Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed a multi-year agreement with Facebook to license its record music for users on the platform to use it in their videos. This agreement also covers Instagram and Oculus. Continue reading “Facebook and Universal Music Group sign multi-year agreement to license recorded music”
Amazon has announced the roll out of Firefox browser and its own silk browser for Fire TV line-up including the regular Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick. After being in the testing phase in a closed group for a month now, Silk browser is available for everyone. Continue reading “Mozilla Firefox and Amazon Silk browsers now available on Amazon Fire TV”
Instagram today rolled out an update that will let you share live videos with friends through direct messages. You can also send live videos that you’re watching as well. This update comes after the follow hashtags feature which was made available last week. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages”
Samsung today announced that its flagship product; Samsung Pay in India is now capable of doing bill payments within the app. Using the latest feature, you can payMobile postpaid, Electricity, DTH, Broadband, Landline, Gas, Water bills with UPI on Samsung Pay. Continue reading “Samsung Pay update adds support for Bill Payments in India”
Maps.Me navigation service today has announced Star Wars saga’s filming location routes will be available download and can be accessed from Maps.Me app, especially for the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi movie. This indeed is an exciting opportunity for Star Wars fans to visit and witness the real locations where the epic franchise is being filmed. Continue reading “MAPS.ME introduces Star Wars saga’s filming locations route on maps”
Niantic, the makers of Pokémon GO today announced an update for iOS devices that brings advanced AR+ support which leverages on Apple’s ARKit framework. This update will only be available for iPhones running on iOS 11 on the iPhone 6s and later devices. Continue reading “Pokemon Go for iOS uses Apple’s ARKit tools to bring advanced AR+ features”
In order to tackle with annoying and unwanted contact requests and messages on Facebook and Messenger, Facebook today has announced new tools that will help you prevent harassment on the platform based on the feedback received people who might have experienced such issues. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out new tools to prevent unwanted friend requests and messages”
Facebook facial recognition technology is one of the key features of the platform that is used in suggesting friends, and more. Today the company has announced yet another use case of the technology which now alerts you if it thinks that you are in a photo that is uploaded to Facebook regardless of whether you are tagged or not. Continue reading “Facebook to use Facial recognition technology to manage your identity in photos”
Opera, maker of popular Opera Mini and Opera browsers today announced it now reached 100 million active news readers as of November 2017. The company has also mentioned that it will soon launch a dedicated news and content app, which will offer users with news and videos relevant to them. Continue reading “Opera browser’s AI powered News reader clocks 100 million active users, dedicated news and video app coming soon”
Reddit has rolled out a major update to their app that brings features like chat function, live comments, theater mode, Safari View Controller and more. The company says that its number one priority with this update is to give moderators more control and all the tools they need to maintain the communities directly from the phone. Continue reading “Reddit updated with chat function, live comments, theater mode and more”
France data privacy watchdog; CNIL has given a 1-month ultimatum to WhatsApp over Facebook data transfers without proper users consent. It ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing data with Facebook without proper permissions, and if WhatsApp fails to follow the order, the watchdog said that it could sanction the company. Continue reading “WhatsApp ordered by French data protection authority to stop sharing user data with Facebook”
Engagement bait posts that ask for like, share and comment are abundant on the Facebook news feed and they are an indirect way from pages, people to gain reach. In order to tackle the issue, Facebook today announced that it will begin demoting individual posts from people and Pages that use engagement bait. Continue reading “Facebook to block Engagement Bait posts from news feed”
Facebook today has announced that it will add snooze button over the coming week that will let you unfollow person, Page or group for 30 days and you won’t see any content from that particular page or person for 30 days in your news feed. Continue reading “Facebook adds Snooze button to mute updates from a person, page or group for 30 days”
Though WhatsApp has always been an ad-free network, Facebook has encouraged advertisements of businesses and individuals. However, that changes today as Facebook is now rolling out Click-to-WhatsApp button; a new ad unit that will let businesses ads create a link between the two platforms. Continue reading “Facebook starts rolling out Click-to-WhatsApp Button in Facebook ads”
Google introduced step-by-step public transit navigation directions for 400+ cities globally, back in 2011. Later it was removed. Now the feature finally back worldwide, after Google started testing if for sometime. Earlier this year Google expanded transit feature to sixteen Indian cities and also said that Google Maps globally provides over 1 billion km worth of transit results every day and has schedules for more than 2.5 million public transit stops worldwide.
Continue reading “Google Maps step-by-step transit navigation is back, tells you when to get off your train or bus”
