Social Media

Romanian Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Sentenced to 52 Months in US Prison HIGHLIGHTS Lazar breached Clinton’s private server at her home in New York He is believed to have hacked into email accounts of about 100 victims Victims include prominent political figures A Romanian hacker nicknamed “Guccifer” who helped expose the existence of a private email domain Hillary Clinton used when she ... Read More »

Facebook Live Gets Touted 2-Person Broadcasting Feature HIGHLIGHTS It is only available to US users for now Only verified pages will be able to use this feature Users must have an iOS device for this feature to work At the annual VidCon conference in June, the social giant had announced that it will roll out a bunch of new capabilities ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook won’t post phone numbers online or give them out to anyone WhatsApp will continue to bar traditional display ads from its service Facebook will employ the phone number to show targetted advertising Global messaging service WhatsApp says it will start sharing the phone numbers of its users with Facebook, its parent company. That means WhatsApp users could soon ... Read More »

Facebook Changes ‘Trending’ Feature to Rely Less on Human Editors HIGHLIGHTS The update is Facebook’s attempt to stress its neutrality The Trending feature shows users the most-talked about stories and topics Facebook said it would no longer rely on editors for the feature Facebook changed its popular “Trending” feature, which shows users the most-talked about topics of the day, to ... Read More »

Three Days After Removing Human Editors, Facebook Is Already Trending Fake News HIGHLIGHTS Facebook on Friday announced algorithm-run Trending topics list The Trending feature shows users the most-talked about stories and topics Facebook was recently under fire due to its ‘biased’ trending list Facebook announced Friday that humans would no longer write descriptions for its Trending topics list, handing over ... Read More »

You Can Soon Activate Facebook’s Safety Check Yourself, Zuckerberg Confirms HIGHLIGHTS Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the feature at his meeting in Rome Users will be able to enable Safety Check in emergencies It may be a reform after company received several criticisms about the fe Facebook will soon let users enable Safety Check on their own in an emergency situation or ... Read More »

Google+ Revamped UI Starts Rolling Out to All Users HIGHLIGHTS The new Google+ is expected to be light, fast and responsive The new features to reach Android, iOS and web users in the coming weeks It also brings to ability to add photos and links to comments. Google hasn’t given up on Google+ yet. The tech giant on Tuesday began ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Hike Messenger announced funding of $175 million Hike Messenger is now valued at close to $1.4 billion The funding round was led by Tencent and Foxconn Hike Messenger, started as a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank, just announced its Series D funding round of $175 million (approximately Rs. 1,170 crores) at a valuation of $1.4 billion (approximately ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook has said it will address the Adblock Plus workaround Adblock Plus posted the workaround on Thursday Fight between ad-blockers and Facebook likely to continue Earlier this week, Facebook integrated the ads displayed on its pages with the content that is available on the website in order for the ads to get past the adblockers. On Thursday, one of ... Read More »

In a move to make your News Feed more informative, Facebook has tweaked its algorithm to bring news that’s relevant and of interest to you. “Our goal with News Feed is to show people the stories most relevant to them, so we rank stories so what’s most important to each person shows up highest in their News Feeds,” said Facebook ... Read More »