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HIGHLIGHTS Google has shut down its Google Talk (aka Gchat, Gtalk) chat service The Google Talk service came into existence back in 2005 Gtalk users will have to switch to Hangouts Gchat was born the day after Hurricane Katrina: Aug. 24, 2005. The latter made landfall in

There is no substantive evidence that Instagram use is connected with depression. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Last month US TV channel CNBC published an online news story based on a study which it said showed that Instagram is “most likely to cause young people to feel depressed

HIGHLIGHTS App will allow parents to monitor who their children are in contact with The app, called Talk, cannot be searched by general public The app is expected to be for those who are 13-years-old and above In a bid to protect vulnerable teenagers from online bullying

HIGHLIGHTS Users in Kuwait and Sri Lanka are seeing the support for all file type The roll out has happened only to select users WhatsApp will roll out support to everyone soon WhatsApp has long been used as a medium to share photos, videos, and even Word

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook will launch the Online Civil Courage Initiative in the UK Looks to train and fund local organizations to combat extremist content EU said that social networks have improved in removing hate content Facebook is launching a UK programme to train and fund local organizations to

Hopefully your answers is “no”, and the intention of this blog is to keep you cyber safe in 2017. Remember the hack of the Ashley Madison site? The top 3 passwords used on that site were “123456”, “12345” and “password”. While there are no guarantees that malicious actors won’t get to your

Facebook’s always looking to boost sharing and interaction on the platform – as The Social Network has noted previously: “Our top priority is keeping you connected to the people, places and things you want to be connected to — starting with the people you are friends with

In their latest effort to transform their platform into a fully-fledged e-commerce machine, Pinterest has announced a new search ads offering, giving marketers the chance to tap into the more than two billion searches conducted on the platform every month. Of course, two billion, in the wider

Google has never fared particularly well in social. This was highlighted earlier in the week when the search giant announced a new update for Google+ – which reminded many that Google+ actually does still exist. Yet, despite their various attempts and failures in trying to tap into the social realm, that

Do you publish long-form content on LinkedIn? Are you looking for ways to get more views and engagement with your posts? LinkedIn recently released its list of “top voices” from 2016, and in the process, they also shared what made those bloggers so successful on the platform. As per LinkedIn: