Category: Social Network

Instagram now half a billion active users

Instagram has more than 300 million people using it at least once a day. The service was bought by Facebook in 2012 for about £677m ($1bn) and has not stopped growing ever since. According to Facebook, an average of 95million photos and videos are posted each day and Co-founder Kevin Systrom said its success was…

Teenagers find social media “likes” better than chocolates

Researchers from the University of California – Los Angeles, revealed after a study observed activation in the brain’s reward regions when teenagers saw their photos with a large number of likes. The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of “likes” on their…

Snapchat surpasses 150million daily users

Four-year-old popular messaging app Snapchat Inc valued at £12.42bn ($18bn), passed over 150million people using the service each day, and is now more popular than Twitter Inc by daily active users. Increasingly more and more investors like Fidelity Investment, Atlantic and Sequoia Capital are looking to have a share in Snapchat, as it generated £40.71m…

65 million Tumblr user account details were stolen

65 million user account details were stolen during a hack on Tumblr, the microblogging site in 2013 with claims of 65, 469,298 email addresses and passwords stolen. In a statement, the company said the passwords were protected by a process called “salted and hashing”, which involves turning the password into a string of digits but…

Facebook had 989 million active users world wide and profits leaped to £1.04bn

Facebook the social networking site for Harvard University students back in 2004, has now more than 989 million active users worldwide. Faccebook advertising revenue rose to £3.6bn $5.2bn with more than 80 per cent coming from mobile. Their shares have leaped after reporting a tripling of first quarter profits from a year earlier to £1.04…

Facebook launches Reactions button

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Reactions are new addition too Facebook. This is an extenstion of the like button, if you share a sad piece of content or something that makes you angry, people can react and express themselves with the Reactions tool. The new Emoticons tool labeled love, haha, wow, sad and angry. For more than…

Zuckerberg slams Facebook Director Marc Andreeson’s offensive Tweet

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday disowned his colleagues’s controversial statement that Free Basics was same as colonialism, saying it was deeply upsetting. Facebook board member Marc Andreesen’s offensive tweet that created an uproar on the social media, after India’s telecom watchdog the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) said no to discriminatory pricing…

Globally most popular Whatsapp reaches one billion users

WhatsApp, a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones reached one billion users which is nearly one in seven people on Earth use the App each month to share vital information including text messages, images, video, user location and audio messages, during natural disasters, health emergencies, dating, growing a small business. WhatsApp began as a…

Facebook selects LeEco for Immersive canvas mobile ads

LeEco, Chinese Tech giant is one of the first few advertisers to be selected to use Facebook Immersive Canvas Mobile ads, a new experience which allows advertisers to use a mix of videos photos and other elements in new and compelling ways. It is an alternative version of a brand’s website but will load faster…

Facebook and Instagram are banning sale of firearms

Facebook and Instagram has announced that it is banning the users from advertising and selling privately firearms on its social network. The rule targeting people trading guns to one another on both social network following concerns that they were being used as a way to get around background checks. The latest development follows a string…

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