Facebook’s Messenger Added To Windows Phone
Facebook has made its Messenger app available for Windows Phone 8, an addition Microsoft welcomes as it seeks to increase the number of applications available for its smartphone OS. The app lets users...
View ArticleHP May Be Looking To Unload Snapfish
Hewlett-Packard Co is taking a look at putting its web-based photo sharing service Snapfish on the block, and has held discussions with multiple private equity and industry buyers, a person with...
View ArticleKuddle, Microsoft To Launch Child Safe Tablet
Kuddle, a Norwegian photo-sharing app created for children, plans to roll out a child safe tablet with Microsoft on Dec 1, and expects to sign funding deals with several venture capital firms within...
View ArticleYahoo Mail Finally Back In Europe
Then they give you the phone number which refers you back to where you started and it goes round and round."
View ArticleInstagram Still Gaining Users, Surpassed Twitter
Photo-sharing site Instagram is reporting that its active monthly user base reached 300 million, a dramatic 50% increase in the past nine months. Instagram, which launched in 2010, edged past...
View ArticleApple Watch Seen Challenging For App Developers
Many software developers agree that it’s a challenge to come up with a “killer app” for Apple Inc’s Watch – few have seen the product and the software is still in test mode. While app makers are...
View ArticleAre Smartwatches Causing Accidents?
The $1 billion cost of a national education program, "is a tiny fraction of profits that defendants receive from the sale of smartphones and smartwatches," the suit states.
View ArticleShutterfly May Have Violated Privacy By Scanning Face Photos
A federal judge has has denied the request to dismiss a civil case against photo-sharing site Shutterfly that claims the company violated users’ privacy by collecting and scanning face geometries from...
View ArticleFacebook Prohibiting Sale Of Guns On Its Sites
Facebook Inc has banned global users from coordinating person-to-person private sales of firearms on its online social network and its Instagram photo-sharing service, countering concerns that it was...
View ArticleInstagram Makes Changes To Way Feeds Are Displayed
Facebook Inc’s photo-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffling feeds to display curated content that users would ‘care’ about first. The sequence of posts would be based on the likelihood of...
View ArticleInstagram Rolls Out Authenticity Feature
Photo-sharing app Instagram’s more than 1 billion users will now be able to analyze and determine the authenticity of accounts, weeks after parent Facebook Inc rolled out similar measures in a bid to...
View ArticleFacebook Sues BlackBerry Over Voice-Messaging Technology
Facebook slapped BlackBerry with a new lawsuit, claiming the company stole its voice-messaging technology and other patented processes. The social media giant accused BlackBerry of infringing on six...
View ArticleInstagram Launches New ‘Close Friend’ Feature
Facebook Inc’s Instagram has announced that it has launched a new feature that it has named “Close Friends” allowing users to share their stories with a smaller group of people. The new feature, which...
View ArticleChinese Government Goes On An Online Information Deleting Spree
China’s cyber watchdog has announced that it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and it criticized tech giant Tencent’s news app for spreading...
View ArticleInstagram Unveils Shopping Feature
Facebook Inc’s Instagram has rolled out a new feature that will allow U.S. users to shop products directly from the photo sharing app by adding a ‘checkout’ feature on items tagged for sale, the...
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