Two popular free-to play kids games, Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils, have been forced to alter their in-game messaging after the ASA ruled the wording was “direct exhortations to buy a membership package”.
Twitter has shut off access to 31 accounts that chronicled and archived the deleted tweets of politicians, diplomats and embassies around the world.
Six years on from their first search partnership, Twitter posts will return to Google’s desktop search results following a renewed deal between the two internet giants.
Facebook is starting to drive more traffic to digital media websites than Google, as social media starts to rival search as a web discovery tool, according to new figures.
Hackers who stole the personal and private details of users of adultery dating website Ashely Madison claim to have released the data on to the internet.
Popular chat app Kik has secured $50m funding boost from Chinese web giant Tencent, owner of rival social media apps WeChat and QQ.
Google and Facebook continue to be the most popular sites in the Uk according to new reseach from comScore.
Less than a week after launching its competitor for Periscope, ‘Live’, Facebook have announced they will be opening up the service to more than just celebrities. This appears to be a bit of a u-turn on the social giants part. The company has now intimated Mentions (The app where ‘Live’ resides) will be rolled out to … [Read more…]
Reza Moaiandin a software developer has discovered a flaw in Facebook’s security settings allowing users to find other users profiles simply by typing in their phone number. By default, this ‘who can find me?’ setting is set to everyone/public – meaning anyone can find another user by their mobile number. This is the default setting, … [Read more…]
Having sold some 379,000 shares in November Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has just purchased 32,000 shares at a cost of $875,000 as demonstration of confidence in the company. Other board executives also purchased shares in what appears to have been a co-ordinated move. The move seems to have worked with Twitter’s share price rising 7% over … [Read more…]