Facebook is suddenly acting older than its age. The social network's board has approved a plan to buyback as much as $6 billion of its stock starting in the first quarter of next year, according to a...
Currently,when it comes to Northern music, the most common name to be mentioned are that of Wiyaala and Fancy Gadam. This is not because they are just popular but because their brand is selling music...
Microsoft plans to tie executive bonuses to its goals regarding diversity after the tech giant reported, for the second consecutive year, a decline in the percentage of women working at the company....
Twitter has announced new ways for users to tackle abusive messages and hateful content on its platform. The “mute” button, which enables users to not see tweets from individual accounts, is...
WhatsApp has introduced a number of new features in recent months but perhaps the most eagerly awaited has been video calling. Some users briefly flirted with video calls back in May but it took...
Photo taken on Nov. 14, 2016 shows a night scene in Wuzhen Township of Tongxiang City, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The third World Internet Conference (WIC) is scheduled from Nov. 16 to 18 in...
The two tech giants will no longer allow fake news sites to use their ad-selling services, the latest reaction to accusations that a flood of misleading internet content influenced voters during the...
WhatsApp has introduced a number of new features in recent months but perhaps the most eagerly awaited has been video calling. Some users briefly flirted with video calls back in May but it took...
Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook will do more to tackle fake news, and again denied it had in any way aided Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. In a post on his Facebook profile Mr...
A 35-year-old man, Michael Atanda, who specialised in blackmailing lovers by threatening to display their nude pictures on social media, especially Facebook, if they refused to pay his monetary...
In a post on his Facebook profile Mr Zuckerberg said he hoped to announce measures to tackle fake stories "soon". He said this work "often takes longer than we'd like in order to confirm changes we...
When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook,...
Programmers are in hot demand. Tech companies are especially eager to grab talent as fast as they can find it. "We're interviewing people every week," said Neha Jain, a senior software engineer with...
For the first time ever, Social Media is playing a crucial role in Ghana's parliamentary and presidential election. There have been a lot of issues revolving around the use of social media in Ghana...
Facebook's own CEO was among the "dead" during the bug's brief appearance An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead. The error on Friday caused the social network to show a...
An apparent glitch on Facebook is declaring many users dead on their profile pages. Social media users have been sharing screenshots of their “memorialized” Facebook pages. Normally, when users...
Two of Russia's largest banks, Sberbank (SBER. MM) and Alfa Bank, say they have been hit by cyber attacks in recent days. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said the distributed denial of service...
Music service Spotify is rolling out a fix to stop its desktop application repeatedly writing huge amounts of junk data to computer users’ hard drives. Reporters from new site Ars Technica found...
Facing criticism that fake news on Facebook aided the rise of Donald Trump, founder Mark Zuckerberg has strongly defended his network. Speaking on stage at Techonomy, a technology conference in...
Facing criticism that fake news on Facebook aided the rise of Donald Trump, founder Mark Zuckerberg has strongly defended his network. Speaking on stage at Techonomy, a technology conference in...
