
Facebook buys Giphy, popular tool for creating animated GIFs
Facebook is snapping up Giphy in a deal reported to be worth $US400 million ($A621 million), and the social giant plans to...

Facebook bans pro-Trump fake accounts
Facebook says it’s shut down a large network of fake accounts spreading memes and propaganda about US politics that promoted Donald Trump...

Twitter suffers hour-long global outage
Twitter users worldwide were unable to access the social-networking site for about an hour, with an outage that affected both mobile and...

Another outage hits Instagram, WhatsApp
Instagram users across the globe have reported problems sharing to and accessing the Facebook-owned photo and video service in a day-long outage....

Amazon records $4.1 billion profit in fourth quarter of 2018
Amazon has again topped Wall Street expectations, posting revenue up 20 per cent to $US72.4 billion ($99.5 billion), and a record net...

Instagram tests horizontal scrolling, sparks freak-out
Facebook’s Instagram has rolled out what it thought was a small-scale test of a new tap-to-advance feature that lets users scroll through...

Online streaming pioneer Colin Kroll found dead
Colin Kroll, co-founder of the Vine video app and the HQ Trivia game, has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment of...

Netflix nears 100 million subscribers
Netflix added fewer subscribers than expected for the first three months of 2017, but said it will surpass the 100 million mark...