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Tango is Google’s new augmented reality system for smartphones. Augmenting reality, differently Tango can sense the devices position and orientation, relative to its environment. Advancing upon existing technologies, Tango does this using primarily visual elements—depth perception, motion tracking and area learning—it does not rely on GPS. In this way, Tango may be the next step […]
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Microsoft has just launched Teams, its new Slack competitor. Not so Slack The Teams app is being billed as a chat-based workspace, intended as a place where colleagues can shoot the breeze – and talk shop. Teams pulls together Microsoft's heavy hitters in one place: Office, Skype, and Power BI to name a few. These
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WhatsApp have finally gone video. The Facebook owned cross-platform app has made its video calling features available to all users. How see? Using WhatsApp, you can make a video call in the same way you make an audio call: simply open a chat screen with a contact, then select the Video Call option. Voila. The
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Pinterest has released a bunch of new adverting Pins. Here's what you need to know. Pinning pays There are three new Promoted Pins: one-tap, video, and app. Tapping a one-tap Pin takes users from their feed directly to your website, so they can learn more about products. Pinterest says so far twice as many Pinners
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Marketers are now able to gather analytics data for Snapchat, thanks to a Danish startup. World-first SaaS analytics for Snapchat The Copenhagen-based group called Snaplytics, says its new analytics service for Snapchat’s videos and photos is “the only software-as-a-service analytics (exclusively) for Snapchat.” The startup uses a proprietary system that avoids Snapchat APIs to monitor
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LinkedIn Salary has recently launched, and it's here to let you know if you're paid being enough. Money matters The tools is ostensibly designed for understanding trends in salaries across different fields, but everyone will be using it at least once to see how much they should be getting paid. Industries can be broken down by
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Messenger and PayPal have joined forces to expand mobile payment options for…just about everyone. Pay the piper Users will now be able to link their Messenger and PayPal accounts, while PayPal customers will receive notifications and receipts in Messenger. The update comes as Facebook aggressively pushes Messenger as a payments platform. The app recently launched
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In news that will surprise few, Facebook has reported that it's gotten bigger, and much richer. Cash cow Facebook's Q3 Earnings Report shows the company raked in US$7.01 billion in revenue. This blew away analyst expectations of US$6.92 billion, who predicted Facebook was reaching saturation points with ads. It appears this is not so. Join
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Instagram is close to launching a new feature that allows users to make purchases from within the app. Shopaholics Shoppable product tags allow brands to tag up to five items in their Instagram posts. Clicking on the tag will direct users to a unique product page with detailed information about the item – and a
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Mobile gamers around the world are more likely to find and download games from social networks than anywhere else, according to a study commissioned by Facebook IQ. Global games Market research company TNS surveyed adults from the US, UK, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand and Turkey to discover how they
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