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Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

India looking to compel tech firms to store data locally

India is considering asking e-commerce and social media firms to exclusively store customer data locally.

30 July 2018 3:52 PM IST

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Homeless man flooded with job offers after he hands out resumes

The homeless man has been identified as David Casarez, who turned out to be a web developer.

30 July 2018 3:15 PM IST

WhatsApp, has rolled out a new feature that will allow its users to share their location with their contacts in real time.

New app to flag 'fake news' on WhatsApp soon

A team of experts is working on developing an application that may be able to tell you whether a message is fake or not.

30 July 2018 2:33 PM IST

Congress condemns MP officials for pouring 'liquor' into Narmada

Videos have gone viral on social media, show men in Khaki emptying contents of drums seized during an anti-illicit...

30 July 2018 9:50 AM IST

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

Twitter purges users and shareholders alike

The social network's efforts to reduce spam, fake users and toxicity shrank active monthly users between March and June.

29 July 2018 10:48 AM IST

If the authorities have their way, you could be paying up for scrolling through Facebook, Twitter, and more.

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