Twitter has identified and blocked 201 suspected Russian-linked accounts connected to the spreading of false information in last year’s US presidential election, the social network said Thursday.

London on Friday stripped Uber of its license to operate from the end of September in a huge blow to the taxi app that will affect more than 40,000 drivers in one of the world’s biggest cities.

Amazon.com Inc is working on its first wearable device - a pair of ‘smart glasses’, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Twitter says it is testing doubling the number of characters allowed in tweets on the social media messaging platform. The social media company announced on it blog Tuesday. “We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters,” the San Francisco-based company said.

WhatsApp has reportedly rejected a demand from the British government earlier this year for it to create a backdoor into its secure network.

Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al-Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia. The company said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the Qatari-backed broadcaster's Discover Publisher Channel because it violated local laws.