Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, has replaced virtually every crucial executive at the company in the last few months as he has struggled to figure out how to get more people using
If you log on to your Facebook account while at work, you have now less reason to be apprehensive as researchers have found that top managers are the ones who use private social media most for
Microsoft has taken legal action to combat the spread of malware that the company says can be traced to bad actors in Kuwait and Algeria. In a recent civil suit, Microsoft named
Facebook and the New York district attorney’s office are in a bitter fight over a privacy question that was bound to come up sooner or later in the digital age: Does a
Facebook said Friday that it had blocked users in Pakistan from access to the pages of a popular Pakistani rock band and several left-wing political pages, drawing sharp criticism from free-speech activists
Immediately after the results of India’s general elections were announced a controversy over ‘@pmoindia’, the Twitter handle of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), rocked the Indian political scene. The tussle between the outgoing and
Social media isn’t really a place where you can share measured opinions and carefully worded statements that have gone through the gamut of the PR department and the legal team as well.
Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a feature allowing users of its mobile app to use smartphone location to discover friends near them.The optional “nearby friends” feature “helps you discover
Indian law enforcement agencies requested Facebook to block content in 4,765 instances citing local laws between July and December last year, the largest by any country. The social networking giant said it
How frequently do you Tweet? You could well be one of the millions of ‘silent users’ who seldom tweet, a study says. Almost half of Twitter’s 974 million active users have
Fed-up with the massive rigging that took place in previous elections, Afghan voters have been using social media to highlight alleged fraud, and officials are starting to take notice. Smartphone videos of
Cuba plans to launch its own social media networks to counter “subversive” ones such as a Twitter-like app the United States was funding, an official said Wednesday. Last week, the White House acknowledged
