Facebook said Tuesday its ranks of monthly active users had hit the two billion mark -- meaning more than a quarter of the world's population is on the giant social network. "As of this morning, the...
Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search...
China's media oversight body announced Thursday that it has ordered three prominent Internet companies to terminate their video and audio streaming services. The State Administration of Press,...
Facebook has introduced new security features for women using the social media platform in India, including the ability to prevent strangers from downloading their profile pictures, the company said...
WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of the messaging app appears to vary widely between countries. In Malaysia, more than...
Government is committed to providing schools in deprived communities with functional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) driven educational systems to respond to the challenges of modern...
Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online. Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and...
The tenth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will today kick off in Bonn, Germany. Per Second News correspondent reports from Germany that the forum is focusing on the international economic growth,...
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again - only to backpedal and endorse...
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again - only to backpedal and endorse...
Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on Tuesday after police discovered they were running a 'click farm' from a house near the Cambodian border to generate likes for Chinese products on social...
Sri Lankan railway authorities announced a crackdown on selfies on Tuesday after a 12-year-old boy was decapitated and two other men also died while snapping themselves on a coastal track. The boy...
Ubisoft's blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" video game is heading for Egypt, taking the serial's storyline back to an ancient world and overhauling play to reignite its top franchise. The French video...
I begin with the proposition that a great relationship is a transparent relationship, where both of you are open books. The more you know about each other, the easier it is to meet each other’s...
After having his account deactivated by Facebook because of verification of his name, Kwame A Plus has returned to Facebook not as A Plus but as Kwame Asare Obeng. The social media influencer’s...
Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been blocked since a wave of anti-government protests last year, a government spokesman...
Yahoo shareholders voted Thursday to back the sale of the company's internet business to Verizon, clearing the way for the deal to close June 13. The California internet pioneer said approval came at...
Ethiopians were still unable to surf the web via mobile networks on Tuesday, despite government claims the nationwide internet shutdown, which began a week ago, had been lifted. Africa's second...
Over the past couple of years, YouTube has undeniably become a growing force in Africa. Indeed, YouTube reported in a company blog post that “the number of hours of video content in Africa being...
YouTube has clarified its rules on hate speech to enable video-makers to know which content it considers to be “advertiser-friendly”. In a blog post, the video-sharing website said it would not...
