Social media

WhatsApp hit with global outage for brief period

02 Sep 2017

Human population of 23 nations now fully mapped by Facebook

02 Sep 2017

YouTube redesigns mobile app and logo

30 Aug 2017

Facebook makes it simpler to see if friends are safe in a crisis

22 Aug 2017

Facebook working on developing augmented reality (AR) glasses: report

21 Aug 2017

LinkedIn loses data scraping case against startup hiQ

16 Aug 2017

Facebook’s secret Chinese app fails to win support

14 Aug 2017

Emigres rule as Facebook tops in per-employee profit

07 Aug 2017

Google said to have expressed interest in buying Snap for $30-bn last year

05 Aug 2017

Facebook adds to “Related Articles” feature to crack down on fake news

04 Aug 2017

Facebook's forthcoming changes to News Feed to favour web sites that load faster

03 Aug 2017

Facebook posts $3.89 bn Q2 profit as mobile ad revenues swell

27 Jul 2017

Facebook’s revenue for the second quarter ended 30 June 2017, rose 45 per cent to $9.32 billion, from $6.43 billion in the same period a year earlier

WhatsApp now has 1 billion daily active users

27 Jul 2017

Google search results and map tools to now feature SOS Alerts

26 Jul 2017

Fact-checking website Snopes says it may be forced to close down

25 Jul 2017

Facebook acquires Source3 to crack down on pirated videos

25 Jul 2017

Facebook could be working on a smartphone: reports

22 Jul 2017

LinkedIn launches faster, lighter ‘LinkedIn Lite’

21 Jul 2017

Survey reveals Instagram most commonly used network for online bullying

20 Jul 2017

China virtually shuts WhatsApp ahead of leadership rejig

19 Jul 2017

Fake news: study tests people's ability to detect manipulated images of real-world scenes

19 Jul 2017

Facebook Messenger rolls out Messenger Lite app in India

13 Jul 2017

Google, FB up in arms as US seeks to overturn net neutrality

12 Jul 2017

Federal district court dismisses privacy lawsuit against Facebook

04 Jul 2017

Twitter working on new feature to flag fake news

01 Jul 2017