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Chief executive Jack Dorsey said the user gains showed the highest quarterly year-over-year growth rate weve delivered using this measure. (Photo | Twitter - Jack Dorsey)

Revenue loss hurts Twitter amid pandemic despite surge in users

Twitter's revenue slumped 19 percent from a year ago to $683 million.

23 July 2020 6:38 PM IST

QAnon became a force this year in protests against confinement and masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, in both the United States and Europe. Some claim the virus is a hoax and others that it is Chinas contribution to the plot against Trump. The movement has followers in the military and police as well and more than a dozen Republican candidates for Congress in November openly support the group. (Photo | AFP)

Conspiracy theorist group QAnon has hundreds of thousands of...

More than 7,000 accounts linked with QAnon, which supports Trump and believes the deep state is trying to overthrow him,...

23 July 2020 4:52 PM IST

A lawyer who offers digital security training to women said obscenity complaints are vague and often aimed at women, praising TikTok for allowing people to express themselves in ways they often cannot in public. (Photo | Thumbnail of YouTube video posted by Interstellar)

TikTok warned by Pakistan telecom authority for hosting 'immoral...

A government official claimed the exploitation, objectification and sexualisation of young girls on TikTok was causing...

21 July 2020 7:33 PM IST

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has greatly concentrated powers into his own hands during 17 years in office, vowed this month to bring social media platforms under control following a series of tweets that allegedly insulted his daughter and son-in-law. (Photo | AP)

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube could be forced to toe Turkey government...

An official said a draft legislation would make social media companies accountable in Turkey legally and for tax...

21 July 2020 6:40 PM IST

From January to April 2020, Zoom has seen 6,700 per cent growth in free user sign ups in India, the company said.

Zoom to set up shop in Bengaluru to attend to growing India user base

India is a strategically important country for Zoom and we expect to see continued growth and investment here, Zoom CEO...

21 July 2020 6:00 PM IST

n this June 5, 2019, file photo, neighborhood residents chat near the entrance to an OFILM factory in Nanchang in eastern Chinas Jiangxi province. The company is one of 11 that the U.S. government has imposed trade sanctions on and says are implicated in human rights abuses in Xinjiang. This action will ensure that our goods and technologies are not used in the Chinese Communist Partys despicable offensive against defenceless Muslim minority populations, said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a statement. (Photo | AP)

US sanctions Chinese suppliers of Apple, Samsung for human rights...

China has detained an estimated 1 million or more members of the Uighur and other Muslim ethnic minority groups in...

21 July 2020 4:44 PM IST

Google said the company has been adding features like integrated voice typing on KaiOS, voice-based language selection, and support for Indian languages to help first-time internet users overcome barriers to literacy and interact with technology and their devices more naturally .

Google makes its Lens technology available to KaiOS used on JioPhone

The image recognition and translation technology is available in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil, and soon in...

21 July 2020 3:45 PM IST

Facebook faces antitrust investigations, like other big tech companies such as Google and Amazon, and Mark Zuckerberg pointed out to the probes to claim there was no arrangement with Trump on keeping his accounts uncensored. (Photo | AFP)

Zuckerberg rubbishes making deal to go soft on Trump

Facebook's CEO was reacting to stories in leading US media that raised questions about possible special treatment to...

20 July 2020 10:32 PM IST

Mobile app store marketing intelligence firm Sensor Tower said Resso might have escaped the ban as its publisher is listed not as ByteDance, its parent company which also owns TikTok, but Moon Video.

TikTok may be out but ByteDance's Resso music app is thriving

As much as 74 per cent of downloads have been in India for the Resso music-streaming app, which dubs itself a social app...

20 July 2020 9:44 PM IST

Samsung says it has adapted swiftly to the Next Normal and is bringing out devices that are more personal, intelligent, useful and secure . (Photo of Galaxy Fold | Samsung)

What to expect at Samsung's August 5 launch besides the Galaxy Note 20

Apart from the Galaxy Note 20 series, the mobile technology giant is likely to launch new earbuds, a smart watch and a...

20 July 2020 7:39 PM IST

Entire markets and potentially elections may be manipulated or altered in this way, a security expert said.

Hacking of 130 accounts exposes security chink in Twitter armour

Young hackers interested in original short Twitter handles hacked the accounts for bragging rights and financial...

20 July 2020 4:57 PM IST

It was unclear whether Disneys cut on ads was in protest over Facebooks inaction over hate speech. The economic fallout from the pandemic has also cut into companies advertising budgets. (Photo | AFP)

Disney cuts big chunk of ads on Facebook, Instagram

Disney, Facebook's biggest advertiser this year, joins hundreds of firms that paused spending on the social media...

20 July 2020 1:56 PM IST