Two or three years ago, it would have seemed highly improbable not just that an actress like Nicole Kidman would have an active Instagram presence, but that she would have a presence on the social network at all. Instagram, until fairly recently, was the province of pop and reality stars, …

A detail from the most popular photo on our Instagram during March. The photo of Warsaw Caves, with more than 5,800 views, was taken by Mike Markov. (Photo: Mike Markov @mikemarkov / Instagram). If you love Instagram as much as we do, you'll also love our monthly feature where we …

Relying on millions of users, WhatsApp, Samsung Pay, Google and Amazon Pay have been vying for bigger shares in India's digital payment market. Currently, India's payments market is worth less than $200 billion in comparison to $27 trillion in China. New Delhi (Sputnik) — A step which is likely to … …

We don't wish to alarm you unduly, but you might want to check your Whatsapp immediately to make sure a hi-tech heavy breather isn't snooping on your secrets. A new piece of research has suggested creepy hackers could use the wildly popular app to snoop on people's private group conversations. …

Facebook has been fined with the equivalent of $33.4 million for failing to provide the Brazilian government with WhatsApp messages as part of Brasília's 2016 investigation of select individuals who embezzled significant sums of public funds. In a statement provided to Reuters, Facebook called the fine … Read More

The incident highlights a serious flaw in Twitter's verification process, which aims to confirm to members of the public that the account's claimed identity is correct. The account in question responded to a post on Friday by Vitalik Buterin, co-creator of Ethereum, asking users to send between 0.5 and five … …

Cardi B's highly-anticipated debut album Invasion of Privacy is here – and it lives up to ALL the hype. Ever since her first single “Bodak Yellow,” the world has patiently waited to see what the rapper's first LP would sound like. Well, it's safe to say it was definitely worth …

Both Square and Twitter are transitioning from losing money to making money. In my fintech article from March, I mentioned InvestorPlace's Nicolas Chahine's strategy for Square stock. He likes to go long SQ to gain exposure to bitcoin without the volatility — to illustrate why Square is a smart buy. …

Another data-point to flesh out the Facebook data misuse scandal: The company has informed the European Commission that a total of 2.7 million EU citizens had their information improperly shared with the controversial political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica (via Reuters). Facebook had already … Read More

TechCrunch reported last night that Facebook retracted Facebook messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients' inboxes. That's an ability normal Facebook users don't have. But now Facebook tells me it plans to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in several … Read More