Technology

Social networking giant Facebook has announced that it will purchase the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion. The US-based company released a statement in which it said that it would pay $4 billion in cash and $15...

Japan-based console giant Sony is scheduled to release its updated PS Vita Slim handheld console for the UK market, four months following its launch in Japan. The new PS Vita Slim comes as a replacement for the PS Vita. The...

The latest top secret documents revealed that the National Security Agency and GCHQ - its UK counterpart - have been working on developing capabilities to use 'leaky' smartphone apps. The applications in question - such as the globally popular Angry...

Internet giant Google has acquired the UK-based start-up DeepMind and the latest deal is reported to be worth $400 million. In addition to that, the deal is Google's biggest European acquisition so far. The former teen chess prodigy Demis Hassabis is...

A group of researchers from the United States said that social networking sites spread like infectious disease, however, people are becoming immune to them. It was reported that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users in three years...

Social networking site Twitter has started an online campaign against a brand new application which is based on plastic surgery. The app in question has now been removed from both Apple and Google Play stores. The latest, free app...

As the popularity of instant messaging is ever-increasing, the number of text messages being sent is experiencing a decline. Recent predictions have shown that an estimated 145 billion SMS messages were sent in the United Kingdom in 2013, which...