Twitter manager reportedly vomited after Elon Musk ordered him to fire employees

A Twitter manager threw up in a trash can after new CEO Elon Musk directed him to fire hundreds of employees.

Elon Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk has raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt.

Ex-Twitter owner, Jack Dorsey launches new social media platform Bluesky social

The founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has created a new social platform called ‘Bluesky.’

TECH: Google announces six new features on search engine

Google has announced six new features and developments on search to help people gather and explore information in new ways.

Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, the Head, Communication, West Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, said this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.

Alas!!! Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

A post by US President Donald Trump has been given a fact-check label by Twitter for the first time.

Facebook buys animated graphics startup GIPHY

Facebook said Friday it had acquired the animated graphics startup GIPHY and would integrate the company in its Instagram visual social network.

Google and Facebook extend work-from-home plans for employees till 2021 due to coronavirus

Facebook and Google have announced they will let their employees continue working from home for the rest of the year due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Google to make online shopping service free to merchants

Google is opening its online shopping service to merchants free of charge as it competes with Amazon in precious e-commerce and digital ads.

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French regulator orders Google pay copyright fees to media groups

France’s competition regulator said Thursday that Google must start paying media groups for displaying their content, ordering it to begin negotiations after refusing for months to comply with Europe’s new digital copyright law.

Stardust revealed as oldest solid material on earth and its older than the sun

Particles from a long dead star found inside a meteorite that fell to earth in the 1960s have been identified as the oldest solid material ever discovered.

The real-life stardust was formed up to seven billion years ago, long before our own sun had been born.

Facebook announces that it is now FACEBOOK

Social media giants, Facebook have introduced a new brand called, FACEBOOK.

In a statement released on Monday, November 4, the company said that the new brand, which retains the name of the social network, would have a new logo to better indicate all the various products and services it now offers, including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Oh dear! Facebook employee reportedly commits suicide by jumping from office building

A Facebook employee has reportedly committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of Facebook's headquarters in California.

KABOOM!!! 100,000 videos taken down as YouTube wages war on hate speech. See if yours is among!

YouTube has removed more than 100,000 videos and 17,000 channels for hate speech since launching a crackdown earlier this summer.

KABOOM!!! Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has account hacked as racist tweets posted (SCREENSHOTS)

Twitter says it is investigating after the company's co-founder Jack Dorsey had his account hacked and racist tweets were posted.

A flurry of offensive messages including racial slurs were posted on Dorsey's Twitter page, which has 4.2 million followers, on Friday evening.

Facebook apologises for data scandal

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in almost all of Britain’s national newspapers Sunday to apologise for a huge data privacy scandal.

“We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t we don’t deserve it,” the back page ads state.

Oh dear! Pope Francis claims 'fake news' dates back to time of Adam and Eve

Pope Francis has claimed "fake news" dates back to the time of Adam and Eve as he urged journalists to make it their mission to search for the truth.

In his annual social communications message, the pontiff said the spread of disinformation was a "tragedy" and praised efforts to raise awareness among social media users.

Wow! Google celebrates late Nigerian coach and football icon Stephen Keshi with doodle

On what would have been his 56th birthday if he were to be alive, former Nigerian Super Eagles captain and coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has been honoured by tech Giant Google with a doodle.

Doodles are changes made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.

Facebook to let users rank ‘trust’ in news sources

Facebook announced Friday it will ask its two billion users to rank their trust in news sources, in its latest attempt to combat the spread of misinformation on the social network.

The change comes as the online giant seeks to address charges that it has failed — along with Google and Twitter — to prevent the spread of bogus news, most strikingly ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.

Facebook to prioritise friends over firms in news feed overhaul

Facebook on Thursday announced a major update that will put friends and family above pages or celebrities in a user's news feed -- and likely result in people spending less time on the leading social network.

The change to the way Facebook ranks posts will put more weight on social interactions and relationships, according to News Feed product manager John Hegeman.

Mark Zuckerberg declares new year goals: My goal for 2018 is to fix Facebook

Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has set for himself 2018 goals just like every other person and his own new year goal is to challenge himself to do better at his day job.

The 33-year-old said his personal challenge for 2018 is working to prevent Facebook from being misused in ways that might harm its billions of users and to society at large.