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In the Social Good Summit organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Istanbul on Sept. 29, we spoke to Head of Public Policy, Facebook in Turkey, Nilay Erdem, on the topic, "Facebook for Good: Is it only a toy?" 

Social media giant Facebook and the Smile of the Child charity have joined forces in the search for missing children.

The initiative, announced at a press conference at the charity's headquarters in Athens on Monday, aims to ensure that announcements regarding missing children reach a wider audience as fast as possible.

Samsung's crisis with its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone deepened on Ovt. 10 as the company confirmed it has adjusted its production following reports that newly released versions offered as replacements for recalled fire-prone devices have also overheated or caught fire.

Turkey's internet watchdog restored access to Google's cloud storage service, Google Drive, on Oct. 9 after it was blocked on the grounds of "administrative measures" allegedly due to a series of leaks by the hacking group RedHack.

Yahoo Inc. last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. 

BELGRADE - Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter, Reuters reports.

The Android Nougat statue unveiled at Google campus in Mountain View.

EU antitrust regulators plan to order Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed.

Serbian Customs officers have prevented an attempt to smuggle 500 kilograms of "various cakes and cookies" into the country across the eastern border.

A statement termed the smuggling attempt as "unusual" and specified that it took place at the Gradina border crossing with Bulgaria.

Fresh off of announcing that he wants to cure every disease in the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to show the world some of the other technical challenges he’s helping surmount. In a post on his own social network on Wednesday, Zuckerberg shared an album of photos of the company’s data center in Luleå, Sweden.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that’s even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.