social media

Hacked Sony Music Tweets Britney Spears ‘Death’ Hoax

Sony Music has confirmed several tweets announcing Britney Spears' demise were the result of a 'compromise'

8 years ago

Labour Ridiculed For Wanting To Regulate Algorithms

Companies algorithms should be made transparent to government for industrial regulation to be effective, the party argues

8 years ago

Fake News Campaigns to Increase in Frequency, Security Experts Say

ANALYSIS: With the possibility that fake news may have impacted the US election, people are giving a new look to…

8 years ago

EU Pressures Social Media Firms Over Hate Speech

Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others not reaching self-imposed targets for reviewing reported content, European justice commission finds

8 years ago

How Analytics And Digital Are Powering Man City’s Quest For Success

Manchester City is using technology on and off the pitch as it looks to build its fanbase and win trophies

8 years ago

Facebook To Hire 500 UK Staff Next Year To Boost Engineer Workforce

The expansion comes on the heels of Google's approval of a £1bn UK investment

8 years ago

UK Police’s 10 Year Digital Plan Focuses On Communications, Forensics

A 10-year strategy sees UK police forces taking wider advantage of digital tech, while training to handle its risks

8 years ago

Microsoft Offers Remedies To EC In Bid To Gain £21bn LinkedIn Takeover Approval

Microsoft has offered to sweeten the deal for European regulators so it can get LinkedIn approval, despite Salesforce and other…

8 years ago

Web Summit 2016: Facebook CTO Says Priorities For The Next Decade Are Connectivity, AI & VR

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says his firm's technology priorities over the next ten years are getting people connected and offering…

8 years ago

Cyber-Politics Reached New Heights In 2016 Presidential Election

ANALYSIS: Never before have social media and even cyber-spying been used to such an enormous extent to shape voter sentiment

8 years ago

Twitter’s Sponsored Tweets Used For Credit Card Phishing

Malwarebytes finds a scam masquerading under the offer of Twitter verification

8 years ago

Twitter To Reduce Its Workforce ‘By 8 Percent’

The company will reportedly fire about 300 staff as efforts to find a buyer fall through

8 years ago

Facebook Awards $5m As Bug Bounty Scheme Turns Five

The programme has paid more than $5m to 900 researchers since 2011

8 years ago

Facebook Targets Enterprises With ‘Workplace’ Social Network

Facebook's first business product aims to take its popular features into the enterprise collaboration market

8 years ago

IBM’s The Weather Company Deploys Real-Time Cold & Flu App

The IBM division is to provide real-time local maps of cold and flu outbreaks based on social media data

8 years ago

Startup Showcase: Streetlife

Streetlife CEO Limvirak Chea talks about they local social network taking on Facebook, its use of AWS and why it's…

8 years ago

Facebook ‘Plans’ Denmark Data Centre

The social media giant is planning to build its third European data centre in Odense, Denmark, reports say

8 years ago

Businesses Can Speak To Facebook Messenger Lite Users From ‘Day One’

Facebook Messenger head says stripped down version for Android might not have some functionality, but is still attractive for businesses

8 years ago

Social Media Analysis Shows Clinton Beat Trump In Presidential Debate

ANALYSIS: Analysis of sentiments expressed on social media showed how viewers' reactions tipped in favour of Hillary Clinton as debate…

8 years ago

Facebook Changes Trending Topics After Bias Row

Less human input after accusation that Facebook hid conservative opinions in its Trending news feed

8 years ago

Google Hits Back At ‘Intrusive’ Pop-Up Ads

New algorithm will demote mobile websites using interstitial adverts from January 2017

8 years ago

Twitter Pulls The Plug On More Terrorist Accounts

Twitter suspends 360,000 accounts for 'promotion of terrorism', but warns there is no magic algorithm to ID suspects

8 years ago

Facebook Improves Ad Preference Tools And Will Override Ad Blockers

Facebook promises to give users more control over adverts buts says ad blockers threaten journalism and free services

8 years ago

Rio 2016: Social Media Scams And 4,500 Malicious Apps Target Olympic Fans

RIO 2016: Olympic sports fans and organisations warned about dodgy apps and social media scams trying to steal data and…

8 years ago

Hootsuite Integrates Dropbox, OneDrive And Google Drive

Social media markerters and companies can now access cloud files directly from Hootsuite platform

8 years ago

Yahoo Fails To Reveal Buyer, Suffers £332m Loss In Q2

Yahoo also announces £365m write-down of Tumblr

8 years ago

10 Apps To Manage Your Social Media Accounts

TechWeekEurope lists the best apps to streamline your social experience and make a bigger impact for your business

8 years ago

Sharp Rise In Identity Theft Among Young UK Adults

Media savvy Millennials still falling for same tricks as fraud rockets 52 percent among those under 30

8 years ago

US Customs To Request Social Media Data For Passengers

Fresh privacy concern? US Customs proposes to screen social media profiles of travellers to the United States

8 years ago

Why Use Of Video At Congress Sit-In Was Watershed IT Moment

ANALYSIS: New-gen IT carried on the business of government information distribution when conventional methods failed, and the government had nothing…

9 years ago