Science & Technology

Social media giant Facebook Inc on Friday set a $6 billion buyback program for its Class A shares, beginning in the first quarter of 2017. Facebook’s shares were up 1.1 …

Russia’s communications regulator ordered public access to LinkedIn’s website to be blocked on Thursday to comply with a court ruling that found the social networking firm guilty of violating a …

Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager aboard Nasa’’s New Horizons spacecraft Scientists have found evidence that tiny, distant Pluto harbours a hidden …

Twitter has suspended several accounts linked to the alt-right movement, a loosely organized group that embraces far-right ideologies including white nationalism, USA Today reported. The accounts suspended by Twitter, which …

The chief executive of Alphabet Inc’s Google and the European Union’s antitrust chief will meet on Friday, following the U.S. technology group’s formal rejection this month of a spate of …

Two months after Facebook admitted it had inflated the average time it told advertisers that users were watching their video ads, the company is promising better data to give ad …

One of the world’s most popular means of communication, Facebook’s WhatsApp, is adding fully encrypted video calling to its messaging app on Monday, a move that comes as privacy advocates …

Login credentials for over 412 million users of adult websites run by California-based FriendFinder Networks Inc. were compromised last month in the largest hack of 2016, according to breach notification …

Samsung Electronics announced an $8 billion deal on Monday to buy Harman International Industries, marking a major push into the auto electronics market and the biggest overseas acquisition ever by …

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka Bangladesh’s central bank has retrieved just under a fifth of the $81 million that was stolen from …