The family of a 46-year-old former Florida Sheriff killed while providing police training in the Middle East has sued Twitter, claiming the company “knowingly permitted” ISIS accounts to spread extremist propaganda.
Amandla Stenberg, best known for her role as Rue in The Hunger Games, revealed in a video she posted online following a Teen Vogue Snapchat session that she “identifies as a black, bisexual woman” and feels there are not enough opportunities in media for minority, LGBT, and “mentally ill” women.
Snapchat has altered its terms and conditions, giving itself full ownership over images shared via its app.
White House Asks Hollywood to Fight Jihadist Propaganda – But Don’t Mention Jihad
Popular social media service Snapchat lost more than $100 million during an 11-month period in 2014, according to leaked financial documents from the company.
During a campaign appearance in Iowa, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angrily denounced Republicans for trying to bring her down by demanding answers for her deleted email server and her failure to prevent the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
The Internet’s biggest companies celebrated Saturday after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling Friday making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel revealed Tuesday at the California Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes that the company is planning for an initial public offering (IPO). He said the company, recently valued at $15 billion, had no desire to be acquired in a merger like the Facebook’s $3 billion offer two years ago. Then, in a refreshing twist for such a young captain of industry, Spiegel warned that the Fed’s “easy money policy” and low interest have created a tech bubble and it’s only a “matter of time till it bursts.”
Although the ink is barely dry on the $485.6 million venture capital funding for Snapchat that valued the company at about $10 billion, Bloomberg reports that Snapchat is looking to raise another $500 million at a valuation of up to $19 billion. That would make the messaging platform the third-most-valuable venture startup on the planet, just behind Xiaomi and Uber. It also would value the company at 92.5% of what was considered a jaw-dropping value of $22 billion paid by Facebook to buy WhatsApp.
Social messaging service Snapchat premiered a new short-form Web series on Saturday featuring the daughters of Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn. Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn will write and star in Literally Can’t Even, a series about the
The rise of terrorism at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists throughout Europe has become so profound that Prime Minister David Cameron says he plans on placing restrictions on, and potentially banning, encrypted online communication tools that could be used by these groups and individuals to carry out their attacks on civilians.
Soon there will be a new search engine in town, and it’s solely focused on garnering the attention of children. Google is rolling out a kid-friendly version of its world-famous online research tool, called Quinn. That provokes the question: Could
If Barack Obama was the candidate of Facebook, and has governed as the President of Selfie, then Hillary Clinton is the “Snapchat” candidate–i.e. one who is eager to erase the past from collective memory. Tony Lee reminded me today that
In an interview with Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at her Alaska home, Wacko Birds author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said Hillary Clinton will try to be 2016’s “Snapchat candidate” because she desperately wants to erase her
In a word: Jennifer Lawrence. Alright, that was two words. But who else is really to blame for this mess? In case you missed the news, nude full frontals of the Hunger Games actress are doing the rounds today after a
“Please God, just one more bubble” was a popular bumper sticker in the San Francisco Bay area’s fabled Silicon Valley after the late 1990s “Dot Com” bubble burst. For the last five years, U.S. stocks have relentlessly climbed by 210%
In the second of a ten-part series called The Ten Today, Emmilie Buchanan-Whitlock at Deseret News writes about the third of the Ten Commandments and its meaning for modern America: Melissa Thurm started a religious blog in October to share her
In an attempt to boost lagging youth Obamacare enrollments, the Rhode Island Obamacare exchange has decided to launch a “Nag Toolkit” website designed to help moms pester their children to enroll in Obamacare by using “hook-up” dating app Tinder, SnapChat,
What’s causing athletic fields once teeming with kids to resemble ghost towns? A study by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) reports that youth sports lost 11 percent of its casual participants since 2008. Although gymnastics, beach volleyball, and
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31 (UPI) — Attackers now own an undisclosed number of Yahoo! Mail usernames and passwords, stolen from a third-party site, the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant said. As a result, Yahoo! will now require affected users to change
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, and his pro-amnesty FWD.us group, has been one of the biggest proponents of amnesty, but that did not stop President Barack Obama from dissing Facebook last week. Obama reportedly was talking with millennials about Snapchat, Instagram,
The photo-sharing app Instagram has unveiled a new feature on its social media service. Users will be able to send photos to complete strangers who have not chosen to “follow” them, a feature critics say will result in strangers “sexting”
I think we all have a few things that annoy us when it comes to the Internet and social media. Some of mine: unnecessary reply-alls, adding me to a Facebook group if I don’t know you and we haven’t discussed the
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/30: Google’s chairman investing millions in consulting firm staffed by Obama’s former data analytics team, blog booby-trapped with malware after Vietnamese blogger arrested, Facebook to launch verified pages, trends in
Huffington Post has a piece detailing the compulsive behavior of one typical 14-year-old girl with regard to social networking and the addiction that consumes her. Describing Casey Schwartz as a “digital native,” the article relates Casey’s flitting between various media sites, such
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/26 include a hacking arrest, new cyberattack, Snapchat sexting investigation, social media flash mob crackdown, Bradley Manning, death threat texts, Redditor lawsuit, copyright reform proposal, and DRM and the next
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/10: Ryan Seacrest is the latest SWATting victim, social media safety tips from the woman whose photo was used as Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend, teens are changing their Facebook usage,
Facebook confirmed in its annual 10-K report that teenagers are utilizing their website less, presenting a danger to the future of the company. We believe that some of our users, particularly our younger users, are aware of and actively engaging with
