It wouldn’t be a wrong to say that Twitter’s standalone live-streaming app, Periscope, has been struggling to maintain a user base over the last couple of years. Add the rise in operation costs and Twitter has decided to discontinue the app by March 2021.
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Spotify has launched a new daily and weekly premium subscription plan specially for Indian mobile users. The plan starts at Rs. 7 per day, and provides most of the benefits of the yearly premium with some corners cut, encouraging users to sign-up with no commitments.
Facebook has officially launched Collab, an experimental app for making collaborative music videos on the App store. Notably, the social media giant launched it as an invite-only-beta back in May. This is one of the many products from Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) team. Continue reading “Facebook officially launches TikTok rival ‘Collab’ app”
Back on 2014-2015, one of the most popular apps in the social media space was Dubsmash, a video sharing platform that took the internet by storm thanks to innovative short creative format. Reddit has now announced their acquisition of Dubsmash, bringing over the platform and its team under Reddit itself.
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Sharing posts and texts from one platform to another is quite a popular trend right now, especially sharing screenshots of tweets to Instagram and Snapchat. So Twitter went ahead and made it possible to natively share tweets to Instagram Stories and Snapchat, simplifying the process for everyone.
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Extensions in Google Chrome are a great way to add extra functionality to the browser. However, in recent times, extensions have become a source of data vulnerability and privacy attacks. In response, Google has announced new security features that are coming to Chrome in 2021 that will give users more control over what data can be accessed by extensions.
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For most users of Google Chrome, the ability to save passwords and payment information across devices and syncing them with their account is a very helpful feature. However, there are some users who do not like to sync, but still would like to access their payment information. Google is adding this particular ability, making payments and password management available to all signed-in users.
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In the latest development, WhatsApp has introduced ‘Carts’, enabling the users to buy their favorite product online through the instant messaging platform. With ‘Whatsapp Pay‘ and ‘Carts’ feature, the company wants to ease the shopping experience for the users under one roof. Continue reading “WhatsApp adds ‘Cart’ feature to ease in-app shopping experience”
Some of the most useful functions for a smartphone are the wide variety of accessibility options that it can offer to users with disabilities. Google has just announced a very helpful new feature called Look to Speak, which is designed to help those with speech and motor impairments by helping them communicate with their eyes. Continue reading “Google Look to Speak app lets speech-impaired users communicate with their eyes”
Every now and then, Google releases their Pixel Feature drop, bringing improvements and new features to Pixel users. The December 2020 update has begun rolling out now with features such as Adaptive Sound, Adaptive battery, a few new customization and personalization options, and more.
A few days back, Opera added an instant access feature for music streaming to its browser. And now, the company has rolled out ‘Version 61’ of the Opera browser for Android. Continue reading “Opera Browser v61 for Android brings new Media Player, WebSnap and more”
For quite a while, Spotify has allowed their users to listen to locally downloaded music on their Android/iOS app. However, there was a limitation for the feature where users would need to be synced on the same local network as their desktop Spotify app. This is about to change as Spotify is testing the ability to play locally stored music on the phone directly via the app.
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Micro-blogging site Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time now. However, due to users’ feedback, the company has decided to stop implementing it owing to the difficulty in reading and joining the conversations. Continue reading “Twitter shuts down experimental app twttr; turns off threaded replies”
Earlier this year, Google introduced a fun feature to the Gboard keyboard called Emoji Kitchen. With it, users could basically ‘cook up’ new customized emoji by selecting and combining two existing emoji, which would automatically be mashed together by Gboard. The feature has now been expanded with over 14000 possible emoji combinations, covering a wide variety of emotions.
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WhatsApp has begun the wide rollout of their per-chat custom wallpapers, which is a feature that they have been testing in the past month. Along with this, WhatsApp is also making it easier for users to search and find stickers with text or emoji.
