Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is facing a class-action lawsuit in Europe that could bring Facebook’s lack of privacy protection into focus. The suit says that after Facebook’s privacy policy became apparently deliberately confusing, violations occurred. Austrian law student and privacy activist Max Schrems said Friday he will challenge the social network in court. Schrems says…
In an unusual development, Facebook (NASDAQ FB) suffered from the biggest outage in its history on August 1. While connecting, Facebook displayed “Something Went Wrong” for almost 30 minutes. Similarly, you get a network error in the mobile apps and your content won’t refresh. The site went down for most users around 12 p.m. ET…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB)’s Slingshot app, which is said to be the answer to ephemeral chat app Snapchat, has gotten its first update, and with it come new features that have been added to the app. One of the remarkable new features is the Reactions to Reactions feature, which enables the app’s users to post…
A few weeks back, Apple (AAPL) and International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) entered into a partnership in which IBM would be able to analyze the data collected from Apple’s devices. The purpose of the partnership is to create 100 mobile apps specifically for enterprise customers. Through this partnership, Apple hopes that its iPad and iPhone…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is now signaling a change from the previous version of CEO Mark Zuckerberg views over privacy. Previously, Zuckerberg said that privacy was not a social norm anymore in the society that is likely to share everything. However, the change is mainly limited to setting its definition of privacy or taking a…
QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has taken a further step towards the vision of demonstrating how technology innovations can help address some of the challenges the education sector faces, by completing the acquisition of EmpoweredU, a pioneer in the development of an intuitive, mobile-centric cloud-based learning environment that is both…
