Egypt, Instagram revive history with AR at iconic Cairo museums
Instagram announced this week its partnership with Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to bring ancient…
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Italian watchdog penalises Meta for data practices
Italy's antitrust regulator AGCM has fined Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, for unfair commercial…
Meta, Google, Tiktok debts removed from Russian database
Alphabet’s Google and YouTube, along with Meta, TikTok, and Telegram are no longer registered as debtors in the…
Instagram censors activist Shaun King over pro-Palestine content
Instagram deleted the account for prominent writer and activist Shaun King on Monday for his pro-Palestine content.
HRW attacks Meta for ‘silencing’ pro-Palestinian voices
Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Meta of "silencing" pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta bans Eye on Palestine in attempt to silence Palestinians
Meta deleted the Eye on Palestine account, which has more than six million followers on Instagram on Wednesday.
Selena Gomez spotted wearing Egyptian label Rigash
American singer and actress Selena Gomez was spotted wearing FW23 White Pleated Leather Skirt by Egyptian label…
Turkish rock legend Erkin Koray dies at 82
Turkish rock singer, songwriter, guitarist, and electro-baglama player, Erkin Koray, died on Monday at the age of…
Bella Hadid shares struggle with Lyme disease
The Palestinian-Dutch model Bella Hadid talked about her battle with Lyme disease in a vulnerable post on her…
Meta’s platforms down briefly
Meta’s social media platforms, Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app, WhatsApp, were down briefly and…
Meta officially launches Threads
Meta has officially launched its newest app, Threads, on Wednesday, which is set to rival Twitter by offering a…
Meta to launch Twitter-like app Threads
Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday that it is planning to launch Threads, a microblogging app, to be a Twitter…
Rihanna now 1st female artist with 10 songs of 1 bln streams on Spotify
Grammy winner, Rihanna, has broken a new Spotify record, by becoming the first female artist to have 10 songs reach…
Australia threatens to fine Twitter over hate speech
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s office has questioned Twitter’s content moderation practices and enforcement of…
Taylor Swift breaks attendance record at Acrisure Stadium
Taylor Swift broke an attendance record at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh with 73,117 attendees to her second…
Instagram back up amid global outage
Meta Platforms Inc's Instagram was back up for most users after a technical issue has disrupted services to…
Instagram to launch Twitter rival this summer
Meta-owned Instagram is set to launch its own text-based app in June, competing with Twitter, testing it with…
Musk: Twitter to allow calls soon
Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed on Tuesday details about new features on Twitter including calls and encrypted…
Instagram back after global outage
Meta Platform’s Instagram went back up for most user, following the app’s global outage, resolving the hours-long…
Meta launches paid verification system fot $12 monthly
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced on Sunday that the…
Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 employees in Q1 2023
Meta the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is laying off 13 percent of its staff, or more than 11,000…
Facebook buys GIF website Giphy to integrate with Instagram
Facebook Inc is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will…
Instagram’s founders launch website to live track spread of coronavirus
Instagram’s founders, who have been mostly out of the public eye since leaving Facebook Inc. in 2018, have launched…
Instagram ‘back to normal’ after bug triggers temporary change to feed
Facebook Inc’s photo-sharing social network Instagram said on Thursday it has fixed a bug that led to a temporary…
Facebook appoints new head of Instagram
Facebook on Monday announced Adam Mosseri will take over as the new head of Instagram following the surprise…
We’ve seen an 82 percent jump in bitcoin-related jobs, says employment website CEO
Bitcoin-related jobs are the fastest growing category of role on international employment marketplace Freelancer,…
Snap lays off 18 employees in recruiting division
Social media company Snap Inc (SNAP.N) said on Friday it had laid off 18 people in its recruiting division, an…
Facebook mobile and Instagram ad prices are booming, according to a Mizuho report
Facebook ad revenue is on the way up, according to a new note from Mizuho tech analyst James Lee. The company is…
Egypt’s singer Amr Diab ranked number one on Forbes Middle East’s list of…
Forbes Middle East has ranked Egyptian singer Amr Diab first on its list of Top 100 Arab Celebrities, with…
Facebook is putting ads everywhere in hopes of finding the next News Feed
Facebook has a cash cow. It's called News Feed, and for the past five years, it has been the company's core money…
Facebook is looking at inaugurating its first office in San Francisco
Facebook has already replaced the daily newspaper as the basic news source for a lot of readers. Now, it may be…
Instagram most likely to cause youth to feel depressed and lonely out of major social…
Instagram is the most damaging social media platform when it comes to the youth’s mental health, new research…
Snap’s shares up 9% after winning second buy recommendation
Shares of Snap jumped nine percent on Wednesday after the owner of messaging app Snapchat received a second analyst…
Apple drives into Facebook, Snap territory with video app
With the release of a new video app called Clips, Apple Inc is inching one step closer to fully engaging in the…
Canadian man charged in Yahoo hack loves fancy cars, parties
The Canadian charged in connection with a massive hack of Yahoo accounts that the United States says was a Russian…
48 million Twitter accounts aren’t people: study
A big chunk of those likes, retweets, and followers lighting up your Twitter account may not be coming from human…
Confident Snap brushes off concerns on second day of IPO roadshow
Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging app Snapchat, fended off investor skepticism on the second day of its IPO…
Mark Zuckerberg’s midlife crisis: Op-ed
A lot of onlookers criticised Mark Zuckerberg's Thursday night manifesto, Building Global Communities, as a public…
Fake goods sold on Facebook, Instagram are seized
Counterfeit goods being sold by traders using Facebook and Instagram have been seized during a series of raids.…
Twitter impresses advertisers with BuzzFeed U.S. election livestream
Twitter Inc said it was able to deliver more viewers than promised to advertisers on a U.S. election night…