According to TechCrunch, Instagram has been testing this feature with a small group of users. The process is supposed to lessen the efforts taken by users to reshare public posts. This is unlike the usual way of posting where users take screenshots, crop the image, and then repost them with …

We've reached the start of another new week, which means the first of five new installments in our ongoing series on app sales. We've got eight paid iPhone and iPad apps for you to check out on Monday, and they're all available as free downloads for a limited time. As …

Nearly everyone with a smartphone and internet connection has the app installed on their phones. WhatsApp too seems to be slowly building out a similar ecosystem of products and services. Voice and video calls were the first obvious features it introduced and payments is the next step in this journey. …

The world began really paying attention to the UMBC Retrievers about when they were tied with Virginia at halftime — at least according to their Twitter follower count. According to Twitter, UMBC Athletics (which had around 5,000 followers when the tournament started), gained 25K followers from … Read More

Unlike Twitter, it's meant to be "a professional environment for research-and-development professionals," said a Polyplexus developer, John A. Main, a program manager at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Darpa and its $3-billion annual budget operate well … Read More

Twitter is full of angry people. Some of them front up. But many vent their fury and rage behind pseudo-identities. One such account had the unwieldy handle of @rnerrionstreet. The name was intended to make it look like the Government's official Merrion Street site. It purported to be a spoof …

Facebook's chief information security officer Alex Stamos is leaving the company over internal disagreements on how to handle the investigation into Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported Monday afternoon citing anonymous sources within the company. Read More

No longer, he said, would Facebook be a closed-off software product like every other social network. Instead, it would become an open platform and invite outside developers to build apps and programs on top of it. “We want to make Facebook into something of an operating system,” Mr. Zuckerberg told … …

Regulatory scrutiny of Facebook is ramping up around the world after revelations that an analytics firm used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign improperly received data about 50m users of the social network. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have called for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's … Read More

It can be difficult to imagine a modern business or professional which does not somehow represent itself through social media. Multiple businesses and professionals take advantage of social media platforms to promote their brands, connect with consumers and remain relevant in an increasingly … Read More