Facebook says it exposed millions of Instagram user passwords
Less than a month after Facebook exposed around 600 million of its users' passwords to employees, the company has quietly announced that Instagram accounts have been affected as well.
Less than a month after Facebook exposed around 600 million of its users' passwords to employees, the company has quietly announced that Instagram accounts have been affected as well.
In Facebook's privacy troubles, it's now being reported that the company stored millions of user passwords and plain text — exposing them to thousands of Facebook employees.
The legal battle that started back in March between BlackBerry and Facebook has now escalated to Facebook returning legal fire in claims that BlackBerry infringed several Facebook patents.
A new report from The New York Times has now highlighted claims of Facebook sharing its users' data with at least 60 smartphone OEMs over the past ten years including BlackBerry, Apple, and Samsung.
Facebook and other companies often buy data from data brokers in order to sell advertisers more targeted ad space on their platforms. Here's how to keep your data safe.
According to a new report published by Reuters, BlackBerry has recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook (WhatsApp and Instagram) through the Los Angeles courts.
Twitter is making it easier for anyone to request a "Verified" account with a new online application process open to the public.
Facebook has announced it will be making more changes for its News Feed in the coming weeks. Posts from friends that Facebook users care about most will be placed higher in the News Feed with this change.
Twitter has acknowledged that a number of usernames and passwords have been leaked, but says that its own systems were not breached.
It looks like Facebook is currently experiencing an outage, with many users reporting the service is down.
Twitter has announced that it will add a number of exceptions to the social network's previously strict 140-character post limit in the coming months.
Twitter is reportedly planning to stop counting photos and links against your 140-character limit for tweets.
Twitter is adding a new feature for reporting harassing messages on its service, allowing users to send multiple tweets in one report, rather than just sending them one at a time.
Facebook has started rolling more changes to its News Feed. It will now take into account how long a person spends looking at an article.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in an interview that the social network's current 140-character limit for public posts is "staying". Previous rumors claimed Twitter was considering an option to increase that limit to 10,000 characters.
Facebook has started rolling out the five new emotional 'reactions" that will supplement its traditional "Like" button for news post comments. The "Love", "Haha", "Wow", "Sad" and "Angry" option will be available to both mobile and desktop Facebook users when they hold down or hover over the "Like" button.
Facebook will begin rolling out five more emojis that are designed to complement the social network's famous "Like" button to all of its users worldwide sometime in the next few weeks. Facebook has been quietly testing these new buttons in select markets over the past few months.
The super-popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter is currently down for many across platforms and on the web. Clients are failing to load timelines, profiles, tweets and more, while the main website is refusing to display anything other than a technical error message.
According to a new report, Twitter may be considering a big change to the 140 character limit on tweets. Recode reports that the company is considering allowing up to 10,000 characters per tweet.
This is a bit of an odd one, but Facebook is beginning to try out some new tools that it believes may help improve your experience following a break up. You'll be able to select to see less of their content without having to unfriend them.
Twitter plans to lay off up to 336 of its team members, which represent about 8 percent of its total work force. The company says this will help allow Twitter to "organize around the Company’s top product priorities"
Facebook has begun testing Reactions, a new way for users to express themselves beyond the Like button. Reactions include emoji characters, for love, excitement, anger, and sadness.
Twitter has officially announced that it's co-founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey is now the permenant CEO of the company. Dorsey will remain as CEO of his other company Square.
If you're having a little trouble posting that latest selfie to Facebook this afternoon, don't worry: you're not alone.
Facebook has rebranded its Internet.org initiative as Free Basics, adding end-to-end encryption and 60 new services that will be accessible for free.