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Facebook said Nov. 4 surging mobile advertising lifted its profits and revenues as the world's biggest social network grew to over 1.5 billion people.

Facebook is billed as the place to share and connect, and would-be refugees are using it as a tool to flee war in the Middle East. They utilize social media to help them find people smugglers through a whole host of information services available online to allow users to research prices, fees, bribing costs as well as dangers of various routes.

When Wael and his relatives from Syria climbed into an inflatable boat in the dead of night to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece, they abandoned all their belongings -- except their smartphones.
 

Spring not only brings good weather to Istanbul, it also brings many technology summits and events. One of the must-go-to events of these days was the Digital Age Summit that took place at Raffles in Istanbul on May 12-13.

High government officials are using chat programs for communication

High government officials are using chat programs for communication rather then SMS messages. President Tomislav Nikolic is using WhatsApp, as well as the Minister of foreign affairs Ivica Dacic.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was on hostile turf on March 2 as spoke to executives at the world?s biggest annual gathering of the mobile industry, renewing attempts to win their backing to help reach billions of users with no Internet access.

Migrants dreaming of Europe have their pick of social media sites that work like an online travel agent, advertising fares and offering tips on secure payments, while criminal gangs from Turkey are homing in on a share of the profits.

That's the picture of an increasingly sophisticated business in migrant smuggling painted by European officials and an EU document.

Social media sites have become "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists", the new head of Britain's electronic spying agency GCHQ wrote in a Financial Times article published Nov. 4.
      

Smartphone messenger application Line, which has hundreds of millions of users across Asia, was urging people to change their passwords Thursday as Japanese police investigated the hacking of hundreds of accounts.