Taiwan’s ‘White Shirt Army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties
For decades this island has been bitterly divided into blue and green, the colors of its rival political parties. But that two-toned dichotomy has been upset in recent months by a sea of youths dressed in white. Now known as the "White Shirt Army," the ...
As viewing habits change, Facebook, Twitter eye up a big slice of TV's future
Talk to your neighbors about their television viewing habits and you will probably find that, although the range of programmes watched is pretty narrow, the methods for receiving them vary wildly from house to house. Some people get their favorite shows via gaming consoles, ...
Google plans to put users' photos, comments in online ads
Google has made a fortune selling ads. Now it is trying to put its hundreds of millions of users to work as company pitchmen, using the profiles, pictures and recommendations of ordinary people to endorse products and services across the Web. After the policy takes ...
As promoters follow users, not sites, ads can pop up in distressing ways
Ads for knockoff Louis Vuitton bags pop up on the luxury retailer's official Facebook page. A Toyota advertisement shows up on a news article about a car crash. Or an ad for Dove promoting women's "real beauty" shows up on a Facebook page glorifying ...
Unemployed Web developer hacks Zuckerberg's Facebook page
An unemployed Palestinian developer named Khalil Shreateh tried several times to report a bug to Facebook's security team. When no one got back to him, he took the (dubiously) logical next step: exploited the bug to leave a public comment on Facebook CEO Mark ...
Inaugural Internet campaigning not proving to be game-changer in poll
The Internet won't have a major impact on the House of Councilors poll because a Liberal Democratic Party win seems certain and candidates are opting to campaign in person.
Diplomat disciplined for disparaging LDP lawmaker on Facebook
The Foreign Ministry slapped a ministry official with a disciplinary warning Wednesday for disparaging a ruling party lawmaker on Facebook, saying the posting damaged public trust in national civil servants. "The Foreign Ministry will continue to draw its personnel's attention to the appropriate private-use of ...
A 21-year-old part-time worker at a Lawson convenience store in Kamobe, Kochi Prefecture, uploaded pictures of himself inside an ice cream freezer to Facebook, prompting Lawson headquarters to cancel its contract with the franchise after receiving complaints, company officials said. The store, which was closed ...
Japan by the numbers (06.25.13)
We read Japan by the numbers and learn ... Powerpoint rules, and blogs sway a quarter of consumers, but not as much as Abenomics.
Facebook, Microsoft release some data on U.S. surveillance requests
Facebook and Microsoft for the first time admit they received data requests from the U.S. government, but add it did not permit them to provide specific figures.
U.S. tech giants urge NSA transparency
Technology companies stung by the controversy over the National Security Agency's sweeping Internet surveillance program are calling on U.S. officials to ease the secrecy surrounding national security investigations and lift long-standing gag orders covering the nature and extent of information collected about Internet users.
What would you do if you received a Facebook request to become a "friend" from your boss? Online harassment complaints linked to social-networking services, known as "social media harassment," have recently been on the rise. A young company employee in his 20s who lives in Tokyo ...
