As per the latest survey, over 79 percent of users have said that they are reconsidering the app but 29 percent of users want to leave as soon as WhatsApp implements the new privacy policy.

The central government told the high court that it was also a matter of concern that Indian users were being \"unilaterally\" subjected to the change in privacy policy by social networking platform WhatsApp

The United States could file antitrust charges against social media giant Facebook as early in November, 2020.

Facebook has introduced a cross-chat functionality where Instagram users can message users of Facebook Messenger.

India is the second-largest smartphone market in the world. According to Statista, over 19 billion mobile apps were downloaded in the country in 2019, as compared to over six billion in 2016

Industry watchers feel larger apps - given their familiarity among users and the speed at which they can bring in new features to engage users - may position them better against the homegrown apps

The social networking startup backed by Mahindra would use the seed funding to work on big social media challenges such as user privacy, data security, and fair content monetisation, said Hapramp on Wednesday

The company had teamed up with the Punjab government to track and manage vehicle movement of over 17 lakh farmers across the state

The key differentiators of Resso over traditional music streaming apps include social sharing for expressing themselves via shareable user-generated content, songs through music accompanied gifs, lyrics and videos

CEO Mark Zuckerburg in a blog post announced that the tool now is available in all countries to all Facebook users

WT.Social started out with the similar noble premise on which Wikipedia was set up, that is, to create a free online encyclopedia that is open and publicly editable

Social and live-commerce may soon surpass the marketplace model

The survey also ranked industries that could be disrupted by emerging technologies. IoT, for instance, is expected to disrupt retail, telecom-media-technology (TMT) and automobiles.

When social media generates social capital

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Facebook said it has linked with 28 partners to form Libra Association, a Geneva-based entity governing its new digital coin, which it will launch in the first half of 2020

The upcoming, and vastly improved, Android OS focusses on just the right areas - privacy, gestures, smarter AI and dark mode.

Forget written text and emojis; audio-based social networks may soon become mainstream.