Digital media

Can you imagine spending a month without Facebook? The inhabitants of a small Asian country will have to do so.

It's about Papua New Guinea, where the authorities decided to prohibit the use of the social networking for 30 days. For this period, an impact assessment will be carried out on the site and measures to identify fake accounts will be developed.

Arabs on Twitter have started a social media campaign encouraging people to spend their summer holidays in Turkey.

In many clips and videos, interesting songs often attract attention. Many people get their favorite songs this way, especially on YouTube. However, finding the song can be difficult and the video portal thinks it can help.

YouTube starts gradually releasing the "Music in this video" feature. It will automatically try to recognize which songs are used in a video.

YouTube is hiring music experts across the world to make its revamped music streaming subscription more locally "authentic," officials at YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc's Google, told Reuters on May 18.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies are booming in Europe, and are expected to create up to 480 000 jobs, and will increase in value by up to 34 billion EUR by 2020, according to the latest study, Virtual Reality and its potential for Europe.

The Court of Cassation has ruled in an unprecedented decision that a married woman's social media posts showing photos of her while intoxicated on various social sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, was a "violation" of her husband's personal rights and was therefore grounds for divorce and compensation.

Facebook took out full-page ads in European newspapers April 16 to trumpet tough new EU legislation that promises "more data protection for you," as the company seeks to win back trust following a damaging privacy scandal.

23 US organizations blame YouTube and its owner Google for collecting children's personal data and using them to target certain ads according to the interests of consumers, news agencies said. This is illegal under US law.

Athens-listed information technology companies showed an improvement in their financial figures last year.

Most Greek parents allow children under the age of 13 to use social media, according to a survey released on Monday.