Signal says tried to run an honest ad campaign on Instagram that eventually led the privacy driven messaging app to be banned from Facebook’s ad platform.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Instagram Rolling Out Captions for Stories, Reels to Get It Soon: How to Use
The Facebook-owned company took to Twitter to announce the rollout of Captions feature. This feature has been enabled for Instagram Stories users. It was first rolled out for IGTV users last year and Instagram is making it accessible on all of its periphery features in-app. The company has confirmed that Reels will get it soon too.
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Got cheated in name of getting covid-19 medicines, oxygen supplies: Here’s what you can do
Taking action against such fraudsters, Delhi Police has announced a facility to report these incidents. Sharing in a Twitter post, the police said that the citizens can report these incidents online. They can also seek assistance by dialling 01123469900.
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Facebook will soon roll out in-app covid-19 vaccine finder
Facebook has announced to launch an in-app Covid-19 vaccine tracker in India in partnership with the Indian government. The tool will be available on the Facebook mobile app. It will help identify places nearby to get vaccinated.
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Samsung Galaxy A52 5G smartphone to launch in India soon
Samsung recently launched its Galaxy A52 smartphone in India. Now it appears that the company is all set to launch its 5G variant in the country. According to a report by Sammobile, Samsung has started working on firmware development for a 5G version of Galaxy A52.
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Samsung Galaxy F22 under development, could be a rebranded version of Galaxy A22
Samsung is reportedly working on a new F-series smartphone. Allegedly called the Samsung Galaxy F22, the smartphone is under development and could launch in India soon. According to a report by SamMobile, the handset will most likely be based on the Samsung Galaxy A22.
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Judge presses Epic CEO during second day of Apple antitrust trial
After Epic's Sweeney had been further questioned by attorneys for both Epic and Apple on Tuesday, the judge asked Sweeney whether he was familiar with the economics of running other apps, such as food apps, dating apps or instant messaging apps. Sweeney said he was not.
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Lyft sees sustained profit starting in third quarter on cost cuts, demand rebound
Lyft Inc surprised Wall Street with significantly lower losses than expected and said it would deliver dependable profit on an adjusted basis beginning in the third quarter thanks to cost cuts that allow the company to earn more per ride.
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US Commerce Department pressing Taiwan to supply more chips to US automakers
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei said last month the company had worked with its customers since January to reallocate more capacity to support the auto industry, but the shortage had worsened due to a snowstorm in Texas and a fab manufacturing disruption in Japan.
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Bitcoin, ethereum see strong inflows in latest week, reveals CoinShares data
Bitcoin and ethereum, the two largest cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization, posted strong inflows last week that saw investments in the sector hit $489 million, the largest since February, CoinShares weekly data showed on Tuesday.
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Tinder owner bets on 'summer of love' to lift revenue as curbs ease
The company expects second-quarter revenue in the range of $680 million to $690 million, 22% to 24% higher than last year and above analysts' estimates of $678.8 million, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
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Facebook's Workplace tool reaches 7 million paid subscribers
Social media platform Facebook Inc said on Tuesday that its Workplace tool had reached 7 million paid subscribers, up more than 40% from a year earlier. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed work for millions globally who have switched from being in the office to working from home, fuelling demand for enterprise connectivity platforms, such as Workplace, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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Facebook relaunches WhatsApp money transfers in Brazil
By using debit or pre-paid cards numbers, WhatsApp's 120 million users in Brazil are able to send each other up to 5,000 reais per month through the messaging service free of charge. Initially, the system will not allow each transaction to surpass 1,000 reais or more than 20 transfers per day.
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Facebook Workplace Tool Grows to 7 Million Subscribers as Jobs Go Remote in Pandemic
Facebook's Workplace business software has grown by about 40 percent in a year to reach seven million paying subscribers as the pandemic accelerated a remote work trend, the company said Tuesday.
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Facebook Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Finder Tool for India
Facebook is launching a new COVID-19 vaccine tracker tool in India that will help users locate their nearest vaccination centre. The tracker tool will also aggregate and display walk-in options (for 45 years and above) along with a link to register on the CoWIN portal and schedule vaccination appointments.
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Fake and ‘dangerous’ Covid-19 vaccination SMS targeting smartphone users
The Indian government started the second Covid-19 vaccination drive in the country from May 1. Indian citizens above 18 years of age can now get themselves vaccinated against the deadly virus. In order to get vaccinated, you will first have to register online via the CoWin mobile app.
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Amazon app quiz May 5, 2021: Get answers to these five questions and win Rs 10,000 in Amazon Pay balance
Results of today’s quiz will be announced on May 6.
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Here's what Steve Jobs said about Facebook 10 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg wanted Apple to compromise and made a few suggestions as well. In a reply to Forstall’s mail, Jobs said, “I agree — if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it sounds reasonable.” Yes, Jobs did refer to Facebook as “Fecebook” in what doesn’t seem like a ‘typo’.
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Instagram Stories now support auto-generated captions: Here’s how to enable it
The company announced via Twitter that it has now added a new sticker for Stories which will automatically turn what users are saying into text — making it essentially work like live transcription.
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Android apps 8 times more ‘dangerous’ than iOS apps for students, claims study
A new study by Me2B Alliance, a non-profit organisation that is “committed to giving individuals more say in how technology treats people”, has claimed that Google’s Android platform is eight times more likely to send data from school apps to “very high-risk” third parties than iOS.
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Flipkart daily trivia quiz May 5, 2021: Get answers to these five questions to win gifts and discount vouchers
Only the first 50,000 participants will be eligible for the quiz prize.
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Foxconn, Wistron, Dell, 16 other companies apply for investments under PLI scheme for IT hardware
Out of the total production, IT hardware companies have proposed production worth over Rs 1.35 lakh crore, and domestic companies have proposed production to the tune of more than Rs 25,000 crore, Meity said in a statement.
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