Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Samsung has announced a new feature called Repair Mode to its Galaxy devices to ensure that the personal data on your Galaxy smartphone remains secure even when the repair technician is working on it. The Samsung Repair Mode allows users to selectively choose which data...

Meta has started informing its news partners that the company will stop paying publishers for their content to run on Facebook's News Tab in the US.

YouTube has announced that users can now turn their longer videos into Shorts by adding a new "Edit into a Short" tool to its iOS and Android app.

Twitter has confirmed that it is raising the price of its premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly — a 66 percent increase. In an email sent to Twitter Blue subscribers, the company said that the price increase is only for new...

LG Electronics on Friday said its second-quarter operating profit decreased 12 percent (on-year) amid rampant inflation that hurt consumer demand for TVs and other home appliances. Its operating income came in at 792 billion won $609 million for the April-June quarter, falling short of analysts’...

Google is cracking down on unexpected, annoying ads that users face while playing Android games, along with several other new ad guidelines to ensure high-quality experiences for users on Play Store. Effective from September 30, developers cannot show full-screen ads of all formats (video, GIF,...

Music streaming platform Spotify has purchased Findaway, a platform that allows users to create, distribute, and monetize their own audiobooks, for 117 million euros (approx $119 million), the company revealed during a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. Findaway will provide the infrastructure for what...

Chip-maker Intel suffered a 25 percent decline in consumer chip sales in the second quarter, along with revenue of $15.3 billion, down 22 percent year over year (YoY). Its profits nosedived as it lost half a billion dollars in the April-June period — a 109...

Meta has crossed a $1 billion annual revenue run rate for ads on its TikTok rival short-video making platform Reels, and Reels now has a higher revenue run rate than Facebook/Instagram Stories at identical times post-launch, its Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed. Zuckerberg...

Sony has previewed a few key features for its PlayStation VR2 headset, including live streaming support along with other new features.

During the company’s earnings call, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that more than three billion monthly active devices are now running on the Android operating system globally. Pichai mentioned that consumers had activated one billion Android phones in 2021.”I am proud that Android...

Russia on Tuesday announced its withdrawal from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024 and is building its own space station in the meantime. According to Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, the country will begin to form the...

Meta-owned American photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram's head Adam Mosseri shared a video explaining the recent changes to the platform and said it will become more video-focused over time.

Elon Musk’s lawyers have filed a letter to the Delaware Chancery Court saying that the microblogging site Twitter is not playing nice in the pretrial process and should be forced to do so. The letter is addressed to Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick — who will ultimately...

YouTube Shorts is catching up fast and the company has seen encouraging results in its early monetization efforts on the short-video making platform. Philipp Schindler, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Alphabet (Google’s parent company), said that consumers are increasing and consuming short-form...

The craze for gaming on Xbox consoles is diminishing as Microsoft now expects revenue to decline in the low to mid-single digits, driven by declines in first-party gaming content on Xbox. In its June quarter, gaming revenue declined 7 percent and 5 percent in constant...

Apple and Meta are in a “very deep, philosophical competition” to build the metaverse, according to Mark Zuckerberg. In a meeting with employees, he said that Meta would position itself as the more open, cheaper alternative to Apple, which is expected to announce its first...

Amazon is raising the price of its Prime subscription across Europe in September by up to 43 percent a year. In an email to customers overnight, Amazon revealed its annual Prime cost will jump 20 percent in the UK from £79 to £95 from September...

Google's Play Store officially completed 10 years, it is now getting a new logo to celebrate its 10th anniversary.