Trips App by Lonely Planet: Where Instagram Meets Google Photos
HIGHLIGHTS Trips by Lonely Planet is available on iOS It lets you create a curated version of your holiday You can follow other people for [Read More…]
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WhatsApp Group Calling Now Rolling Out to Select Android Beta, iOS Users
HIGHLIGHTS Few WhatsApp for iOS 2.18.52 users have received group video calling Same goes for very few Android beta version 2.18.145 and above users A [Read More…]
Facebook Bids to Keep Data Privacy Case From EU’s Top Court
Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential [Read More…]
Facebook to Clearly Label Political Advertising in Britain, CTO Says
Facebook will introduce new measures to improve transparency around adverts in Britain by June this year and require political ads to be clearly labelled, the firm’s [Read More…]
Instagram Launches ‘Type’ Mode for Text-Only Stories
HIGHLIGHTS Users can now type in Stories without using photos or videos Type mode appears at the bottom of the camera next to the Normal [Read More…]
WhatsApp Monthly Active Users Hit 1.5 Billion, 60 Billion Messages Sent Each Day
WhatsApp Status daily active users (DAUs) stand at 300 million, behind Instagram Stories WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly [Read More…]
Facebook Denies ‘Censoring’ 19th-Century Vagina Painting
A long-running dispute over claims of censorship by Facebook came to a head in a French court on Thursday, with the social network denying it had deleted [Read More…]
Indonesia traffickers sold crocs, pythons on social media: Police
A group of suspected animal traffickers have been arrested in Indonesia for selling crocodiles, pythons and other protected species through Facebook and the messaging service [Read More…]
Instagram Spotted Testing New ‘Active At’ Feature on Direct Messaging; Text-Only Stories, Screenshot Alerts Also Coming Soon
Instagram has been spotted testing a new feature on its mobile app. With the new feature, users can see the online status for people that they [Read More…]
Facebook Unveils ‘Watch Party’, Making Watching Videos a Social Experience
Facebook has introduced a feature called “Watch Party” that will let the members of a group watch videos and interact with each other at the same [Read More…]