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
We know WhatsApp, the popular messaging service for smartphones, will soon be adding voice calling feature. Earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum had said the voice-calling service
Scientists have developed a computer algorithm that predicts whether a photo will go viral on Facebook by watching how fast it is shared. Stanford researchers said the clues to predicting which of
India, which accounts for over 93 million Facebook users, reported the largest number of bugs under the social networking giant’s bug bounty programme last year. The California-headquartered firm said it received a
IT giant IBM has been gearing up for a major global expansion. The company has now announced that its has sorted $100 million investment capital to set up a total of eight
Spamming and phishing on social-media isn’t new anymore. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and now even Pinterest users are often at risk. Multiple Pinterest users are now reporting their accounts have been hacked, filling
Global IT major IBM Friday announced it would be investing $100 million to set up eight new labs worldwide, including one in Bangalore, for enabling its clients to work with experts in
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service, has almost caught up with Twitter’s number of US users. The market research firm eMarketer said in a report Thursday that nearly 35 million people in America
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denounced as “villainous” the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing site YouTube. Turkish authorities
Facebook’s latest multibillion dollar acquisition of virtual reality headset maker Oculus is prompting some people to wonder if CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already living in an alternate reality. Longtime technology analyst Roger
