Social media giant Facebook will turn panoramas on users’ phones into “360 Photos” both on News Feed and the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR for a better viewing experience, a medi…
Google wants new emojis to represent professional women
In a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, which controls specifications for emojis, Google says it wants to create a new set “with a goal of highlighting the diversity of women’s careers…
Now, you can converse via text, photos, links on YouTube mobile app
Global video-sharing website YouTube has unveiled a new chat feature called ‘native sharing’ through which users can converse with others via text, photos, and links inside the YouTube …
Pebble smartwatches launched in India; prices start at Rs 5,999; available on Amazon.in
Smartwatch maker Pebble today announced its foray into India’s nascent but growing wearables market and said it aims to sell about one lakh units in the next one year. Pebble has partnered Am…
LeEco, Twitter join hands for global brand expansion
Chinese smartphone manufacturer LeEco and micro-blogging website Twitter on Thursday announced a joint business partnership to help grow LeEco’s influence globally. The partnership will provi…
AasaanJobs launches mobile web version for easy job search
Head of Marketing and PR AasaanJobs, Siddharth Gupta said, “Our target audience has an inertia towards downloading an app, thanks to overpriced mobile data usage options. Also some mobile pho…
Moto G 4th Gen to be launched on Amazon.in
This will be Motorola’s first device to be launched on an e-commerce platform other than Flipkart since its re-entry into the Indian market in February 2014. (Representative image) Almost a y…
Oculus, Samsung Gear VR expands virtual-reality arsenal with ‘Nomads’, ‘Tactera’, ‘6X9’
Virtual reality specialist Oculus is trying to dazzle consumers by adding more entertainment and educational options to the Samsung Gear headset in hopes of transforming the technological curiosity…
Facebook news bias kerfuffle: Explained in 5 brief points
What’s behind the accusations that Mark Zuckerberg led Facebook is manipulating its ”trending topics” feature to promote or suppress certain political perspectives? According to t…
Anti-virus software guru John McAfee named CEO of tiny MGT Capital
MGT Capital said on Monday it would change its name to John McAfee Global Technologies Inc and that it would buy some assets of McAfee’s anti-spy software company, D-Vasive Inc. (Reuters) Ant…