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Canadian e-commerce company Shopify said on Friday it would join Libra Association, a group that manages Facebook led efforts to launch a global digital currency, Libra. “We will work collectively to build a payment network that makes money easier to access and supports merchants and consumers everywhere,” Shopify said in a statement. Several companies including

If you spend a lot of time on Instagram, you’ve no doubt seen Instagram Live videos. But can you watch Instagram Live videos in a browser? The answer is yes and no. The first thing you need to know is that logging into your Instagram account on a web browser on your PC or Mac

Twitter on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting US Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. “We took enforcement action on about 70 accounts, which includes a combination of permanent suspensions and account challenges to verify ownership,” a Twitter spokeswoman said in a statement to Reuters. The action was first

What is Facebook Lite? In a nutshell, it’s a stripped-down version of the standard Facebook app for Android and iOS. Although it lacks certain features, it’s still a great alternative to the full-sized Facebook app. However, as we all know, Facebook knows a lot of information about you, and the social network’s mobile app is

Sony and Facebook have decided to skip this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) scheduled for March 16 in San Francisco. Both companies have cited coronavirus concerns as their reason for not attending the conference. This comes a day after Sony said it won’t be attending PAX East that is scheduled for February 27. Facebook, on

Twitter has announced a new feature that will help users dig through their tweets faster to update an older post with an update. The feature called ‘Continue Thread’ that makes it easier to connect an in-progress tweet to an earlier post. Here’s how to use Continue Thread option on Twitter.com Compose your tweet and then

The European Commission will on Wednesday launch the first of a raft of proposals to help European companies exploit their rich trove of industrial data and at the same time rein in online giants Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, and Amazon.com. The data strategy and artificial intelligence discussion papers are part of a bigger scheme to help European

Virat Kohli, the captain of the Indian cricket team, has set a new record. But this one isn’t on a cricket ground. The popular Indian cricketer has become the first Indian to reach 50 million followers on Instagram. As of today, Virat Kohli has exactly 50 million followers while Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. When you joined Instagram, it probably felt new and exciting. Now, years later, you may be finding it more annoying than anything. You could abandon Instagram altogether, but there is an alternative. In this article, we offer some practical

Twitter is down for many users across the globe. Reports are pouring from India, parts of Europe, Japan, as well as parts of the United States. We at Gadgets 360 are also facing issues when trying to access the micro-blogging platform, with some team members unable to the load the homepage, while others are unable

Ever since Facebook-owned Instagram started copying Snapchat, in a big way, Snap has been working harder to reshape its app. Last year, Snapchat hit a mark of 203 million daily active users. The number may be lower than Instagram but it certainly shows some growth. After adding a lot of smaller, useful features over the

Facebook said on Friday it had cancelled its Global Marketing Summit scheduled for next month in San Francisco due to coronavirus-related risks. The event, scheduled for March 9 to March 12 at the Moscone Center, was expected to see over 4,000 participants. “Out of an abundance of caution, we cancelled our global marketing summit due

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Dating apps are a dime a dozen. So much so that we’ve previously listed some of the best free dating apps for young adults. However, there’s one dating app growing in popularity that offers something unique compared to its

A Moscow court on Thursday fined social networking giants Twitter and Facebook for ignoring a Russian law requiring them to store Russian citizens’ user data inside the country. A court slapped the US-based companies with fines of about $63,000 for failing to move their servers containing data of Russian users into Russia, Russian news agencies reported.

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Advertisement LinkedIn is a great free service that helps you build a professional network. However, if you’ve used LinkedIn, you’ll know that LinkedIn tries to get you to upgrade to LinkedIn Premium on a regular basis. So, is LinkedIn

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok will have to reveal users’ identities if Indian government agencies ask them to, according to the country’s controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later this month. The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media companies more

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. In an effort to help you streamline your Instagram, the social network has added categories to Following. This new feature lets you see whose posts you’re seeing often and which accounts you’re interacting with the least. Helping you decide

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet the EU’s digital and industry chiefs on February 17, EU officials said on Tuesday, days before the two Commissioners present proposals to rein in US tech giants and Chinese rivals. In addition to European Competition and Digital Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, Zuckerberg will

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Instagram is constantly reinventing itself. Which means you need to constantly reinvent yourself as well. With that in mind, here’s how to make your Instagram stand out. The newest Instagram features offer a lot of opportunities for creativity and individuality,

Twitter, after experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from sending tweets from the social networking platform’s app, website, or TweetDeck is now finally back online. “You can get back to Tweeting — this problem has been fixed! Thanks for sticking with us through that,” Twitter Support tweeted on Saturday. Twitter went offline for thousands

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Advertisement Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube dominate the social media world in most countries, but Russia (and some surrounding areas such as Kazakhstan and Ukraine) often prefer regional replacements for these platforms. This difference in social media use is

The week past had its fair share of tech headlines, from the latest launch under the Poco brand – the Poco X2 being launched in India – to the arrival of the latest budget smartphone from Realme in the country – the Realme C3. Other big highlights of the week included a Berlin-based artist tricking

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. It’s hard to look back and remember a time when the world operated on SMS. Services like WhatsApp have made chatting with your friends and family easier than ever. However, that ease of communication has come at a price.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube have refused to pull down an edited video posted by US President Donald Trump that showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up a copy of the former’s State of the Union address. The five-minute video, posted on Trump’s social media accounts, shows Pelosi tearing up the speech while Trump honoured

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Want to download a public video off Facebook? You have no shortage of options. There are dozens of sites and you can also download them straight from Facebook without any third-party tools. But how do you download a private

Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook and its Messenger platform were hacked. A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform. Facebook’s Instagram account was also hacked through third-party platform, and a photo of the hackers’ group was posted.

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Snapchat remains one of the most popular multimedia messaging apps on the planet. And you can even make your own Snapchat filter. So, in this article, we detail how to make a Snapchat filter. With Snapchat geofilters, you can

WhatsApp has not had a good run lately, more so after its role in the alleged hacking of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s phone, putting the platform’s claims of security and privacy in a questionable position. Add to it reports claiming that a WhatsApp vulnerability could have allowed attackers to remotely access files from a computer,

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Do you love posting your photos on Instagram, but wish you could do so using your PC or Mac? Since the service focuses on mobile, uploading to Instagram from your computer isn’t easy. But don’t worry: you have several

WhatsApp beta for Android is getting a new version via Google Play Beta programme. This version indicates the features that we can expect to see in the stable version over the coming weeks. One of the major changes present in the new beta version is related to WhatsApp dark mode that was introduced in beta