Facebook has launched a number of second screen tools including voting buttons, custom icons and a photo submission app, to help broadcasters encourage interaction from the new generation of ‘second screen’ viewers.

Twitter has launched a new feature dubbed Moments, offering the best tweets in a bid to take its social network further into the news arena.

The website and social media pages for controversial human-rating app Peeple have been taken offline, after a flood of criticism.

Online community Reddit has launched a stand-alone news website called UpVoted, but in an uncharacteristic move it won’t allow comments.

Facebook is to launch a satellite in the second half of 2016 that will provide internet access to remote areas of Africa, under the controversial Internet.org scheme.

Europe’s biggest airline Ryanair has hit out at Google for “misleading” search ads sending searchers to third-party booking sites and is calling on the search giant to enforce advertising transparency.

Amazon is mulling a data analytics service for businesses, harnessing the flood of consumer browsing and purchase data to help advertisers serve more relevant ads, according to a news report.

Amid rumours that Twitter could be ditching its 140-character limit on tweets, Global Web Index looks at the implications of the social media platform losing one its most iconic features.

Social networking giant Facebook is letting users put up videos as their profile pictures.

Jack Dorsey has finally been named as the chief executive of Twitter replacing Dick Costolo who left the role in July.