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Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is taking aim at fast-growing messaging app Snapchat with a new feature that gives users the option to make pictures and videos to disappear automatically after 24 hours.

Telecom and postal service users can now file complaints with the government directly on social media platform Twitter.

Celebrating the buzz and excitement around the Olympic games across the country, Google has unveiled a set of enhanced features to bring alive the Olympic mood among Indian fans.

Retailers offering customers an option to buy online are earning more revenue than those who sell their products only through offline channels, new research has found.

Social media giant Facebook has decided to give a structure to the open source software with its new Incubator hub, prompting the developers to think new ways about the software.

Ride-hailing service Uber will invest $500 million in an ambitious global mapping project to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Technology giant Google has rolled out a feature in Google Search that would notify you whenever your name is mentioned on the web -- anywhere in the world, a media report said.

It's Munshi Premchand's 136th birthday and internet search giant Google has honoured the noted writer with a doodle to mark the occasion.

About two million people are logging on to free Wi-Fi deployed by Google and RailTel at major railway stations across India every month, chief of the global search giant Sundar Pichai said.

More and more people are gradually viewing social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter and enterprise social media LinkedIn negatively than in the past, an interesting study has revealed.

Showing strong revenue and profit growth, social networking giant Facebook has added 60 million monthly users in the second quarter of 2016 to reach 1.71 billion users while scoring $6.44 billion in revenue -- blowing the earlier estimates of $6.02 billion.

The Delhi government is in talks with private players and assessing various models to bring the entire national capital under Wi-Fi network in "a year or two", an official said on Wednesday.

E-commerce in India is expected to see a significant uptrend in the coming days and could lend a helping hand to the country's job landscape, which needs as many as 80 million new jobs in the next decade, says a report.

Scientists have developed a new phototransistor device that provides a low-cost and low-power alternative to traditional radio-frequency wireless data links, and may result in faster and cheaper internet.

Social media giant Facebook`s Surround 360, its 17-camera array designed to capture video in 360 degrees is now open source -- meaning Facebook is making the blueprints available for free to everybody who wants to build a camera.

In an apparent misuse of technology, a 16-year-old girl in Georgia was thrashed by her mother on Facebook Live for posting provocative photos, the media reported.

The change could take place by the end of this month,

The accusation sparked an outcry on social media and prompted a US Senate inquiry into Facebook`s practices.

A report in technology website Gizmodo had accused Facebook of an editorial bias against conservative news organisations which led to a call for a congressional inquiry from Senator John Thune (Rep) from South Dakota and chair of US Senate commerce committee which has jurisdiction over media issues.  

According to Twitter, the feature will also let you “see how other users from around the world have edited the same photo” and will also “suggest photos that you can edit and post to participate in trending conversations and breaking news,” recode.net reported.