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Snapchat 2017 Ad Revenue Forecast Trimmed To $770 Million

The 2017 advertising revenue forecast for Snap Inc’s Snapchat has been trimmed by $30 million due to higher than...

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World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Targets Fake News

The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has unveiled a plan to tackle data abuse and fake news. In an...

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Snapchat Jumps More Than 40% In Debut Trade On Wall Street

Instant messaging service Snapchat surged in its debut trade Thursday, jumping more than 40 percent from the level set...

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Snap Future Debated As Popular App Makes Market Debut

As Snapchat's owner makes its Wall Street debut, the key question for investors is whether the vanishing-message app is...

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Streaming Industry In Historic Win At Oscars

In a first for the streaming industry, Amazon Studios and Netflix walked away with Oscars, underlining their emergence...

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YouTube Showing A Billion Hours of Online Video Daily

YouTube on Monday said that a billion hours of video is being watched daily at the Google-owned online viewing venue in...

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Amazon, Netflix Grab A Share of Oscar Glory

Silicon Valley crashed Hollywood's biggest awards show on Sunday as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN. O) and Netflix Inc (NFLX.O)...

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Google To Help Publishers Find Malicious Comments On Articles

Alphabet Inc's Google and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organizations and online...

Business

International Voice Calls Decline, As Domestic Traffic, SMS Rises

Statistics from the National Communications Authority (NCA) on mobile cellular activity between Ghana and the rest of...

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Facebook Deletes Fake Child-Cancer Posts Accounts

Facebook has deleted two accounts that used stolen photographs of a sick child to falsely claim he had cancer. It...

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The Boy Behind Facebook’s Best Chatbot

It’s been nearly a year since Microsoft’s Satya Nadella proclaimed “bots are the new apps”. Yet despite the...

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Snap Lowers Valuation Expectations In Highly Awaited IPO

Snap Inc (SNAP. N), owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, set a lower-than-expected valuation range on Thursday,...

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Facebook Pushes Video Onto TV Screens With New Apps

Facebook on Tuesday announced it was rolling out apps to allow people to view videos posted on the social network on...

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Twitter U-Turn On New Abuse Tool

Twitter has reversed one of the changes it made to tackle bullying on the platform, just two hours after rolling it...

Opinion

Tech Firms Must Do More Against ‘fake News’

Technology firms must up their game in tackling "fake news", Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Saturday, calling for...

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Twitter Quarterly Loss Widens To $167m

Shares in Twitter are set to fall when Wall Street opens after it reported that its fourth-quarter losses had nearly...

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Reverend Father Flogs Church Members With ‘holy Cane’

A Facebook video of a Reverend father flogging his church members with his 'Holy cane' has led to outbursts from...

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Woman Thrown Off Plane For Berating Trump Supporter

A passenger was removed from a flight in Baltimore after scolding the passenger next to her for being a Trump...

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Vine Is Dead, But Twitter Will Keep Looping Videos

As of today, Vine is dead. We knew it was coming, as Vine’s parent company (and executioner) Twitter announced the...