After a successful trial in the US and Australia, social media giant Facebook has rolled out its suicide prevention tool in Britain that allows users to notify it if a friend is in distress. Created in consultation with British charity Samaritans, the tool will allow users to report content to Facebook or reach out to their friends. “We worked with ... Read More »
Skype in 2014 introduced its Skype Qik video messaging app to take on rival services such as WeChat orSnapchat. However, the Microsoft-owned VoIP service has now decided to shutter its app. The company will be completely taking the Qik app off-the-grid by March 24. The company says that shutting down Skype Qik video messaging app should not be much of ... Read More »
Google and Facebook are among companies interested in using a $250 million (roughly Rs. 1,713 crores) submarine cable that will link Brazil directly to Europe as part of the South American country’s attempts to avoid US electronic espionage, according to Brazilian Communications Minister Andre Figueiredo. The cable is expected to be operational in late 2017 and “should be funded by ... Read More »
Google on Wednesday began delivering “blazingly fast” articles to smartphones and tablets in a stepped-up challenge to Facebook to be the leading mobile news hub. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project that was announced late last year is now live, Google said. Challenging Facebook with its Instant Articles and the Apple News application,Google is using its massive computing power to ... Read More »
Facebook on Thursday rolled out a platform for quick, immersive ads with the potential to become a tempting rival to television commercials. The leading social network made Canvas available globally as a free tool marketers can use to turn smartphone or tablet ads into “experiences” mixing videos, photos, text and “call-to-action” buttons. Mobile ads built with Canvas entice people to ... Read More »
Facebook earlier this month started rolling out its Live Video streaming feature to countries other than the US. The feature was at first limited to select iOS users and celebrities and was later rolled-out to all the iOS users in the US. Now the social media giant has announced that the feature will be additionally rolling it out to 30 ... Read More »
Taking cue from a study showcasing a prevailing male dominance over both online and offline space, social networking site Twitter recently launched #Positionofstrength campaign to empower women to raise voices against any form of discrimination. The movement, which has been already been launched in Australia and Ireland, seeks to bridge the gender equality gap online in India and “inspire the ... Read More »
China’s ruling Communist Party will impose “severe intra-party penalties” on a former property tycoon whose microblogs were closed at the weekend after he criticised government policy, state news agency Xinhua reported. Microblog portals such as Weibo.com and t.qq.com, among China’s most popular, were ordered to shut the accounts of Ren Zhiqiang, a retired top executive from a state-controlled property developer ... Read More »
Social media giant Facebook Friday said it is looking to scale up extending “Boost Your Business” programme to villages in India to help entrepreneurs in improving their business prospects. “We are doing a bunch of different initiatives catered specifically to arts and crafts of India that live in villages. The challenge before us now is of scaling this up,” Head ... Read More »
LinkedIn said on Wednesday Chief Executive Jeff Weiner will decline his 2016 annual stock compensation in order to pass it on to his employees at the professional social network. The move follows LinkedIn’s disappointing first-quarter revenue and profit forecast that missed Wall Street estimates last month as growth slows in the company’s ads business and its hiring services face pressure ... Read More »
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