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Twitter #Tweetups: Global Conversations with Shared Studios

Twitter, in Partnership With Shared Studios, Launches #Tweetups to Strengthen Global Conversations

To highlight the strength of conversations, micro-blogging app Twitter on Tuesday launched a #TweetUp in partnership with Shared Studios an organization that connects people through videos.

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button

Websites using Facebook’s ‘Like’ button liable for data: EU court

Europe’s top court on Monday said websites using Facebook “Like” button are liable for data as “Like” button plugins can transmit data back to Facebook even if they don’t click on those buttons. The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors to its website,” said the Court of Justice of European Union (ECJ) in its ruling.

Microsoft's acquisition of BlueTalon

BlueTalon Data Privacy Firm Acquired By Microsoft

Microsoft has acquired a data privacy and governance service called BlueTalon. BlueTalon helps companies determine and set up policies for data access by employees. It then handles the enforcement of those policies and has tools for access and oversight.

Smartphone with Temporary virtual phone numbers

Temporary virtual phone numbers has been effective in increasing safety of users

If you do not want to share your primary phone number with everyone or keep one number for family and friends and another for professional purposes, temporary virtual numbers can offer you a way to maintain privacy, and at times increase safety.

Netflix documentary ‘The Great Hack’

The documentary ‘The Great Hack’ reveals how social media has been weaponized in the present times

The digital traces of our lives on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat are being mined into a trillion-dollar-a-year industry and there is no way out. We are now the commodity for tech giants who are constantly watching us, sharing our data with third-party organizations who, then, are analyzing that in great details for individual-level targeting, swaying voters, benefitting advertisers and what not.

Reddit growth in Indian Market

Is REDDIT on the path of becoming the next big thing in Social media after Facebook in India?

When Alexis Kerry Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded Reddit in 2005, little did they realize that the social discussion platform would one day unite young netizens across the world in a way that even social networking giant Facebook may feel threatened?

Microsoft Windows 10 20H1 Update

Microsoft starts testing its new improved AI assistant Cortana as part of its latest Windows 10 20H1 Fast Ring build

Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 10 20H1 test build which includes some new adjustments to Cortana, among other new features. That Windows 10 20H1 test build, No. 18945, is rolling out on July 26, just days after Microsoft accidentally pushed an even newer Canary ring 20H1 build to testers in all rings.