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Disney Live Streaming Service Disney+ Signed up 10 mn Subscribers at Launch

14Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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Disney Live Streaming Service Disney+ Signed up 10 mn Subscribers at Launch

Walt Disney Co. said it signed up 10 million subscribers for Disney+ within a day of launching its new streaming television service. The company said in a statement it has seen "extraordinary consumer demand" and "has already reached a major milestone, achieving a remarkable 10 million sign-ups since launching." The news comes despite a launch marred by glitches which prevented many customers from accessing titles from Mickey Mouse cartoons to Star Wars. Disney+ marks a huge bet by the media-entertainment giant, pitching it into direct conflict with on-demand services such as Hotstar, Netflix, Zee5 and Amazon Prime which have disrupted the Hollywood & Bollywood media landscape. It went live Tuesday across the US, Canada and later move to Asia, featuring thousands of movies and...

8Oct By AdityaNo Comments

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Amazon Announces New Kindle For Kids

SEATTLE, Oct. 8, 2019- Amazon announced the inclusion of the new Kindle Kids Edition. Now children can access and enjoy premium, kid-friendly content using tablet. “We build kids products from the ground up with three ideas in mind. first, kids want a device experience designed just for them; second, parents don’t want to worry about the content their kids are viewing and third, parents want tools they can trust to help manage their kids’ device usage," said Kurt Beidler, Director of Kids and Family, Amazon. Kindle Kids Edition is a new reading experience designed just for kids now young readers can leave the heavy books at home and carry a library full of books (plus a dictionary!) on one lightweight device. And like all Kindle devices, it offers a sanctuary reading experie...

Samsung Launch Digital Lending Platform ‘Samsung Finance+’ in India

27Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

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Samsung Launch Digital Lending Platform ‘Samsung Finance+’ in India

Electronics major Samsung launched ‘Samsung Finance+’, a digital lending platform in India. The platform will offer its consumers finance options to buy its Galaxy smartphones. Ahead of the festive season, where handset makers are lining up a slew of devices to woo customers, Samsung move will benefit its consumers and new customers. Samsung Finance+ will connect financial institutions and dealers and it will be available at over 5,000 stores in 30 cities across the country. This will be extended to 10,000 outlets in 100 cities by the end of 2019. “In the western world, 80 per cent of phones are financed, including cases where data, calling and phone are bundled and offered for a monthly payment. In India, about 15-18 per cent phones have any kind of financing,” Samsung India Sen...

Animation Vs Whiteboard Videos: Which is the Best Explainer Video Style

20Sep By AdityaNo Comments

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Animation Vs Whiteboard Videos: Which is the Best Explainer Video Style

Today, animation and whiteboard videos are ruling the market and are becoming heavyweights of promoting products, services, and brands. Animated videos are cartoon videos that are created in style, depicting a script that is written based on your product and services that you are looking to advertise. It also includes some amount of sense of humour and entertaining factor to attract the audience to watch it. Whiteboard videos are excellent to describe complex concepts and are quite educational to watch as it contains a lot of information about the products and services. These videos are very much catchy and engaging. When you are looking at determining which one of them are best for your company for promotions, it is quite challenging to find an answer to that question. It depends...

Apple Launched iPhone 11, Offers 1 year Service Free

11Sep By AdityaNo Comments

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Apple Launched iPhone 11, Offers 1 year Service Free

Apple unveiled its iPhone 11 models and a price cut for the most basic models as it bids to weather the slump in the global smartphone market. Price appeared to be a key consideration as the tech giant reduced the entry level price for the iPhone 11 to $699 and undercut rivals for its gaming and streaming television subscriptions. Apple unveiled three versions of the iPhone 11 including "Pro" models with triple camera and other advanced features starting at $999 and $1,099, unchanged from last year's prices, touting upgraded features including ultra-wide camera lenses. The surprise from Apple was the reduction in the starting price at $699, down from $749 for the iPhone XR a year ago even as many premium devices are being priced around $1,000. The new iPhones are "jam-packed wi...

Apple Set to Launch its Online & First Offline Store in India

29Aug By AdityaNo Comments

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Apple Set to Launch its Online & First Offline Store in India

Apple is keen on offering online and in-store experiences to Indian users at par with its global standards and aims to open its maiden retail store in India. The comments come after the Indian government on Wednesday eased the FDI norms for single-brand retail, offering more flexibility on local sourcing norms. It also did away a provision that required companies to mandatorily set up a brick-and-mortar store before getting into online retail trading. Welcoming the move, Apple in an e-mail statement said it looks forward to "one day welcoming customers to India's first Apple retail store". Apple, which competes with companies such as OnePlus and Samsung in the premium smartphone category, did not specify the timeline for its plans. "We love our customers in India and we're eager t...

Its Official, Huawei Launches Its Own Operating System HarmonyOS

9Aug By NitishNo Comments

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Its Official, Huawei Launches Its Own Operating System HarmonyOS

Chinese telecom giant Huawei unveiled its own operating system HarmonyOS, as it faces the threat of losing access to Android systems amid escalating US-China trade tensions. Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer business, told a press conference in the southern city of Dongguan that the new system, called HarmonyOS or HongMeng in Chinese, would "bring more harmony and convenience to the world". The highly-anticipated software is considered crucial for the tech group's survival as it confronts a looming White House ban on US companies selling technology products to Huawei which could remove its access to Google's Android operating system. Yu said the new system was a "future oriented OS" to be "more smooth and secure", which he said was "completely different from Android and i...

Samsung Galaxy Note 10, 10+ Smartphone Launched in NewYork

8Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10, 10+ Smartphone Launched in NewYork

Samsung unveiled a new-generation Galaxy Note large-screen handset starting at $950 and said it will work closely with Microsoft so that services function better across its array of devices. The Note 10 "phablet" which is set for release on August 23, comes in two sizes, with the larger beginning at USD 1,100. The price puts the model at the premium end of a cooling global smartphone market. The latest generation Note was introduced at a media event in New York by DJ Koh, head of IT and mobile communications, who touted it as "the world's most powerful mobile device." "Every element of the Galaxy Note 10 was designed to help users achieve more," Koh said. "Whether they're finishing a big project for work, capturing and editing a video, or playing their favorite mobile game, the Ga...

Apple Credit Card Launched For Mobile Users

7Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

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Apple Credit Card Launched For Mobile Users

NEWYORK, 7th Aug 2019-- iPhone maker Apple launched its own credit card, designed primarily for mobile users. Apple announced the card in March in a partnership with Goldman Sachs. On Tuesday, some iPhone users who requested a notification about Apple Card will get invites to apply through Apple's Wallet app. The company plans to expand sign-ups more broadly in the coming weeks. The card is available only in the US. The company promises quick sign-ups and the elimination of most fees. Customers typically get 2 percent cash back when using Apple's app to pay. Industry experts, though, say that the financial benefits of Apple Card mirror many of those already out there for consumers. What sets Apple Card apart from other cards is its reliance on the iPhone. Though customers can ...

Hike Launches Web Version of its Chat Application

1Aug By AdityaNo Comments

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Hike Launches Web Version of its Chat Application

Indian home-grown tech start-up Hike launched the web version of its app Hike Sticker Chat, which will enable its users to chat over their personal computers as well. "Hike Sticker Chat has crossed 1 million weekly active users. We are now unbundling our app. Instead of focussing on just app, we are also going to multiple (platforms). This week, we have started rolling out Hike on the web. It can be used even if the user's phone is switch off," founder and Chief Executive Officer Kavin Bharti Mittal said. He said that while working on desktop or laptop, people do not want to keep looking at their phone. "With web application, we are making it convenient for them to engage with their friends.". The company has also started rolling out auto-backup of users' data. "People change t...

How to Set up a Successful YouTube channel

13Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

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How to Set up a Successful YouTube channel

The scope and reach of the internet are increasing day by day. Along with it, the scope of earning through the Internet is also increasing tremendously. The Internet has provided new and innovative opportunities to make online money and as it has made it possible for lots of people to work from home. There are different ways in which one can earn online. In this article, we are specifically going to focus on how you can earn with the help of YouTube channel. About YouTube and YouTube channel YouTube is the most popular video streaming website on the internet. It started off independently and seeing its success, it was bought by Google around two decades back and since then it has been a part of Google and it is regularly progressing in its popularity. Every day, multi-million uses br...

WalkABit app Officially Launched in Spain

8Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

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WalkABit app Officially Launched in Spain

In this holiday season, travelers and Barcelona locals will be able to earn cashback on their daily spendings in bars, restaurants and tourist services. Users will also get money for visiting most famous landmarks in the capital of Catalonia. WalkABit a company that let users earn cryptocurrency on travel is launching its’ operations in Spanish city Barcelona. The company is planning to launch it's app in three more major capitals in the near future. For starters, there are 18 landmarks where users will have to be on site or around and answer a simple question to get rewarded. On top of that, there are over 20 locations to get cashback from (5% or more on each transaction). More places to earn will be added weekly. “We built the app with one thing in mind let’s get people pai...