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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WhatsApp has just sailed by another landmark – the messaging service now hosts 100 millions calls every day. WhatsUp? WhatsApp has over 1 billion users, who are making over 1000 calls every second. To put this in perspective, Skype has 300 million users – and does not publicly share its daily call figures. Call it
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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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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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Proving that not everything it touches turns to gold, Facebook is shutting down its news app Paper. Paper planes Launched back in 2014, Paper garnered critical acclaim, however it wasn't enough to get users excited. By the end of 2014 Paper had dropped out of the 1500 most popular apps list, and kept plunging. The
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A new study has shown (drumroll) that Facebook continues to be the most popular platform in Australia – by a social mile. Top dog The Australian Digital Market Report from GlobalWebIndex reveals that four of the five most popular apps in Australia are owned by Facebook. The most popular is Facebook's flagship app, which was
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