Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Facebook has seen an over 25 percent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years, an industry analysis report showed on Friday. The South Korean MAU tally for Facebook (operated by Meta) reached 11.09 million as...

Tech giant Google is rolling out new updates to cut low-quality and unoriginal content in Search results, making it easier for people to find helpful content. A search ranking update called the “Helpful Content Update” will start rolling out globally to English language users on...

Meta-owned Instagram and Google-owned YouTube have introduced new features to discourage their short-video app users from cross-platform sharing. According to reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared. “It means if you...

Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday said that Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his leadership team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for the micro-blogging platform. His legal team subpoenaed two ad...

Video streaming giant Netflix’s upcoming ad-supported tier is unlikely to make the platform’s offline viewing feature available to members on this low-end tier of the service. According to TechCrunch, this discovery came about when developer Steve Moser found code within the Netflix iPhone app that...

Reddit has announced that it is opening up a waitlist for its developer platform, a suite of developer tools and resources, that will empower developers whose contributions will support users and over 100,000 active communities on the platform. Currently, third-party developers on Reddit operate primarily...

Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram announced that it is rolling out new features and updates to Reels, including cross-posting from Instagram to Facebook. On the microblogging site Twitter, the photo-sharing platform’s head Adam Mosseri announced the new Reels updates. “We...

Elon Musk on Wednesday announced on Twitter that he is buying British football club Manchester United. Musk, however, did not disclose the sum he is paying for acquiring the legendary football team. Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 17,...

Meta-owned WhatsApp‘s new app on Windows no longer requires users to link their phones to send, receive, and sync messages. According to The Verge, an update on WhatsApp’s site revealed the refreshed Windows app is out of beta and available to download on the Microsoft...

Financial services and investment management firm Galaxy Digital on Monday announced it has terminated the $1.2 billion acquisition of digital asset trust company BitGo as it failed to provide audited financial statements for the year 2021. The proposed acquisition was the global crypto industry’s first...

Snap has announced that its premium service Snapchat+ has reached 1 million subscribers and the platform has begun rolling out new features to allow users to customize their experience. The company said that as part of users’ subscriptions, they can now access even more exclusive...

Spotify has started offering three free months of service for new Premium users. The three-month offer is available for new individual and student subscribers, while new Spotify Duo and family subscribers can receive one free month. The offer is not available to former Premium members,...

Elon Musk has announced that his electric car company Tesla surpassed the milestone of producing 3 million vehicles. Tesla cars have so far achieved over 40 million miles and the company expects to reach 100 million miles at the end of this year. “Congrats, Giga...

California lawmakers have rejected a much-anticipated bill allowing parents to sue social media platforms over their addictive features for kids has failed in the legislature. The Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act (AB 2408) failed to pass out of committee for a full state...

A day after Pavel Durov said an update had been in Apple’s app review for two weeks, the Telegram CEO and founder has now released the feature. According to Durov, the new update comes packed with emoji-related features. However, one is missing because the tech...

Hyundai Motor said on Friday it will spend $424 million to build artificial intelligence (AI) research center in the US to bolster its edge in robotics technology, an area it cites as a key future growth driver. Hyundai Motor, Kia, and Hyundai Mobis — Hyundai’s...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday granted his first special pardons to Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong, Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, and 1,691 others on the occasion of next week’s Liberation Day anniversary. The government announced the pardons to be effective from Liberation Day...

A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Facebook as the share of teens who use the social media platform has plummeted from 71 percent in 2014-15 to 32 percent as of...