Image outage – Facebook’s crash reveals how its AI tags your photos At around 3pm last Wednesday, Facebook, WhatsApp and…

LinkedIn outlines its latest algorithm update LinkedIn has outlined some of the specific changes to its feed distribution algorithm that…

Face value – Facebook unveil Libra cryptocurrency More details have emerged about Facebook’s plans to launch their own cryptocurrency. The…

Cash for stats – Facebook launches a new app that pays users for their data A new Facebook app will…

Instagrow – Instagram is growing its value faster than any other brand Kantar has released its annual BrandZ ranking of…

Privacy wars – Apple announces web login feature in privacy challenge to Facebook and Google Apple has unveiled a new…

Fake friends – Facebook deletes 3 billion fake accounts Facebook revealed it has removed a record three billion fake accounts…

Best Facebook friends forever – Facebook asks users who their best friends are Facebook has been sending surveys to its…

Not App-y – Facebook co-founder urges Facebook to be broken apart Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders, has called for…

So the story goes – Facebook Stories reached 500 million daily users Users of Facebook Stories have now reached more…

YouTube reportedly against taking down toxic content YouTube has said it is unwilling to act on tackling toxic content as…

Snapchat launches first voice activated promoted filter for new movie ‘Shazam’ Snapchat has released a new voice activated filter in…

Instagram adds in-app checkout Instagram has taken a step to becoming an e-commerce platform, by announcing it is adding a…

New AR filters for YouTube Stories YouTube announced in a blog post that it has developed machine learning to identify…

Facebook pivots to privacy Mark Zuckerberg has outlined Facebook’s new mission of building a ‘privacy-focused communication platform’. In a lengthy…

Hide and tweet Twitter has confirmed it is working on a feature that would allow users to hide replies to…

Instagram adds fundraising stickers Instagram is currently testing a new sticker which would let charities and non-profit organisations add a…

Facebook needs new regulations, says MPs A parliamentary inquiry into fake news has found that Facebook deliberately broke privacy and…

IGTV has just become harder to ignore Instagram’s has begun to push IGTV on to users’ main feeds. The long…

Facebook profits keep rising Facebook has revealed record profits from its fourth-quarter earnings despite recent uproar about privacy. The company’s…

Celebrities vow to clean up social media endorsements Social media celebrities with tens of millions of followers have promised to…

Facebook secretly building teen hub LOL With more younger social media users abandoning Facebook in favour of platforms like Snapchat…

Instagram introduces ‘self regram’ Instagram is adding the ability to publish feed posts across multiple accounts at the same time….

Instagram accidentally rolls out tap based feed The big social media news everyone was talking about over the holidays was…

Top searches of 2018 revealed Google has revealed its annual list of what people have been searching the internet for…

Shop while you stream Facebook is testing adding a new ‘QVC-like’ shopping feature to live video streams. The new function,…

Facebook adds keyword blocking Facebook is testing a function that will let users block certain keywords from appearing in their…

YouTube wants to double the number of ads at the start of a video YouTube has begun trials of double…

Facebook Portal aims to connect all of our online lives The Facebook Portal device is adding to its range of…

More than nine in 10 searches now on Google Google dominates search to such an extent that more than nine…

Is Facebook finally winning the war on fake news? The amount of fake posts on Facebook has dropped by more…

Rise in private search engines DuckDuckGo, the search engine that promises total transparency and privacy for users, is achieving record…

Facebook finding a way around ad blockers Facebook is enabling first party cookie tracking, which will work around browsers that…

Amazon’s new star attraction Amazon is continuing to open bricks and mortar stores with a new shop that blurs the…

Facebook ready to launch its own smart speaker Facebook is on the brink of launching its own smart device –…

Canvas is now Instant Experience Lots of Facebook news this week. First, the social network has renamed its Canvas ad…

Google making it easier to search data With data being the future of pretty much everything, Google is making it…

Rise of the CGI influencer The next time you see an Instagram influencer promoting a product or hanging out with…

Google issues new definition for ‘low quality’ content Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines have updated what the search engine considers to…

Facebook begins rollout of Story Ads 14 month after launching Facebook Stories, Facebook has announced it has reached 150 million…

Facebook Mean Business Facebook has revealed a new set of updates for business pages, designed to help them improve their…

Book of Love… Facebook Dating tested internally among staff Facebook is testing its upcoming dating features internally, using its single…

Snapchat launches influencer platform Snapchat has launched an influencer collaboration platform – Snapchat Storytellers. A selection of the social network’s…