Social Media Updates Archive
11 Mar 2016
Facebook Lite is the Company’s Fastest Growing App with 100m Monthly Active Users
Facebook Lite is the Company’s Fastest Growing App with 100m Monthly Active Users Facebook Lite, the Facebook app which is low on data-consumption, has hit 100M active monthly views globally. The app, which was rolled out on June of 2015 is now the fastest growing Facebook app, and is most popular in markets such as
09 Mar 2016
Dropbox Boasts 500 Million Registered Users For Its Cloud Storage Service
Dropbox Boasts 500 Million Registered Users For Its Cloud Storage Service Dropbox has announced that it has reached a new milestone with it now having 500 million registered users. The company announced 100 million users in November 2012, 200 million a year later, and from then on it sped up and added more than 200
07 Mar 2016
Facebook launches interactive full-screen ads called Canvas
Facebook launches interactive full-screen ads called Canvas At an event in New York today, Facebook launched its newest product for marketers: interactive mobile ads called Canvas, which it first announced back in September. Canvas is an evolution of the earlier Carousel ads, which allowed users to swipe through multiple product or brand photos if they
07 Mar 2016
Google gets 113,668 copyright takedown requests an hour in game of cat and pirate
Google gets 113,668 copyright takedown requests an hour in game of cat and pirate Google’s playing a cat and mouse game with link-sharers on the Web and the search giant is increasingly swamped with takedown requests from rights holders, or those acting on behalf of them, mainly in the music and film industries. In the
05 Mar 2016
Google just gave developers a handy new analytics tool for Google Cast
Google just gave developers a handy new analytics tool for Google Cast Developers using Google Cast were left with a lot of blind spots when it came to user behavior. Now, the company is introducing a new visualization tool in the Google Cast Developer Console. It’s fairly robust, too. Google is tracking several points of
05 Mar 2016
5 ways great managers build amazing teams
5 Ways Great Managers Build Amazing Teams As a manager, asking this question scared me a little. I posed it to each of the engineers on my team last month in our one-on-one’s and I worried about how they would respond. Did they feel safe enough to answer honestly or would I get fluff answers
05 Mar 2016
Hack Karachi 2016 Takes Place Tomorrow
Hack Karachi 2016 Takes Place Tomorrow Karachi’s civic hack day event, Hack Karachi 2016, is going to be held tomorrow. The event is a part of Code Across, which is a global weekend of civic hacking activities. Hack Karachi 2016 coincides with the International Open Data Day which takes place on the 5th of March
04 Mar 2016
Google’s new Resizer tool lets mobile Web designers and developers test any URL
Google’s new Resizer tool lets mobile Web designers and developers test any URL Crafting an experience that’s intuitive and powerful is a tricky proposition. To help Web designers achieve a balance, Google is introducing Resizer. The tool allows designers the ability to test Material Design across platforms, and see where the breakpoints are. Rather than
04 Mar 2016
Punjab Is Considering Imposing Internet Taxes Again
Punjab Is Considering Imposing Internet Taxes Again After refusal of other provinces to withdraw taxes on internet, Punjab government is considering re-imposing the tax on internet in the province, industry sources revealed. Punjab government had taken bold step to withdraw the taxes on internet. However there is still 19.5 percent duty on internet in Khyber
03 Mar 2016
Coca Cola Launches its MENA Scholarship Programme in Pakistan
Coca Cola Launches its MENA Scholarship Programme in Pakistan The Coca-Cola Company has partnered with the US State Department to sponsor 100 university students from the Middle East, North Africa and Near Asia (MENA) region for a fully funded summer entrepreneurship programme. The scholarship is based on a “Make Tomorrow Better” competition where applicants will