The New Tokyo Edition Offers an Urban Hideaway

My Instagram feed started to fill up with pictures of Tokyo weeks before my early November trip there. There were the bright lights of Shibuya Crossing, the dusty art books from Jinbch, and the charred yakitori skewers from a hidden Shinjuku izakaya. It dawned on me that most of the posters were ...

Meta Warning to End Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Meta Platforms Inc. Has been threatening to pull Instagram and Facebook from Europe if the continent cannot keep sending user data back to the United States.

European regulators are now working to analyze how this can be done after the Privacy Shield agreement with the country was ruled...

Facebook renames its parent company, now called as “Meta”

Facebook has changed its parent company’s name to "Meta" on Thursday. The tech giant is trying to move forward with its new virtual reality vision for the future.

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• Facebook has changed its parent company’s name to "...

Facebook apologizes for the disruption to its services during the second outage within a week

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• Facebook apologizes for two-hour outage
• Workplace, Instagram and Messenger were affected by this outage

Facebook has apologized to the users for a two-hour disruption in its services on Friday. The social media giant blame...

Facebook services down for nearly six-hours, company blames faulty configuration change

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•  Facebook services WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger down for several hours
• Facebook blamed faulty configuration for the outrage

 Facebook services WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger were down for several hours on 4th October. All servi...

LinkedIn to remove Stories feature from September 30

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• The feature was introduced last year, but will be removed by September 30
• The company is planning on introducing a new feature

LinkedIn has planned to remove the Stories feature that was introduced last year. This feature ...

US STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS URGE FACEBOOK CEO TO DROP PLANS OF LAUNCHING INSTAGRAM FOR KIDS

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• A group of 40 state attorney generals have urged Zuckerberg to drop the plans of launching another social media app

In the month of March, social media giant Facebook had announced that it was planning to launch a version of its picture sharing platform Insta...

DECISION ON DONALD TRUMP'S FACEBOOK BAN HAS BEEN DELAYED BY OVERSIGHT BOARD

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• We are reviewing more than 9,000 responses before it delivers the verdict on Trump's ban on the social media giant said the Oversight Board

• Trump was banned from Facebook and social media sites after the unfortunate January 6 incident when thousand...

FACEBOOK TESTING INSTAGRAM REELS ON ITS INDIAN NEWS FEED

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• After TikTok ban in India, Facebook introduced Reels on Instagram as a TikTok replacement.
• Facebook is testing Instagram Reels on its Indian news feed.
• Facebook also plans to introduce its own version of Reels.

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SHOPIFY'S ‘SHOP PAY' PAYMENT OPTION NOW PART OF FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM IN US

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• This decision has been taken to tap into booming shopping business with the help of social media platforms in the times of COVID-19 pandemic

• Shopify said in a blogpost that the Shop Pay option would become available to Shopify merchants that are sellin...

POP STAR JUSTIN BIEBER WANTS TO FIGHT WITH SUPERSTAR TOM CRUISE

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• The singer started this long-running joke back in the month of June last year, when he had challenged Cruise to a fistfight in a tweet

• Recently Bieber posted a black and white photograph of him on Instagram from the promo of his new music video for &ls...

GOOGLE TO DISPLAY INSTAGRAM AND TikTok VIDEOS IN ITS SEARCH RESULTS

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• Reports state that the Alphabet-owned company is working on the possibility to feature the videos from both the platforms, TikTok and Instagram

• A Google spokesperson said the search-engine giant is currently testing the feature on mobile phones

SPOTLIGHT: SNAPCHAT’S NEW TikTok-LIKE FEATURE

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• According to the statement issued by Snapchat, all its users who could previously share photos or stories with friends, can now share them directly to Spotlight and gain new followers

• Snapchat said it would be giving nearly $1 million every day through...

INSTAGRAM TO LAUNCH NEW TECHNOLOGY TO REMOVE AND IDENTIFY HARMFUL CONTENT

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• Instagram is going to launch new technology or feature for identifying and removing the harmful material in the United Kingdom and Europe
• The new modification tools are able to point out the self-harm content and automatically makes it les...

DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK' JOHNSON: MOST FOLLOWED AMERICAN MAN ON THE INSTAGRAM

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• In order to celebrate this achievement, Dwayne Johnson made a tweet where he wrote he is so humbled by this massive tidal wave of support as he surged past 200 million

• Dwayne Johnson has most number of followers on the Instagram in terms of American me...

SOUTH KOREANS PREOCCUPIED WITH YOU TUBE AVG. 30 HOURS IN SEPTEMBER

• South Koreans are anticipated to have been busy with their time on You Tube for nearly as long as 30 hours on an average on YouTube in September, a report has concluded, exceeding all other popular social media apps.
• South Korean users spent an average of 29.5 hours on Google&#...

GOOGLE TO TEST AND LAUNCH YOUTUBE SHORTS IN INDIA

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• YouTube is testing You Tube Shorts in India.
• Google intends to tap into the market of TikTok users in India.
• Beta version of YouTube Shorts is being tested.

After TikTok ban in India, several short video platfor...

TikTok TAKING EFFORTS TO REMOVE VIRAL SUICIDE CLIP

Video streaming platform TikTok is taking efforts to take down a video that has been widely circulated on the app that shows a man shooting himself with a gun. TikTok is also banning accounts, those are re-uploading the clip. Along with TikTok, this video was also circulated on several other apps...

SOUTH KOREA TO DISSUADE BACK DOOR ONLINE ADVERTISING EVILS

• South Korea will prohibit social media influencers from promoting a new product or service on their online platforms without revealing their business profile linked to their corporate sponsors, officials said Wednesday.
• The move comes amid over some famous social media influenc...

19-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO INTIMIDATE GIRLS TO DATE HIM

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• 19-year-old arrested for using social media to intimidate girls to date him.
• The young teen is a resident of the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto.
• The victims have not met the suspect before.
• Social media s...