effort to filter out fake news stories and to improve the quality of information found online. "First Draft Coalition, an...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Global online payment service provider PayU has acquired Indian payments technology player, Citrus Pay, for $130 million in an all-cash deal, a joint-statement said here on Wednesday. The agreement is due to close in the third quarter of 2016. The...
New York, (IANS) : A co-founder of social media giant Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz said he was donating $20 million to help ensure the defeat of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential elections. "If Donald Trump wins, the country will fall...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : As most of us spend a considerable amount of time on various digital platforms -- Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, WhatsApp and the like -- a pertinent question now arises: What happens to our digital possessions once we...
Abuja (Nigeria), (IANS) : After visiting Rome where he met the Pope, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reached Nigeria, which is the social networking giant's largest African market. With 16 million people visiting the social media platform monthly, Nigeria...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi, (IANS) : India is poised to become the world's leading market for Cloud, and for US software major Oracle, Cloud is a force-multiplier that the country must embrace to leapfrog into the digital era, a top company executive has said. India...