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Soon after Blue Whale Challenge, Momo Challenge is Taking Lives

22Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Soon after Blue Whale Challenge, Momo Challenge is Taking Lives

These days social media challenges are quite trending. People pick up a concept and make them viral through various methods. A challenge called the Blue Whale Challenge got viral almost a year back and that led to many suicides cases among teenagers across the world. And now, with a new concept, another challenge has been introduced that is called the ‘Momo Challenge'. Under this, the children and teenagers are encouraged to perform several dangerous and weird acts. This challenge is going viral on various social media platforms and mostly on WhatsApp. This challenge has reportedly led to the death of a 12-year-old girl in Argentina as stated by the Buenos Aires Times. This challenge initiated on Facebook where the people were challenged to interact with unknown numbers. As soon as t...

Twitter’s Invention Hashtag is Now Eleven Years Old

21Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Twitter’s Invention Hashtag is Now Eleven Years Old

It’s quite impossible to remember the time when we didn’t use the tagging system on social media through hashtags, but for your surprise hashtag has been with us for only eleven years. It was for the first time used by former Google and Uber designer Chris Messina on 23 August 2007 on Twitter, and since then it has flooded the social media with hashtags. The first hashtag that was used was #barcamp. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? — Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007 What is the importance of Hashtag? Hashtag has now become an important part of Twitter and Instagram, and other platforms as well. Hashtag is an efficient method to search for information and content related to a certain topic or issue...

Facebook Now Lets Kids Add Friends on Messenger Kids

17Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Facebook Now Lets Kids Add Friends on Messenger Kids

One of the largest social media platforms Facebook has introduced a new feature to its Messenger Kids app which is the under-13 chat application that makes it easier for the children to add their friends on the platform. Under this feature, the connection requests will be sent directly to the parents, who have to accept every contact before they can connect and interact with their kids through the platform. "Parents have to turn on a setting that creates a four-word passphrase that is used to generate these contact requests," stated a report. "Both parents will receive a contact request from their child and both have to approve the request before the kids can begin chatting.” The newly launched feature will enable the kids between the ages of 6 and 13 to exchange photographs, videos a...

WhatsApp to Launch Picture-in-Picture Feature for Android

7Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

WhatsApp to Launch Picture-in-Picture Feature for Android

Facebook-owned Whatsapp is reportedly planning to launch a new feature for the Android users which will be known as picture-in-picture video feature. The new in-app feature on Android will let WhatsApp users play videos from Instagram and YouTube in a small window within the messaging app. This will not require the users to go to Instagram or YouTube apps to view a video sent by a contact. From the recent months, Whatsapp is bringing in and testing various features. It recently introduced the multiple contacts voice and video calling feature and now is planning to introduce the picture-in-picture video feature soon. According to the WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp is currently working on the picture-in-picture mode for videos in the Android app. Lately, the application has updated its...

Facebook & Instagram Launch Time Management Tools

2Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Facebook & Instagram Launch Time Management Tools

Facebook and Instagram, the most popular social platforms have announced that they want to help the users have a control on the time they have spent on the apps including tools that set daily limits. In a statement, the social media players introduced “new tools” which would help the users in managing the time that they spent on these two platforms. The newly invented features will be known as ‘Your time on Facebook’ and ‘Your activity on Instagram’. Among the tools are a way to restrict notifications, and a dashboard that enables users to keep a track of the time they have spent on these platforms. "We want the time people spend on Instagram and Facebook to be intentional, positive and inspiring," the statement said. "Our hope is that these tools give people more control over the t...

WhatsApp Rolled Out Group Voice and Video Calling Feature

31Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

WhatsApp Rolled Out Group Voice and Video Calling Feature

One of the most widely used online messaging platform Whatsapp which is owned by Facebook has now reportedly launched the highly anticipated feature, that is the group voice and video calling. It was in May that the company announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference that it would be bringing group calling with both voice and video support later on this year. And now, the feature has been rolled out and is available for users all over the world. It will be available on both iOS and Android devices starting today. "Group calls are always end-to-end encrypted, and we've designed calling to work reliably around the world in different network conditions," the company said. The feature will support up to four people at a time, regardless of the location of the user. However, it can be ...

Facebook Acquires Israeli Messaging Company REDKIX

27Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Facebook Acquires Israeli Messaging Company REDKIX

Redkix, an Israeli email startup that provides tools to combines email, messaging and calendar features more effectively into one app has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook made the purchase in hopes of building out its own communication features inside Workplace, which is the enterprise version of Facebook. Redkix has raised $20 million and has offices in both Silicon Valley and Israel, it had from investors including Salesforce Ventures, has offices in California and Tel Aviv. The social networking giant declined to say what it paid in the acquisition. Facebook launched Workplace in 2016, which is a subscription-based social platform for businesses, is used internally by Facebook employees, is more like the regular, consumer version of Facebook which means that it has features lik...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Loses $15 Billion in Just 5 Minutes

27Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Market

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Loses $15 Billion in Just 5 Minutes

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the most popular social networking platform Facebook lost $15.1 billion in just 5 minutes! For most of the world’s richest people, losing $15.1 billion in five minutes would be a wipeout. However, for Mark Zuckerberg, it’s just about a sixth of his net worth. The Facebook CEO lost a considerable amount of wealth as shares of the social-media giant plunged 19 per cent on Thursday. This loss recorded the biggest one-day wipeout of individual wealth ever recorded on the ranking, which started tracking the world’s biggest fortunes in 2012. Other big Facebook investors also took a hit as disappointing second-quarter results terminated $119 billion of market value, the most ever in a day for a U.S. company. Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Sa...

25Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Establishes Subsidiary in China Despite Toughened Censorship

The social media major Facebook has established a subsidiary in China, where its sites have remained blocked in the country’s restrictive markets. A subsidiary is being set up for the purpose of creating an ‘innovative hub’ to support and encourage local start-ups and developers. The subsidiary called Lianshu Science & Technology has been registered in the central Chinese city of Hangzhou and was set up with a registered capital of $30 million. According to the reports, the filing listed Facebook Hong Kong Ltd and no other entities as a shareholder. Zhang Jinghai has been named as the new company's legal representative, on the other hand, David Kling and Susan Taylor are appointed as directors. A Facebook representative stated that the new subsidiary is expected to give birth to ...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

21Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

Four of the biggest technology companies are associating together to make it easier for the users to download and transfer their data between services. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter formally announced The Data Transfer Project (DTP) today, an open-source initiative to create new tools that ‘enable people to freely move their information across the web without any kind of hassle. The Data Transfer Project is an open source initiative “dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” With portability and interoperability as the goal, this reduces the problem of switching especially for people with limited data and then manually upload it to another product. W...

Facebook Applying Security Measures Ahead of Pak Elections

8Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

News

Facebook Applying Security Measures Ahead of Pak Elections

Facebook has enhanced its security measures to protect the integrity of the July 25 general elections in Pakistan and prevent the spread of false news, a spokesperson for the social media giant, which has been plagued by a massive data leak scandal, said. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had to face a grilling in the US and in the European Parliament over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which Facebook was accused of unduly influencing the 2016 US electoral process. Sarim Aziz, Facebook's spokesperson in Pakistan, said that for the coming elections in Pakistan the company had increased its safety and security staff to monitor all activities connected with the elections and to protect the integrity of the elections. "We have increased the number of safety and security people on our ...

Despite of Data Controversy, Facebook Stock Closes All Time High

7Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

Market

Despite of Data Controversy, Facebook Stock Closes All Time High

The social media giant Facebook stock closes at an all-time record high of USD 203.23. Despite Cambridge Analytica data scam controversy, Facebook is still fetching a good number of returns. Investors are loving the social network more than ever that saw its stocks dipping earlier in 2018 after the scam controversy hits. Facebook revenue projections for 2020 at USD 87.5 billion. The firm currently has Facebook with a buy rating and a price target of $275. "Messenger has been deploying more ads in recent weeks and should be “highly material” to profits. And Instagram has reached 1 billion monthly active users," the company said today. ALSO READ: Online Startup SaleBhai Received BSE Approval for SME IPO After grabbing attention in 2012, Facebook has seen its stock rise...