Rome woman reports Instagram swindle
Police took a report of an online scam from a 19-year-old Rome woman but received no information that would help them trace the perpetrator. According to the Rome Police Department report: The woman said she responded to an Instagram message promising to send her $2,000 if she would send the … …
Odisha learns from TN tragedy, develops plan to avoid forest fires
A WhatsApp group called “Forest Fire Alert” has been created for sharing alerts and information to facilitate tracking, preventing and fighting such fires. The adverse impact of a forest fire has resulted in wild animals such as leopards, elephant, wild boars and bears straying into human habitation, … Read More
Campus Debate
Acton, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, asking us to #deletefacebook won't have any eff ect. He's already created and sold a major data source in the form of WhatsApp to Facebook. But other activists like Edward Snowden have been warning us of numerous data breaches for years now. Read …
Tech Titan Challenged Elon Musk to Delete Facebook Accounts
Jan Koum and Acton, the co-founders of WhatsApp, sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 in a deal that was worth $16 billion. Acton's worth is more than six billion dollars. He left Facebook to launch his own non-profit foundation earlier in 2018. He has also invested $50 million in an …
Better Buy: Facebook, Inc. Common Stock (FB) vs. Twitter Inc (TWTR)
Over the long run, such companies actually benefit as the result of macroeconomic crises by buying back shares on the cheap, acquiring start-ups at a discount, or simply bleeding out the competition by undercutting them on price. Here's how Facebook and Twitter stack up in those respects — keeping in … …
Twitter Joked About Duke vs. Kansas Overtime Delaying 60 Minutes’ Stormy Daniels Interview
Duke's Grayson Allen missed a buzzer-beater to send Duke to the Final Four, which resulted in overtime against Kansas in the Midwest Regional of the 2018 NCAA tournament. After the game, CBS was set to air a 60 Minutes interview with adult film star Stormy Daniels speaking out about her …
Twitter reacts to Stormy Daniels’ interview on ’60 Minutes’
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on "60 Minutes" about her alleged sexual affair with President Donald Trump in 2006. Adult film actress Stormy Daniels told CBS's "60 Minutes" that she signed a non-disclosure agreement because she feared for her … Read More
Facebook apologizes for ‘breach of trust’ in newspaper ads
Facebook Inc. took out full-page ads in nine newspapers in the U.S. and the U.K. on Sunday and apologized for “a breach of trust” following the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal. “You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of … …
Facebook denies logging users’ calls, texts without permission
Facebook on Sunday denied it had been logging Android users' call and text history without their permission. While some users' information is logged, the social media site said the function "has always been opt-in only." When the feature is enabled, the feature allows Facebook to see when a call or …
Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage
It was the weekend that had it all: promiscuous permissions dragged Google into the Facebook privacy row, Facebook apologised again while at the same time denying anything's wrong with its Android apps, and Tim Cook was totally not smug when he chimed into the privacy debate. It's long been … Read …