5 big announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference by Mark Zuckerburg

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook’s F8 is an annual conference focussed on developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the social networking giant. At its first day…

YouTube helped a pregnant woman deliver her baby alone

By Talha Saqib ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

A 22-year-old woman, Tia Freeman reportedly used YouTube videos to deliver her baby all by herself in a hotel room after going into the labor.…

Square to buy popular website builder Weebly for $365 million

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Square, the San Francisco-based financial company, has announced buying Weebly for a whopping $365 million. Square, the financial company run by Twitter’s co-founder and CEO…

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Amazon just dethroned Google and Apple to have the most positive impact on society

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A recent poll conducted by SurveyMonkey and Recode indicated that 20 percent of the participants believe that Amazon has the most positive impact on society…

Is Facebook going to pay billions of fine for its Tag Suggestions?

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Post Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony, trouble is still not letting go of Facebook. A federal judge has now ruled that Facebook must…

Isreal is using Facebook and YouTube to build a massive facial-recognition database

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook has been under fire for its handling of personal data for the past few weeks now, but what other companies around the world such…

Shocking: Over 9% Facebook users have already deleted their accounts, survey

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal is not going to get away anytime soon. The campaign #DeleteFacebook that was joined by co-founder WhatsApp and Elon Musk as…

How much these social media platforms know about you?

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

The Facebook’s scandal involved the data breach of over 80 million accounts as their data was harvested for political purposes. This has raised a lot…

Warning: 3 types of information you must never share on social media

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Just two days back, my friend landed herself in serious trouble after she checked in on Facebook. This led a stalker to follow her and…

Facebook will pay you $40,000 for reporting data abuse

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Since crime doesn’t pay but reporting it will make you a lot of cash. Facebook is paying for reporting data abuse like what we have…

YouTube accused of illegally collecting data from kids

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

23 child advocacy and privacy groups have filed a complaint against Google. The complaints have been filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging…

Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma challenges Mark Zuckerberg

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has challenged Mark Zuckerberg to tackle the growing criticism aimed at Facebook by regulators and…

YouTube is violating a law that protects kids, groups allege

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

YouTube packs an excessive amount of kid-friendly content and there’s no doubt in it. But the child, consumer, and privacy advocacy groups are claiming YouTube…

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