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Facebook announces purchase of WhatsApp, But will it affect the user?

Apps, Internet & Software, Mobile, Social MediaMarch 16, 20190Comments

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will purchase popular messaging application WhatsApp for $19 billion in a combination of cash and stock. The announcement comes at a time when the battle for mobile messaging is really heating up, with WhatsApp competing with several other contenders including Facebook's own Messenger app.WhatsApp currently counts 450 million users…

Next Facebook Home Phone to be manufactured by Samsung

Mobile, Social Media, Tech NewsMarch 4, 20190Comments

We all remember Facebook Home smartphone, right? The device which was manufactured by HTC was a complete flop starting out at $99 dollars and soon dropped to just $0.99 cents. The device featured a Facebook skin that would dominate the user experience and make the whole device turn around one thing, Facebook.From the beginning it…

3 Best Twitter apps for Android 5.0 Lollipop that use Material Design

Apps, Internet & Software, Social MediaFebruary 25, 20190Comments

Twitter is one of the most used social networks of the 21 century (right behind Facebook) but unfortunately the default Twitter client isn't the best one around and many developers have tried creating their own alternative and improved version of the Twitter app for Android. Lets take a look at 3 of these third party…

5 of the funniest and best Yo app clones

Apps, Internet & Software, Mobile, Social MediaFebruary 22, 20190Comments

The app called "Yo" has gained popularity over the last couple of weeks allowing users to simply send a "Yo" message to someone. After the simple app gained popularity an army of clones spawned many of which funny or even more creative then the original Yo app which is estimated at a value of $10…

A look at Twitters new web client UI redesign

Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Personal Tech, Social MediaFebruary 22, 20190Comments

We have previously mentioned that Twitter is working on redesigning its new web client to create a lighter and easier to use interface.Twitter has just launched its new redesign which you can now see by logging in on your twitter account. All though the UI looks different as of now it looks like it is…

Kickstarter funded movies to get their own section in iTunes

Apple, Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Social MediaFebruary 22, 20190Comments

Movies and documentaries funded on popular crowd funding website Kickstarter will now become available on iTunes where it will be getting its own category called “Kickstarter collections”

What is RedditMade? Meet Reddits own Crowdfunding service

Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Social Media, Tech NewsFebruary 20, 20190Comments

Reddit is a community driven social network and in the past, users have created a lot of original new stuff (mainly new weird memes though) but now Reddit is planning on making things together even easier, with RedditMade. Lets take a closer look what RedditMade is all about, how to use it and why it…

Youtube app update brings improvements to menu and notifications

Apps, Google, Social Media, Tech NewsFebruary 10, 20190Comments

Google has just updated its own Youtube app for Android to version 5.1.10, bringing improvements to the menu, added Google Ads, video notifications, new "front page", improved the adding to favourites and added a feature to delete history right from the app. One of the mayor changes in this update is the added Google Ads,…

Facebook to start using new Mobile game ads

Online Marketing, Social MediaFebruary 9, 20190Comments

Facebook is testing to start integrating ads into your notification center. The notifications will be mainly game suggestions based on games your friends play and other games related to the games you have played your self. This new ad type was spotted by Twitter founding engineer Britt Selvitelle.We’re always testing new channels to promote games,”…

China Hires 2 Million Workers To Monitor Popular Social Media Websites

Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Social MediaJanuary 28, 20190Comments

The Chinese government is employing over 2 million workers to monitor "the internet" according to state media. The work these employees get assigned is, by using keywords to search through the tens of millions of messages that are being sent everyday across popular social media websites like Sina Weibo, Instant messaging app WeChat, Tencent QQ etc.The…

Explaining the mystery of the 301 Youtube video views

Internet & Software, Social MediaJanuary 22, 20190Comments

If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, and let's face it, everyone spends their whole life on YouTube now either watching funny animal videos or doing something productive. But the chances that you've come across a video that have had their views frozen at exactly 301 is very likely, but why are they…