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apps News of 07/03/20
India’S Richest Man Takes On Zoom
India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run , is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing. On Thursday evening, the firm — backed by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man — ...
Are Virtual Concerts Here To Stay?
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional concert model that became their main source of income as ...
Facebook Discovers It Shared User Data With At Least 5,000 App Developers After A Cutoff Data
Facebook accidentally allowed around 5,000 developers to access data from their app’s inactive users, even though that access should have been cut off. The company explained on Wednesday it recently discovered an issue that had allowed app ...
Meet BukuWarung, The Bookkeeping App Built For Indonesia’S 60 Million “Micro-Merchants”
In Indonesia, there are about 60 million “micro-merchants,” typically small store owners who sell food and other staple items, and have close relationships with their customers. Many often extend informal lines of credit to shoppers, but ...
Apple And Google Block Dozens Of Chinese Apps In India
Two days after India blocked 59 apps developed by Chinese firms , Google and Apple have started to comply with New Delhi’s order and are preventing users in the world’s second largest internet market from accessing those apps. UC ...
Facebook Is Shutting Down Lasso, Its TikTok Clone
Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut’s TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Lasso alerted users on Wednesday. Launched in late 2018 , Lasso was ...
Instagram’S Latest Test Puts All Stories On One Page
Instagram Stories has grown to become one of Facebook’s best products to date. As of last year, roughly half of Instagram’s users — or 500 million people — were interacting with Stories on a daily basis. That’s nearly ...
Zoom Misses Its Own Deadline To Publish Its First Transparency Report
How many government demands for user data has Zoom received? We won’t know until “later this year,” an updated Zoom blog post now says. The video conferencing giant previously said it would release the number of government ...
TikTok Is Engaging With India Over Ban And Already Complies With Local Privacy And Security Requirements, CEO Says
Kevin Mayer, the chief executive of TikTok said on Wednesday that the popular short-form video app complies with “all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law,” two days after New Delhi banned 59 apps including Mayer’s citing ...
Spotify Expands Premium Duo Subscription Tier Aimed At Couples To U.S., India, Dozens Of Other Markets
Spotify today announced it is expanding Premium Duo , a feature that allows two people who live at the same place — say couples or flatmates — to share one subscription plan while maintaining their own individual accounts, to dozens of ...
Facebook Shuts Down Hobbi, Its Experimental App For Documenting Personal Projects
Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi , an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first arrived on iOS in February as one of now several ...
Global App Revenue Jumps To $50b In The First Half Of 2020, In Part Due To COVID-19 Impacts
Consumer spending on mobile apps and app installs grew significantly during the first half of 2020, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Sensor Tower. In the first half of the year, consumers spent $50.1 billion worldwide ...
TikTok Goes Down In India, Its Biggest Overseas Market
A growing number of internet service providers in India have started to block their subscribers from accessing TikTok a day after New Delhi banned the popular short-video app and 58 other services in the world’s second largest internet ...
Facebook Launches Avatars, Its Bitmoji Competitor, In India
Facebook Avatars, which lets users customize a virtual lookalike of themselves for use as stickers in chat and comments, is now available in India, the social juggernaut’s biggest market by users account. The American firm said Tuesday it ...
Indian Ride-Hailing Giant Ola Adds Tipping Option To Its App Globally
You can now tip your Ola driver. The Indian ride-hailing giant said on Tuesday that it has rolled out this feature to its users in India, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — all the nations where it currently operates. Ola said ...
In A Significant Expansion, Spotify To Launch Real-Time Lyrics In 26 Markets
Last November, Spotify confirmed it was testing real-time lyrics synced to music in select markets. Tomorrow, the company will announce the launch of its new lyrics feature in 26 worldwide markets across Southeast Asia, India and Latin America. This ...
Google Adds Local COVID-19 News Coverage To Its Google News App In Pilot Test
Google is piloting a new way to bring local news about the COVID-19 pandemic to its Google News application. In partnership with regional news publications in select cities across the U.S., the Google News app will now offer a dedicated section in ...
India Bans TikTok, Dozens Of Other Chinese Apps
The Indian government on Monday evening said it was banning 59 apps developed by Chinese firms over concerns that these apps were “engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, and security ...
Waze Gets A Big Visual Update With A Focus On Driver Emotions
Crowdsourced navigation platform Waze, which is owned by Google and yet remains a separate, but intertwined product relative to Google Maps, just got one of its biggest UI and design overhauls ever. The new look is much more colourful, and also ...
Apple Reveals Its 2020 Apple Design Award Winners
One thing missing from last week’s virtual version of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference was its ceremony announcing its latest selection of Apple Design Award winners. Today, Apple announced the 2020 award winners, ...
