Social networks

Up until Election Day, public service announcements from non-partisan organisations for voting advocacy will reportedly be featured on Twitter.

While most VR or AR research focuses on graphics, motion tracking, and immersive experiences, this one is geared towards audio.

It seems the company's legal woes are not over as it is hit with a new class-action lawsuit over Instagram's alleged breach of privacy law.

Tavis McGinn, who ultimately left his post at Facebook after six months, has opened up about his role and how his work was similar to that of a political pollster.

Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on it more "meaningful" in a move that could hurt publishers and news organisations that rely on it to spread their content.

A pair of struggling social-media darlings have decided they need to take on new looks if they want to prosper.

The 'advanced TweetDeck' offers analytics and no advertising, one source said.

The firm has changed its business structure in the UK.

A bizarre hoax leading people to believe the moon will appear green is trending online.

Move will put the tech giant ahead of rivals such as Facebook's Instant Articles and Flipboard.

Apple CEO Tim Cook met Pope Francis on 22 January at the Vatican.

The social circles of African elephants is being maintained, even though generations are disappearing.

Hackers pose as recruiters by copying information from real LinkedIn accounts.

The network which has almost 1.5 billion monthly users performed strongly in mobile advertising.

Facebook's revenue grew 49 percent in the fourth quarter, as mobile advertising growth helped the world's largest Internet social network beat Wall Street's targets for earnings and sales.

Central bank believes unconventional data from internet could be more timely than official figures.

Plea by GCHQ head Robert Hannigan for mature debate about social network privacy dismissed as 'offensive' by campaign group

Facebook has bowed to pressure from gay rights activists

Facebook's emotional contagion experiment analysed news feeds of almost 70,000 English-language users.

No need to pause for reflection as new hi-tech SELFIE mirror takes pictures and then uploads them to internet.

Latest trend of self-portrait photos involves homeless people in the background, often unaware they're on camera.

Windows Phone 8,1, due in April, will bring a notification centre and Siri-like personal assistant to new devices.

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.5 released for HTC One Mini.

Trust in web security wanes as a quarter of Britons have online accounts compromised, survey finds.

Sony says that heavy traffic is causing problems for new PlayStation 4 owners trying to log into their PSN accounts has caused the network to crash.

Fans queued up for midnight launches as Sony's PS4 goes on sale a week after Microsoft's Xbox One.

Facebook is testing a new 'Save for Later' link-saving feature that could challenge social bookmark managers.

US academics found "robust evidence" of discrimination among certain types of employers.

Predicting profits while owning MySpace was Rupert Murdoch's 'big blunder' claims co-founder Chris DeWolfe.

Two entrepreneurs from east London take on Facebook in trademark infringement dispute over their Facebusks website.