A mother of six from Stockton, California, could end up in jail for up to a year for selling homemade food, such as ceviche, on Facebook.
| News | November 8, 2016 |
Facebook has agreed to put a temporary stop to its use of WhatsApp user information in the U.K. following pressure from the country’s privacy watchdog.
| Mobile | November 8, 2016 |
Facebook has its sights set on LinkedIn with the test launch of its latest feature: a "jobs" tab aimed at business Pages and job seekers.
| News | November 8, 2016 |
Facebook is expanding its Audience Network advertising tool to sell ads on connected streaming devices, starting with Apple TV and Roku TV apps.
| News | November 6, 2016 |
Germany is now targeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and other company executives, as part of an investigation into hate speech on the social network.
| News | November 5, 2016 |
Alphabet has quietly disclosed a Snapchat investment through its rebranded CapitalG venture capital arm, previously known as Google Capital.
| News | November 5, 2016 |
Turkey has once again blocked access to a number of leading social media and messaging platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter.
| News | November 5, 2016 |
Twitter's Periscope is the latest live-streaming platform to jump on the selfie filter bandwagon with the launch of its very own Trump and Clinton graphics.
| News | November 5, 2016 |
LinkedIn Salary is the business-oriented social network’s new tool that tells you how much you should be earning in your career, or in any other profession.
| News | November 3, 2016 |
Twitter has introduced a couple of handy new direct messaging features for businesses in its ongoing bid to make itself the premier customer service portal.
| News | November 3, 2016 |
Facebook claims its Internet.org initiative now has connected 40 million people in areas in emerging markets where connectivity is low.
| News | November 3, 2016 |
Facebook today unveiled its open source telecom equipment, called "Voyager," designed to link data centers using a high-speed optical networking system.
| News | November 1, 2016 |
Having acquired Instapaper in August, Pinterest is now scrapping the premium version of the app and making its features free for regular Instapaper users.
| Mobile | November 1, 2016 |
More than 70 advocacy groups have signed a letter addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging transparency over his company’s content removal policy.
| News | November 1, 2016 |
LinkedIn released its third quarter results today, posting impressive revenue growth and a solid increase in registered users ahead of its Microsoft merger.
| News | November 1, 2016 |
Facebook reportedly tried to buy South Korean app (and Snapchat clone) Snow over the summer after learning about its popularity in Asia.
| News | November 1, 2016 |
More than one-third of social media users are “worn out” by the amount of political content they encounter, claims a new study by the Pew Research Center.
| News | October 31, 2016 |
Facebook is once again drawing controversy over its ad targeting tool that includes the option to exclude specific users based on “ethnic affinity.”
| News | October 31, 2016 |
Facebook is finally starting to integrate the selfie filters offered by the MSQRD app (which it acquired in March) with Live video, in time for Halloween.
| News | October 28, 2016 |
Following its highly anticipated third-quarter earnings release, Twitter announced extensive job cuts this week.
| News | October 27, 2016 |
The NBA is expanding its content partnership with Snapchat to bring even more behind-the-scenes and in-game footage to the app.
| News | October 27, 2016 |
Facebook is extending its branded content policy to allow users with verified profiles to rake in ad revenue from sponsored posts.
| News | October 27, 2016 |
Twitter and the NBA have teamed up to give each team its very own hashtag emoji just in time for the beginning of the new season.
| News | October 25, 2016 |
Donald Trump is launching a nightly Facebook Live show dedicated to news from the Trump camp. Does this mean Facebook will one day be home to Trump TV?
| News | October 25, 2016 |
Facebook Live has gone beyond mobile with the latest version of the Facebook app for Windows 10, allowing users to broadcast from desktops and tablets.
| News | October 23, 2016 |
Facebook is launching a large-scale ad campaign on the streets of the U.S. and U.K. in a bid to get more people on to its Live Video service.
| News | October 22, 2016 |
Facebook will start allowing more “newsworthy” content on to its service even if those items break its rules regarding nudity and graphic violence.
| News | October 22, 2016 |
Facebook has been engaged in an intense debate over the past year to remove certain posts by Donald Trump on the grounds of hate speech.
| News | October 22, 2016 |
LinkedIn is making its skills and endorsements features smarter, with new targeting and relevancy updates that it claims will get you more profile views.
| News | October 21, 2016 |
Facebook is giving publishers the power to make Instant Articles more visually immersive with 360-degree video and photo support.
| News | October 21, 2016 |
Donald Trump aired a Facebook Live-stream during the presidential debate that looked a lot like a news show. Was this our first glimpse of Trump TV?
| News | October 21, 2016 |
Facebook is launching a set of new ecommerce features that could transform it into your primary destination for everyday services, such as ordering food.
| News | October 20, 2016 |
Facebook is launching an “Endorsements” feature that allows you to publicly share your support for a U.S. political candidate in the run-up to the election.
| News | October 19, 2016 |
Instagram is taking a page out of parent company Facebook’s book by launching self-harm and suicide support tools for its 500 million users.
| News | October 19, 2016 |