This is why the world needs Facebook M: Its new AI and people-powered virtual personal assistant in Messenger app could be better than Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Google Now August 27, 2015 Soon Facebook will be able to answer any question you have, book a restaurant on your behalf and give you the weather forecast for the day. The social network is working on creating its very own virtual assistant like the already well-known and commonly used Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Google Now. Facebook is testing the service, called [...]
FriendlyScore: This FinTech startup can analyse social media activity to prove creditworthiness August 26, 2015 When you're sharing a selfie at dinner or updating LinkedIn with your latest promotion, you're giving away more than you might think. A London-based startup has taken the huge amount of data we share every day on social media to come up with a way of assessing whether we can be trusted with a loan or [...]
Tech stocks rebound on Nasdaq – Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and Apple share prices are on the up after Black Monday August 25, 2015 Tech stocks have rebounded after a dismal Black Monday. Netflix has had one of the biggest rallies in early morning trading, up around seven per cent, while Apple was up around 4.5 per cent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, on which Apple is the heaviest weighted stock, was up more than three per cent after global markets [...]
Black Monday: Tech stocks nosedive with Netflix share price leading the plunge, and Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google following August 24, 2015 Tech stocks are taking a severe beating as US markets join today’s global stock market rout, with Netflix down over 11 per cent. The US’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened over four per cent down, following huge falls in both Asia and Europe amid investors’ fears that China’s slowing economy would lead a global slowdown. Media [...]
Facebook, Twitter and other social media is changing the way we communicate during natural disasters August 21, 2015 Where do you first hear news of a disaster? These days, it’s likely to be through a Facebook post or a tweet. Facebook and Twitter have become such a central part of our lives that the platforms are actually changing the way we react to natural disasters, according to a study published in the International [...]
How do you use social media? One in three use WhatsApp, Snapchat and other mobile messaging apps August 21, 2015 One in three smartphone owners use messaging apps like WhatsApp, according to a new social media study released today. Among young people, this shoots up further to one in two. In Pew Research Center’s latest report, the institute has broken out messaging apps for the first time, asking about them as something separate from texting [...]
Facebook hack: Security flaw allows hackers to harvest personal data using only a phone number August 9, 2015 Facebook has come under fire for lax user data security, as a software engineer was able to extract personal information about thousands of users from the social media company. With thousands of users’ names, photos, location settings and phone numbers leaking out through a security loophole, Facebook has been called upon to tighten its privacy [...]
Facebook knows how you laugh online: Analysing digital laughter shows that “haha” is much more common than “lol” August 7, 2015 Do you “haha” or “lol”? Or even forgo words altogether, replacing them with an emoji as your digital laughter? Drawing from its database of over 1bn users, Facebook published figures on how we “write laughter” on the social media platform. It seems “haha” is the most common e-laugh out there, with over half of the [...]
Facebook security chief Alex Stamos calls for internet companies to improve global cyber security at Def Con conference August 7, 2015 Facebook wants the web industry to do more for global cyber security, with the tech giant calling for internet giants to improve cyber security defences in emerging markets. Speaking at Las Vegas' Def Con cyber security conference, Facebook’s security chief Alex Stamos said consumer internet companies, including Facebook, could no longer rely on the cyber [...]
Facebook share price dips as spending soars July 30, 2015 Facebook reports positive earnings one again, but investors aren't impressed by it's expenditures. The figures During the second quarter, Facebook's year-on-year revenue went up 39 per cent to $4.04bn (£2.59bn), while earnings-per-share increased from 42 cents to 50 cents. Read more: Facebook makes new friends as it doubles its London HQ The results were [...]