Lately I can’t log onto Facebook without being asked to consider my own motivations for using the site. As a researcher who focuses on online communities, I’m accustomed to this running meta-narrative about what it is I’m actually doing online — but usually, that narrative plays inside my head, not all the way down the […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications of Russia (Roskomnadzor) may block Facebook in the country if the social network refuses to comply with the requirements of RF legislation. The announcement was made by the head of the Service, Aleksandr Zharov, during his interview with Izvestia. “We will be conducting inspections till the […]
BANGKOK, 5th April 2018, (NNT) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has unveiled its mobile application promoting Thailand’s amazing street food in eight provinces of the Northeastern region. According to the ministry, the agency is confident that the application will help Thais and foreigners find their next dinner delicacy when on the road. Full story: […]
In 2007, the Guardian’s Victor Keegan published “Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?” in which he enumerated the unbridgeable moats and unscalable walls that “Rupert Murdoch’s Myspace” had erected around itself, evaluating all the contenders to replace Myspace and finding them wanting. (Facebook didn’t even make the list of promising companies to watch) As we […]
The Thunder Child is a revolutionary search and rescue boat that is virtually impossible to capsize. Even when flipped upside down in the water, the vessel is able to right itself almost instantly. Developed by Irish company Safehaven Marine for use by the Irish Navy in high-pressure situations, the XSV-17 ’Thunder Child’ can reach speeds […]
From February 28 to March 1, 2018, hundreds of mobile companies will come together in Barcelona for the biggest phone show of the year – the Mobile World Congress. This conference has been running annually since 2012 and has grown throughout the years to what it is now. It has presented opportunities for numerous mobile […]
A Belgian court on Friday ordered Facebook to stop tracking internet users who have no Facebook account or face a fine of 250,000 euros a day. According to the court, Facebook keeps tabs not only on its users, but even on people who have never visited the Facebook website itself. Facebook must “stop following and […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Twitter finally made a profit for the first time since launching in March 2006. The social network announced that its profit in the last quarter of 2017 was $91 million against a revenue of $731 million. This is also the first time that Twitter has reported revenue growth in the past four quarters, […]
