Brian Acton who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009 left the company back in September last year. Today WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced that he is leaving the company. The popular messaging app was then acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. WhatsApp crossed 1 billion daily active user milestone last year. Continue reading “WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum is leaving Facebook”
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”
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”
Twitter has revealed financial results for Q1 2018. The company has generated a total revenue of $665 million, an increase of 21% year-over-year, or an increase of 27% year-over-year when excluding the approximately $23 million of revenue in Q1’17 from fully-deprecated TellApart product. The company has reported the quarterly GAAP net income at $61 million, compared to a net loss of $62 million in
the previous year, with a GAAP net margin of 9% and GAAP diluted EPS of $0.08. Continue reading “Twitter reports $61 million profit in Q1 2018, has 336 million monthly active users”
Facebook today has published ‘internal enforcement guidelines to better help users in understanding where it draws the line on nuanced issues. It is also hoping that publishing ‘internal enforcement guidelines will help experts in different fields to give feedback so that the company can improve the standards. Continue reading “Facebook publishes ‘internal enforcement guidelines’, expands its appeal process”
Earlier this month there were reports about Spotify working on a new free version of its music streaming services. Falling in line with the reports, the company today unveiled a new improved Spotify free version. This new version lets you discover music more efficiently and is also more personalized. Continue reading “Spotify improves free version with new design, data saver, personalized recommendations”
Earlier this month Instagram confirmed that it is testing a download button which will let you download your complete data and today the company is rolling out the feature to everyone. Dubbed ‘Data Download’ will allow you “download your information so if you wish to leave for another photo sharing network. Continue reading “Instagram ‘Data Download’ tool lets you download your data”
Instagram is bringing a much-needed feature to its stories. It will now let you upload multiple photos and videos to stories at once. You will now see a new icon in the upload media at the top right corner of the screen. Tap the button and start selecting photos or videos. Continue reading “Instagram now lets you upload multiple photos and videos to stories at once”
