A 24 year old Muslim woman and dental student in Kottayam Kerala, was divorced by her husband on WhatsApp, 10 days after their marriage. “My husband sent me a message on WhatsApp saying Talaq, Talaq, Talaq. He then called me and said the same with god as witness and mailed me too.” When she asked…
LinkedIn has agreed to pay £8.45m $13m to users to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of sending too many unsolicited emails to users. LinkedIn’s “add connections” feature, which lets users import their personal contacts into the social network (the notorious subject line “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”). If…
Snapchat, the Social media giant is launching a new advertising campaign known as “Sponsored Lenses” to be unveiled on Halloween. This follows the introduction of the “Lenses” feature, allowing users to add special effects to the pictures they share. Snapchat, a video messaging application, was started by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel as a project for…
Facebook the world’s largest social network with 1.39bn monthly active users, goes down millions without access to their accounts Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2014, initially set up as an exclusive network for Harvard students. Millions of Facebook users failed to access their stored pictures, messages and contact details as they…
The adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with images is proving to be true in the world of social media. Instagram is now bigger than Twitter (which has only 304million active users), after their monthly users increased by 100 million in the last nine…
Facebook is thinking of adding “dislike” button to its social network, according the founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Q+A session at Menlo Park California, Facebook headquarters. This is the one way for people to express empathy. A “dislike” button had been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the “like” button in…
According to inventor and interim CEO and Co-founder of Twitter, 39 year old Jack Dorsey, who wrote a dispatch software at the age of 15, that is still used by some taxicab companies even today, “We strive for accuracy and fairness”. “ Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect”. Twitter…
“Who Deleted Me on Facebook”, a new iOS app in Facebook lets you track your enemy, and are able to know who precisely ‘un-friended’ you on Facebook. We look for someone who we know to be a friend of ours on Facebook and they are no longer on our list of friends. A search for…
Facebook can recognise you in photos even if you are not looking, as you are being secretly tracked with facial recognition- a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or video frame and video source, by providing 3 core vision detection of 83 points of the face, recognition of…
LinkedIn has bought Carpinteria, California, US leading online learning business Lynda (founded in 1995) for $1.5bn (£1.1bn), making it the professional networking site’s biggest acquisition to date. Lynda helps anyone to learn business software, coding to business skills, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals, also provides German, French and Spanish language…