Facebook will reportedly be adding Vine-like, short video clips to its Instagram service later this month. This follows an important cross-over moment — earlier in June, Vine surpassed Instagram in Twitter shares. But perhaps even more worryingly, Vine has become the fastest growing top iOS app in America measured by engagement. According to Onavo Insights, Vine has tripled its monthly engagement
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from various U.S. government entities in 2012's second half, involving 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts, the world's largest social network said in a Friday blogpost. The company said it released the information after reaching a deal about disclosures with U.S. national security a
Facebook's top attorney says after a week of negotiations with national security officials, the company is allowed to make new revelations about government orders for user data. General Counsel Ted Ullyot ...
The technology companies asked the government for permission to reveal details about the classified requests they get for the personal information of foreign users, Claire Cain Miller reports in The New York Times.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Facebook says it has started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Google is asking the government to allow it to release more information about how many national security requests it received as part of an effort to improve the company’s record on privacy issues, which it says has been damaged by recent press reports. “Assertions in the press...
Teenagers hate Facebook, according to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. They also can’t get enough of it. The report found that 94 percent of American teens are on Facebook, more than on any other social network. But many of the young respondents have lost enthusiasm for the site, complaining about “the increasing adult presence, people sharing excessively, and stressful ‘d
