New Delhi, (IANS) : Mobile payment and commerce platform Paytm on Wednesday launched a convenient mode on its platform for payment of traffic fines. The service is currently live in Mumbai, Pune and Vijayawada and will be expanded to other cities soon. Vehicle owners...
San Francisco, (IANS) : In a bid to make Facebook accessible to all, the social networking giant has allowed publishers to include closed captions (one of a series of subtitles) in Facebook Live, helping people who are hearing impaired to experience live videos. "By...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc has acquired Placed -- a Seattle-based start-up that operates a consumer location analytics platform -- for nearly $200 million. According to a report in GeekWire on Tuesday, the deal is one of Snap's most...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Global mobility solutions leader Mahindra Comviva on Monday announced to introduce new digital channels like Chatbot, Push Notifications and Social Media Integration into its "Ngage" Messaging Platform -- a mobile engagement solution for...
New York, (IANS) : After facing criticism on the placement of "annoying" ads on websites, Google is now going ahead with its ad-blocking plans and will add a feature to its Chrome browser that will block advertisements which do not meet company standards, a media...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Surpassing Facebook, leading communication app Truecaller has become the fourth most downloaded application in India on Google Play Store and is delivering over 100,000 clicks in a day to in-app advertisers. According to the "Mary Meeker Internet...
By Qadri Inzamam, New Delhi, (IANS) : In order to ward off growing cyber threats against the banking and finance sector, standardising security infrastructure is the key and deploying secure Cloud services is the first step towards that, a top State Bank of India...
London, (IANS) : In a push to make people switch to its Bing search engine, Microsoft will now pay users in Britain to use Bing over competitors like Google Search. As part of its "Rewards" scheme, Microsoft will now allow users to earn points for making purchases...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Snap Inc, the parent company of popular photo-sharing app Snapchat, has acquired Los Angeles-based small drone manufacturer Ctrl Me Robotics for nearly $1 million. According to a report in Buzzfeed on Sunday, Snap's interest in drone...
New York, (IANS) : Fuelled by Snapchat Lenses and Facebook Stories, augmented reality is gaining fast traction in the US, a new report from market research firm eMarketer reveals. In 2017, 40 million people in the US will engage with some form of augmented reality...