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Facebook Messenger to Integrate Apps, Businesses   Get ready for apps and brands to invade Facebook Messenger. At its annual f8 developer conference today, Facebook revealed Messenger Platform and Messenger Business, which will allow developers and businesses to integrate with the social network’s chat service. According to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, the move will let

Google WHOIS error reveals hundreds of thousands of owners’ personal info A researcher at Cisco’s Talos security group recently discovered a bug that caused some Google Apps customers to have their personal information leaked via WHOIS domain listings for more than a year. Google Apps is a popular service these days, so in this case “some”

Google discovers new security holes in SSL — is the entire system fundamentally flawed? Google has discovered that an intermediate certificate authority had issued unauthorized certificates for multiple Google domains. The problem arose because the intermediate authority, MCS Holdings, had issued certificates for the Google domains, despite not holding those domains itself. The reason it’s

Facebook takes aim at YouTube with embeddable videos WASHINGTON: Social networking site Facebook will now allow videos on its platform to be embedded across the web. According to The Verge, users can now copy an embed code, place it in a menu at the bottom of the video and it will show up in a

WhatsApp Calling For Android And iOS: How To Get It And What To Know WhatsApp has enabled the beta version of its invite-only voice-calling feature, but is limiting testing to a few testers. If you’re clamoring for an invitation, make sure you know how to distinguish between a real invite and one from a scammer.