Meta has launched some new "creative expression" features for creators on Facebook, including the ability to create Reels of up to 90 seconds which were earlier limited to only 60 seconds.
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Twitter's revenue nosedived 40% in Dec as advertisers left: Report
Despite Elon Musk's efforts to monetise Twitter, the micro-blogging platform reported a massive 40 per cent drop in revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, the media reported on Saturday.
Online hospitality major Airbnb lays off 30% of recruiting staff
"We're going to continue to grow, but we're going to grow modestly," Stephenson, adding he expects headcount growth of 2-4 per cent this year against 11 per cent headcount growth in 2022.
WhatsApp rolling out 'Report status updates' feature on Android beta
The ability to report status updates is available for some beta testers after installing the latest update of WhatsApp beta for Android on the Play Store, and is expected to roll out to more users over the coming days, the report said.
OpenAI announces ChatGPT, Whisper APIs for developers
Microsoft-owned OpenAI has announced that it is now allowing third-party developers to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their apps and services with an application programming interface (API).
Indian-American Neal Mohan is new YouTube CEO
Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the new YouTube CEO, as current head Susan Wojcicki has announced to step down after 25 years at the Google-owned company.
Airtel 5G Plus now live in all north-eastern states
Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said that its 5G services are now live in all states in the north-east region and existing data plans will work on 5G until the roll-out is complete.
Reddit hacked in sophisticated, highly-targeted phishing attack
"As in most phishing campaigns, the attacker sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behaviour of our intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials and second-factor tokens," Slowe said.
WhatsApp leads digital accessibility in India among top 10 apps
Other apps audited in the report by The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, along with I-Stem and Mission Accessibility, include PhonePe, Paytm, Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon, Flipkart, Telegram, Uber and Ola.
Microsoft Edge to get Adobe Acrobat PDF tech in March
Microsoft has announced that with the software major Adobe, it is bringing Adobe Acrobat's PDF capabilities to more than 1.4 billion Windows users in Microsoft Edge next month.
Meta expands its monetisation feature 'Gifts' across US on Instagram
Meta has announced that it is expanding its Reels-focused monetisation feature 'Gifts' across the US on Instagram, offering a way for users to easily begin earning money from their audience.
SC directs WhatsApp to give wide publicity to its 2021 undertaking to Centre on privacy policy
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed WhatsApp to give wide publicity in the media that users aren't bound to accept its 2021 privacy policy and also WhatsApp's functionality would not be affected till the new data protection bill comes into effect.
Google's parent company Alphabet to lay off 12K employees
Joining the Big Tech league of Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, Google's parent company Alphabet is now laying off 12,000 employees, or about 6 per cent of its workforce, globally, the media reported on Friday.
Twitter suspends Koo's user query account
Elon Musk-owned Twitter has suspended the official user queries account of the homegrown microblogging platform Koo, @kooeminence, which now shows that the account has been suspended, and its tweets are no longer visible.
Twitter back to life after brief outage as Musk speeds up platform
Twitter came back to life after suffering a brief outage globally, including in India, on Sunday as Elon Musk said "Twitter is speeding up". Website outage tracker Downdetector reported several outages across the globe as users had issues with page loading.
Gmail goes down for millions, Google says mitigation underway
Google's Gmail service went down for millions of users globally, including in India, on Saturday as most of them complained about mails not being received. The company said mitigation was underway.
itel launches Magic X Pro with 4G high-speed hotspot that connects up to 8 devices
itel, a leading mobile brand for Bharat, on Friday announced the launch of Magic X Pro 4G Phone in India which is touted as a path-breaking initiative to provide superior connectivity experience to the consumers.
How three young informants made tech giant Google cough up Rs 1,338 cr fine
Three young informants, Umar Javeed, Aaqib and Sukarma Thapar finally forced the tech giant, Google to cough up a whooping fine of Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets with its Android mobile operating system.
Musk is now Twitter boss, fires Indian-origin CEO Agrawal, other top execs
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company's policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others.
Apple, Samsung to roll out 5G enabled services on mobiles by year-end
This was announced by the two major mobile phone makers on Wednesday after a meeting was convened jointly by Telecom and Electronics departments with mobile handset makers and mobile service providers to discuss issues related to 5G rollout.
No private users' data compromised in cyber breach: Uber
An 18-year-old hacker had broken into the internal systems of Uber, reaching company tools including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, and employees thought someone was playing a prank.
Google warns users to quickly update Chrome to avoid hacking risk
The tech giant said it is aware of reports that an exploit for 'CVE-2022-3075' exists in the wild, mentioning the vulnerability as "Insufficient data validation in Mojo" reported by an anonymous security researcher.
Irish regulator fines Instagram $402 mn over kids' privacy violation
Meta-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Biggest regret is that Twitter has become a company: Jack Dorsey
Meanwhile, Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, has claimed that the Agrawal-led platform lied about the actual number of bots on its platform and misled federal regulators about users' safety, creating a storm.
Twitter tells Tharoor-led parliamentary panel it follows strict data privacy
The committee will hear the views of individual/stakeholder/experts on issues related to digital platforms, technology and Gig economy relating to the subject of citizens' data security and privacy.