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If you use Office 365 on GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY), a new service will protect your email with an encryption and archiving service. The increase in security by GoDaddy and others in the tech industry highlights the threat landscape in the digital environment, which is very high.  Although Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) have served the company well, ... Read More »

If the upgrade of Paint to 3D by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) works, this might be what catapults the technology for mass adoption. For over 30 years the Paint app has remained popular because it is easy to use, and thankfully Microsoft hasn’t forgotten that. According to the company, it will be just as easy to capture, create and share in 3D ... Read More »

Facebook Will Now Insert New Updates Into Your News Feed as You Scroll HIGHLIGHTS Facebook has changed how stories are loaded in the News Feed New stories will be dynamically inserted wherever you are in the feed This is coming to Android first Facebook has just announced an important change to the News Feed, the heart of your Facebook experience ... Read More »

Facebook has removed a video on breast cancer awareness posted in Sweden because it deemed the images “offensive”, the Swedish Cancer Society said Thursday. The video, displaying animated figures of women with circle-shaped breasts, aimed to explain to women how to check for suspicious lumps. Sweden’s Cancerfonden said it has tried to contact Facebook without any response and has decided ... Read More »

Facebook Messenger Adds PayPal as a Payment Option HIGHLIGHTS PayPal announced its partnership with Facebook to start payments service PayPal will notify users and send them payment receipts It will begin rolling out starting the US The payment options on one of the world’s most used instant messaging apps, Facebook Messenger, has now widened. While previously Facebook Messenger only supported ... Read More »

Snap Interactive Wants Judge to Bar Snapchat From Changing Its Name to Snap Inc. Snapchat recently announced that it would now be known as Snap Inc. in a rebranding meant to send the message that the company was “bigger than one app.” But in aiming to broaden itself into a storytelling platform for the likes of Disney and others, Snapchat ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Ying will be available later this month The drone has been priced at $299 The drone is foldable and weighs less than a pound WeChat is currently the most popular messaging platform in China and it’ll be an understatement to say that it enjoy a user base of a significant size. Tencent, the company behind the app, in partnership ... Read More »

Google unveiled its smart home speaker called Google Home at its Made by Google event on October 4. The speaker, like the Google Pixel smartphones, is powered by the Google Assistant. At the time of launch, Google Home did not have many integrations to work with, but that should change when the Assistant SDK becomes available. Now however, IFTTT has ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS EU sent letters to WhatsApp and Yahoo Said they had concerns about WhatsApp’s recent change in privacy policy Asked Yahoo to communicate all aspects of the data breach European privacy watchdogs said on Friday they had sent letters to WhatsApp over its sharing of information with parent company Facebook and Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and its scanning ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Encryption needs to be enabled for each new conversation Old conversations cannot be encrypted Secret Conversations were first introduced in August After the popular mobile messaging platform WhatsApp, parent company Facebook has rolled out end-to-end encryption for Messenger users. People can toggle the Secret Conversations feature on in settings to enable end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger. To recall, the ... Read More »