Telegram last month hit 100 million monthly active users and alongside announced a bunch of updates for the app as well. The instant messaging service has now announced another update, focusing on the Super groups feature.In their blog, they mentioned about how faming they’re for group chats.
“Earlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old. It has been an amazing journey and in the coming months we're putting an even greater emphasis on security features and more ways to stay in touch with the people that you care about.” WhatsApp told about, in their blog.
According to rumors, Apple’s iOS maybe jailbroken with a public release late 2016 due to Apple’s stringent features. There is a continuous discussion about the jailbreak release of iOS in various forums.
Periscope has gone from being a startup to being acquired to rise in prominence within Twitter’s ranks as a major pillar of the company’s efforts to jump the queue to compete with others. Periscope to Twitter: How important is it to the businesses? Periscope has gone from being a startup to being acquired to rise in prominence within Twitter’s ranks as a major pillar of the company’s efforts to jump the queue to compete with others. It quickly launched on iOS and Android devices and is viewable on the Web. It became one of the first apps to debut on the Apple TV. New features have been rapidly added to the service, such as landscape support, web profiles, the ability to skip ahead in replays, GoPro video support, and viewing streams within tweets. Periscope, twitter’s live streaming service is now widely popular with even content producers at YouTube making use of it to hint their next videos etc. It has proven its value. Periscope announced that it has surpassed 200 million total live streams since its debut in March 2015. The app announced that it reached 100 million live streams in January, doubling its total within three months. Although these figures won’t include the streams viewed through Twitter app. Periscope's rapid growth is now all but important to Twitter's future.Periscope's user base was just 10 million as of August 2015, while Twitter was at more than 300 million.Periscope also helps Twitter stay in competition with other social media giants. Although, one of the first live stream apps to hit the market, now Facebook, Google, and Snapchat are into that space. Periscope’s acquisition is now vital for Twitter to stay in live streaming markets. The app is yet to find ways for monetization. If that happens, maybe we might see brands shelling out funds to advertise on the platform too. Some brands are already in the game with BMW using Periscope to promote the debut of their new model. While Twitter can rely on periscope, it’s now clear that the mobile video space is varying a lot. Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube connect from Google are all factors with which Twitter must contend using periscope in the coming months to stay popular.
Facebook invested about two billion USD on Oculus rift in joining development to bring out their new virtual head set gear “Oculus Rift”.
After a long feud with Apple and the F.B.I over creating a backdoor for the terrorist’s iPhone, the latter have now successfully hacked the iPhone without an actual assistance from Apple.
“We’re not changing anything about your news feed yet” Instagram said in their blog post. Instagram is trying to reassure its millions of users that there’s no reason to panic. The social media firm promises on no changes as of now in their working algorithm pattern.
Snapchat spent about 100 million US dollars to acquire popular personalized avatar maker BitStrips specialized in making stickers called “Bitmoji”. After the acquisition, Snapchat came out with a product update launching “Chat 2.0” that includes the ability to send over two hundred stickers to friends.
Nintendo will introduce their first ever mobile app to the US and elsewhere on Thursday after a successful home-turf debut earlier this month. Called the “Miitomo”, it’s more of a social app than just a game. Users create an animated character “Mii” which’ll ask you questions about users’ interests and build itself around users’ personality. People can then interact through their Miis.
After reports from a major Chinese whisperer the concept of a mid-generation upgrade to the PS4 is likely to be true. 4K-capable PS4 and Xbox One consoles will be out in autumn, according to rumors.
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