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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 | 6/05/2013 Instagram will let you tag friends in photos
Instagram is getting a little bit more like its parent company, Facebook, with a new feature that lets you tag your friends in photos.
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 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks jump as market indexes hit milestones
On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, s...
Article | 3/05/2013 H-1B reform debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers
Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran ...
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 | 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 Digg's replacement for Google Reader due in June; might cost money
With the clock ticking down to the July 1 demise of Google Reader, Digg has promised that a beta version of its Reader alternative will launch just in...
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 Donald Trump wants Apple to make a Phablet, rubbish idea?
American businessman Donald Trump thinks that Apple is losing business because the iPhone screen is too small, is he mad? Nobody wants a Phablet...
Article | 26/04/2013 Wolfram Alpha study of Facebook users details relationship cycles
The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis ...
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 | 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 Facebook can keep its real name policy, German appellate court decides
Facebook doesn't have to allow nicknames on its platform and can keep its real name policy in Germany, the Administrative Court of Appeals of the Stat...