Yashwant Raj

Facebook said it was taking additional steps in the coming weeks to put people in more control over their privacy.

Apple, the world’s second most valued company, on Tuesday reported a decline in quarterly profits for the first time since 2003, pulled down by low sales of its flagship product -- iPhones.

The FBI achieved success, without Apple’s help, to access the iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with his Pakistani wife, gunned down 14 people in San Bernardino last December.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on Monday that it had successfully hacked into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California without Apple Inc’s help, effectively ending a pitched court battle between the Obama administration and one of the world’s leading technology companies.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Free Basics, the free but restrictive internet service that has run into trouble with Indian authorities, has picked up yet another opponent, the World Bank.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Free Basics, the service that offers limited free access to certain sites and service on the web, that has run into trouble with Indian authorities, has picked up yet another opponent, the World Bank.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Tuesday announced the birth of their first child, a girl, with a pledge committing 99% of their shares in Facebook to charity.

India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google, which will be the new entity’s largest fully owned subsidiary, a thinly trimmed version of what it is now.

Twitter will lift the classic 140-character limit for direct messages. Starting in July, users will be able to send longer DMs, turning the feature into more of a typical instant messaging and group chat service, a la Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger.

Apple is reportedly in talks with broadcasters and programmers to launch an online television service later this year. It will start with a slim bouquet of about 25 channels — the major ones — priced competitively around $30 and $40 a month, according to The Wall Street Journal.