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• React JavaScript library gets new tools

  React, a JavaScript library co-developed by Facebook and Instagram for building user interfaces, is getting "entirely new" developer tools.

• Bad vibe brews about Windows 10

  Windows 10's vibe on social media has soured since Microsoft launched the operating system last week, Adobe today said as it cited new data from its metrics platform.

• Will Facebook envy wreck Twitter?

  There's never been anything quite like Facebook. As a company, Facebook specializes in collecting, hoarding, keeping and engaging users. As a social network, it dominates the market with the largest user base. Facebook has a monopoly as the social network of choice for friends and families.

• Windows 10 picks up good vibrations, user excitations

  Windows 10 is buzz-worthy, Adobe said Wednesday as it cited data from its social media metrics platform that showed positive vibes about the new OS.

• Instagram bumps up photo resolution to 1080 pixels

  Instagram is increasing the size of pictures users of its mobile app are allowed to post, finally opening the door of the photo sharing service to much more detailed images.

• Facebook and Google dominate time spent with mobile apps

  The battle for mobile social supremacy is largely a two-horse race these days as Facebook and Google combine to claim one of every four minutes U.S. users spend on mobile devices, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research. Forrester tracked the app use of 1,721 adult smartphone users in the U.S. during the three-month period ending in December 2014.

• How Instagram spots a trend

  With a user base of over 200 million people, who collectively post 70 million new photographs and short videos a day, Instagram provides a timely view of events around the world that people are interested in. But how does the service spot emerging trends while they are still on the rise?

• Instgram said to be back in North Korea

  The photos are flowing again from Pyongyang.

• Instagram gets more Twitter-y with trending photos

  Instagram, the popular app for sharing photos with friends, is broadening the reach of those photos.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, June 23

  Privacy group demands Uber probe... Europol hunts Isis online... Oracle goes all-in on the cloud... and more tech news.

• After photo leak, North Korea said to block Instagram

  Days after photos leaked of a fire at one of North Korea's biggest and best-known hotels, the country has begun restricting access to Instagram.

• Instagram cleans up its desktop site, enlarging photos

  Instagram is changing the look of its photo-sharing site on the desktop, streamlining the display of people's photos while also enlarging them.

• Instagram engineer delves into emoji madness

  Emojis: Kids may love their simplicity, but programmers will loathe their complexities.

• Everest avalanche kills privacy-focused Google engineer, Dan Fredinburg

  Dan Fredinburg, an engineer who worked on many of Google's most exciting projects during his 8 years with the company, died over the weekend in an avalanche on Mount Everest triggered by Nepal's devastating earthquake</a>.

• Can a startup mentality solve systemic problems with government service delivery?

  The government’s Digital Transformation Office will provide greater benefits to the Australian community if it acts as a start-up incubator, says Matt Lewis.