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Google is adopting new measures to prevent reportedly widespread tech support scams that fraudsters perpetuate through its ads. The search giant plans to introduce a verification system that will restrict tech support ads globally, according to its blog post. In the report, Google disclosed shutting down 3.2 billion bad ads of different types in 2017, with an average of 100 ads for every second. The barred ads which Google said violated the company’s policies were under ambiguous categories such as bail bond services and rehab center...

Google adopts strict measures on ads to block tech support scam

8 months ago

Anna Versai

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Google TEZ will now be rebranded to Google Pay, the company announced at the 2018 edition of the Google for India event held in New Delhi on Tuesday. In addition, the BHIM UPI-based (a government-built platform) app will now enable users to avail of pre-approved loans through the app. It will now only take a few seconds to enter the desired amount, choose repayment terms, and receive the money in their bank accounts. Google Pay has partnered with Federal, ICICI, HDFC, and Kotak Mahindra to roll out the instant loan feature in the next...

Google Tez is now Google Pay; adds Instant Loans to the Platform

8 months ago

Diana Coker

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Facebook is reportedly planning to score the ‘trustworthiness’ of its users individually, in an effort to effectively manage content flagging abuse embarked by many on contents they disagree with. The initiative could be ironic. Most Americans believe that Facebook cannot be trusted at various levels: protecting users’ private data and the information it promotes on news feed, according to surveys. The Facebook trustworthiness scores will be scaled from zero to one (0 – 1), reports Yahoo, and used to differentiate users that provide ...

Untrustworthy Facebook wants to score users’ ‘trustworthiness’

8 months ago

Anna Versai

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Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat announced a drastic decline in the user growth on Tuesday at 2018 Q2 earnings call. With 188 million Daily Active Users (DAUs) by the end of June 30, 2018, Snapchat user growth decreased by 2 percent against 191 million in 2018 Q1. Though, 2018 Q2 DAUs figures are much higher than 173 million users recorded in the second quarter of last year. This is the first time the image sharing app has accounted a negative net addition to its user count, since its inception in 2011. The cur...

Snapchat Users Are Shrinking. Does It Really Matter?

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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Founded in 1976, the house of Steve Jobs now holds the trophy engraved with “the world’s first 1 trillion dollar company” title. Apple Inc. (AAPL) beat the Silicon Valley giants Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google Alphabet (GOOGL) quite comfortably in the race to become the first publicly traded, non-government sponsored company to reach a market capitalization of one trillion dollars on August 2, 2018. The market dynamics for Apple started changing post-2018 Q3 earnings call on July 31. It declared the result as the best June...

Apple Wins the Trillion Dollar Race!

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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Sonos Inc., one of the earliest players in the US smart speaker industry, roared during its debut at Wall Street on August 2, 2018. Sonos IPO opened modestly with $16 per share after establishing the initial selling price of $15 on Wednesday evening. The IPO value was set much below the expected range between $17and $19. Listed under the ticker “SONO” on NASDAQ, the company’s stock traded as high as 32 percent to $21 per on the first day after a slow launch. The Sonos IPO day wrapped with $19.91 closing price, marking a valuation of ...

Sonos IPO Ended with 9% Raise After a Modest Start

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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Atlassian Corporation Plc announced to sell its communication tools HipChat Cloud and Stride to the rival Slack Technologies Inc. As per the deal, Slack will pay an undisclosed sum to acquire the intellectual property (IP) for Stride and HipChat over three years and Atlassian will take a small stake in the former company. With this, the Australia-based software enterprise giant, Atlassian made way to discontinue its real-time communication products for the internal organization. The company now aims to focus on its core expertise, wh...

Atlassian Closes Chat Platform To Focus on Project Management Tools

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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The Facebook Inc. (FB) executives on Wednesday saw investors’ inevitable reactions on 2018 Q2 earnings. The social media giant earned $13.2 billion revenue during the quarter ended on June 30, 2018, compared to $9.32 billion generated in the same duration last year. Highlighting the gravity of the situation, the growth of Facebook decelerated 7 percent in Q2 with $370 million total revenue when evaluated against $536 million revenue earned for the Q1 this year. David Wehner, Chief Finance Officer of Facebook had earlier warned share...

Facebook Hits Low After 2018 Q2 Earnings Announcement

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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Facebook Inc. has set up a subsidiary in Hangzhou, located in China, a nation where the social media giant’s site remains blocked for ten years. As per a filing seen on China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System by Reuters, the Facebook Chinese subsidiary was approved recently on July 18. “We are interested in setting up an ‘innovation hub’ in Zhejiang to support Chinese developers, innovators and start-ups,” commented Debbie Frost, a Facebook spokesperson, pointing towards the Chinese province where Hangzhou is ...

Facebook Sets Up Innovation Hub in Restricted Zone

9 months ago

Anna Versai

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Microsoft Corporation’s 2018 fourth quarter result implicitly highlights a major trend - it is steadily growing in the gaming business. Announced on Thursday, the company’s Gaming Revenue grew to $643 million or 39 percent up in 2018 Q4 against the corresponding duration previous year. Xbox software and services made the key contribution to the higher revenues in the Microsoft gaming business, cites the released statement. Crediting the success to third-party title strength (probably whispering ‘Fortnite’), Xbox software and services...