The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust body, named 22 "core platform" services belonging to five US tech behemoths identified as "gatekeepers" -- Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft -- and China's ByteDance. The services included Apple's App Store; Meta's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp; Google's YouTube video platform and...

The debut comes as an array of agencies and organizations grow disenchanted with Elon Musk-owned Twitter in the face of fees, performance problems, and dramatically scaled-back content moderation. Meta described Channels as "a simple, reliable, and private way to receive important updates from people and organizations, right within WhatsApp."

Dubai, UAE - Dubai Islamic Bank launched DIB alt, a full-fledged digital umbrella brand to house all of the bank's digital offerings and capabilities under one roof. DIB ‘alt’ is a full-service transformative digital banking experience that is set to enhance the banking experience for DIB’s customers by many folds,...

Meta said it was "disappointed to have been singled out" and the ruling was "flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies". "We intend to appeal both the decision's substance and its orders including the fine," Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg and chief legal...

Since buying Twitter for $44 billion late last year, Musk has made changes in seemingly impulsive ways, sometimes causing chaos for users. The Twitter boss has talked publicly of building an all-purpose "X" application that combines messages, payments and more.

Berlin, Germany - Germany's anti-cartel watchdog said Tuesday it was examining if it needed to place US giant Microsoft under close watch for any possible abuse. The Federal Cartel Office said it was taking a first step to see if Microsoft is of "paramount significance across markets". If this is found...

The French regulator said that after investigations it found that "when users visited this site, cookies were deposited on their terminal without their consent, while these cookies were used, among others, for advertising purposes." It also "observed that there was no button allowing to refuse the deposit of cookies as...

Instagram accounts for 32% of all fraud cases on social media, followed by Facebook and WhatsApp as scammers find it easy to lure and scam unsuspecting victims on social media sites. Commenting on the data, TradingPlatform.com's Edith read said this. "The most vulnerable sites for scamming are meta-owned. This raises...

The likes of TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter and even Apple now vie with Meta for people's online attention as Facebook social network is increasingly seen as a place for older people.

Investors had been worried that as the pandemic eased and people socialized more in real life that they would engage less on Facebook.

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov has accepted that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events."

Mobile phone users in the Gulf country are currently allowed to use the internet-enabled video and audio calls only through BOTIM app.

Facebook did not provide details on the cause or scope of the problems, which caused users to flock to Twitter to voice frustration.

The announcement came as the tech giant defends itself against accusations that it has long put profit over societal good.

Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp across the world, including the Gulf countries, remained heavily affected for hours.

San Francisco: Encrypted instant messaging app Signal was hit by an outage late Sunday that interrupted services on the platform. "Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service," the company said on Twitter. "We're working on bringing it back up." Internet outage monitor DownDetector...

FB was recently accused of breaching WhatsApp users’ privacy.

Stories is expected to be removed from LinkedIn by September.

Social media services have previously been closed in the country over the past year

The case was dismissed by a US federal judge two months ago.

Facebook has announced that it will join hands with an online Indian lending firm to help provide loans to small domestic businesses in order to lure more businesses to advertise on its platform.

Taliban had set up Whatsapp hotline to receive complaints

The network's Virtual Outpatient Clinic completes over 460,000 tele and video consultations since its launch The company launched WhatsApp feature for appointments The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, also known as SEHA, is expected to further automate patients’ experience by giving them the option to contact the authority using WhatsApp,...

The Lebanese pound has lost around 90% of what it was worth in late 2019 Matters made worse by the August 4 Beirut Port explosion last year Lebanon’s currency reached new lows on Sunday, June 12, trading at around 15,150 to the dollar, said local reports. With this, the Lebanese...