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Twitter fact check controversy: President Trump threatens new regulation or shutdown

28May By NitishNo Comments

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Twitter fact check controversy: President Trump threatens new regulation or shutdown

Washington, May 28 (AP): President Donald Trump, the historically prolific tweeter of political barbs and blasts, threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets. He turned to his Twitter account to tweet his threats. The president can''t unilaterally regulate or close the companies, and any effort would likely require action by Congress. His administration has shelved a proposed executive order empowering the Federal Communications Commission to regulate technology companies, citing concerns it wouldn''t pass legal muster. But that didn''t stop Trump from angrily issuing strong warnings. Tech giants “silence conservative voices," he claimed on Twitter early Wednesday. “We will strongly regulate, or clo...

Snapchat App is For Everyone and We are “Grateful” To Have Indian users: Official

17Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Snapchat App is For Everyone and We are “Grateful” To Have Indian users: Official

Snapchat today refuted the reported claims of a former employee who alleged that its CEO Evan Spiegel made negative comments about the Indian market, saying the multimedia mobile app is for everyone and the company is "grateful" to its Indian users. "Obviously Snapchat is for everyone! It's available worldwide to download for free," a spokesperson for Snapchat said in a statement to CNN. Snapchat is strongly denying allegations by a former employee Anthony Pompliano, who alleged in a lawsuit that Spiegel had once shot down his suggestion to pursue growth in certain international markets. Pompliano alleges that Spiegel said Snapchat is "only for rich people" and that he didn't want to "expand into poor countries like India and Spain. "Those words were written by a disgrunt...

Instagram Stories Overtakes Snapchat to Hit 200M Daily Active Users

16Apr By reutersNo Comments

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Instagram Stories Overtakes Snapchat to Hit 200M Daily Active Users

Facebook-owned Instagram has claimed that more than 200 million people a day use its Stories feature, which competes against Snapchat. Snapchat had 161 million daily active users at the end of last year, ahead of Snap's March initial public offer, which was the largest by a technology firm in three years despite decelerating user growth. Instagram Stories' daily active users announced on Thursday has grown by 33% from the 150 million daily active users it had in January. The Instagram feature, which launched last year, lets users and businesses post a string of photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours, similar to Snapchat. Facebook last month introduced an update to allow users to tweak photos on their smartphones with visual details like a rainbow or a beard of glitter,...

India is Poor Country To Exapnd Snapchat: Evan Spiegel

15Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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India is Poor Country To Exapnd Snapchat: Evan Spiegel

Evan Spiegel, Snapchat founder & CEO making controversy saying India is 'too poor' to consider expansion of its user base. According to one of their ex-employee, the founder of US fastest growing social media app Snapchat said that, "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain,". The ex-employee said that during a user growth meeting in 2015, Evan Spiegel put emphasis on acquiring only premium users. The ex-employee is currently engaged in a lawsuit against Snapchat after he accused the company of presenting misleading inflated statistics of user data to its investors. According to the lawsuit, Pompliano worked at the firm for three weeks before he was fired for uncovering ‘massive internal systematic failure’ and reporting...

Startup Stayzilla CEO Yogendra Vasupal Gets Bail

11Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Startup Stayzilla CEO Yogendra Vasupal Gets Bail

The Madras High Court today granted bail to start-up firm Stayzilla CEO Yogendra Vasupal nearly a month after he was arrested on charges of cheating. Justice S Bhaskaran granted bail to Vasaupal on a personal bond Rs 40 lakh. The Stayzilla CEO was arrested on March 14 on a complaint by city-based advertisement firm that it had been defrauded by the online home stay aggregator Stayzilla to the tune of Rs 1.69 crore. When the complainant firm Jigsaw Advertising and Solutions sought a direction for a mediated settlement to the issue, the judge said it was a clear case of business transaction between two entrepreneurs. He said it was for the parties to work out such a remedy. Earlier Vasupal’s bail plea had been turned down twice, first by the special CB-CID court on March 23 an...