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Rossgram, a Russian alternative to the popular American-based photo and video sharing social network, Instagram, might be launched on March 28, digital marketing specialist Alexander Zobov revealed on Wednesday. Instagram, the …
Meta, Google and TikTok decided to block the channels connected to RT television channel and Sputnik information agency on the video hosting service YouTube that it owns, over the situation in Ukraine. "Due to the ongoing war …
Wired internet access, suspended in Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan on Monday, was resumed again on Tuesday, but mobile internet services were still not available. The city’s internet services were suspended at approximately …
State-owned media conglomerate Gazprom Media has launched "Yappy," a Russian alternative to TikTokplay.google.com Russia’s leading media conglomerate has launched a domestic rival to the hugely popular video-sharing app …
Interpol on Thursday elected a contentious official from the United Arab Emirates as its new president during the international law enforcement body’s annual General Assembly held in Istanbul. Maj. Gen. Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, …
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev fired the head of the Central Asian nation's telecoms watchdog after he restricted access to popular social networks and websites such as Facebook and YouTube. The president's spokesman said …
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name to Meta, saying the move reflects the fact the company is now much broader than just the social media platform (which will still be called …
Today, due to a "network outage", the websites of the Iranian Ministry of Roads and Urban Development in the computer systems of the ministry's employees stopped working, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Other details of …
The work of Twitter, TikTok and VKontakte social networks was restricted in Uzbekistan due to violation of the law on personal data, according to the press service of the State Inspection for Control of Computerization and Telecommunications …
The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders intended to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China, officials said …
A Russian court on Thursday said it had fined Tiktok 1.5 million roubles ($20,425) over a failure to delete content Moscow deems illegal, part of a broader standoff between Moscow and big tech companies. It also fined Google 3.5 million …
Russia partially halted a punitive slowdown of Twitter on Monday after it deleted a large portion of content deemed illegal by Moscow, but warned other U.S. internet platforms to comply with local legislation or face similar penalties. …
Technically it is possible to restrict the work of the Whatsapp messenger in Russia, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications Alexander Khinshtein said. ”As for …
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has decided to extend measures to slow down Twitter until May 15, the service reported on Monday. "Taking into …
The cell-phone number of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is among the personal information leaked online in a low-level hacking forum, according to a researcher. Multiple outlets reported the claims about Zuckerberg's …
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will block the Twitter social network in Russia in a month if the service does not delete the prohibited information, the agency’s …
TikTok was banned in Pakistan, according to local media reports, in another blow to the viral video app’s ambitions in south Asia after it was shut down in India last summer. The Peshawar High Court ordered a ban on TikTok over …
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, has taken measures to initially slow down the speed of the social network Twitter on 100% of mobile and 50% of desktop devices due to the violation of …
Kyrgyz President's press secretary Galina Baiterek explained the situation concerning the last comments on Sadyr Japarov's Facebook page. Facebook users found insulting comments on Japarov's page addressed presumably to MP …
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted 60 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit late Monday from Cape Canaveral. An attempt to recover the first stage with a landing on an off-shore droneship failed, ending a string of 24 successes in a …
