#Whatsapp has Over 800 Million Users, 600 Million are on Android A few months ago the company Whatsapp revealed that it has at least 800 million users.
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
she wrote on her blog, Livefrommars. life. NASA current technology can send a robotic mission to the Red planet in eight months,
the California-based internet firm said in a blog post. ee taken the Google logo and branding,
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
#EU ruling means Facebook and Google can send data to the US If you live in Europe,
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
It means that The irish Data protection Commission which presides over Facebook data-export operations, is unable to use Safe Harbour as a reason not to investigate Facebook data protection practices in the US.
In a statement, The irish Data protection Commissioner confirmed that Schrems case would be brought back before The irish High court s soon as practicable The ruling also removes the legal blanket that allowed companies to send data gathered in the EU to the US for processing.
It not yet clear whether this will disrupt the day-to-day operation of major technology firms, but their ability to pool data from both sides of the Atlantic for analysis will be affected.
000 Twitter followers and 48,000 Facebook ikes (Now more than 87,000) The tough town of Philadelphia did not treat the hitchhiking friendly robot so well.
Do they use their phones to send a textdo they use Twitter? says Fitzpatrick. ee trying to build scenarios so
Refined through work on millions of uploaded and tagged faces at sites like Facebook and elsewhere,
According to a blog post by Google CEO Larry page, who will now be the CEO of Alphabet,
Also, if you click the period after mention of the self-driving car on Page's blog post,
check in at the Samsung blog. Samsung s
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
Just ask Facebook, Google and Microsoft. With its promising application to video games and other in-real-time experiences, its no wonder the biggest tech players in the field are eager to explore AR possibilities.
the company said in a blog post. The revamped logo, displayed as a Google Doodle on its homepage,
"the company said in a blog post explaining the logo. bit. ly/1jvgik1) The new logo comes three weeks after the company's surprise move to create a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries
The study found that the resulting mix of blogs, personal websites Facebook pages and health sites perpetuate an alarming mixture of misinformation about vaccines
and use a range of persuasive techniques to get the reader on side. Almost two thirds of the sites suggested that vaccines cause autism,
Additional information about the launch is available at https://blogs. nasa. gov/spacex/2015/03/31/spacex-targeting-april-13-for-station-resupply-launch/.
"This is a remarkable evolutionary solution for'social networking'in large colonies, "Ray explained.""A more volatile body odor cue would be confusing to associate with an individual
and the properties of social networks. Molecular Science: Studying the properties of lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules can advance our understanding of biophysical processes at the atomic scale,
Brin is described president Alphabet as ostly a collection of companiesin a blog post announcing the reorganization today.
Researcher Kevin Mahaffey published his findings on the Lookout blog conveniently on opening day of the 23rd annual Def Con hacking conference in Las vegas
Mahaffey goes into exhaustive detail in his blog entry regarding the specifics of the hack.
nurses or other medically trained personnel can become erified In the same way Twitter blue tick verifies that a user is who they say they are,
though, spare a thought for the owner of twitter. com/alphabet, who must have been having an interesting 24 hours.
a Twitter user (or, as Krebs speculates, users) called Thadeus Zu posted a link to the hack before anyone else
and Sundar Pichai will become new CEO In a blog post today, Google cofounder Larry page announced a massive restructuring of the company,
Both artists used Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks to build suspense for their newest records,
and released them on multiple streaming services, securing more listeners than Compton could with its Apple-first approach a
In a blog post, Google discusses how much technology has changed how we interact with its products and with the internet at large.
#How do you laugh on Facebook? LOS ANGELES-How do you express laughter in a Facebook post?
By saying LOL, Haha or Hehe? The folks at Facebook recently crunched the numbers of the billions of daily posts to see how its members expressed their humor,
and they found that 15%use laughter of some kind in a post. At one point, the acronym surely would have been LOL,
Facebook looked at posts in May to come up with these conclusions and also researched specific cities,
A quick note that the desktop version of Facebook doesn offer many opportunities to attach digital laughs,
you need to go to the Facebook Messenger mobile app, where not only are there tons of way more emoji syymbols available for your posts,
Twitter (TWTR: Twitter's stock was back down to red Tuesday morning after bouncing back Monday.
Interim CEO Jack Dorsey showed a bid of confidence in the lagging company Monday, buying more than 31,000 shares of Twitter for about $875, 000.
Following Dorsey's purchase, shares jumped 9%to close at $29. 50 on Monday. The company also pleased investors after announcing an expanded deal with the NFL,
#Tinder goes on Twitter rant over'Vanity fair'article Popular dating app Tinder erupted into a storm of angry,
#Twitter drops character limit for direct messages witter users will no longer be confined to 140 characters
The social network says it has removed limits on the length of a direct message, allowing users to send tweets at whatever length they choose.
However, Twitter says the standard public tweet will remain 140 characters.""Today change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun,
says Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post detailing the changes. The change rolls out starting today across Twitter's mobile apps, desktop and web clients and Tweetdeck,
and continue rolling out globally over the next few weeks s
#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,
and also take a 360 degree immersive video trip to Peru. Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus, which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook and Google operate overseas. The European Court of Justice examined the case of an Austrian citizen who claimed that his data,
wasn't being protected adequately by Facebook. No appeal is possible as the European Court of Justice is the equivalent of the U s. Supreme court. The ruling comes as European leaders
That could change because of the lawsuit brought last year against Facebook by Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems.
Schrems filed the case in Ireland, Facebook European headquarters. The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court."
"Schrems said in a statement posted on his Twitter account after Tuesday's ruling. In a statement, Facebook said Europe's Advocate General had been very clear the issue was not Facebook per se,
but the mechanisms that European law provides to enable essential transatlantic data flows. The company said it was imperative that the EU
including Oculusparent Facebook, in envisioning VR for shopping. That vision is still fluid for vretail,
Not to mention the effect that bans on sites such as Twitter and Youtube have, like those repeatedly ensued by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Google, Facebook, Amazon) Large, IT-intensive enterprises (e g.,, financial services companies) The emergence of financial services companies as IT providers is something that has been brewing for some time.
In addition, users increasingly turn to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to find news and suggestions-where to eat or which movies to watch,
"Google said. The EC on Wednesday confirmed it was opening a probe into Android and whether Google has been breached antitrust law here too."
Apps that compete directly with Google such as Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft office, and Expedia are easily available to Android users;
The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,
and tune in live at 11 AM EST. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter via#SAPRADIO o
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
A travel website article that provides step-by-step instructions for using the buses there is longer than most blog posts.
Follow@smartccouncil on Twitter. More resources issecting ISO 37120: Gimme shelter, please! The homeless challenge cities facehow technology is helping cities help their homelessdata sharing helps NYC improve health and human services deliver d
and what still needs to be done Can the social networking wave that is emerging help bring about more responsive government organizations?
Social networking provides governments with a new paradigm: knowledge release rather than knowledge control. This Government 2. 0 approach can harness government knowledge to improve results.#(PDF white paper available from Freebalance.
Government 2. 0 enabled through social networking tools provides benefits such as reduced cost of engagement through more productive tools and processes, simplified knowledge creation and retention though usable applications, easier knowledge sharing,
To help government better take advantage of social networking technologies, Grant Thornton suggests that government organizations better incorporate design thinking#(Government 2. 0 mindset) as a supplement to management thinking#(Government 1. 0 mindset).
Facebook, Twitter) come from turning resources over to everyday users, rather than directing them toward big, possibly unwieldy partnerships.
Social sites like Linkedin and Facebook are building news products. And for an increasingly large portion of internet users, Twitter is personalized a news wire.
With Google out of the way, RSS might finally develop to its full potential. Via Businessweek Image:
people looking for comparisons have had to depend on blog posts, which can be useful but hard to find,
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
I followed the post on Jason s blog entitled 10 Incredibly Awesome Docs to help you Start a Company.
and to embed on their own websites and blogs. On the other hand, we get hundreds of thousands of downloads each month,
Click Here To visit Jason's blog, Click Here To Check out The 10 Totally Awesome Docs to Start a Company, Click Her r
Kei Kawai, wrote on the team's#blog. By releasing this new imagery on Google maps
"Google. org wrote in a blog post.""Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union,
The award winning director caused Twitter mayhem last week when he sent out a cryptic tweet about some amn good coffee.
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Reuters correspondent on the scene in Eastern Ukraine sees burning wreckage of air plane bodies on groundreuters World(@Reutersworld) July 17 2014photos of the wreckage have started also showing up on Twitter.
Flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic. twitter. com/z4bydeovcp legionar(@Matevznovak) July 17 2014flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine.
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#Donetsk#Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic. twitter. com/2o0sgvnjbe legionar(@Matevznovak) July 17 2014a video was posted also to Youtube that reportedly shows smoke from the wreckage rising over the hill.
a Facebook group for Nightscout, set up by Jason Adams, now has nearly 12,000 members, and our code made the semifinal round for the 2014 Hackaday Prize.
500 different merchants for its platform, including well-known tech companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify, Evernote, and Groupon.
Beyond providing fodder for gossip blogs, the Sony hack has revealed also serious information that arguably more serving of the ublic interest.
It 15 percent at Facebook. Similar stats can be found at most of the larger tech companies.
The 7-week program pairs girls interested in computer science education with field trips to top tech companies such as Twitter and Square.
Adobe, AIG, Akamai, AOL, Appnexus, AT&T, BSA, ebay, Electronic arts, Expedia, Facebook, GE, Goldman sachs, Google, Groupon, IAC, IBM, Lockheed martin, Massmutual, Microsoft
, Moody, Pixar Animation Studios, Square, The Honest Company, Twitter, Viacom, Intel, Intuit and Verizon in order to reach its goal.
it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
In its blog post the company reiterated that the accuracy of Google translate depends on members of its Translate Community who supplement the tool s algorithms by correcting translations
Here how chief executive officer Renaud Laplanche described the situation on his own Linkedin page, alil invested in Lending Club as a Series A in 2008.
#Page365 Grabs $420k To Professionalize Social Commerce In Southeast asia Starting In Thailand Facebook and Twitter both have introduced uybuttons this summer,
The service started two years ago latching on to a trend that saw Facebook used to market
Page365 aims to make things more professional with its platform that plugs into Facebook and Line, the chat app with 20 million registered users in Thailand,
#Instagram Hits 300 Million Monthly Users To Surpass Twitter Keeps It Real With Verified Badges It no fad.
That makes Instagram officially bigger than Twitter, which had 284 million active users as of six weeks ago.
and despite fears that the acquisition by Facebook would screw it up, there now 70 million photos shared each day,
Between Facebook 1. 35 billion, Messenger 500 million, and Whatsapp 600 million users, Facebook has developed a jaw dropping mobile footprint.
Instagram Of THE Week With growth steady, Instagram is now looking to strengthen its authenticity.
The tactic helped Twitter boost confidence, and Facebook started verifying profiles in May 2013. The badges will surely be coveted by the types of users desperately trying to grow their following
and make Instagram new Explore tab more trustworthy. In the same vein of keeping it real, Instagram says it now gone from deactivating spammer
Instagram hits 5 million Android users, is acquired by Facebook April 30th, 2012: 50 million users February 2013: 100 million users September 2013: 150 million users March 2014: 200 million users Considering Twitter
has added only around 38 million users since March while Instagram has added 100 million, you can expect the gap to expand
Twitter is facing this problem already. Eventually, Instagram might need to help people unfollow accounts they never Like
Dashlane Password Changer works with over 50 top U s. sites including Amazon, ebay, Facebook, Google, Linkedin,
Twitter and Yahoo and is continuing to grow as the feature expands. The first version is available for PC and Mac with mobile support arriving oon,
with 75 sites as of today, including big ones like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Pinterest, Dropbox and others.
At a Facebook, Google, or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
In a blog post Box##CEO Aaron Levie described the Trust effort in the following terms:#
As naturally as it is for all of us to tag a friend on Facebook only that it s no longer about the pages you ve liked
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
or have their services shut down locally, they often publish them on Chillingeffects. org for transparency.
But today when Facebook followed Turkey legal order to block a Page that defamed the Prophet Muhammad from Turkish users,
Mark Zuckerberg has said it Facebook duty to comply with censorship so it can keep operating
Google and Twitter both have large archives of notices theye shared on Chilling Effects. But Facebook abstains from this transparency practice.
Instead, the company has been beefing up its transparency reports with an interactive map the shows
Some claim that Facebook is wrong to comply with censorship, and that it should accept bans.
Facebook growth and advertising objectives are cited often as supposed reasons it complies. However, Mark Zuckerberg recently commented on the censorship issue in a public Q&a saying one more country doesn add much extra ad money or growth.
Facebook declined to comment on this specific issue. Regardless it seems obvious that Facebook could maintain its current position
while also being more transparent and publishing the demands it receives in a timely fashion.
and is doing all it can to fight back without cutting off citizens from their social network i
It unclear whether or not Lizard Squad is linked actually to Cyber Caliphate a hacker group that claims to be associated with ISIS. Last month Cyber Caliphate took control of the U s. central military command Twitter and Youtube accounts.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
and formerly ran Twitter security team. he idea is to scramble the information so well that it not worth pursuing.
#Facebook Open-sources Some Of Its Deep-Learning Tools In the world of machine learning the buzzword these days is eep learning.
Facebook too has done quite a bit of work in the area and today the company is open-sourcing some of its projects around the Torch7 computing framework for machine learning.
and artificial intelligence projects in academic labs and at companies like Google Twitter and Intel. Facebook today is optimized launching tools to increase the speed at
which deep-learning projects that use Torch run. One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously.
In addition Facebook is launching a number of additional tools that bring more speed to other parts of Torch as well.
Some of these are modest but many of Facebook projects results in 3 to 10x improvements over the default tools.
#Facebook Unveils Facebook At work Lets Businesses Create Their Own Social networks About six months ago we reported that Facebook was working on a new product aimed squarely at the enterprise market under the working title B@Work
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
which will let businesses create their own social networks amongst their employees that are built to look
and act like Facebook itself. Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
Check out Josh follow-up story for more screenshots details on privacy and analysis.)Employers can create separate logins for employees to use with their Work accounts
The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft Yammer Slack Convo Socialcast and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the nterprise social networkspace.
Even Linkedin conveniently let drop last night that it too was looking at building a product for coworkers to communicate
(but not chat as a Linkedin spokesperson tells me). Not all of these have been a hit:
Lars Rasmussen the engineering director at Facebook who is heading up the project had in his past once headed up one of the failed efforts at an enterprise social network Google Wave.
Facebook is positioning today debut as a bold first step. ee putting the app into the app stores
In fact Facebook has already been running tests of the service with very small setof external businesses around the world Rasmussen says;
In fact the existing Facebook Groups product is used already by smaller organisations. Because of the early nature of the product there are a lot of questions in the air.
For now Facebook Platform has been disabled on the Work product meaning no ads or apps. That may not always be the case (t could be paidhe says.
Rasmussen says that Facebook has effectively been working on Work for the last 10 years because it is based on
what Facebook own employees have been using to communicate with each other pass on news plan meetings and share documents.
That long-time use and Facebook familiarity to all of us are part of what makes Facebook confident that it can carve a place for itself in a market that already is crowded very. acebook At work strength is spent that wee ten years
and incorporated feedback from 1 billion active usershe says. ll embedded of that is now in the same product
but adapted for different use cases. nd it actually used by staff hen Mark Zuckerberg the CEO makes an announcement he just posts it on Facebook at Workrasmussen says.
In fact Facebook own popularity could be Facebook At work biggest advantage. A lot of efforts in offices to get employees to collaborate more with each other have been stymied
In that vein Facebook At work built essentially on Facebook itself will be arguably the closest of all to an authentic onsumersocial experience.
By making this free Facebook could potentially drive a lot more users to its wider network.
The fact that Rasmussen would not rule out advertising as an option down the road to me suggests that Facebook could consider tiers of its own where some businesses may pay for the product
Plus this would give Facebook another revenue stream beyond ads and app-related payments. How it will work Facebook wouldn show me a demo ahead of the launch
but this is how Rasmussen describes it: hen an employer adopts Facebook At work they can construct it with a set of new accounts.
Users can then link their work and personal accounts together so that they are logged into both at the same time. his would work much like Groups
The content stays entirely within your personal or work Facebook. hat not there/integrations. You can share documents today
but for now there will be no in-app editing urrently. gain that leaves this open as something that will come down the line. he set of features are identitcal to personal Facebook
Hopefully in the future other enterprise tools will integrate with Facebook At work. ackstory on development. Back in June I deduced that Facebook At work was connected with Rasmussen work in London but what
I found out from sources after that report was that this was more than casual: this was his baby.
and the knowledge of a failure of doing this at a different companyhe says referring of course to Google Wave. thought that maybe Facebook experience was
however is one that Facebook will have to continue to grapple with all the more so as it continues to grow.
Canvassing opinion on a Facebook At work product I heard not only once people shy away from the idea concerned with the thought of Facebook wningyour data
and the potential lack of confidentiality resulting from it. That can be frustrating when related to pictures of you too drunk
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