Facebook has added a new feature to its web and mobile app that allows Facebook users to order food through the social media channel.

Instagram has added a new feature to its mobile website that allows users to upload photos directly to the mobile site, as noted in an article from TechCrunch.

Google has released a new update for the iOS and Android versions of its Google Trips app with a number new features.

Instagram is currently testing offline support for the Instagram Android app, as revealed at the Facebook F8 developer conference held yesterday (via TechCrunch).

Facebook is currently testing a new feature that nobody asked for: a second News Feed.

The Prisma app, which lets you apply art filters to pictures, now has an offline mode.

FOR most of us, Facebook is the place we go to see other people climb mountains and have children. 

TriPlay today launched eStories to offer audiobook fans an alternative to Amazon’s dominance with Audible.

Snapchat has quietly acquired 3D capture company Seene, which could pave the way for it to offer 3D or augmented reality snaps. Seene allows users to capture 3D models using their phone's camera.

The minds behind Siri have developed a new AI assistant, Viv, who was shown off in public this week.

Sometimes you need to be productive, but your friends are less preoccupied and insist on chatting via a messenging service. Chatbots may soon come to the rescue so that you can keep working without alienating your friends.

Facebook Messenger connects millions of people around the world everyday with the ability to send text, pictures, funny GIFs and videos and you can even make calls.

Facebook users will be forced to download the Moments app if they want to have their photos automatically synced from January.

Faceshift, the motion capture company whose technology has been used to give The Force Awakens’ alien characters more realistic facial expressions, has been bought by Apple.

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the loss of the Web Summit to Lisbon and while it may be a great move for the event, it exposes a harsh reality for the Irish tech and start-up scene

Apple released their updated operating system this evening, but many iPhone users have found that downloading it hasn’t been as easy as it was in the past.

US telecommunications giant Verizon has confirmed its intention to buy AOL for $4.4bn (€3.9bn), turning the biggest US wireless carrier into a leading provider of content and video for the web and mobile phones.

So the Apple Watch has a confirmed release date and pricing - its actually coming out and it's going to inspire a lot of column inches between now and then.

An Irish app, described as Facebook for carers, is one of 16 finalists at a massive technology competition in the UK this week.

Google is adding drones to its fleets of robots and driverless cars.

Well, that's midly embarassing.

A total of 220 jobs were announced yesterday.

Google Glass, a high-tech pair of spectacles with in-built hands- free video camera and internet access, has already raised privacy fears because it can record video far less conspicuously than a handheld device and could make it difficult for people to know when they are on camera.

It is set to be the next big thing for gadget lovers everywhere. But users of Google Glass, a high-tech pair of spectacles with in-built hands-free video camera and internet access, are being given some basic advice – take them off when visiting public conveniences.

Photo-sharing social network Instagram has come under fire for new terms of service which allow it to sell people’s own photos to advertisers, without paying them.

This year’s Dublin Web Summit climaxes this evening, with one enterprise winning the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Start-Up Competition.

Redesigned headphones, a 4in screen, and credit card-like capabilities are just a few of the features reportedly boasted by Apple’s latest version of the iPhone, expected to be unveiled today.

AOL, the owner of TechCrunch and the Huffington Post, has reported a more than fourfold jump in first-quarter profit, which it puts down to an increase in online advertising revenue.

Facebook was forced to take its chat system offline after users found a way to spy on friends’ personal information, it was revealed today.

A FRENCHMAN who broke into Barack Obama and Britney Spears’ Twitter feeds insisted yesterday he is no hacker but a “kind pirate” seeking to expose security weaknesses.

APPLE has begun removing risque iPhone and iPod Touch applications from its online App Store, including some which had previously been approved for sale, according to reports.

FACEBOOK has begun testing a simplified service that loads a more streamlined layout on to screens.