Facebook has appointed Umang Bedi as Managing Director, India. He will officially start at Facebook in July 2016. Bedi joins Facebook from Adobe South Asia after a five year stint where he was managing director responsible for growing their business in India.
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Viber is adding a number of important features and improvements to its apps on Android and iOS. The update that bumps the app to version 6.1 gets GIF support and lets you backup your chats.
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Google confirmed last month that Android apps are coming to Chrome OS. Now Google has released a video of a developer presentation that shows how the Play Store and Android apps will run on Chromebooks.
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Flipkart has followed Amazon India and revised its return policy under which users will only be able to claim refunds within 10 days from the date of purchase.
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UCWeb, part of Alibaba Mobile Business Group has launched UC News App, exclusively for India. The app is powered by big data technology and offers trending and curated news content from different categories catering to Indian users. Continue reading “UCWeb rolls out UC News aggregation app exclusively for India”
Facebook wants its users to access the standalone Messenger app and is therefore taking down support for messaging inside the mobile web application, according to a new report from TechCrunch.
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Back in March Instagram started testing algorithmic feed to show content based on personal interests of users and relationships with other users instead of showing photos in a chronological order. Later it confirmed that nothing is changing with the feed right now and said that it will let people know when changes roll out broadly. Continue reading “Instagram starts rolling out personalized feed with new algorithm tweak for all”
After a recent VLC 2.0 beta release, VideoLAN has started rolling out stable version of the update for the Android users. This finally adds network browsing so that you can browse content from local network such as NAS or a shared directory on your PC. The update also brings option to toggle any device to the Android TV UI for VLC, new history option in the sidebar and faster to decode and playback all video types. Continue reading “VLC 2.0 for Android brings local network browsing, better playback and more”
Facebook is shutting down its Notify news aggregator app forever. The Notify app is little over 6 months old, was introduced in November 2015. Continue reading “Facebook kills its ‘Notify’ news push-notification app”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a new app called DND Services for Android devices. The app lets you register complaint to your service provider regarding Unsolicited Commercial Communication(UCC) / Telemarketing Calls or SMS if you receive them even after you have registered for DND (Do Not Disturb).
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Google has added image and text search support for Android’s ‘Now on Tap’ feature in Marshmallow. Continue reading “Google updates ‘Now on Tap’ feature with Image and Text search”
Facebook Messenger is upping it’s emoji game by adding new ones and revamping older ones. The service is now offering more diverse emoji options including multiple skin tone choices.
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We first heard about WhatsApp’s anticipated feature of ‘Group invites via links’ last month, where a report by Android Police spotted few translation strings hinting about the possible plan by the company. Continue reading “WhatsApp’s upcoming ‘Group invite link’ feature partially working in beta”
Facebook may join WhatsApp and enter the encryption game soon. A new report from The Guardian claims that the social network could add end-to-end encryption to its Messenger app later this year,
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Google’s next update for the Photos app might bring unlimited high quality backup for Nexus devices, some photo editing/ enhancements tool improvements, and new sorting methods for albums. Continue reading “Google Photos v1.21 teardown suggests unlimited high quality photos, videos backup and more coming”
