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Facebook has introduced a platform called Developer Alerts for  developers which  will allow developers to get alerts when Facebook makes platform changes that could impact their apps. Facebook will communicate via Facebook notifications and email for those listed as administrators or developers of apps. The social network said in a post on its developer blog that alerts will be sent in the following [...]

Facebook has launched its new mobile Share button on Android, iOS and mobile web. The button has been rumored for some time . Facebook’s Aditya Koolwal says that the Share button “gives people a fast way to share stories with friends from their mobile phones, just as they can from their computers.” The iOS app is now live in the App Store, and brings along improvements to tagging and News Feed [...]

Pinterest, the current social media rage which lets users collect and share images is now allowing businesses and corporations to create official accounts, businesses can officially link their websites so they are listed on their Pinterest profiles. For example, Tesco can now verify that its Pinterest page is company endorsed and linked to www.tesco.com. Companies will also be add to add Pin It and [...]

Google has redesigned its search results.  According to Google Search blog, the removal of the left hand sidebar is an attempt “to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today.” The update is only rolled out in  U.S.  for now. Google’s redesigned search page swaps the left sidebar for a horizontal one located at the top to give [...]

Facebook’s journalism program manager Vadim Lavrusik on Tuesday  posted the 10 most-shared terms by Facebook users today on Facebook’s media page , and “We are ok” tops the list. The status update is used by people affected by Hurricane Sandy in US, people are leaving notes for loved ones about their own situation.  Others in the top 10 included “power” (lost power, have power), “made [...]

Gmail is soon debuting  a cooler new way to compose messages in Gmail through a popup window instead of loading a whole new “compose” page. The window will not be a new browser window, but rather an overlay on the Gmail page similar to a Gmail chat window, though the compose version is a bit bigger than the chat window. “The new compose is designed to let you focus on what’s important: [...]

Facebook announced in August  that it would be giving Facebook Messages a whole new look, but didn’t commit on any roll out dates, Interactive Swim, a digital firm posted a picture on its Facebook Page, the image showed the welcome note for the updated Messages which recently hit its page, indicating that the feature may be starting to roll out to additional users. Interactive Swim wrote “A [...]

Facebook  posting $1.26 billion in revenues for its third quarter against the analyst estimate of $1.23 billion, earnings per share for the company, meanwhile, came in at $.12 compared to an estimate of $.11. The narrow margin was enough to boost the sentiment of investors as Facebook’s stock price was up 11% in after hours trading on the news. “As proud as I am that a billion people use Facebook [...]

Researchers  at Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg in Germany have  uncovered  41 Android apps in the Google Play store that are leaking sensitive data due to “Man-in-the-middle” attack,  ranging from credit card information and email content to social networking site passwords. “Man-in-the-middle” attacker creates a fake Wi-Fi hotspot and uses a specially [...]

Apparently, even virtual Clouds burst – an issue with Amazon’s Elastic Block Store  service, an important component of Amazon’s extremely popular Elastic Compute Cloud  network caused partial outages of several popular sites on Monday evening. among the sites knocked partially or totally offline were Netflix, Reddit, Heroku, Flipboard, Imgur among others.   The outages began [...]