For 28-year-old Pratyush Ranjan, the Covid-hit 2020 taught him hard lessons in embracing a digital life, not only for shopping clothes or shoes but also daily essentials like groceries, milk, vegetables, meat and more. A year later, living in a high-rise apartment in Noida which has over 40 Covid-positive cases and rising, he is well […]
Even as video calls have taken over people’s work and personal lives amid the pandemic, a new Stanford University research has found that the feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings, also known as “Zoom fatigue”, is greater for women than men. Overall, the researchers found that one in seven […]
Facebook-owned Instagram is now testing a new feature that will give users more controls in the form of three options – select not to see like counts on anyone’s posts, turn them off for their own posts, or keep the original experience. According to The Verge, the company has announced a “small global test” that […]
Amazon Prime Music on Wednesday launched podcasts in India that are available to all Prime members at no additional cost. Podcasts will be available on the Amazon Prime Music app on Android and iOS, Web player and Amazon Echo devices. Users will now have access to locally popular shows by creators including Jay Shetty, Cyrus […]
Invite-only audio meet app Clubhouse has rolled out its payments feature to over 66,000 creators in the US, as part of its goal to help creators monetize and earn money from users on its platform. Clubhouse last week announced to let creators earn money via its first monetisation tool and all users will be able […]
Move over video meet app Zoom as leading virtual event platform Dreamcast has introduced a novel two-way virtual conferencing for a seamless experience. The platform replicates the exact same experience of physical events into a virtual environment where you can reach global audiences online with ease. “Zoom is a simple video conferencing tool to host […]
Leading ed-tech company BYJU’S has raised $455 million from investors that include Baron Funds and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group, as part of a $1 billion ‘Series F’ round, the media reported on Monday. Citing government filings by the company, Inc42 reported that existing investors like Silver Lake Management, Owl Ventures, T. Rowe […]
With more than 58 million installs in March, TikTok became the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide last month, said a new report. TikTok was followed by Facebook which became the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide for March with more than 56 million installs, showed the data from app analytics firm Sensor Tower. Instagram, WhatsApp, […]
Mozilla Firefox browser has announced to end support for Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices from April 30. According to the company, the users will no longer be able to install the Mozilla Firefox app on FireTV And will not receive security updates, or be able to reinstall the app if they uninstall it […]
Amid remote work and learning, as billions stay home during the pandemic, consumers are spending 4.2 hours a day on apps globally on average, up 30 percent compared to two years prior. The biggest surge has been spotted in India as consumers spent 80 percent more time in apps in Q1 2021 than they did […]
Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of users for a couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning. The outage was the second one in less than a month for the social networking giant. People took to online outage detector platform DownDetector as they were welcomed with “sorry something went […]
