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Trump Tower website has outage after Anonymous’ anti-Trump rant

December 11, 2015May 15, 2017 creative angela-moon, anonymous, cities-the-tech, hour-on-friday, people-affected, social, the-companies, usa

By Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley NEW YORK (Reuters) – The website for Trump Towers, Donald Trump's glitzy signature skyscraper in Manhattan, went offline for at least an hour on Friday after activist hacking group Anonymous denounced the real-estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner for his anti-Muslim comments. The website for the 68-story Trump Towers (trumptowerny.com), often used for his presidential campaign, was down after a tweet from an account associated with the anonymous hacking collective that said: “Trump Towers NY site taken down as statement against racism and hatred.www.trumptowerny.com/(what you see is cloudflare offline backup)” Earlier this week, a handle claiming to be “Anonymous Operations” posted a video on YouTube with the message: “The more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims, you can be sure that ISIS will be putting that on their social media campaign.” The post added, “Donald Trump think twice before you speak anything.

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Facebook makes paid time off for baby leave a global benefit

November 28, 2015 admin child, executive-mark, extending-its, facebook, facebook-chief, human-resources, matloff-goler, parental-leave, paternity-leave, social, united, university

Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its parental leave policy to full-time employees outside the United States. Employees may take leave at any point up to a year after the birth of their child, Lori Matloff Goler, the company's head of human resources, said in a Facebook post late Wednesday. Facebook currently offers only U.S.-based workers up to four months of paid leave

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Steve Ballmer takes 4 percent stake in Twitter, owns more than CEO

October 16, 2015 admin after-being, angeles, billion-market, chief-executive, his-spokesman, microsoft, news-conference, percent-stake, prince, prince-alwaleed, social, spokesman, staples, staples-center, steve-ballmer

Former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has taken a 4 percent stake in Twitter Inc , according to his spokesman, making him the third-biggest individual shareholder in the social media company. Ballmer's stake is worth more than $800 million based on Twitter's $21 billion market value

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EU privacy regulators give EU, U.S. three months to find new data pact

October 16, 2015 admin angeles, billion-market, chief-executive, data-protection, ensure-everyday, european, personal-data, prince, social, staples-center, steve-ballmer, the-regulators, united

By Julia Fioretti LONDON (Reuters) – Companies could face action from European privacy regulators if the European Commission and United States do not come up with a new system enabling them to shuffle data across the Atlantic in three months, the regulators said on Friday. The highest EU court last week struck down a system known as Safe Harbour used by over 4,000 firms to transfer personal data to the United States, leaving companies without alternatives scrambling to put new legal measures in place to ensure everyday business could continue

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Social media gaffes claim another candidate in Canadian election

September 16, 2015 publisher career-derailed, centrist, chris-austin, diane-bartz, force, internet, liberal, montreal, national-police, online, party, social, travel-services, victim, vulnerabilities

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Social media claimed another victim on Wednesday in Canada’s federal election campaign as the centrist Liberal Party dumped a candidate and denounced online remarks he made that suggested the country’s national police force was the Canadian Gestapo.

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Facebook profit falls 9 percent as costs soar

July 29, 2015 creative beat-forecasts, billion-times, bloomington, boost-mobile, chief-operating, facebook, million-users, officer-sheryl, police, profit-fell, regrets-killing, social, suburban, were-gathering, zimbabwe

Facebook Inc reported quarterly revenue that beat forecasts but its profit fell 9 percent as the social media company sharply increased spending to boost mobile revenue and future growth. “We're investing in the next set of services and what will be future investments like Messenger, WhatsApp and Oculus,” Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview on Wednesday after the earnings report. Messenger has more than 700 million users, and the app has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on Android, Google Inc's mobile operating system, Facebook said

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Yelp needs help, and buyout may be the answer

July 29, 2015 creative billion-times, bloomington, boost-its, consumer-review, facebook, francisco-based, now-valued, officer-sheryl, offices, police, social, suburban, their-offices

Yelp, owner of consumer review website Yelp.com, reported a second-quarter loss on Tuesday and forecast revenue for the current quarter that was far below expectations. As of Tuesday's close, Yelp – now valued at about $1.8 billion – had already lost 39 percent of its value this year. Unless Yelp can come up with a strategy to boost its financial performance, the San Francisco-based company should consider selling itself, several analysts said.

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Facebook staff diversity little changed over past year

June 26, 2015 creative francisco, illustration, its-corporate, linkedin, over-the-past, remained-little, social, social-network, the-number, yasmeen

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year. The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent

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Internet firms should brief U.N. on tackling extremists: experts

June 24, 2015 creative alexander-evans, bans-the-sale, difficulty, ideology, ideology-online, peace, recommendations, social, united-nations

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Key Internet and social media companies should brief a United Nations Security Council sanctions committee on their efforts to stop al Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist militants spreading their ideology online, U.N. experts said. Alexander Evans, coordinator of the team of experts, said such a briefing could stimulate a conversation among the 15-committee members on whether U.N

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Facebook allows users to sign up for Messenger without account

June 24, 2015 publisher alexander-evans, broaden-the-app, ideology, ideology-online, latest, messenger, peace, phone-number, recommendations, san, social, united-nations

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has enabled users without an account to sign up for its Messenger app with a phone number, the social media company said on Wednesday, in another move to broaden the app's reach and make it a standalone platform. Earlier this year, Facebook opened up Messenger to developers, and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to connect users directly with retailers, restaurants and other businesses. With the latest update, users will be prompted by an option that says “Not on Facebook?” when they open the app

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