The U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok, the immensely popular short-form video app owned by China’s ByteDance, has sent shockwaves through the tech industry,…
Bumble sues Tinder’s owner Match for $400m over trade secrets, ‘false statements’
A few days ago, we wrote a piece about Tinder’s parent company Match suing its dating app rival Bumble for patent infringement. While that…
Facebook ‘clarifies’ creepy call, text logging claims
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal piqued public panic last week, Facebook is again coming under fire for another user data issue. After the above…
Floods, Facebook and Floyd: what was hot in South Africa this past week
Social media was last week awash by the #GautengFloods, according to analytics firm ROI Africa’s latest report. According to stats siphoned from the web…
Instagram kills its auto refreshing timeline, tweaks algorithm
So it seems that you can indeed teach old advertising-laden dogs new tricks. Instagram, after years of users complaining about its algorithmic feed, is…