WhatsApp Payments and UPI – Transforming India’s digital payments landscape
Recently, WhatsApp made its much-awaited entry into the digital payments space and the question that existing players are asking is – how will this affect the nation's digital payments landscape? The digital payments space in India had a total transactional value of Rs 3,37,267 crore in 2018 and is … Read …
James Milner finally joins Twitter and mocks himself by posting first picture of himself ironing
The parody account, which has racked up just under 600,000 Twitter followers, often takes harmless jibes at the former England international with boring posts. And the 32-year-old has finally introduced himself to the social networking site with a sensational post that takes the Mick out of himself. Read More
Twitter Is Showing Cracks After Facebook’s Flop: Chart
Twitter may not have been part of the "FAANG" buzzword made up of some of the tech sector's biggest (and best-performing) names, but it at least managed to rally as hard as many of them. Twitter is up more than 31% in the three months since the calendar flipped to …
Social media Cinderellas: How March Madness upstarts win on Twitter
Zach Seidel, the director of multimedia communications at Maryland Baltimore County, asked the question on the minds of all of NCAA tournament Cinderellas: “Sup?” Because as bracket busters muscle their way through the crowd of 68, they claim precious real estate in basketball watchers' minds, … Read More
Does Facebook’s Green ‘BFF’ Prove Your Account is Secure?
Although it is true that Facebook comments including the word “BFF” in green are among known animations, its appearance (or lack thereof) is not related to account security in any way. A missing green “BFF” does not indicate anyone's account was compromised ay any point, and instead most likely … Read …
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘It’s not a question of if regulation, it’s a question of what type’
Sandberg's comments come a day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in a Facebook post and multiple interviews. The data research firm is accused of improperly gaining access to the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users. Read More
Should you delete Facebook?
Following the certifiable shitshow at Facebook around revelations that data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested and exploited users' data without their permission, many users declared they were through with the platform. The hashtag #deletefacebook spread rapidly on Twitter (another social network … Read More
Social-media alternatives to Facebook
The world's largest social network has come under fire for allowing researchers to mine personal data and then use that data for political ads that may have influenced the 2016 election. Needless to say, that may pose a problem for people who still want to stay connected with friends and …
Govt probes data ‘manipulation’ by social media giants
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday initiated a high-level probe into the analytics carried out by social media and internet giants — including … The minister has already made it clear that attempts to influence electoral processes by social media companies such as Facebook will result in strict … Read More
Schools Are Using AI to Check Students’ Social Media for Warning Signs of Violence
In the hopes of deterring violence, schools are turning to big data analytics to examine social media posts for the earliest signs of violence—depression, resentment, and isolation. Shawsheen Valley Technical High School in Massachusetts has turned to Social Sentinel, a data analytics company that … Read More