After Twitter’s first earnings report was released, investors were disappointed by the company’s lack of growth. Twitter has been experimenting with making itself more accessible by adding things like inline photos, a ...
If you’ve ever wondered how a tech company makes its money, this handy page from Seer Interactive might be the best way to find out. The page lists almost 50 of the most popular companies and services, then details how exact...
A man and woman in Britain have been given jail time for sending tweets that were of an abusive nature. The two in question are John Nimmo, 25, and Isabella Sorley, 23. Their Twitter-hate campaign began as a response to the decisi...
Facebook has announced a new area of the News Feed today called Trending. The Trending section of the feed will contain stories that are selected by algorithms that identify the top events, TV shows and news articles that are bein...
Another meeting was held between the White House and members of the tech industry on Friday. Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and Google were represented at a meeting to discuss details on changes that are going to be made, hopefully, in...
Every day we come across something stupid, but nonetheless interesting. Today we’re going to look at a few researchers at Michigan Technological University that are aiming to use Twitter to find travelers from the future. Apparent...
Only a couple days into the new year and already there have been more hacks. This time it was Skype who was the target and the hackers left a message which was pretty clear: Spying on the public has to stop. Already there has been...
Now if you go to the beach in Australia, you’ll be able to check Twitter to see if there have been any sharks in the area. That’s thanks to the good people at Surf Life Saving Western Australia, who have “connect...
Justine Sacco, who up until Friday was one of the top PR workers at InterActiveCorp (IAC), has been fired for sending out a racist tweet. The tweet in question was, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!...
Twitter had to do an about face on the ability to block unwanted followers after an overwhelming outcry from Twitterbugs everywhere. Late Thursday evening, Twitter announced that it would restore the favored feature in order to ma...
After asking for reform back in October, many of the big names in tech are officially coming together to, hopefully, put an end to the National Security Agency’s poking around. You see, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, Twi...
Federal prosecutors in South Korea have announced new evidence that the Nationals Intelligence Service (NIS) did indeed post more than 1 million tweets in favor of Park Geun-hye. Until recently it was only rumor that the NIS was i...
Twitter has been the perfect platform for celebrities who want themselves to be known by millions of people. For celebrities, squeezing in their name in the top trending topics on Twitter is equal to winning a Grammy or an Oscar. ...
Feeling overwhelmed by all of the social media out there? That’s okay, you’re not alone. Google believes that there are a lot of people that can’t seem to keep up with social networking and has taken out a patent on a program that...
Recently China has held their “Third Plenum”, which was a meeting that took place over a four day period and 204 full Communist Party Central Committee members were in attendance, as well as over 150 alternates. While ...
