To avoid users migrating to other instant messengers, WhatsApp is on the streak of releasing new features every day. And now, it’s touted to come up with a new feature – Animated Stickers. As per WaBetaInfo, WhatsApp’s new beta version is having new animated sticker packs, which will be played in the loop! Animated Stickers … Read more
In pursuit of promoting its latest original movie, Netflix US has a special plan for the public. The American OTT giant has been offering an “Immortal” Account worth 1,000 months for anyone who scores high in a new game, based on its The Old Guard movie. The game is a basic one, where you’d be … Read more
With the Indian government banning TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, the short-video entertainment space in India was widely left opened for new players. Though this was now actively preyed by tiny Indian startups, they have to struggle a lot to reach the heights of TikTok. But for Instagram, it’s easy. Instagram Testing TikTok’s Core … Read more
Google Lens has just got better with its new text recognition feature. While it’s more like an OCR scanner, this new update can even recognize the handwritten texts, which can be copy/pasted into any document as computerized text. While this new feature helps a lot, it still has more room to improve. Google Lens is … Read more
WhatsApp has finally launched the wide rollout of its payment service in India, after testing for two years with a small group of people. The Facebook-owned messenger has partnered with India’s NPCI, a government body that regulates the UPI system, which is being used by WhatsApp to process the funds almost instantly. WhatsApp Pay Comes … Read more
Google is constantly working hard to make its application more user-friendly and rich in experience. To make its application more appealing, Google is set to launch the AI-powered Smart Compose, a feature that currently tries to complete phrases and sentences in Gmail, in G Suite’s Google Docs soon, announced in the Cloud Next event in … Read more
Salesforce, a cloud-based CRM company that’s reigning in its industry, has just bought out a business chat app – Slack. The deal’s worth $27.7 billion, which is slightly over the $25 billion valuations it has. Slack has been making losses for the past year, but now integrating with Salesforce gives it a needed push to … Read more
The government of India has banned 118 more applications in India after initially banning 59 Chinese apps including TikTok in June, followed by ban of 47 Chinese apps in July. The fresh ban includes the immensely popular game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Not only the game was popular with 50+ million downloads but PUBG was … Read more
To tackle the strict pricing cuts levied by Google, India’s largest payment app, Paytm has launched its app store. Named as Paytm mini app store, it said there would be no share cuts taken from developers in-app revenue, unlike Google’s and Apple’s 30% share. The new store is having several popular apps already, ready to … Read more
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app, has reached another milestone. On February 12, 2020, WhatsApp announced through a blog post that it supports more than two billion users around the world. WhatsApp had reached the milestone of one billion active users on February 1, 2016. It has amassed 1.5 billion active users in February … Read more