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Man remanded for blackmailing girls into sending nude photos Cyprus

Man remanded for blackmailing girls into sending nude photos

December 3rd, 20184627 A 20-year-old man from Nicosia was remanded on Monday for eight days after allegedly blackmailing three underage girls between the ages of 12 and 14 into send him their naked photos on social media. The man was arrested on Sunday after police received three reports against him by underage girls. According to the head of the police...
Instagram co-founders resign in latest Facebook executive exit Tech & Science

Instagram co-founders resign in latest Facebook executive exit

September 25th, 20181273 Instagram on Monday said co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned as chief executive officer and chief technical officer of the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc, giving scant explanation for the move. The departures at Facebook's fastest-growing revenue generator come just months after the exit of Jan Koum,...
Fig Tree Bay beach one of most photographed on Instagram Cyprus

Fig Tree Bay beach one of most photographed on Instagram

June 21st, 20183538 Fig Tree Bay Beach in Protaras is one of the most popular beaches in the world, according to how many times they have been snapped on Instagram. A research by TravelSupermarket ranks the beach at number 20, with its hashtag #figtreebay used 31,088 times. The Cyprus beach is only one of four beaches in Europe in the top 25, the most...
Nissi beach ranks third in Instagram postings Cyprus

Nissi beach ranks third in Instagram postings

March 28th, 20185404 Nissi Beach in Ayia Napa has been ranked third among social network Instagram's most popular and most-photographed beaches. In an announcement, Ayia Napa municipality said that with 124,910 photos, Nissi Beach was recently ranked third as the most popular and multi-photographed beach on Instagram. The survey on the social media...
Ronaldo climbs Instagram ranks, Selena Gomez most-followed World

Ronaldo climbs Instagram ranks, Selena Gomez most-followed

November 29th, 20171515 Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo muscled his way into Instagram's top-followed ranks this year as he documented his career and growing family, but pop star Selena Gomez still reigned supreme on the social media platform. Ronaldo, who was named Forbes' highest-paid football player this year with $93 million in earnings,...
Instagram stories blows past Snapchat Tech & Science

Instagram stories blows past Snapchat

April 25th, 20175035 Facebook's copycat approach to competing with Snapchat appears to be working. The company introduced several Snapchat-like features to its social platforms in the past year, hoping to beat Snap at its own game. And while “Messenger Day” and WhatsApp’s new “Status” feature, both heavily inspired by Snapchat Stories, have...
New Instagram feature makes content disappear after 24 hours Tech & Science

New Instagram feature makes content disappear after 24 hours

August 2nd, 20161161 Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is taking aim at fast-growing messaging app Snapchat with a new feature that gives users the option to make pictures and videos to disappear automatically after 24 hours. The feature, Instagram Stories, will showcase pictures and videos uploaded by a user in a slideshow format,...
Instagram attracting more advertising than Twitter -survey World

Instagram attracting more advertising than Twitter -survey

June 10th, 20161379 Advertising agencies are for the first time turning to Instagram more frequently than Twitter for social media ad campaigns, a survey released Thursday showed, a further indication of weakness in an ad sales operation that has been one of the few bright spots for Twitter. The survey, from a unit of Comcast called Strata, came the same...
Turkish hackers block Russian minister's social network account World

Turkish hackers block Russian minister's social network account

January 3rd, 20161554 A social network account of Russia's communications minister was temporarily blocked on Sunday in a cyberattack carried out by hackers presenting themselves as a Turkish activist group and parading images of a warplane and Turkish flags. Russia's ties with Turkey suffered a severe blow when a Turkish fighter shot down a Russian bomber...
Teen more than meets 2015 dog rescue target Cyprus

Teen more than meets 2015 dog rescue target

January 1st, 20162658 EVE Moore is one person who did what she set out to do in 2015, and it was all for the good of stray dogs from Cyprus. Last year, Moore, a 19-year-old student from Mirfield in West Yorkshire vowed to home 100 dogs from shelters in Cyprus by the end of 2015. Operating mainly from the UK, she set up an Instagram account and uploaded...
Madonna in unscripted plunge steals show at Brit awards Entertainment

Madonna in unscripted plunge steals show at Brit awards

February 26th, 20151221 By Liisa Tuhkanen Pop diva Madonna's gasp-inducing "wardrobe malfunction" at a star-studded London awards ceremony grabbed British headlines on Thursday along with photos of her falling backwards downstairs tangled in a swirling cape. From the up-market daily Guardian to the mass circulation Sun, Madonna's tumble overshadowed...
Facebook takes blame for service outages, which hit wider Web (Update 2) Tech & Science

Facebook takes blame for service outages, which hit wider Web (Update 2)

January 27th, 20151588 By Eric Auchard Access to Facebook, the world's largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, were blocked around the world for up to an hour on Tuesday, which the company said later was due to an internal fault and not an outside attack. The outage at Facebook, which started around 0600 GMT, appeared to spill over...
China shuts 50 websites and social media accounts World

China shuts 50 websites and social media accounts

January 13th, 20151416 By Adam Rose China has closed 50 websites and social media accounts for violations ranging from pornography to "publishing political news without a permit", Beijing's cyberspace watchdog said on Tuesday. The government is pursuing a crackdown on unwanted material online. Critics say the increasing restrictions further limit free...
Luis Enrique slams reports of bust-up with Messi - Updated Football

Luis Enrique slams reports of bust-up with Messi - Updated

January 7th, 20151639 By Tim Hanlon Barcelona coach Luis Enrique has described reports of a bust-up with Lionel Messi as "inaccurate and ill-intentioned" and said he has the backing of all the players in his squad. Talk has been rife of disagreements and heated exchanges between the pair while rumours of a move to Chelsea have grown with Catalan radio...
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