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Article | 6/05/2013 Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr

Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radicall...

Article | 3/05/2013 Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement

Facebook has reached an agreement with the company Timelines Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit over the social network's use of the name...

Article | 3/05/2013 Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile

Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus o...

Article | 2/05/2013 Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts

Launching a new product or business is hard. Sometimes, even computer nerds need a little tech support.

Article | 1/05/2013 Facebook revenue rises 38 per cent amid continued mobile growth

Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38 percent in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported.

Article | 1/05/2013 Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is ex...

Article | 30/04/2013 Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone

Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the US can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets.

Article | 26/04/2013 LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords

More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company's servers ...

Article | 25/04/2013 Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business

Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end...

Article | 25/04/2013 Google's data removal requests spike to over 2,000

The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ev...

Article | 25/04/2013 WikiLeaks donations by Visa ruled OK in Iceland

The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's...

Article | 24/04/2013 Tumblr updates iOS app for wider social media sharing

Tumblr is giving its users more options to share their posts across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with a new iOS app released We...

Article | 24/04/2013 AP Twitter hack prompts fresh look at cybersecurity needs

Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday's attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping poi...

Article | 23/04/2013 Twitter hackers take over AP account with false tweet

A tweet posted on the Associated Press account Tuesday reporting two explosions at the White House was bogus and is the result of a hack, the news org...

Article | 22/04/2013 Reddit apologizes for 'online witch hunt' for Boston bombing suspect

In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it pla...