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Facebook may overtake YouTube as video sharing platform of choice ?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Video streaming and sharing through Facebook are catching up fast with YouTube and the social networking site is likely to surpass YouTube in video sharing service through news feed, as per a report from researchers. An analysis has been done

Facebook introduces safety check feature for natural disasters

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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,

New Twitter feature allows users to listen to music

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Mini Soji

Twitter will now allow users to play podcasts, music and other audio clips direct from their timelines for the first time, the microblogging site has said. The social networking site has added a new feature to allow its users to

Facebook is looking for your stolen passwords

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

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

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

Apple and Facebook will pay for female employees to freeze their eggs

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Facebook and Apple are making it easier for female employees to delay having kids and focus on their careers instead. Both companies have now offered to pay to freeze their eggs. Many tech companies offer wild perks such as unlimited

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

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

Facebook Stickers are now available in Comments

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

All the stickers you have been using via Facebook Messenger will soon be available for all post comments. From today, the social media giant will be rolling out global sticker support for comments on people’s Timelines, Group posts and Event

Facebook to launch Clean India Mobile App

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is on a two-day visit in India, has said the social networking giant will help create the ‘Clean India’ (the cleanliness drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi) mobile app. According to an