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Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook, Twitter and Google on Feb. 15 to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed too little.

People in Kosovo reacted enthusiastically as instant messaging and internet call service Viber became the first telecommunications application to use Kosovo’s own international dialling code.

Some 47 percent of Netflix users in Turkey say it is more important for them to “watch films and TV series than have a conversation,” according to a recent survey by the company spanning 22 countries.

Only 34% of companies in Bulgaria use at least one social media to develop their marketing strategies and receive feedback from customers. This is reported by Eurostat.

According to their data, our country is at one of the last places in the EU, with only Latvia (30%) and Poland (27%) are after us.

Two weeks after Twitter Inc said it began enforcing new rules to combat white supremacist and other violent or hateful groups, the microblogging application on Thursday suspended the account of Greece's neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.

Even tech moguls make mistakes online.

Apple has acquired Shazam, the company announced today. The deal was first reported by TechCrunch last week and is worth $400 million, according to Recode. Shazam lets users identify songs, movies, TV shows, and commercials from short audio clips.

Apple is in talks to buy the popular song recognition app Shazam as the tech giant tries to compete with streaming leader Spotify, TechCrunch has reported.

The social video platform Vine has unexpectedly ended this year after its owner Twitter shutted it down. The 6-second format turned out to be suitable for a whole new subculture of weird and crazy performances with one's own identity. And now we are likely to see it again, reports kaldata. 

Facebook today announced a new version of its Messenger chat app designed for children ages six to 12. Called Messenger Kids, the new app does not require a Facebook account — due to federal law, users under the age of 13 cannot legally sign up for Facebook.