An underworld don, who is languishing in a maximum-security British jail, has been using Facebook to run his drugs and organised crime empire and intimidate his enemies. Colin Gunn, one of the Britain's most dangerous gangsters, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 'friends' on the social networking site for the past two months.Gunn, who is serving a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to murder, is said to be still running his drugs and organised crime cartel.
Continuing to 'tweet' his opinion despite receiving flak, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor now feels people should work rather than enjoy a holiday on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.
The US Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on the social networking site Facebook that asks if President Barack Obama should be assassinated.
FB gave these companies access to information of users and even their friends.
Haiti's quake ravaged streets are still seething with people recovering from the after effects of the worst quake to hit the country in this decade. Indian Pooja Bhatia, a volunteer with the Institute of Current World Affairs, based in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has been posting messages on the social networking site Twitter about the disaster.
Fatima Bhutto, the niece of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, who is aggressively promoting her tell-all tome on the Bhutto dynasty, has said she has not been granted a visa to visit India for a book tour.
A fire broke out in the Carlton Towers in Bengaluru.
A new survey has revealed that the popular sites are actually costing British businesses 1.38 billion pounds a year in wasted time. In fact, according to the survey, more than half of office workers use the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook for personal use during the working day, and admit wasting an average of 40 minutes a week each.
The actor shared the good news with his fans through his offical Facebook page.
Twitter has failed to grow its monthly active user count at all in the final three months of 2015.
uSocial, a media marketing company, has claimed it will find potential followers for a client by scouring the website for people with common interests. It will then send these users a message to tell them there is a fellow tweeter they might want to follow. The potential follower will then decide on whether or not to follow that person. Leon Hill, chief executive of uSocial, an Australian firm, has said that personal users and businesses are flocking to pay for the service.
Facebook has been working to boost its mobile technology as it focuses on growing revenue from its mobile advertising business.
Virat Kohli heads the list with a total base of 4,870,190 fans, which is higher than Sachin Tendulkar's 4,869,849 fans.
An IIT-Bombay student has claimed to have received a job offer of Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) from the social networking site Facebook.
Former India captain Kapil Dev said that Afridi's comment does not even deserve a reaction.
Celebrated Indian designer Pria Kataaria Puri's email and social networking accounts were hacked in January this year and she is still suffering the repercussions. Here is her story.
Celebrated Indian designer Pria Kataaria Puri's email and social networking accounts were hacked in January this year and she is still suffering the repercussions. Here is her story.
Take a look at social media reactions to the Australian batting collapse.
Facebook has set up a task force that will have security specialists and content specialists, among others, who will try to understand all the possible forms of election-related abuse in the country.
Why are people migrating to this new app?
A popular online wordgame, Srabulous, created by two Kolkata-based brothers has been yanked off the social networking website, Facebook, from its US and Canadian versions,a week after a lawsuit was filed against the siblings by an American toymaker that owns the rights to Scrabble.
Modi's Facebook post on May 15 with his mother at his official residence at Delhi's Race Course Road remains on top with 1.6 million likes, 1.2 lakh shares and 34,000 comments.
A Trojan is a programme that appears to be desirable (like a free downloadable game or screen saver), but contains viruses or worms (self-replicating viruses) that can create havoc with the PC and the network.
Facebook plans to launch a new service that will enable the social network website's 60m users to chat with each other online. The service, which is expected to roll out sometime in the next few weeks, represents Facebook's latest challege to AOL, Microsoft and other makers of popular instant messaging programmes. It is likely to come as a blow to software developers who have been working on chat services designed to run on Facebook's popular application platform.
WhatsApp was told to delete data of users who chose to opt out of its policy changes before September 25
'Advertisers will be prohibited from running political ads -- electoral or issue-based -- until they are authorised,' Facebook said
The spokesperson said that the company has a reporting tool that state police authorities can use to report inappropriate content on Orkut.
Sports fraternity mourns former PM Vajpayee's demise
Facebook Inc founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion to pay a tax bill, as part of an offering by the social network of 70 million Class A common shares.
Dravid lavished praise on Murali Vijay for his good run with bat in recent times.
According to statistics released by Facebook, the Indian government topped the list of nations seeking removal of specific content from the social networking site.
A popular online word game created by two Indian brothers that was yanked off the social networking Web site, a week after a lawsuit was filed against the siblings by an American toymaker who owns the rights to Scrabble, is back again but with a new name.
We publish reader responses to a previous week's message board, asking whether social networking websites are only for youngsters.
From March 12 a five-day virtual writing celebration called the Twitter Fiction Festival will be held entirely on the social networking site in which anyone can join and tell stories.
The war of words over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's attack on the opposition spread to the social media with Sushma Swaraj saying he had lost grace while I&B Minister Manish Tewari hitting back claiming that it was the BJP leader who had lost space in her party.
An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey.
The micro-site on Varanasi was launched on Wednesday.
The average salary of a content manager with less than a year's experience is Rs 369,000 per annum.
The teenager's family had received the first call almost a month ago where the caller wanted to speak to the girl. Similar calls poured in later, the police said, adding all the callers referred to Orkut.
Facebook has over 125 million users in India -- its second largest userbase after the US.
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