Forcing users to use their real name rather than pseudonyms has made repeated protests, citing its use by trolls as a way of harassment. Facebook announced that it's changing the term of the highly controversial "real name" policy on October 30th, 2015.
Indonesia is a country with more than 17,000 islands. Connecting all of them to the internet is a huge infrastructure challenge faced by the country.
Bing is Microsoft's search engine. Competing directly with Google, it has been struggling hard to get just a glimpse of its success. Back in 2011, Bing succeeded in bringing a billion dollars a quarter. Then it remained unprofitable, until now.
AdWords is 15 years old. Launched on October 23rd 15 years ago with this press release, it's Google's largest source of income that fueled the company to become the titan it's known for.
Tuesdays is the day for Facebook employees to feel how it's like to be 'slow'. Called 2G Tuesday, the internal program is to give those that work for Facebook, the sense of connection in developing countries - places where Facebook's users mostly originate.
Instagram has been careful in almost anything, including the way to monetize its service. With its user base increasing to past 400 million, it's facing increasing challenges from competitors.
Yahoo! is certainly a big name on its own. When it has had it's success, now it's struggling just to get a glimpse of its former glory. CEO Marissa Mayer is unable to revive Yahoo!'s revenue on her own.
When concerning privacy on the internet, people think that there are always more and more things tech companies can do to protect them. When some people have difficulties in securing their online data, some others are running away with it.
With Chrome 46, Google removed the ability to trigger the search feature using user's voice. The feature that is dropped on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platform, is said to be less effective and pose potential privacy issues.
