During a tech-oriented show at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas on Monday, whistleblower fugitive Edward Snowden made a video appearance and gave an hour-long talk denouncing the U.S. government's surveillance policies.
When the new app Talking Angela was released, it allowed children to play with an animated virtual cat. Talking Angela would not have been a huge issue if it were not for the Facebook hoax claiming that the talking cat is in fact a pedophile ring. The app has reappeared in social media these past weeks and has become viral since then.
Facebook wants to acquire drones so that they can deliver communications to remote parts of the world. It sounds like a massive undertaking. But if Facebook is successful despite competition from Amazon and Google, it could be ahead of its time.
Most of the action in social media this week happened in Facebook's neck of the woods, but Vine and Pinterest had some interesting changes and announcements this week. It's time for Social Media Saturday!
Hispanics in the United States (U.S.) are utilizing mobile devices more than ever, and a new report suggests the demographic outpace non-Hispanics when it comes to shopping.
New Jersey teenager Rachel Canning took her parents to court alleging that she left home in October two days before turning 18 because her parents were abusive.
The cop patrols the Facebook community Facebook's wish to hire a police officer exclusively for its headquarters was granted after the Menlo Park City Council in California agreed to it.
The social media company Facebook, which owns Instagram, announced that over the next few weeks it would implement a new set of restrictions on commercial activity use of the sites.
With dirt-cheap international messaging apps like WhatsApp coming to prominence, thanks to Facebook's not-so-cheap acquisition of the company, the pressure is on telecoms to keep their customers, like many Latinos, who frequently communicate across borders. Time Warner Cable (which also provides phone service) is responding with free calls to Mexico.
The teenage daughter of a former private preparatory school headmaster in Miami, Fla. cost her parents an $80,000 lawsuit settlement after posting the deals of the agreement on her Facebook page.
This week, Tumblr began reaching out to entertainment marketers, Facebook made everyone cringe by making search history available for perusal, and Reddit is trying to become the future of reporting by adding a live reporting function. All that, and the world religious figure that just joined Instagram: it's time for Social Media Saturday!
WhatsApp will add voice calling later this year, putting even more pressure on big telecommunications companies, after Facebook recently acquired the insurgent company for $19 billion.
Telegram combines features of both Telegram suddenly skyrocketed to the top free app in over 46 countries last weekend after WhatsApp went offline for about four hours.
There are rumors about hackers using the app to target children The new app game for children, Talking Angela, has been a hot topic of debate for the last three days on social media.
Aside from its social feature, Facebook is also known to carry cutesy and wholesome games such as the "Candy Crush Saga", "FarmVille", and "Pet Society". But all that's about to change with the introduction of "Dead Trigger 2".
Now that Facebook has bought WhatsApp for $19 Billion dollars worth, Facebook has to look forward to their future, that is more users and more access. WhatsApp will help.
Learning more about "What is Batanga?" can help to impact the growing the Latina America market. Batanga is growing multimedia website that targets Latin Americans.
The White House are hoping to major progress with new initiatives aimed to combat patent trolls while enhancing and protecting American inventors and innovations.
Social media has been used to connect with friends and other services, and one demographic utilizing that aspect is Hispanic women in the United States.
Facebook has decided to make its largest purchase ever with the acquisition of popular messaging service WhatsApp. Why did this messaging app fetch one of the largest sums in the web industry's recent history? Here are a few reasons.
