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Twitter working on new feature to flag fake news
01 Jul 2017
Citizens Advice warns over ‘phantom goods’ scam
30 Jun 2017
Facebook community now officially 2-bn strong
28 Jun 2017
Google replaces Google Talk with Hangouts
27 Jun 2017
Police in Thailand bust huge click farm
14 Jun 2017
Instagram worst social media for mental health; Twitter, Facebook follow YouTube as best: study
27 May 2017
Twitter suffers major outage
20 May 2017
Facebook fined €150,000 by French regulator for gathering internet user data
18 May 2017
The social network was fined for six violations, including collecting information on users "without having a legal basis" to target them with advertising, and tracking them unfairly without warning that they were being tracked
Twitter co-founder 'Biz' Stone to rejoin company
17 May 2017
Facebook to crack down on dubious ads and posts
12 May 2017
Russia bans Chinese instant messaging app WeChat
06 May 2017
Fake news and filters aren't fooling internet users
04 May 2017
Despite what some politicians argue, fake news and biased search algorithms aren't swaying public opinion, finds a survey of 14,000 internet users in seven nations: the US, Britain, France, Poland, Germany, Italy and Spain
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
