Who owns a selfie taken by a monkey? Wikipedia battle to go to court
The Monkey at the centre of the controversy. Wikipedia is currently embroiled in a unique legal battle with British Photographer David Slater. The...
Regulating WhatsApp and the likes: Indian telcos are coming across as cry babies
Indian telecom companies have been quite vocal about their dislike for over-the-top (OTT) services such as messaging and calling apps eating into...
Pinterest introduces slick messaging within mobile app
With soaring mobile use and consequent sharing of information, social media portals are doing their best to engage users with messaging apps. ...
Austrian data activist’s suit against Facebook gets 25,000 plaintiffs
Data protection activists challenging Facebook (FB.O) in a Vienna court said on Wednesday they had closed the list of plaintiffs after 25,000...
With the new update, Foursquare can track users even when the app is closed
Earlier this year, Foursquare disclosed its big plans to split into two apps – one will focus purely for discovering places while the other...
From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare
In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer...
Wikipedia fights back against Europe’s “right to be forgotten”
Wikipedia fought back against Europe’s “right to be forgotten” by listing the online encyclopaedia’s articles removed from search results, snubbing a court...
Samsung’s next reinvention challenge: itself
As its smartphone sales stutter and a generational leadership succession looms, Samsung Electronics is under pressure to reinvent itself – to be...
YouTube acquires Directr, a video-editing startup
In a move believed to give a boost to its advertising efforts, Google has disclosed that its YouTube unit has acquired Directr, a ...
Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion Internet user credentials, says US firm
A cybersecurity firm said it has uncovered about 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses amassed ...
