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Facebook has announced that Watch is now available around the world on the desktop and on Facebook Lite. The company is also expanding the ad breaks to eligible Pages in 40 countries around the world. Facebook also intends to expand the ways publishers and creators can make money on Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook Watch clocks 400 million monthly viewers; now available on desktop and Facebook Lite”
Activision and Tencent Games have teamed up to release Call of Duty: Legends of War, its new first-person shooter for Android. The game has been soft launched in Australia in alpha. It combines the best maps, characters, weapons and gear from the Call of Duty universe and brings them together for the first time, says the company. It has Multiplayer and Zombies modes currently.
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After introducing built-in Crypto Wallet for its Android app in beta back in July, Opera has announced the stable version making it the first Web 3-ready browser featuring crypto wallet integration and web of tomorrow (Web 3) support. Web 3 is an umbrella term for a set of emerging technologies intersecting cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems that, together, extend the capabilities of the web we all use today in important and meaningful ways.
With 2018 coming to an end, companies are bringing yearly rewinds and highlights to showcase the things that trended on their platform over the course of 12 months. After Google, it is Instagram which is sharing trends from the year. Continue reading “Instagram Year in Review 2018: Fortnite records highest hashtag, heart emoji, Disneyland Tokyo and much more”
Apple has announced that it will set up a new campus in Austin with an investment of $1 billion. The company also announced plans to establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City and expand in cities across the United States including Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years.
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Vivo has announced to launch their second manufacturing facility in India. The company has acquired additional 169-acre of land in the Yamuna Expressway region in Uttar Pradesh with an estimated investment of Rs. 4000 crore. Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath welcomed the initiative and congratulated Vivo for the upcoming facility. Continue reading “Vivo to setup second manufacturing facility in Uttar Pradesh with Rs. 4000 crore investment”
Mobiistar has launched C1, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘C series’ in India. It has a 5.34-inch FWVGA+ display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 processor with 2GB of RAM, runs Android 8.1 (Oreo), has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 8-megapixel front camera, both with LED flash. It doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor, but comes with face unlock.
Google has unveiled a new and immersive shopping search experience catered for Indian users. The new personalized experience will allow users to easily filter through offers, review prices from multiple retailers and find the products they are looking for. This experience is available across several Google products; a made-to-browse experience on the Shopping home page, the Shopping tab on Google Search and in Google Lens. For retailers, Google has expanded the Merchant Center to Hindi. Continue reading “Google’s new shopping experience with personalised filters, multiple retailers launched for India”
Intel at the Architecture Days 2018, has revealed the CPU core roadmaps through 2021 which includes the next generation of integrated graphics, the future of Intel’s graphics business, new chips built on 3D packaging technologies, and even parts of the microarchitecture for the 2019 consumer processors. Continue reading “Intel unveils 10nm Sunny Cove CPU and next generation roadmap”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 6A, successor of last year’s Redmi 5A in India back in September starting at Rs. 5999. However, at the launch the company said that the pricing is complimentary and it will increase in a couple of months. It also increased the price of 16GB version by Rs. 600 and Rs. 500 for the 32GB version last month. Now the company has cut the price of the phone back at launch prices of Rs. 5999 and Rs. 6999. You can get the phone on Amazon.in, Mi.com and offline stores.
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ADATA has launched the UE700 Pro USB flash drives that come in compact designs, high capacity and high performance. The UE700 Pro drives come in a metallic chassis and USB 3.0 Type-A in various storage options including 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB configurations. Continue reading “ADATA UE700 Pro USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 256GB storage, 360Mbps transfer speed announced”
Samsung Electronics announced that it will cease operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China, owing to poor sales in China amid rising competition from lower-cost local rivals. Samsung has witnessed its shares in China shrink to 1 percent in the Q1 2018 of this year Continue reading “Samsung to shutdown its mobile plant in China by the end of this year”
Google, in time for the holidays season, has announced that users can make charitable donations to inspiring nonprofits from the Google Play Store. If you’re in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, and Indonesia, you’ll see this update over the next few days. Continue reading “Android users can now donate to charity through Google Play Store”
Samsung Electronics has announced the new Notebook 9 Pen 2-in-1 PC with a built-in S Pen. The Notebook 9 Pen is built with an all-metal and aluminum frame that can be taken anywhere. The S Pen reacts the moment it touches the display, thanks to reduced latency of up to 2x from the previous model. Continue reading “Samsung Notebook 9 Pen 2-in-1 PC with Intel Core 8th Gen i7 processor, 16GB RAM, built-in S-Pen announced”
MediaTek has introduced Helio P90, the company’s latest top-end SoC in the P-series, as it had promised. It is based on 12nm TSMC FinFET technology, same as the P60 and P70, but this comes with APU 2.0 with fusion AI to most complex AI apps and tasks while running multiple AI functions at the same time. It generates 1127GMACs for 4.6 times more performance than MediaTek Helio P60 & P70 for performing tasks with a breeze while being extremely power efficieny.
