For example, Google spent hundreds of millions on Google+ going after Facebook, with little to show for it. Facebook tried to grow Messenger into a Whatsapp competitor before capitulating and purchasing Whatsapp for a whopping $19B. Microsoft launched Windows Phone as a direct competitor to iOS … Read More

The Delhi Police Crime Branch today busted a gang involved in extortion of money by honey trapping people through dating websites and WhatsApp. Six people, including three women, have been arrested in Keshavpuram area of the city for allegedly honey trapping their victims and extorting money … Read More

The official Disney Twitter account tweeting an existential meme featuring the iconic Pinocchio is bizarre; Disney deleting the tweet from its account more than 15 hours later is even weirder. The tweet featured a pre-brough-to-life Pinocchio lifelessly staring into the distance, with the text reading: “When … Read More

I passed on Twitter stock even below $20 last year, and it would double between late October and early March. The gains made some sense, even if I argued back in February that the run past $30 was way too far. Twitter did post a strong third quarter report in …

The Pew Research Center has just released a report detailing the role Twitter bots play in spreading links from popular websites. Researchers analyzed around 1.2 million tweets posted by 140,545 accounts between July 27th and September 11th, 2017 that shared links to 2,315 popular websites. Read More

Facebook's chief executive will tell Congress this week that the social media company did not do enough to prevent its tools from being used for harm, as he prepares for two days of grilling about the leakage of personal information of 87m users. Mark Zuckerberg said advertisers and developers would … …

Facebook FB, +1.54% said it will alert users Monday if their Facebook accounts were one of 87 million obtained by U.K.-based data firm Cambridge Analytica for marketing purposes. Users will see a message when they log onto Facebook through a link at the top of their news feed. If data …

Facebook is currently facing hard questions about how it handles user information, but most of the discussion has focused on the social network itself. Facebook owns plenty of other apps and services — including the Oculus virtual reality platform, which (like all VR platforms) collects incredibly detailed … Read More

The solution also supports the use of Bots featuring integrated Artificial Intelligence technology, automation and analysis for all customer service channels including social media, and maintenance of the customer input and contextual information in the transition from self-service to live agent-assisted … Read More

The shooting incident that took place last week at YouTube had less to do with guns than with the failure of the police to act on information in a timely way and the inability of social media to be anything but part of the problem. Google has been giving this …