Yahoo Revamps Site with Social Features
Yahoo! is undergoing a major overhaul on its website, as it introduces features similar to Facebook such like news feed and likes. This has been Yahoo’s biggest revamps since CEO Marissa Mayer took over the ailing online company last year. In Yahoo’s official blog, Mayer said the redesigned website will allow users to log in […]
Instagram Reaches 100 Million Monthly Active Users
What exodus? The changes in Instagram‘s terms of service do not seem to affect the app’s popularity as its company announced that over 100 million users are actively using the app on a monthly basis. The milestone suggests that 10 million new mobile photographers have been sharing their filtered images in the app in five […]
Chinese Military Accuses United States of Hacking
After the United States accuses the Chinese Army for attacking websites of US-based institutions, China countered with a claim that its military and defense ministries websites are being hacked from IP addresses originating from the US. China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in a news conference that there are over 144,000 hacking attempts targeting […]
Facebook to Unveil New News Feed
Facebook has announced it will introduce a new look for its “News Feed” on March 7th, the latest in the giant social networking site’s many (sometimes unannounced) revamps. In an invitation emailed to reporters, the new News Feed will be launched during a media event at Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters. The event will be […]
Germany Votes for Google to Pay for News Aggregation
The German Parliament voted for Google and news aggregating websites to pay news publishers for the excerpts they show for their websites’ content. Google has been defiant about forking over some cash for providing a sentence or two of various articles both in its search results and on its Google News service, claiming that the […]
Facebooks New News Feed Unveiled
A full week after hinting that Facebook would launch a new version of the News Feed, the social media giant starts rolling out the new, radically-designed homepage. Presenting from Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg describes the new News Feed as a “personalized newspaper” that focuses more on the visuals and allows users to […]
Study Your Facebook Likes Reveal So Much About You
A recent study suggests that Facebook users may reveal more about themselves than what they intend to judging by the “Likes” they put. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have conducted their study using the Likes of 58,000 Facebook users and have concluded that, with an accuracy of 80 percent, a person’s Likes may reveal […]
Facebook May Introduce Hashtags
People find it odd seeing their friends post hashtags on Facebook. Although hashtags (keywords preceded with a pound sign, like #hashtag) do not work in Facebook, they actually work if their FB account is connected to Twitter. But a report from Wall Street Journal suggests that Facebook may make those pounded words functional within the […]
Servers of South Korea Broadcasters and Banks Crash by Possible Cyberattack
South Korean police are investigating whether North Korea has a hand in the shutdown of computer networks of the country’s three major broadcasters and three banks. Authorities have also said the government is bracing for more possible cyberattacks. Terrestrial networks KBS and MBC, as well as cable channel YTN, have reported that their computers were […]
Facebook Officially Announces Threaded Comments for Pages
Facebook has officially announced that Pages linked to brands and businesses with at least 10,000 followers will have a new threaded replies comment system. Technically, this feature has been introduced in many pages months ago; it is only now that Facebook has revealed the threaded comments system to the public. This new comment system enables […]
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