Social media giants should “do a better job” to protect users from online hate speech, British MPs have said. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google were asked by the Home Affairs select...
The 2017 advertising revenue forecast for Snap Inc’s Snapchat has been trimmed by $30 million due to higher than expected revenue sharing with its partners, digital marketing firm eMarketer said in...
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has unveiled a plan to tackle data abuse and fake news. In an open letter to mark the web’s 28th anniversary, Sir Tim has set out a...
Instant messaging service Snapchat surged in its debut trade Thursday, jumping more than 40 percent from the level set in the initial public offering Wednesday night. Snap Inc., trading under the...
As Snapchat's owner makes its Wall Street debut, the key question for investors is whether the vanishing-message app is on its way to glory or despair. Wildly popular with young smartphone users keen...
In a first for the streaming industry, Amazon Studios and Netflix walked away with Oscars, underlining their emergence as major players in the entertainment business. Amazon won two Oscars Sunday for...
YouTube on Monday said that a billion hours of video is being watched daily at the Google-owned online viewing venue in "big milestone" for the service. "Let's put that in perspective," YouTube vice...
Silicon Valley crashed Hollywood's biggest awards show on Sunday as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN. O) and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) collected the first Academy Awards for streaming services while independent...
Alphabet Inc's Google and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites. The technology, called...
Statistics from the National Communications Authority (NCA) on mobile cellular activity between Ghana and the rest of the world indicate that both international incoming and outgoing mobile-to-mobile...
Facebook has deleted two accounts that used stolen photographs of a sick child to falsely claim he had cancer. It follows complaints by the three-year-old’s mother that the images had been used as...
It’s been nearly a year since Microsoft’s Satya Nadella proclaimed “bots are the new apps”. Yet despite the promise of a revolution in how we interact with services and companies online,...
Snap Inc (SNAP. N), owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, set a lower-than-expected valuation range on Thursday, amid mounting investor concern over its unproven business model, slowing growth...
Facebook on Tuesday announced it was rolling out apps to allow people to view videos posted on the social network on connected televisions. The new apps -- for Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV and Samsung...
Twitter has reversed one of the changes it made to tackle bullying on the platform, just two hours after rolling it out. The social network said it would no longer notify members who had been added...
Technology firms must up their game in tackling "fake news", Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Saturday, calling for a major public information campaign. "All of us technology companies need to...
Shares in Twitter are set to fall when Wall Street opens after it reported that its fourth-quarter losses had nearly doubled. The social networking service reported a loss of $167m (£133m) in the...
A Facebook video of a Reverend father flogging his church members with his 'Holy cane' has led to outbursts from people. Popular Facebook page, Gossip Mill Nigeria, posted the video of the act, which...
A passenger was removed from a flight in Baltimore after scolding the passenger next to her for being a Trump supporter. Video of the incident uploaded to Facebook has gone viral with more than 3...
As of today, Vine is dead. We knew it was coming, as Vine’s parent company (and executioner) Twitter announced the shutdown earlier this month and detailed the standalone platform’s transition to...
