In a bid to make it easier to reach more of Facebook's 1.28 billion users, the social network now lets you translate posts into different languages. Chatterbox Now when you compose a post, Facebook automatically scans it and offers to translate into another language. If you translate your post from English to Italian, only users …
While everyone is talking about Facebook Live, Twitter is positioning itself as a potential star of the live streaming scene. Game, set Tweet Twitt Twitter first live streamed highlights from the NBA finals earlier this year. And most recently live streamed Wimbeldon. Twitter's Wimbeldon feed was set up is similar to YouTube’s live stream option, …
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Facebook Events has just got a quaint, almost old-fashioned update. Humans, not algorithms, are now curating and recommending upcoming events. The Human Touch Dubbed "Featured Events", this update available on iOS to Facebookers across 10 US cities. Until now, events were automatically selected based on your location, preferences and history. Now a bunch of Facebook …
BitTorrent has just launched BitTorrent Now, a new service that streams video and music while serving up ads to pay the bills. Stream machine BitTorrent Now works in a slightly different way from existing streaming sites. Instead of casting as wide a net as possible, the platform only features work from content creators who sign up …
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Microsoft has recently announced the acquisition of LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion. If confirmed later in the year, the deal will be among the largest technology buys of all time. Reasons for the deal The acquisition is the latest effort from Microsoft to revitalise its product offering, as the market shifts towards mobile devices and …
Sometimes you're allowed to go off script and try something new. Snapchat, the company worth roughly $16 billion on the back of its 100 million daily users and 10 billion daily video views, has made the bold move into publishing with an online magazine called Real Life. Life on the internet Positioned as a website …
2016 may well be defined by the advances and arm-wrestles across live video streaming. The latest arrow to be launched in the jostling space: YouTube now allows live-streaming on mobile. Mobile first YouTube announced the update on its Creator Blog. "Today, we are announcing a new chapter in bringing the power of live video to …
Facebook Messenger has come home. The app has received a serious upgrade to its Home page as Facebook looks to boost chatter among its 900 million users. Finding friends Where the old Home page would display a simple list of conversations in descending order from most recently active, Facebook has broken it up into a …
Facebook has recently released an iOS update that converts your recent photos into video. Slideshow The feature, called Slideshow, kicks in if you've taken more than five snaps or videos over 24 hours. Slideshow will create a video montage of your recent content, and whack it on the top of your News Feed. Bright shiny …
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Dropbox has released a set of Productivity Tools designed to make scanning on-the-go more streamlined. Drop the ball The first update is around simplifying workflows. This means you can now scan content such as receipts, whiteboards, and sketches directly from the Dropbox app. Business users can also search within these scans. Dropbox also sports a new "plus" …
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