SocialMedia

Yahoo Turnaround To Focus On Email And Apps

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has said a turnaround of the company depends on improved email and app simplification

12 years ago

Facebook Fatigue Hits Significant Number Of Users

Two-thirds of users have taken a break from using Facebook at one time or another, according to new research

12 years ago

Pinterest Seeks Investment, Valued At $2.5bn – Report

Pinterest is looking for funds to expand its business and generate revenue

12 years ago

NASDAQ Could Be Fined $5 Million Over Facebook IPO

Investors lost as much as $500 million when Facebook went public, but the stock exchange says it’s not to blame

12 years ago

Facebook Risks Fresh Privacy Row With Tracking App

Facebook is reportedly developing a mobile app that tracks your location, even when the handset is not being used

12 years ago

Facebook Grows Despite Sharp Profit Fall

Facebook has recorded impressive revenue growth thanks in part to its growing focus on mobile devices

12 years ago

The Botnet That Stole 16,000 Facebook Logins

Attackers show off potential for mass theft of Facebook passwords

12 years ago

Apple Blamed After Google Maps Loses App Crown

Google Maps is no longer the most popular mobile app in the US, having been overtaken by Facebook

12 years ago

Can Facebook’s Open Compute Explode The Server Market?

Facebook's Open Compute could make traditional servers obsolete, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Yahoo! Swallows Social News Startup Snip.It

The revamp of Yahoo! continues as it acquires social news clipping service Snip.it...and then shuts it down

12 years ago

TweetDeck Closure Letter Is A Sign Of Closer Ties With Twitter

TweetDeck will close as a company but client will continue as Twitter builds up its walled garden

12 years ago

Social Internet ‘Could Split Britain Further Apart’

Government advised to think about the negative impact of technology on social integration

12 years ago

Bing Boosts Facebook Results In Social Sidebar

Microsoft has revamped its Bing social sidebar to add more results from Facebook timelines

12 years ago

Instagram Readies Revised ‘Terms of Service’

Instragram will at the weekend implement its new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that has previously drawn controversy

12 years ago

Facebook Messenger Voice Call Trial Expands To US

Facebook extends voice call trial to the US after successful testing in Canada

12 years ago

EMC And ARM Dive Into Facebook’s Open Compute Club

EMC joins despite earlier saying Open Compute-defined systems are not ready for critical data centres

12 years ago

Open Compute: Facebook And Co Shake Up Data Centre Industry

Open Compute's latest initiatives might just re-define how the data centre industry works

12 years ago

Privacy Regulator Keeps An Eye On Facebook Graph Search

Watchdog tries out Facebook's new thing, isn't totally convinced about its respect for privacy

12 years ago

Facebook Graph Search Rolls Out To Lucky Few

Facebook revamps its search engine but says it is not a web search replacement

12 years ago

Facebook UK User Base Shrinks By 600,000 In December

Facebook user base declines in the UK, but there are still 33 million British users

12 years ago

World Economic Forum Warns Of “Digital Widlfire” Global Threat

Spread of false information over social networks a major cause for concern in coming years

12 years ago

Student Discovers Security Flaw In Facebook New Year App

Jack Jenkins found and disclosed the bug, but didn’t even get a “thank you” in return

12 years ago

Facebook Tests Paid-For ‘Spam’ Emails

Facebook's new service lets people pay to get emails past the spam filters

12 years ago

Instagram Completes Retreat On Selling User Photos

Instagram reverts to the old wording of its terms and conditions following a massive user backlash

12 years ago

Crown Prosecution Will Avoid Dealing With Internet Trolls

New guidelines make sure that jokes posted on Twitter don’t land people in court

12 years ago

Instagram Denies It Claimed Ownership Of Users’ Images

Instagram promised not to sell user photos after a policy change gave it “perpetual” rights to uploaded images

12 years ago

Twitter Archive Opens: Some Users Can Download All Their Tweets

Limited number of users get to download their Twitter archive in one tidy package

12 years ago

Fresh Facebook Privacy Changes Coming Next Year

Facebook makes its umpteenth privacy update of 2012, but it still isn't impressing some critics

12 years ago

SOCA Makes Arrest In £527m Butterfly Botnet Investigation

FBI, SOCA and Facebook looking to bring Yahos malware pushers down

12 years ago