Whatsapp is down for a millions of users reported worldwide, with reports of increase in the number of people coming in from India, US, UK, Sri Lanka, Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia. According to the resources, the problem came first in notice around 3:10 EDT in the morning and then grew over to hundreds of […]
Online service provider AOL on Friday said it will shut its pioneering AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) on 15December. The chat program connected a generation of people to their buddies and crushes while guiding them through the early days of digital socializing. The company reportedly has no planned replacement for the platform in the times when […]
Aditya Birla Group will shut down its online shopping portal Abof.com by the end of this year, failing to sustain intense competition from the sector giants Amazon and Flipkart.
B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Noticeboard has raised undisclosed amount of angel funding from former Myntra CTO Shamik Sharma and TFS founder Aprameya Radhakrishna.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned on Thursday to Harvard University, the school he dropped out of to start the pioneering social network, to urge its graduating class to help create a new social safety net to allow creative risk-taking. The 33-year-old tech founder of the world’s largest social networking company said he would never have […]
Snap Inc’s in-demand shares were set to rally on their first day of trading in New York on Thursday, after the owner of the popular Snapchat messaging app raised USD3.4 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), above its price expectations. Early indications pointed to the shares opening up at between USD22 and USD24, after […]
The amount of money spent on advertising on social media is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020, a leading forecaster said on Monday. The rapid expansion of social media platforms on mobile devices, as well as faster internet connectivity and more sophisticated technology, has triggered a huge shift in the way […]
Google will open a new Cloud Region in Mumbai that will help the tech giant offer its cloud platform services to developers and enterprise customers in India. Expected to be live in 2017, the local region in India will help make Google cloud platform services even faster for Indian customers, company said in a statement. […]
InMobi, a global mobile advertising and discovery platform, today announced the launch of a suite of advanced video ad formats in India. With full screen formats and HD quality videos, advertisers will now be able to offer a TV-like experience to users. The platform includes a comprehensive suite of ad formats including vertical videos, interactive […]
Twitter Inc reported its slowest revenue growth since going public in 2013 and set a disappointing forecast, fanning concerns that faster growing social media services will make it a niche product. The microblogging service operator’s shares fell 11 percent in extended trading to $16.40. While Twitter struggles to find a way to boost user growth […]
Venture capital investments in startups rebounded in the second quarter, as a general stock market recovery helped restore confidence, according to a new report published on Friday. Investors plowed $15.3 billion into venture-backed startups in the second quarter of this year, a 20.5 percent increase over the $12.7 billion invested in the first quarter, according […]
Social commerce is no more a space occupied by the likes of Instagram, Snapchat and a few other influential brands like Twitter and Linkedln. In fact, the networking giants like Instagram and Snapchat have now shown way to newer social commerce startups how to attach with the audience. These below mentioned social commerce platforms let […]