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Thailand: Internet users who even view 'illegal content' to face legal action

Tech & Trend

Upcoming US Presidential election campaign targets new voters via online ads

Predential candidates Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg spends political dollars in their Facebook campaign to target Gen Z and millennials

Dec 15, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Us election 2020

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Tech & Trend

Hacker or insider: Someone stole data of 29,000 Facebook employees from hard drives

Facebook has informed its employees about the theft of hard drives which included banking as well as other details

Dec 14, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

Society

How did these pigeons get cowboy hats? Viral video from Las Vegas becomes a rage

The video featuring the two pigeons has gone viral on social media; some netizens think it is an act of animal cruelty.

Dec 11, 2019

By IBTimes SG Desk

Smartphones

Come 2020, WhatsApp will not support these old smartphone models of iPhones, Android and Windows

WhatsApp has announced that the messaging app will no longer support older phone models including iPhones, Android and Windows phones, from next year.

Dec 10, 2019

By Manthan C.

Society

Facebook lover leaves woman with broken jaw and name carved on her forehead

Catalina Mireles met Jackub Jackson Hildreth on Facebook three weeks ago and started dating after that

Dec 9, 2019

By Parwinder Sandhu

Business

Adobe acquires Virtual Reality tool Oculus Medium from Facebook

Facebook purchased Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion following the Federal Communications Commission approval for the acquisition

Dec 9, 2019

By R. Ghosh

Mark zuckerberg

Business

Facebook introduces new tool that allows users to transfer photos, videos to Google Photos

The new feature will initially be available to users in Ireland and is likely to be rolled out worldwide by the first half of 2020.

Dec 3, 2019

By R. Ghosh

Society

Singapore orders Facebook to correct post under anti-fake news law

The Facebook post which drew the attention of the Singaporean government was published last Saturday

Nov 29, 2019

By IANS

Fake news

Social Media

Earn money by completing surveys on this new app of Facebook; read to know more

Facebook Viewpoints will let users earn money by taking surveys, doing research, and completing tasks

Nov 26, 2019

By Siddharth Suvarna

Business

Data breach: Facebook, Twitter warn users that some Android apps may have used their logins to steal personal data

The two apps in question are Giant Square and Photofy. A software development kit, One Audience, allowed third-party developers to get access to personal information of hundreds of users.

Nov 26, 2019

By R. Ghosh

Internet

Paypal boss opens up on leaving Facebook & promises of blockchain technology

As cryptos are "still very volatile", there would be only a small demand among Paypal's merchant customers for these new currencies

Nov 22, 2019

By Bharggavi Ssayee

Technology

TikTok vs Facebook and Instagram: Is this the beginning of a new social media era?

The short video-based social media app has already been downloaded by over one billion users worldwide, out of which 614 million downloads recorded in 2019 only

Nov 19, 2019

By Anirban Roy

Social Media

Wikipedia co-founder launching rival for both Facebook and Twitter

WT:Social will let users share articles, but it will be funded by donations, rather than advertising

Nov 17, 2019

By IANS

Internet

Twitter bans political ads ahead of 2020 US elections, Facebook gives all 'level playing field'

Experts have stated that while Twitter's guidelines define a news organisation, loopholes such as partisan websites that promote political content is unlikely to be flagged

Nov 16, 2019

By Pritha Mallick

Human Rights

Music teacher imprisoned for 11 years in Vietnam for his Facebook posts

A Vietnamese court has sentenced a 45-year old music teacher for a series of Facebook posts, which the communist government claimed to be 'anti-state'

Nov 15, 2019

By Shubhangi Shah