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Facebook Slapped With $5 Billion Fine Over Privacy Violations

In a historic judgment, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday slapped a massive $5 billion fine on Facebook over users' privacy violations...

Reddit, Telegram Back Online In India After Reports Of Being Blocked

Social discussion platform Reddit and encrypted messaging service Telegram -- reported blocked in India -- are working fine on both Web and Mobile devices...

Facebook Hints At Bringing Bring Chat Back Into Main App

In a hint that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has begun taking steps towards merging all his platforms into one, the social network is planning...

Facebook, Telegram Developing Their Own Cryptocurrencies

More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant's own cryptocurrency, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite...

Twitter for iPhone is now darker than dark

To facilitate an even darker theme for the app, micro-blogging site Twitter has added two new modes - 'Lights Out' and 'Automatic Dark' -...

TikTok Introduces New Feature For Users’ Safety In India

The short video-making platform TikTok on Monday launched a 'Device Management' feature that would enable users in India to have complete control of their...

Instagram Users Will Soon be able to Secretly Ban Bullies

To curb online bullying, Facebook-owned Instagram has announced a unique feature where a user can "shadow ban" or "restrict" a bully from commenting on...

Shutterfly among 1,325 Android Apps that Gather User Data without Permission

Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in the US identified 1,325 Android apps that were gathering data from devices even after people...

Twitter May Soon Give You More Control Over Retweets and Mentions

Twitter may give users the power to decide whether his or her tweets can be retweeted or not, a measure that could help restricting...

Facebook Unintentionally Exposed Millions Of Instagram Passwords

A day after admitting it "unintentionally" uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored...

Twitter intends to test new conversation features

Twitter is planning to allow users to try out new features such as status updates to encourage conversations among its users, a media report...

Experts want ‘beauty filter’ warning on Instagram, Snapchat

The augmented reality (AR) filters and lenses available on social networking platforms like Instagram and Snapchat should come with health warnings, experts believe. They must...

How Social Media Helps Students In Their Studies

What’s the best way students can improve their grades? Every student has probably asked that question once. Social media platforms have millions of users...

Snapchat Introduces New Filters, Games, Original Videos

Joining the league of other tech giants and their big fancy annual conferences like Facebook's "F8", Google's "I/O" and Apple's "WWDC", photo-messaging app Snapchat...