For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook is adding new features to an online hub where users offer and request help as part of an effort to encourage people to contribute to a new global day of giving on Tuesday that was created in …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter saw a big bump in daily users during the first quarter as people turned to the site for real-time information about the coronavirus outbreak. Even so, uncertainty about the economy is casting a shadow over the company. For the first quarter, Twitter …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook’s first-quarter revenue and user numbers beat Wall Street expectations Wednesday, even as the social media giant cautioned that the coronavirus pandemic has caused “unprecedented uncertainty” for the future of its ad business. Facebook has seen a surge in people using the social …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook-owned Instagram is adding a way for users to create and donate to fundraisers during live videos as more people turn to these real-time broadcasts while they’re staying at home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The release of the new …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. James McConnell didn’t know much about Facebook’s Portal until Nan Owen, his 91-year-old neighbor, needed help setting up her video chat device last month as the UK locked down to combat the coronavirus. Owen’s active social life — friends and family would stop …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook is releasing a new feature that lets you video chat with multiple people through Messenger even if you don’t have a social media account, a move that could help the company compete with popular videoconferencing app Zoom. The world’s largest social network …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey video chatted with comedians and TV hosts Desus Nice and The Kid Mero on Wednesday, weighing in on various topics from how his company approaches coronavirus misinformation to whether users will ever get a feature to edit their tweets. (Disclosure: Desus & Mero airs on Showtime. Both Showtime and CNET are owned by ViacomCBS.) The hour-long …

Snapchat grew its number of users in the first three months of 2020 as more people turned to the ephemeral messaging app to keep in touch with their closest friends and family. Snap, the app’s parent company, said Tuesday the app had 229 million daily active users in the first quarter, up 20 percent compared to the same period last …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter said Friday that President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for the liberation of three states where people are protesting coronavirus lockdowns don’t run afoul of its rules against content that could pose a risk to people’s health. Under new guidance that Twitter released …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook said Wednesday that it has donated more than 7,400 Portal video chat devices to help veterans feel less isolated as people stay at home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The social network partnered with the US Department of Veterans …