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Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

7Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

Leading Microblogging website Twitter Inc. suspended over 70 million fake accounts in two months (May and June), as per the latest report revealed by the Twitter sources to The Washington Post. In the report of the Washington post, Twitter said that they are running a massive clean-up drive to clear out bots and trolls on the platform. The impact of this campaign is that the rate of suspension of accounts is doubled since October. Over 1 million accounts were suspended a day in recent months. Twitter is now on image makeover campaign, clearing all the fake and spam accounts on its website. The most popular blogging site between celebrities is looking to stop spam and abuse of fake accounts. However, these aggressive measures against unwanted accounts may impact the Twitter user...

Facebook Shared User Data Access With Airtel & Saavn

4Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Facebook Shared User Data Access With Airtel & Saavn

Social media giant Facebook admitted that they have shared their user's data with Indian telecom company Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio's music app partner Saavn among others. The social media company said that these all those companies having integration partnerships with Facebook. The integration partners of the company to build ways for Facebook users to receive Facebook or Facebook features on their device or network within platform use policies of the social media firm. "Integration partners were not permitted to use data received through Facebook APIs for independent purposes unrelated to the approved integration without user consent," Facebook said in its submission. According to the information shared by Facebook, its partnership with Airtel is no longer in force. &n...

StumbleUpon Officially Shuts Down After Sixteen Years Of Existence

2Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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StumbleUpon Officially Shuts Down After Sixteen Years Of Existence

StumbleUpon, a content delivery platform has officially been shut down after sixteen long years of operations. The social sharing platform had foregone both Twitter and Facebook. This news comes after a month of the announcement that StumbleUpon will possibly be closed forever. Well, the day has arrived and the company is officially no more in existence. StumbleUpon was launched in 2002 before the Facebook or Twitter came into existence. It was a random content developer where the user would click the stumble buttons and was directed to a random website, app, meme, forum, etc. that the platform considered was interesting for the users. Today is the last day to hit that Stumble button. Thank you to our dear Stumblers for joining us in internet history. We hope you find yo...

Facebook’s Anna White Replaces Instagram’s PR Director

30Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook’s Anna White Replaces Instagram’s PR Director

Instagram’s director of comms, Gabe Madway who provided services to the company for the past four years is resigning from his position to work for a new company by the end of the summers. It has been reported that he will be replaced by Anna White who is a part of Facebook’s internal PR team. Prior to joining Instagram, Madway was a correspondent with Reuters, before becoming an executive comms manager at Google from 2011 to 2014. Madway has worked efficiently for the company and has been one of the more level-headed and frank PR people. Anna White, on the other hand, will report to Kristina Schake, Instagram’s Global Comms director who leads from behind the scenes. Talking about her past experiences, she has also worked with Google and YouTube as a communications manager before join...

Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

29Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

Google is increasingly pushing itself as a startup investor as it has invested $22 million into KaiOS, the company that has built an eponymous operating system for feature phones that packs a range of native apps and other smartphone-like services. Under the new partnership, Google services like Assistant, Maps, YouTube, and Google Search will be available to KaiOS users, as informed by the Hong Kong company in a post. KaiOS CEO Sebastien Codeville in a statement, This funding will help us fast-track development and global deployment of KaiOS-enabled smart feature phones, allowing us to connect the vast population that still cannot access the internet, especially in emerging markets. It is interesting to note that KaiOS has played a significant role in pushing feature phone demand ...

Facebook Boardroom War in Swing : Investor’s Want Mark Zuckerberg To Step Down

27Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Boardroom War in Swing : Investor’s Want Mark Zuckerberg To Step Down

Amidst growing series of scandals, data breach allegations, and Cambridge Analytica disaster, social media company Facebook is facing investor's fury where investors are growing increasingly restless on how Facebook is run, demanding radical changes. According to Business Insider's conversation with six prominent shareholders, it is clear that investors have become rebellious over company's corporate governance structure which hands Mark Zuckerberg the sole power as both CEO and Chairman. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who oversees around $895 million of Facebook shares through city pension funds said, "We have concerns about the structure of the board that the company doesn't seem ready to address, which can lead to risks - reputational, regulatory, and otherwise." While ...

Instagram growing faster than Facebook, worth more than $100 Bn: Report

26Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Instagram growing faster than Facebook, worth more than $100 Bn: Report

Facebook Owned Photo Sharing Platform, Instagram has been estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company, making a 100 fold return for the app, as per the report published by Bloomberg Intelligence. Instagram is garnering new customers faster than Facebook's main site each day and going by the pace it is expected to exceed 2 billion users within the next five years said, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jitendra Waral wrote in a report Monday. While Facebook has already crossed this milestone, Instagram audience base is younger than its parent making it the most popular social media platform for advertisers. Interestingly, Instagram is also growing in the US, unlike Facebook. Moreover, according to eMarketer data cited by Bloomberg Intelligence, Insta...

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are Spying on You – Here is the Proof!

24Jun By No Comments

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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are Spying on You – Here is the Proof!

Just the other day I received an email from Google Maps with the subject “Google Maps Timeline.” Upon clicking the email what I found left my jaw drop…quite literally! My “March in Review” apparently, was every place I had ever visited, every day of the week. It also highlighted my most frequently visited locations, the number of miles I walked, drove and unique places I visited. The only thing that was missing was perhaps the number of calories I burnt! Speaking of calories, they knew how much I walked and had all the data from my smartwatch. They knew how long I was sleeping, My REM cycle and how many times a year I fell ill. If anything, this information was a treasure trove for someone like my ex. Plus, my email is not hard to get a hold of considering that it’s logged in on my phone...

Instagram Launches a New App Which May Threat YouTube

21Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram Launches a New App Which May Threat YouTube

The Facebook-owned multimedia social platform Instagram has announced the launch of its new mobile application called IGTV on Wednesday, which will allow the users to upload up to an hour long videos, generating a battle with YouTube. This is a further example of the battle between the media giants hotting up. The new IGTV service will be made available to the users in the coming few weeks through the main Instagram app as well as a new standalone platform offering the new content. In the main app, the feature will appear via a TV-shaped button above the stories while launching the IGTV app will see videos begin playing spontaneously. Until now, Instagram allowed the users to upload short videos only up to one minute but now with the new feature, the app is going to boost up the user base...

Facebook Tests “Paid Subscriptions” for Private Groups

21Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Tests “Paid Subscriptions” for Private Groups

Facebook is testing a subscription feature that will very soon let group administrators charge members for providing exclusive content on its platform, allowing them to potentially profit off their membership. The company announced on Wednesday that the pilot programme will focus on a small number of groups which will include subscription only offshoots of Grown and Flown Parents, and Cooking On A Budget: Recipes & Meal Planning, Declutter my Home among others. It would be like a membership fee to get entry into the exclusive club. The current price which is being speculated is $30/month which can change after the official rollback. In addition, the social media giant will also offer built-in tools directly through iOS and Android. Alex Deve, product director of Groups, said i...

Govt Won’t Tolerate Misuse of Data to Influence Polls: IT Minister

19Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

INDIA

Govt Won’t Tolerate Misuse of Data to Influence Polls: IT Minister

IT Minister Ravi Shankar has warned social media companies against misusing user's data to influence upcoming 2019 elections, saying that it would no longer be tolerated. Moreover, the government is also looking forward to Justice Srikrishna Committee report on data protection and law. Speaking in the context, Prasad added, “We won’t tolerate misuse of data to influence elections. While the data of Indians has to be protected at any cost, India should also develop itself as a hub for data analysis.” The statement from IT Ministry comes in the wake of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal wherein data of 5.62 lakh Indian users was compromised among 87 Mn global users. Denouncing such misuse of data, the minister vehemently proclaimed, In the wake of the recent data theft from Fa...

14Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Twitter App Update: Now Get Highlights on Big Events, News stories

Social media giant Twitter is revamping its service to give more space to events such as World cup, earthquakes, royal weddings and elections, a move dedicated at making it a lot easier for users to find interesting tweets. Notably, Twitter has made efforts to stand out with advertisers and users alike by pushing live events and instant news as compared to social networks like Facebook that has made news a lower priority over friends and family posts. Now Get Push Notifications For Events on Twitter San Francisco based company has informed that it would now send notifications to users in its apps for events while promoting them at its dedicated Twitter's search page. The prompt will appear right at the top of Twitter's timeline, the very first thing that users will get to...