Google-Facebook ad duopoly continues; Ajit Mohan quits Meta to join SnapGoogle and Facebook combined posted a 77% year-on-year jump in their ad sales last fiscal while the equalisation levy they paid soared 82%,...
04 Nov, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
Tata Motors probing Nexon EV fire; Pine Labs acquires SetuAfter a video showing a Nexon electric car on fire went viral on social media, Tata Motors said it has launched an investigation into the i...
23 Jun, 2022, 06.48 PM IST
Brands leveraging Instagram messaging across customer funnel, developer eco system leveraging messenger API feature immensely : InstagramMessenger API for Instagram was launched in June last year. As per the company, it supports the growing needs of businesses to manage Insta...
29 Jan, 2022, 04.41 PM IST
How big is too big?We take a closer look into how the United States and India view and treat Big Tech companies.
03 Jul, 2021, 09.06 AM IST
World War SocialWe revisit the grandfather of social media controversies, and two more recent clashes between governments and big tech.
29 May, 2021, 07.52 PM IST
WhatsApp banks on business messaging over ads for revenueFacebook has invested in a number of international companies, including Jio Platforms Ltd. in India, to secure partners for WhatsApp as it ...
23 Oct, 2020, 01.01 PM IST
Battered by lockdown, how small businesses used the world’s largest messaging platform to bounce backFor a large number of the country's micro entrepreneurs and SMEs, WhatsApp app, together with WhatsApp business app, has emerged as a savio...
04 Oct, 2020, 09.48 AM IST
Darling of developers, how Postman made a $2 billion valuation look like an overnight successOn June 11, Postman announced it had raised $150 mn in venture capital at an enterprise valuation of $2 bn.
10 Sep, 2020, 12.01 PM IST
Trillions of words analyzed, OpenAI sets loose AI language colossusCo-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, pitches the new product as a major advance in AI that is the first step toward building serious intell...
12 Jun, 2020, 09.27 AM IST
Data breach at JustDial leaks 100 million user detailsSeventy percent of the data was of users who called JustDial's customer care number '88888 88888'
18 Apr, 2019, 11.55 AM IST
Alphabet shuts down Google+ after 5 lakh users' data breachedA software glitch gave outside developers access to Google+ profiles between 2015 and March 2018.
09 Oct, 2018, 10.33 AM IST
Security experts say need to secure Aadhaar ecosystem, warn about third party leaksSecurity researchers warn that leaks are happening in third-party sites and agency should ensure that its ecosystem adopts measures to keep...
26 Mar, 2018, 01.56 PM IST
New-age popularity hack: 'How I got more Twitter followers with just Rs 455'One online transaction, and boom, my three-day-old account posting bland missives on interior design had 1,015 followers.
19 Mar, 2018, 03.55 PM IST
WhatsApp may enter digital payments segment: Co-founder Brian ActonI wholeheartedly endorse Digital India Building digital capability is great for India and that’s something that Prime Minister Modi and the...
25 Feb, 2017, 09.13 AM IST
5 areas where Silicon Valley can help in making India digitalFor the Valley, Digital India is a massive opportunity. Here are five core areas that are critical towards the success of Digital India and...
26 Sep, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
Facebook cancelled a student's internship after he highlighted a massive privacy issueA Harvard student created a Google Chrome plugin that highlighted serious privacy flaws in the social network Facebook's messaging service.
13 Aug, 2015, 04.33 PM IST
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