Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, but not if your data was leaked
Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, as well as if it isn’t, in a new initiative. When…
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UK regulator opposes Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy
You might not remember, but Facebook announced in early 2020 that it was acquiring the popular GIF platform “Giphy” for…
EFF sides with Apple, slams Facebook’s criticism of iOS 14 privacy features as ‘laughable’
Facebook has spent the last week publicly criticizing Apple’s plans to add new privacy features to iOS 14 in early…
Facebook admits to reviewing Messenger app audio with ‘hundreds of contractors’
After Apple and Google have come under fire for using humans to review recordings of users captured by their voice…
$5B Facebook fine could be confirmed this week, but won’t be the end of it
A report today says that a rumored $5 billion Facebook fine could be confirmed this week, with the U.S. Department of…
[Update: Available globally] Facebook rolling out new web design with dark mode, here’s how to use it
Sliding in just a day later than its announced deadline, Facebook is starting to roll out its new design for…
Facebook app updated, still no iPad
Facebook, who count 55,060,129 monthly active iOS app users, today updated their iPhone/iPod touch app with a few new features but…
Report: Google, Twitter, Facebook, & Microsoft to file court motions officially supporting Apple in FBI fight
Following Apple’s filling earlier today in which it formally responded to the FBI’s court request to access date on a…
Zuckerberg claims Apple’s ad-tracking policy will hurt small businesses
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that a pending version of Apple’s ad-tracking policy will hurt small businesses when it…
Facebook launches Creator Studio app which allows creators to manage page content on mobile devices
Facebook today announced the Creator Studio app for mobile devices, including iPhone and iPad. Publishers and creators will now be…
Attention politicians: For every low-wage job shipped to Shenzhen, the App Economy creates a quality job in the US
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-fU-knxT0U&t=1h1m55s&start=3720] American politicians are in a hullabaloo over the 500,000 Foxconn low-wage jobs in China that they claim could be…
Death of the web? No. But people are spending more time in Mobile Apps
. Steve Jobs’ favorite analytics company, Flurry, has some interesting numbers that put app usage above web usage. Today, however,…
The No. 1 app on iOS and Android is OMGPOP’s ‘Draw Something’
Pictionary-like drawing game “Draw Something,” developed by OMGPOP, has quickly become one of the hottest mobile apps for both of the industry’s leading platforms….
UN’s ITU wants to tax biggest US websites including Google and Apple
The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax for U.S. websites and content providers including Google and Apple, according to leaked…
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg talks travails of iOS integration, answers are ‘above his paygrade’
Facebook introduced the HTC First with Home for Android today, and now CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doing the press rounds and discussing…
Apple’s iOS problem: Contacts uploading is just the tip of the iceberg. Apps can upload all your photos, calendars or record conversations
Apple responded today to the contacts-sharing issue with a statement indicating it plans to put some form of a setting…
Microsoft continues its iOS app acquisition spree with Prismatic, a news reader startup that Apple eyed
Since Satya Nadella took the reins from Steve Ballmer just over a year ago, Microsoft has been on an aggressive acquisition…
Apple and Amazon refuse to make full federal workforce diversity data public
Although Apple published its own employee diversity report back in August, USA Today reports that the company has refused to make public…
EFF marks Apple’s ‘remarkable improvement’ in protecting customer data from governments
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today published its annual “Who Has Your Back?” report that rates and compares how major corporations…
Say hello to the 9to5Forums and new comment system
TL;DR: By popular demand, we are rolling out 9to5Forums.com built on the Vanilla platform. As part of this new structure,…
Review: Dotti & Notti, fun (if pointless) ways to receive notifications
My conclusion in my Skeptic’s Apple Watch diary series was that the device didn’t really have a unique selling-point to me,…
Amazon relents to Apple, removes Kindle Store link (Update: Nook too!)
new screenshot left, old screenshot with Kindle Store link (right) It looks like not only is the WSJ and the…
Report explores how Facebook’s focus on messaging puts it in direct competition with Apple
Facebook is reportedly planning to combine messaging threads from Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg has said this will improve…
[Update: It’s official] Facebook fined record $5 billion by FTC for privacy violations
Reported by The Wall Street Journal, sources have shared that the FTC has approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with…