Wunder, the carpooling service platform is now live in New Delhi. Founded in 2013, the German based ride-sharing platform started carpooling service in Philippines last year and has now expanded to India with New Delhi. Available on Android and iOS, the app connects car owners and commuters. Continue reading “Wunder carpooling platform launched in Delhi”
You can now give your Telegram app a makeover. The popular instant messenger has updated its Android app with support for custom themes. Along with custom themes, the update which bumps the app to version 3.17 also brings a theme editor. Continue reading “Telegram for Android gets custom themes, theme editor in latest update”
After testing out WhatsApp Status back in November last year and rolling out the feature for beta users last week, WhatsApp today officially announced that it will start rolling the Status feature that lets you add photos, videos and emojis to status messages from today. This is similar to Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Continue reading “WhatsApp Status starts rolling out for Android and iOS, takes on Snapchat and Instagram Stories”
Th Indian government has been pushing digital payments post demonetization with mobile wallets and other payment solution apps. Today, the government has gone a step further and has launched QR (quick response) code-based payment solution. Dubbed as BharatQR, the interoperable and low cost payment acceptance solution will allow people to pay for items without swiping their plastic cards.
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Microsoft has updated its Skype Preview for Android and iOS with a lot of new features that are meant to make conversations more expressive and entertaining. It has new in-call reactions that let people add live emoticons, photos, and text to video calls. Integrated camera now supports emoticons, stickers, and annotations and lots more. Continue reading “Skype Preview for Android and iOS adds Messaging and In-call reactions, Find panel and more”
YouTube’s most irritating 30-seconds unskippable ad format will go away next year. Google told the Campaign in a statement that it will kill this ad format in 2018. The video service will instead introduce more frequent six-second unskippable ads starting next year.
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It looks like soon you will be able to do a lot more with your WhatsApp status. The Facebook owned instant messenger is taking a cue from Snapchat and Instagram to bring a feature similar to Stories.
After almost a year of launching its ‘Email’ app on iOS, EasilyDo has launched the app for Android. It has a in-built intelligent assistant to keep your shopping, expenses, and travel organized. It also has several features to unsubscribe from junk, snooze messages, undo sent mail, and more. This is mostly like Inbox by Google. Continue reading “Email by EasilyDo with Intelligent Assistant arrives for Android”
You can now book an Uber ride directly from wrist if you have a Android Wear 2.0 powered smartwatch. The standalone app lets you request a ride without a smartphone and works completely on its own.
Continue reading “Uber gets a standalone app for Android Wear 2.0”
Those who signed up for the Google app Beta channel previously are now getting the “alpha” release of the Google app v6.13 update, which as per the users has lots of bugs. Continue reading “Google App Alpha update with Google Assistant for non-Pixel phones pops up online”
In an attempt to push digital payment throughout the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an app named as ‘BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)’ for Android back in December last year, which is still one of the top apps on Google Play with over 500 million users. Now the app is finally live for iOS platform, as NPCI had promised earlier. Continue reading “BHIM app for UPI-based payments now available for iPhone”
WhatsApp is officially rolling out the two-step verification for all its users on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The move comes from WhatsApps as it aims to strengthen security of its over 1.2 billion users. Continue reading “WhatsApp officially rolls out two-step verification for all users”
Google announced YouTube Go app with offline viewing and sharing of videos back in September last year on its its 18th birthday. Today it has finally released the beta version of the app in India. The app has 8 Indian languages – Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu,Kannada, Gujarati and Malayalam or you can choose English. Continue reading “YouTube Go beta for Android with offline video viewing and sharing now available”
Facebook has rolled out a new Community Help feature to Safety Check which allows users to users to either offer or locate assistance such as food, shelter or transportation during times of crisis. The social network had launched the Safety Check feature in 2014 that enables users to mark them safe thereby letting their friends and family know they were safe during natural disasters.
Continue reading “Facebook rolls out Community Help feature to help neighbors after a disaster”
Facebook Lite, the lighter version of the social network now has more than 200 million users. Launched in 2015, Facebook Lite uses less data and is therefore aimed at users living in emerging markets that have slow internet connection. Continue reading “Facebook Lite hits 200 million users, gets speed and reliability improvements”
