Social media

Facebook lawsuit gets support from 60,000 users

22 Aug 2014

Snapchat to emerge a news, video and ad platform

20 Aug 2014

UK police personnel disciplined over social media posts

20 Aug 2014

Twitter angers users with `favourites’ experiment

19 Aug 2014

Facebook testing new feature to stop users from believing joke stories

18 Aug 2014

Austrian student sues Facebook over privacy violations

04 Aug 2014

The legal proceedings could end up as the largest class and privacy action suit ever taken in Europe

LinkedIn shares up on 47% rise in Q2 revenue

04 Aug 2014

Facebook offering $200 to users to test out Slingshot

31 Jul 2014

Social media drives up complaints over medical practices in The UK

21 Jul 2014

Tax top in Crisil social media analytics on Budget day in the South, FDI, defence in the north

14 Jul 2014

Google to shut down Orkut end September

01 Jul 2014

Orkut grew out of Google’s “20 per cent project” in which workers were encouraged to spend a fifth of their time on ideas not necessarily related to their job responsibilities

Facebook users angry with becoming unwitting research subjects

30 Jun 2014

Narendra Modi has 5th largest number of `Twitter followers’ among world leaders: report

26 Jun 2014

Twitter restores access to tweets in Pakistan

21 Jun 2014

Iraqi government blocks access to social media

16 Jun 2014

TweetDeck crashes on teen’s prank

13 Jun 2014

Twitter to acquire Namo Media to beef up mobile monetisation

09 Jun 2014

Twitter will integrate Namo Media to its MoPub mobile ad-exchange, which the company acquired in October ahead of its IPO

Flickr to dump Facebook, Google in favour of Yahoo from July

07 Jun 2014

Twitter user base to grow 25% this year

30 May 2014

Iranian hacker create fake Facebook profiles to spy on targets

30 May 2014

Continued intolerance: Another man held for anti-Modi WhatsApp post

27 May 2014

Social media gets its due for pushing politics and politicians

06 May 2014

Facebook, Storyful launch FB Newswire

26 Apr 2014

Facebook 1Q earnings nearly triple on ad revenue boost

24 Apr 2014

This is the fourth consecutive quarter in which Facebook has beaten market forecasts

Twitter releases new Facebook-like profile design for all users

23 Apr 2014