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13 Jan 2016
Instagram Goes Beyond The Feed With Everyday Spotlight Compilations
Instagram Goes Beyond The Feed With Everyday Spotlight Compilations But Spotlight Compilations were so popular that starting this week, Instagram’s community team began spontaneously coming up with themes. They comb through the top relevant clips, and show them off in its “immersive video player” each day so there’s always at least one to watch. The
13 Jan 2016
Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac
Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac Releasing an official Facebook Messenger For Mac app could make it easy for people to chat whenever they’re on their computer. Instead of getting buried in one of many web browser tabs that users have to switch to so they can text friends, the dedicated Messenger desktop
13 Jan 2016
iOS 9 Occupies A Comfortable 75 Percent Install Base on Apple’s Mobile Products
iOS 9 Occupies A Comfortable 75 Percent Install Base on Apple’s Mobile Products No doubt that Apple continues to improve the hardware present inside its iPhone models. But its what Apple does with Mobile OS fragmentation (or the lack of it) that bodes well for the company’s strategy of delivering a consistent experience for its mobile
13 Jan 2016
5 Tools That Can Replace Email for Business Communication
5 Tools That Can Replace Email for Business Communication Email is considered a useful and somewhat formal tool for business communications. However, it is easy to mess things up when using email if you aren’t super organized. There are a lot of companies aiming to solve this and they have been successful. The following tools
13 Jan 2016
Exclusive Interview with Paul Midy, Global CEO for Jovago
Exclusive Interview with Paul Midy, Global CEO for Jovago Jovago is an online hotel booking platform that has been operational in Pakistan for around 18 months. Part of Rocket Internet funded startups in Asia and Africa, it claims to be the largest platform in its niche in Pakistan. We recently got a chance to sit
13 Jan 2016
List Of Smartphones Released By Pakistani Telcos
List Of Smartphones Released By Pakistani Telcos With the ever increasing popularity of smartphones, Pakistan’s telecommunication companies have attempted to target the entry level mobile market with the release of affordable smartphones. The added benefit of owning these devices apart from their affordable price tag is the free data + voice bundles that accompany them.
12 Jan 2016
Telenor Brings Internet Easyload, Exclusive Balance for Internet
Telenor Brings Internet Easyload, Exclusive Balance for Internet Telenor’s has started offering a new service called Internet Easyload. Customers can get exclusive balance only for internet usage through the new service — it will be like a usual easyload but balance will go to your internet account and will not be available for calls, SMS or
12 Jan 2016
Twitter says we use its new ‘like’ heart six percent more than the ‘favorite’ stars
Twitter says we use its new ‘like’ heart six percent more than the ‘favorite’ stars If you thought whining about stars and hearts would make Twitter alter its course, think again. At the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Twitter’sKevin Weil says users are ‘liking’ posts six percent more than they ‘favorited’ them. Weil says
12 Jan 2016
Twitter is reportedly testing emoji reactions in addition to hearts
Twitter is reportedly testing emoji reactions in addition to hearts Twitter may have changed its star button to a heart recently, but it looks like you’ll soon have multiple other ways of reacting to posts. It appears the company is looking at using emoji to provide a wide variety of tweet reactions. Twitter user @_Ninji
12 Jan 2016
Twitter finally gets support for new emoji and racially diverse icons
Twitter finally gets support for new emoji and racially diverse icons A few weeks after Apple was first to support tens of new emoji, including taco, cheese slice and rolling eyes, Twitter has quietly added support for the new emoji as well. Today the company has rolled out support for the Unicode 8.0 emoji in