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Facebook has published a report on government requests in the first half of 2016. According to the company, the number of such cases increased by 27% compared to last year.
Facebook introduced a Live Audio – a new option that allows for live broadcasts in the "audio only".
Technical Director Twitter Adam Messinger, Vice-President for product Josh McFarland announced his decision to leave the company.
The photo service Instagram has added new features and tools in the Stories section. It now has stickers, a paintbrush and other features.
The European Commission may fine Facebook for 1% of revenue for 2014. Social network is accused in the fact that it introduced the controller to the error regarding the details of the transaction on purchase of WhatsApp. About it reports Business Insider.
Social network VK has officially launched its own app for streaming Live VK for iOS devices. It is already possible to download in the App Store.
On December 19 in Turkey has restricted access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube after the murder of the Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov. About it reports The Daily Dot, citing the organization Turkey Blocks, which monitors the situation.
Users have noticed that Twitter is testing notifications about important news. The latest of these was the incident at the fair in Berlin. Last month the company the same way inform the user about the death of Fidel Castro.
Twitter announced that now the search results in the service will be ranked by relevance, not time of publication.
In the updated editor for Android ICQ focuses on the emotions of users, you can easily handle photos, draw pictures, add masks, filters and various stickers. In addition to the new version, all features of the editor available for creating colourful avatars.