Pinterest plans to raise about US$1.5-billion dollars in its initial public offering of shares. The digital scrapbooking site will put about 86.3 million shares up for sale at a price between $15 and $17 each.
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WhatsApp is giving users more control over who can add them into group chats in a bid to prevent unwanted invitations.
Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, have found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com’s cloud computing servers.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said rules like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation have had a positive impact on the technology industry.
A new tool will enable users to see how the site’s mechanisms decided to rank a post based on their Facebook habits.
Facebook made a very public bid over the weekend to shape the global conversation about Internet regulation, though so far some politicians remain sceptical of its efforts.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the Internet, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.
Pressure is building on Facebook and other social media platforms to stop hosting extremist propaganda including terrorist events, after Friday’s deadly attacks on two mosques in New Zealand were live-streamed.
Social media platforms including Facebook are facing harsher scrutiny after a shooter accused of killing 49 people in two mosques in New Zealand live-streamed the murders over the Internet.
Facebook said a shift in the setup of its computer servers caused a widespread outage described as the largest ever recorded to hit the social media network and its other services.