Instagram announces new teen safety features
Instagram has announced some new tools and features to keep young people safer on the social media platform. The company says they will be taking a stricter approach t
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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down again
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are experiencing issues leaving thousands of users worldwide without service. All issues stem from the apps, except for those hitting
Election polls done by the Fiji Sun are not reliable - AG
Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says they do not trust the election polls done by Fiji Sun who are just dialling people up and have no way of verifying who they
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram services starts coming back online
Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be access
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram all down
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure â€
Facebook reveals its first pair of 'smart glasses'
Facebook has revealed its first pair of "smart glasses" that contain two cameras for taking photos and videos. The specs, called Ray-Ban Stories, are a collaboration
Report suggests TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
A new report suggests that App users in the UK and US are spending more time on TikTok than on YouTube. The BBC reports, data from app monitoring firm App Annie indica
TikTok tests Snapchat style vanishing video stories feature
Video-sharing platform TikTok is trialling a new vanishing clips feature similar to functions on Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram. TikTok Stories will allow users to s
Pacific anti-corruption journalists call for regional commitment to media freedom
The Pacific Anti-Corruption Journalists Network (PACJN) has called for a regional Pacific commitment to boost media freedom and help increase reporting on activities at r
We accept that there was an error in our reporting on the Electoral Amendment Bill – Fred Wesley
The Fiji Times Editor In Chief, Fred Wesley says they accept that there was an error in their reporting on the Electoral Amendment Bill where they suggested that the Supe
Australia passes new law requiring Facebook and Google to pay for news
Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms. The legislation had been fiercely opposed by the US
All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick's social media account hacked
All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick has had his Instagram account hacked. The 2014 World Rugby Player of the Year’s photos were deleted over the weekend, replaced
Man who was hit by a bus in Nabua runs away from hospital
A 49-year-old man who was allegedly hit by a bus has run away from hospital after he was admitted yesterday. Police say the man who was captured in a video that is cir
Viral Tiktoker to perform at Radio Navtarang and Sargam Diwali Dhamaka Stage Show on Sunday
Famous TikToker Elvin Kumar who has almost 60,000 followers will be taking the stage for the first time during the Radio Navtarang and Sargam Diwali Dhamaka Stage Show at
Trump says Oracle deal for TikTok has his blessing
US President Donald Trump has expressed his approval of a deal that would allow Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok to continue operating in the US. Trump told repo
Woman falls from moving car in England while filming Snapchat video
A woman fell out of a moving car in England while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat. Surrey Police says she fell from the car into a "live lane" b
TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours
TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores from Monday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute deal. The Department of Commerce said it would b
Trump threatens to ban Tik-Tok in the US
US President Donald Trump says they are going to sign to have TikTok banned in the US over how the Chinese-owned company uses Americans' data. Trump says they can use
US teen who hacked high-profile people's Twitter pages charged
A 17-year-old boy from Florida allegedly hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more t
Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among several public figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The official accounts of
Barter for Better Fiji seeks legal advice on baseless claims
Barter for Better Fiji Page Admin Marlene Dutta says nothing done within the group is for any form of monetary gain and has deemed all claims relating to this as baseless