Sri Lanka lifts social media ban nine days after terrorist bombings

Sri Lanka's president ordered an end to the country's temporary ban on social media. The ban was instituted after devastating suicide bombings on Easter Sunday left more than 250 people dead. According to the New York Times, the government issued a s...

Sri Lanka cuts off access to social networks to curb violence

In an effort to curb extremist violence in Sri Lanka, government officials have ordered some social networks to shut down. ABC News' anonymous source says that the blockage affects Facebook, Instagram, Viber and WhatsApp, specifically. In capital Col...

Chat app Viber hopes you’ll shop from its keyboard

If you owned Viber and saw Facebook make a big deal of in-chat shopping, what would you do? Bake shopping into the very heart of your messaging app, apparently. A few months after including an Instant Shopping feature in Viber, parent company Rakut...

Bangladesh blocks Facebook and chat apps to stop ‘crimes’

To call things tense in Bangladesh would be an understatement: the country recently executed two high-profile leaders for decades-old war crimes, and ISIS (aka Daesh) claims to have killed an Italian priest. However, its government may have gone ove...

Viber is finally on iPad


Viber is a very popular messaging app around the world. Just recently iPad has been updated with this app. For those who already use this app on their iPhone, just with a single update your iPad will...