Users don’t trust Facebook because they don’t understand it, says Mark Zuckerberg

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote a column, The Facts About Facebook on “The Wall Street Journal” where he discussed Facebook’s business model and reassured…

FIA arrests man in Lahore involved in luring and blackmailing women into making inappropriate videos

By Adeel Aslam ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Cyber Crime wing of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), on Wednesday, arrested a man from Lahore. The accused was found involved in harassing and blackmailing…

WhatsApp Business to add new features for web and desktop applications

By Adeel Aslam ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

On the first birthday of Whatsapp Business application, the company has announced that it will be adding new features to its WhatsApp Business desktop and…

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Facebook to enable cross-app messaging on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook intends to integrate cross-app messaging on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram to make it easier to reach friends across all the messaging platforms. The work…

Merger of all media regulatory bodies approved by the cabinet

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Federal cabinet has approved the merger of all media regulatory bodies into a single regulatory authority. Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PMRA), as it will be…

Instagram denies the claim that it hides posts from users

By Adeel Aslam ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Instagram was forced to respond when its feed algorithm was under attack once again; with users claiming that the site’s algorithm has resulted in their…

Google releases list of most popular Pakistani YouTube Ads of 2018

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

YouTube officially launched their flagship event for advertisers and brands to Pakistan last week. This was a huge development for the budding YouTube community in…

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Facebook is cracking down on fake news with harsher penalties

By Adeel Aslam ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook is changing the way it handles and communicates violations of the content guidelines and policy around the publishing of fake news and misinformation. The…

Twitter testing “Original Tweeter” feature to distinguish the source of a thread

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter has a new tag in the works that will make it easier to determine who the original tweeter was. This not only helps to…

Court hands 8 year sentence to a man from Peshawar over charges of online harassment and blackmailing

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A man named Ahsan Sheraz from Peshawar has been handed eight years of imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 50,000 for harassing and blackmailing…

What is TikTok and why the hell it is so popular in Pakistan?

By Jowaria Sohail ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 7 min read

Disclaimer: Following article is a monologue of a Pakistani who is busy “managing” three platforms/accounts (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) and has recently been enlightened with…

Facebook blocks 1 million accounts every day, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg

By Maimoona Khalid ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, acknowledged on Sunday that the increasingly criticized social media platform, “understands the deep responsibilities we have,” and that it has learned…

WhatsApp just went down globally

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

WhatsApp has stopped working globally at around 11:20 PM on Tuesday night. Reports from all around the world have come in that users are not…

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