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About Vineesh Mohan

A Technical Support specialist with strong customer service and good communication skills. I live in the city of Cochin, which known as the Queen of Arabian Sea.

Facebook Doubles Ad Code Bug Bounties

The holidays are coming up and that means shopping for presents. If you’re a whitehat hacker looking to earn some cash, Facebook might be able to help you out as Facebook has doubled the reward for developers who point out


Facebook introduces safety check feature for natural disasters

Facebook’s 1.32 billion users already update their friends and family on their jobs, vacations and clothing choices. Now, with a new feature launched by the social networking site Wednesday, users can update people about their safety during disasters. The tool,


Facebook is looking for your stolen passwords

Facebook is looking for your stolen passwords. On Friday, the social network announced that it built a system that will actively search sites for stolen credentials and then reference that data with its own records. “This is a completely automated


Amazon wants to hire 80,000 seasonal employees

Amazon plans to add 80,000 temporary employees to its quickly expanding logistics and delivery network for this year’s holiday season. The company announced Thursday that it would hire thousands of new workers to staff its more than 50 fulfillment around


Google introduces .SOY Web domain for Latino audiences

Google announced it is bringing a new domain name to the Web: .’SOY’. Not to be confused with the popular vegetarian alternative to meat, the new domain means “I am” in Spanish. .SOY is a space for this influential community


Photo-sharing site Twitpic to shut down on October 25th.

A month or so after telling the world Twitpic would be shutting down, then backtracking and saying it had found an acquirer, Twitpic has reversed its position once again. The photo sharing service, which was one of the first initial


Twitter to display tweets from accounts you don’t follow

Twitter has decided to take your timeline into its own hands and show you tweets from accounts you don’t follow. The social media giant, which has long been experimenting with our timelines by inserting promoted tweets and other suggestions into


Twitter and others kill SSL 3.0 support after “Poodle” bug discovery

Twitter has gotten rid of support for SSL 3.0 in order to disable a vulnerability. While the social network has dropped support for SSL 3.0 to improve security, it also means the site will no longer work properly in older


Samsung to reportedly build next Facebook Phone

The first Facebook smartphone was developed by HTC and according to sales it was a phone to forget. It looks like Facebook could still be mulling over a possible Facebook phone – this time without HTC’s help but with the


Google introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop

After months of speculation on what dessert would take on the “L” name for Android 5.0, Google has announced it will be called ‘Lollipop’. Lollipop will also roll out to Nexus 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in