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WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’

30Dec By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’

WhatsApp is generally not known for mistakes, but recently it committed a blunder by accidentally rolling out its latest feature 'private reply' on Windows Phone beta users. This latest feature update will let users send private message to a person in a group chat, without letting other group members see it. WhatsApp is rumored to roll out the update for quite some time now, and is its one of the most awaited update. According to @WABetainfo, a WhatsApp watcher, the company added the feature only in the beta version and will taking it back in the next beta update. 'In the new WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone 2.17.344, the private reply feature is disabled. Probably WhatsApp has wrongly enabled it in 2.17.342,” WABetaInfo tweeted. WABetaInfo said that the option will only be availab...

Facebook To Notify Users When Photos Of Them Are Uploaded

20Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Facebook To Notify Users When Photos Of Them Are Uploaded

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial template on file. The company said in a statement that it was making the feature optional to allow people to protect their privacy, but that it thought some people would want to be notified of pictures they might not otherwise know about. The feature would not immediately be available in Canada and the European Union, Facebook said. Privacy laws are generally stricter in those jurisdictions, though the company said it was hopeful about implementing the feature there in the future. Tech companies are putting in place a variety of functions using facial recognition technology, despit...

Facebook Reveals Data On Copyright And Trademark Complaints

19Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Facebook Reveals Data On Copyright And Trademark Complaints

Facebook Inc announced Monday that it removed nearly 3 million posts, including videos, ads and other forms of content, from its services during the first half of 2017 following complaints of counterfeiting and copyright and trademark infringement. The worldwide data on intellectual property-related takedowns is a new disclosure for Facebook as part of its biannual “Transparency Report,” Chris Sonderby, a deputy general counsel at the firm, said in a blog post. “We believe that sharing information about (intellectual property) reports we receive from rights holders is an important step toward being more open and clear about how we protect the people and businesses that use our services,” Sonderby wrote. The ninth Facebook transparency report also showed that government requests for i...

SV.CO, Facebook To Partner With Academia For Tech Training

14Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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SV.CO, Facebook To Partner With Academia For Tech Training

Start-up Village Collective, in association with Facebook, will partner academic institutions to train students on latest technologies developing globally, starting with virtual reality technology. "Most of the companies work with US universities to reach out to students and build innovative product and application on emerging technologies. We in partnership with Facebook will take up every new technology to students in India and train them on it," Start-up Village Collective (SV.CO) Chairman Sanjay Vijayakumar today said. Under the School of Innovation program, select students will be trained by SV.CO and Facebook. "Facebook will give students scholarships and there will be no fee charged from them for training," Vijaykumar said. "Our aim is to bring Indian students at par with ...

Facebook Rolls Out Messenger App For Kids Under 13

5Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Facebook Rolls Out Messenger App For Kids Under 13

Facebook Inc on Monday rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world’s biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped market of kids under 13 while also giving parents complete control over what their children see. Facebook normally requires users to be at least 13 years old. The new app gives it a chance to win brand loyalty from younger children at a time when it faces competition for teenagers from other social media platforms such as Snapchat. There already are a handful of other apps that children can use with parental consent, and kids can communicate with each other using texting on cellpones. Facebook said research showed young children were already using technology on a regular basis - but on apps built for teens and adults, raising concern among paren...

Australia To Probe Facebook, Google Over Media Disruption

4Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Australia To Probe Facebook, Google Over Media Disruption

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of publishers and consumers. Like their rivals globally, Australia’s traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix Inc. The government ordered the probe as part of wider media reforms, amid growing concern for the future of journalism and the quality of news following years of declining profits and newsroom job cuts and the rise of fake news. “We will examine whether platforms are exercising market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of consumers, media content creators...

Facebook Says Over 40 Lakh Indians Pledged For Blood Donation

30Nov By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INSPIRATIONAL

Facebook Says Over 40 Lakh Indians Pledged For Blood Donation

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver 40 lakh people in India have signed up as blood donors on Facebook since it pioneered the feature in October, the first in any country, the social media giant has announced. At its second annual Social Good Forum yesterday in New York, Facebook said it will roll out the blood donation feature in Bangladesh early next year, as it unveiled a host of new tools and initiatives for communities to help people. Facebook had in October launched a new blood donations feature, starting in India, to make it easier for people to donate blood. "There are now more than 4 million blood donors signed up on Facebook in India," said Naomi Gleit, Facebooks vice president of social good. In addition to enabling people in need to connect to blood donors, our tools also a...

YouTube Steps Up Takedowns As Concerns About Kids’ Videos Grow

23Nov By reutersNo Comments

Tech

YouTube Steps Up Takedowns As Concerns About Kids’ Videos Grow

YouTube stepped up enforcement of its guidelines for videos aimed at children, the unit of Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday, responding to criticism that it has failed to protect children from adult content. The streaming video service removed more than 50 user channels in the last week and stopped running ads on over 3.5 million videos since June, YouTube vice president Johanna Wright wrote in a blog post. “Across the board we have scaled up resources to ensure that thousands of people are working around the clock to monitor, review and make the right decisions across our ads and content policies,” Wright said. “These latest enforcement changes will take shape over the weeks and months ahead as we work to tackle this evolving challenge.” YouTube has become one of Google...

Tencent Beats Alibaba To $500B Valuation, Overtakes Facebook

21Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Tencent Beats Alibaba To $500B Valuation, Overtakes Facebook

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]hina’s biggest social network and gaming firm Tencent Holdings, which last week reported forecast-beating quarterly results, is close to making Malaysia the first foreign country to roll out its WeChat ecosystem, an executive told Reuters. Tencent has made a “breakthrough” in gaining an e-payment license in Malaysia for local transactions, and plans a launch early next year, senior vice president S.Y. Lau said in an interview. The move pits Shenzhen-based Tencent against rival Alibaba Group as they scramble for new growth opportunities outside China. Tencent on Tuesday became the first Asian firm to enter the club of companies with a market value of more than $500 billion, surpassing that of Facebook. “Malaysia is actually quite large in the sense that we have ...

Google India’s Sales Hits Billion Dollar This Year

18Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Google India’s Sales Hits Billion Dollar This Year

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]oogle India has crossed $1.11 billion dollar sales mark (turnover of Rs 7,208.9 crore) in the year March, 2017. These figures shows a jump of over 22.1% from the previous year's Rs 5,904 crore. Sales has witnessed an expansion of 44% this fiscal as per the report by TOI. Although the local business of Google India grew at half-a-pace this year in comparison to the last. It's rival Facebook however nearly doubled its revenues in the country indicating preference by marketers to advertise on platforms other than Google. Google also provides other Internet related services in India such as cloud based computing, digital payments etc. but the major revenue comes from its adverting sector where it displays ads next to the search results. Although in various sect...

India’s Messenger App Hike Has Revenue Issues

17Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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India’s Messenger App Hike Has Revenue Issues

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter Flipkart, Ola and Paytm, another potential Indian Unicorn Hike, the Indian chat messenger is seeing some hard days! It is not generating any revenue! Its latest filings with RoC shows that the five year old company is right back where it started; as per its March 2017 reports. Once valued at $1.4 billion, the company fails to come up with a significant revenue stream in financial year 2016-coupons that users bought to play in-app games accounted for almost all the operating revenue. In the filings, the company showed a total income of Rs 11.4 crore in comparison to the 34,9 crore in FY2016, which had come on the back of profit from sale of investments. The total expenditure in FY17 was Rs 227.3 crore in comparison to last year's Rs 252.2 crore. The net los...

16Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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Facebook Launches Trust Indicators To News Articles To Identify Journalism

Facebook has announced today that it will be launching, what it called "Trust Indicators" an icon that can help to promote authentic, fact based journalism. Earlier in October, it began to test a new feature to give people additional context on the articles they see in News Feed. "For links to articles shared in News Feed, people can easily tap an icon to access more information, including a description of the publisher, trending articles or related articles about the topic, and information about how the article is being shared by people on Facebook," it said in a blog-post. From today on, they will be displaying a new Trust Indicators on news feed to build a more trustworthy platform, where user can understand the sources and trustworthiness of the news on Facebook. Publishers ma...