With phone sizes becoming bigger and bigger every passing day, the U.I redesign of apps has become mandatory in order complement the larger screens. With the same thought, Twitter is now said to be testing bottom navigation bar, but there is no way you can to trigger the UI yourself just yet. Continue reading “Twitter said to be testing bottom navigation bar for Android”
Twitter app is now available for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store. It packs most of the essential features like longer Tweets, the Explore tab to find topics relevant to your interests, and the ability to bookmark Tweets to be read later. Continue reading “Twitter releases new app with refreshed look, push notifications for Windows 10”
At the Facebook F8 event, the company has made some significant announcements to its products. One of them is the new ‘Clear History’ tool to delete browsing history amidst the privacy concerns. Continue reading “Facebook introduces ‘Clear History’ tool to delete browsing history, Dating service; WhatsApp to get group calling and stickers”
Instagram today is rolling a bunch of new features including GoPro, Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more. Instagram now allows users to post directly to Instagram Stories from apps like Spotify and GoPro, it also mentioned that it will bring the ability to share to Stories to many other apps in the future. Continue reading “Instagram Stories gets GoPro and Spotify integration, Video calls, AR camera effects and more”
Facebook at the F8 event has introduced a bunch of new features to its Messenger platform. It now brings the ability for brands to incorporate augmented reality into their Messenger experiences and also adds Spanish translations so that buyers and sellers in Marketplace can communicate across languages with M suggestions for translations. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for brands gets AR camera effects, Spanish translations”
Twitter has now confirmed that it is now pushing more ‘News links’ by your network on the timeline and is also and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it. This is a much-needed move from Twitter in order to seize the identity in the news section it lacked for a long time. Continue reading “Twitter now shows more ‘News links’ on the timeline”
Instagram will soon be introducing a bunch of new features; mute button, reactions to Stories, slo-mo recording and more. All these features are currently said to be in the testing phase. Twitter user @wongmjane has dug deep into the app’s code and has seemingly found evidence to the said features. Continue reading “Instagram said to be testing mute button, reactions to Stories, slo-mo recording and more”
Google app is getting a new beta v8.1 update that brings features like At a glance’ widget that was debuted in the Pixel Launcher and is now making it available to many Android devices and in different launchers, adds Explore link in Settings. Continue reading “Google app v8.1 beta adds ‘At a glance’ widget, Explore page, hints at Google Lens tips section and more”
Messenger Kids is Facebook chat application for children aged six to 12 and today the company is now rolling out a new sleep mode parent control. This feature brings more control to parents for how long their kids can spend using the app. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger Kids gets new sleep mode parent control”
Swiftkey is now rolling out for new updates to stable and beta; the update to stable gets toolbar customization and brings new quick settings UI to beta. Toolbar to Swiftkey was rolled out back in March, and now it is adding better Customization to the toolbar by turning features on/off & rearrange them in the order you want. Continue reading “Swiftkey keyboard gets toolbar customization, brings new quick settings UI to beta”
Facebook has revealed financial results for Q1 2018. The company has generated a total revenue of $4,988 million, an increase of 63% year-over-year. It has reported the quarterly GAAP net income at $11,666 million compared to the $8,032 million same quarter last year. The GAAP diluted EPS was reported at $1.69 compared to the $1.04 in 2017. Continue reading “Facebook reports $4.9 billion net income in Q1 2018, up 63% YoY; 2.20 billion monthly active users”
If rumors and reports are to be believed, Google will replace Play Music with a new music streaming ‘YouTube Remix.’ Users of Play Music also said to be forced off of Play Music by the end of 2018 and will be asked to switch to YouTube Remix. Continue reading “Google said to replace Play Music with YouTube Remix”
Snapchat today is rolling out the Snappables AR Games that use your touch, motion and facial expressions to compete for high scores or in literal head-to-head multiplayer match-ups. Snappables are present alongside the other Lenses. New games will be releasing every week while favorites will stick around. Continue reading “Snapchat Snappables AR Games released”
Earlier this month there were reports that YouTube for Kids is getting a new Whitelisted version and today, the company is rolling a bunch of new features that fall in line with the reports. Parents now get the ability only to show human-approved content. Continue reading “YouTube for kids gets Whitelisted version with parent approved content”
Along with revamped Gmail, Google has also released a new Tasks standalone app for Android and iOS. It is a tasks reminder app which was previously only accessible through Gmail and Google Calendar. Continue reading “Google Tasks standalone app for Android and iOS released”
