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Facebook’s ‘Meta’ Name Change Has Also Sparked the Beginning of its New Effort to Win Back the Youth

Can Facebook win back younger users, and re-establish itself as the connective platform of choice moving forward? It’s no secret that Facebook has lost ground to TikTok and Snapchat among younger audiences, which trends have indicated for some time, and which was officially confirmed as part of

Facebook’s Looking to Bring Messaging Back into the Main App

According to code in the back-end of the Facebook app, The Social Network may soon look to bring messaging back into the main platform, as opposed to redirecting users to its separate Messenger app. As you can see here, code hacker Jane Manchun Wong has located a new test

Google scales back its ambitions for Android Things operating system

Google LLC is curtailing the scope of its Android Things operating system, saying the platform will be used exclusively to power smart speakers and smart displays from now on. When Google announced Android Things in December 2016, the company had a much bigger vision. It said Android Things would

Russia Used Every Social Media Platform To Help Elect, Back Trump: Report

The new report offers latest evidence that Russian agents sought to help Donald Trump win the White House Washington: A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media

Public relations officials hit back at new social media tax

This tax will certainly affect our profession as public relations practitioners if several users fail to access social media due to failure to pay the tax. It also has a ripple effect on access to information, which is a human right; affects the speed and quality of

Software Copyright Back Before Federal Circuit: Time for the Court to Get it Right

Should a company be able to shut down competition by asserting copyright in a collection of software commands? Tech giant Cisco Systems thinks so: it’s gone to court to try to prevent its competitor, Arista Networks, from building competing Ethernet switches that rely in part on commands

UC Browser Back on Play Store, UCWeb Says Updated Settings in Line With Google Policy

After being removed from Google Play for a week, Alibaba-owned UCWeb said on Wednesday that a new version of UC Browser is now available on Google Play. The app was removed from Google Play last week, and UCWeb claims it was due to a certain setting not being in line with Google’s policy. This has been

Update your operating system, but you really should back it up first

Do you pay attention to the nagging popups to install updates to your computer’s operating system? Apple and Microsoft both have some pretty decent upgrades to their respective operating systems rolling out this fall and if your hardware can handle it, you really should upgrade. Why? Well,

Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely

Teenagers in Britain are fortunate to have access to computers, laptops and smartphones from an early age. A child in the UK receives a smartphone at around the age of 12 – among the earliest in Europe. The natural consequence of this is that children spend a significant

Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri fights back after Panama Papers reveal offshore links

Macri says he has nothing to hide after prosecutor calls for investigation into his links to an offshore company Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri, is among scores of international politicians and business figures named in the leak of Mossack Fonseca documents. Photograph: Handout/Reuters Jonathan Watts Latin America correspondent