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Twitter adds security measure to logins

Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations and others.

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Electronic Arts 'retiring' some Facebook games

Electronic Arts on Monday announced that it will "retire" some Facebook games that seem to have fallen out of favor with players at the leading social network. EA said that 'The Sims Social, 'SimCity Social' and 'Pet Society' will be taken offline on June 14.

Smile, you are on YouTube!

Inexpensive digital cameras and mobile phones are capable of shooting decent videos these days. Who knows there could be a superstar in your family? We guide you on how you can shoot, upload and have your own channel on YouTube, Gagandeep Singh Sapra reports.

Twitter’s tech for ad-targeting

Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new tool that allows marketers to disseminate targeted messages based on the content of users’ tweets, a technology that could help elevate Twitter’s effectiveness as an advertiser to a rarefied level demonstrated only by digital advertising leaders like Google.

The fast-growing social networking company, which has 200 million users around the world, hailed its new tool as something of a technological breakthrough: the new tool allows marketers using Twitter to delve into the content of a user’s tweets to show the most relevant ads.

New technology to encode messages in Facebook pics

A new technology will now enable Facebook users to encode secret messages in the pictures they upload. Oxford University student and former Google intern Owen-Campbell Moore created the software titled 'Secretbook'.

LinkedIn buys news app Pulse to broaden content

LinkedIn said Thursday it bought news reading app-maker Pulse, boosting the content offerings of the career-focused social network.

Review: Home shields you from non-Facebook tasks

When I got my first smartphone in 2010, I checked Facebook obsessively. But over time, the novelty wore off and opening Facebook's app to check photos, links and posts from friends turned into a chore.

Social networking, texting linked to poor academic performance

Scientists have reported that rampant use of social networking, texting and chatting on mobile phone can result in lower grades and poor performance of students, says a study.

Friendships cut short on social media as people get ruder

Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.

Facebook starts charging for sending texts to celebrities

Social networking giant Facebook has started charging its British users up to 10 pounds to send messages to celebrities and people who are not in friend's list.

Facebook rejects Home 'can destroy users' privacy' claims

Social networking giant Facebook has rejected suggestions its new smartphone software Home could destroy privacy of users.

Facebook super-app wants to live off Google

Facebook's new super-app wants to live off Google. The social network's Home software, unveiled on Thursday, sits on top of the Android smartphone operating system.

Google unloads Frommer's guides after less than a year

Google Inc has sold the Frommers' line of travel-guidebooks, acquired just eight months ago from John Wiley & Sons Inc to strengthen its trove of local content and reviews, to founder Arthur Frommer.

Facebook stakes out Android 'home' to battle rivals

Facebook on Thursday unveiled a software suite which stakes out a 'home' on Android smartphones as it steps up its challenge to Apple and Google in the booming mobile market. Facebook called the new software "a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone."

Vintage website seen as glimpse at teenage Zuckerberg

A website thought to be the handiwork of Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 15 resurfaced on the Internet, providing a glimpse into the early days of the famed Facebook co-founder.

As Facebook matures, is it losing its edge?

Facebook unveiled a big redesign to address some of its users' most pressing gripes. The retooling, which is already available to some people, is intended to get rid of the clutter that's been a complaint among Facebook users for some time.

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Review: Sennheiser Momentum

The Momentum areSennheiser’s premium range of mobile headphones. I say mobile headphones because not only are these optimized to work with the relatively weak output of mobile devices but they also come with in-line controls designed to work with your iPhone and iPad.

Review: Toshiba Kirabook

Last year, Apple added a visually stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display.

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How Flipkart broke India's online shopping inertia
It was meant to be a portal that compared different e-commerce websites, only there weren't enough of them in the first place to be compared. Thus was born Flipkart, making sure that online shopping would never be the same again in India.
Smartphones: Android trumps Apple, Windows edges up
Google's Android mobile system boosted its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Microsoft's Windows edged into third place, a survey showed.
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