Internet / Social Media

Facebook Faces Questions Over Automatically-Enabled Tagging Functionality, 13-Year-Olds Could be Allowed

When users upload photos on Facebook, faces and objects can be tagged to mark people in a photo. This feature is automatically enabled and Facebook has been challenged over the decision as privacy concerns are raised again

MOST POPULAR

more headlines

  • Facebook Shares Slide as User Growth in Question

    Shares of Facebook Inc fell about 1 percent on Tuesday, extending the previous day's losses after an investment analyst reported a decline in U.S. users for the No. 1 social network.

  • EU Antitrust Regulators Investigate Microsoft over Browsers

    EU antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into whether Microsoft is complying with a 2009 ruling ordering it to offer users a choice of web browsers, the European Union's antitrust chief said on Tuesday.

  • Yahoo Turns to Google's Mayer for Revival

    Yahoo Inc picked Google Inc's Marissa Mayer to become its new CEO, turning to an engineer with established Silicon Valley credentials to turn around the struggling former Internet powerhouse.

  • Mobile

    Google Unit Says Will Avoid U.S. Import Ban on Smartphones

    Google unit Motorola Mobility said on Tuesday it has taken steps to avert an interruption of U.S. imports and sales of its smartphones after the devices were found to infringe on a Microsoft patent.

  • Google+ Pips Facebook in Customer Satisfaction: Why?

    According to a recent survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, social network giant Facebook recorded worse customer satisfaction than Google+. Facebook has around 800 million users, much more than Google+, but a lack of privacy and controversial additions such as Timeline created controversy and could have had a long-term impact.

  • Skype Bug Sending Messages to Wrong People; Fix Coming Soon

    Skype is looking into complaints on their forums from multiple users alleging that messages sent to one contact have been mysteriously getting sent to other contacts as well, even in cases where the other two contacts in question are not contacts of each other on Skype.

  • Comcast Buys out Microsoft Stake in MSNBC.com: Report

    Comcast Corp , the parent company of NBC, has bought out Microsoft Corp's 50 percent stake in MSNBC.com for about $300 million to assume full control of the news web site, the New York Times said, citing people with knowledge of the deal.

  • Ebay's Hottest Business Brings Benefits, Risks

    "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" is a well-known warning from Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

  • Google's Nexus Tablet Selling Fast Across Retail Chains

    Google Inc's "Nexus 7" tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.

  • Google CEO Page Recovering, Was in Office This Week

    Google Inc CEO Larry Page, absent from the Internet company's biggest public events for weeks, is recovering from an unspecified ailment that caused him to lose his voice and was in the office on Monday, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.

  • After Years of Decline, the Popular Website Digg is Sold

    New York tech incubator Betaworks acquired the website Digg on Thursday in a deal that included the remaining brand assets, a humble close to what was once a celebrated online property that heralded the social media era.

  • Yahoo Breach Puts Users of Other Sites at Risk

    More than 400,000 Yahoo Inc user names and passwords were stolen and published on the Web, putting other websites at risk as well, after hackers exploited a vulnerability in Yahoo's computer systems.