Author: Lola Agbaje-Williams

Facebook has announced a new feature called “Stories”. A similar feature was introduced by Instagram last August which was said to be based on the Snapchat format. The new Facebook feature has been released in Ireland with plans to roll out other countries soon. It allows users share ‘ephemeral photos…

Yahoo has confirmed a massive data breach affecting ‘at least 500 million user accounts’. This is one of the largest security breaches yet, considering the wide use of the company’s services (one billion monthly active users as at February 2016). The company suspects the perpetrator of the data breach, which…

Instagram has taken another step forward by introducing a “Save Draft” feature which has been long awaited by its millions of users. After a successful testing since July this year, the new feature is now to be made available to the iOS and Android apps and will allow users save…

Snapchat has announced a new feature/addition to its app called ‘Memories’ which is set to be selectively introduced to users over the next month. The new addition allows users to save and share old and new Snaps and Stories in a private gallery in Snapchat and acts as a collection…

In response to the recent innovations in advertising and marketing through videos by video technology companies like Google (through YouTube), Facebook has made two major additions to its current technology for uploaded videos. Although the company had previously made its Live Video available to the public and added video to…

Facebook has begun testing of its new live video streaming service which will enable about 1.5 billion users to broadcast in real time and share videos of fun events and family time via its social network. This service can be compared with Twitter’s Periscope which has been the most popular…