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UK lawmakers recommend tougher rules on Facebook

Facebook plummeted 19 percent, after warning of slower growth ahead, erasing more than $100 billion in value.

29 July 2018 8:12 AM IST

Next generation of fake news will be empowered by Artificial Intelligence and be far more sophisticated, and even more disastrous.

Tech firms should be made responsible for fake news on sites - UK...

Facebook has increasingly become a focus of the media committee's inquiry into fake news.

28 July 2018 5:30 PM IST

IBM has reported that the active number of participants in its 401(k) pension plan fell to 84,350 last year

IBM wins $83 million from Groupon in internet patent fight

A jury in Delaware said Groupon used IBM's patented e-commerce technology without authorization following a two-week...

28 July 2018 5:27 PM IST

Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebooks annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. The chairman of the U.K. Parliaments media committee says the government office that investigated the Cambridge Analytica scandal has fined Facebook 500,000 pounds ($663,000) for failing to safeguard users data. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Facebook cleanup: Hurt the stock, help the world?

If trust in the platform erodes, so too does the company's user base as well as the advertisers who pay big money to...

28 July 2018 3:46 PM IST

Belgium museums protest against Facebook for failing to promote...

They cannot promote Flemish Masters at will for falling foul of the social media site's adult content rules.

28 July 2018 3:32 PM IST

Twitter had 335 million monthly users in the quarter, below the 339 million Wall Street was expecting. (Photo: Pixabay)

Bad week in social media gets worse; Twitter hammered

The 20.5 per cent plunge comes one day after Facebook lost 19 per cent of its value in a single day.

28 July 2018 3:06 PM IST

Twitter will block repeat Periscope abusers

Twitter will start blocking accounts of repeat offenders who post abusive comments during Periscope live streams.

28 July 2018 1:55 PM IST

Singh is the circle officer of Gorakhnath area in Gorakhpur and on his social media post, he is seen seeking blessings from Yogi Adityanath on the occasion of Guru Purnima. (Photo: Facebook | Praveen kumar Singh)

UP cop kneels, folds hands before Yogi Adityanath, seeks blessings

The act by the police officer has triggered a debate, whether he should have done this in uniform or not.

28 July 2018 12:43 PM IST

Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station for parliamentary elections in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Imran's win enthuses politicians, J&K people

Many took to social networking platforms to express their views on the Pakistan elections and related developments.

28 July 2018 3:13 AM IST

Twitter app update now brings major news first. (Photo: Pixabay)

Twitter to prioritize fixing platform over user growth

Twitter has been under pressure from regulators in several countries to weed out hate speech, abusive content and...

27 July 2018 8:49 PM IST

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Personal critical data should be processed only in India - government...

The recommendations come at a time when there is heightened scrutiny by governments across the world on how companies...

27 July 2018 6:43 PM IST

What already sounds interesting, the tech giant has tried to make it more fun by adding the chat feature.

Watch Party: Facebook's new feature for group video streaming

Watch Party functionality lets all the members of a group watch a video at the same time together.

27 July 2018 6:38 PM IST