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Facebook sues Namecheap for registering deceptive domains

Facebook, the social network company, has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, and WhoisGuard, Namecheap's proxy service, in Arizona for alleged cybersquatting and registering deceiving domain names that allegedly infringed on Facebook's trademark.  Christen Dubois, Director and...

Twitter introduces Fleets, Snapchat like self-deleting Stories

Twitter, joining the fray of social media sites, is now testing its impression of Stories in Brazil. The company dubbed Snapchat stories like feature to "Fleets," allowing users to post temporary content on their Twitter accounts which disappears after...

Instagram “Latest Posts” feed sort is coming back, leaks suggest

Instagram will introduce to its users with an option to see all the content that they might have missed based on the sorting order of when they were posted. In other words, Instagram is about to roll out "Latest...

Facebook and Twitter refused to take down edited Nancy Pelosi video posted by Donald Trump

President Donald Trump posted an edited video of Nancy Pelosi on social media to show that Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, tears up his State of the Union speech repeatedly.  Nancy Pelosi appears to make tiny tears in Trump's State...

Alphabet, parent company of Google, has a trillion-dollar market cap now

Google's parent company, Alphabet, hit the $1 trillion market capitalization on Thursday. With this milestone, Alphabet has become the fourth $1 trillion club member after Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. The tech giant Apple hit the trillion-dollar market cap mark in...

Facebook and eBay following agreement to ban trading of fake reviews

Facebook and eBay knocked down hundreds of accounts, generating fake and misleading reviews, according to a report by Britains' Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). About six months ago, CMA identified "troubling evidence" for fake and misleading online reviews. After struggling...

Facebook acquires PlayGiga to jump into cloud gaming

Facebook has acquired PlayGiga, a startup focused on cloud video games, as reported by CNBC. PlayGiga has one of the advanced video game streaming platforms in Europe. PlayGiga, based in the Spanish city of Madrid, has been working on online...

Facebook worker is fired for accepting bribes to restore banned accounts

A Facebook contractor has reportedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned accounts, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News.  A marketing agency based in San Diego, Ads Inc., reportedly paid $5,000 initially and then $3,000 each month to a...

Asana, founded by Facebook co-founder, may go public next year

Asana, a team management app founded in 2008, is planning a direct listing as it aims to go public next year, according to a report by Miles Kruppa on Financial Times. It was founded by Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook with Mark...

Top 5 tech news of the week

Here are the top five tech news by popularity of last week. Singapore tells Facebook to correct anti-government post on 29 Nov An online news publishing website State Time Review shared a post on their Facebook page mentioning about an arrest of a...

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