Social media
Facebook launches location sharing feature in US
19 Apr 2014
LinkedIn hits 300-mn member mark
19 Apr 2014
Professional social networking site LinkedIn, now has 300 million members, the company announced yesterday
Facebook to filter News Feed of ‘spammy’ content
14 Apr 2014
Social media 'bootstrapping' key for growth of new sites
11 Apr 2014
Importing friends and connections from existing social media networks encourages interaction on new sites, suggests a study by scientists
State Bank of India launches Twitter handle
05 Apr 2014
Facebook mulling apps to allow anonymous log-ins
04 Apr 2014
Twitter blocked in Turkey over graft recordings
21 Mar 2014
LinkedIn to set up Chinese-language website aligned with state censorship rules
25 Feb 2014
LinkedIn is establishing a joint venture with Sequoia China and China Broadband Capital to connect 140 million Chinese professionals
WhatsApp founder apologises for outage
24 Feb 2014
Researchers developing system to detect hoax tweets and posts
21 Feb 2014
A new system for detecting fake or hoax tweets and posts is being developed for Twitter by a team of researchers
Facebook to buy smartphone-messaging app WhatsApp for a staggering $16 bn
20 Feb 2014
The WhatsApp deal is the biggest in the internet industry after the whopping $124-billion merger between AOL and Time Warner merger in 2001
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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