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) : Google pinned a lot of hope on its virtual assistant 'Home' to take on Amazon's 'Alexa' but it appears that it has gone bonkers with the users reporting indifferent behaviour from 'Home'. The virtual assistant is spitting out errors instead of...
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...
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...
New York, (IANS) : Twitter has added a new feature to Direct Messages (DMs) that will now filter DMs from unknown followers. DMs from people you do not know will be contained in "Requests" in the new Messages tab inbox in Twitter on iOS, Android and will soon be...
San Francisco, (IANS) : Does Instagram copy Snapchat? Most of you will instantly agree it does but for Instagram CEO, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app is just "building" on Snapchat. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Kevin Systrom said that...
Kozhikode (Kerala), (IANS) : The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) will set up their third incubator and the first one in the mobile app sector at the Cyber Park here, a top Kerala IT official said. Speaking to IANS, IT Parks CEO Hrishikesh Nair said...
Berlin, (IANS) : Reacting to Germany's plans of enacting a new law to impose up to a whopping 50 million euros in fine on social networks if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news quickly from their platforms, Facebook has said that the draft law is not the...