YouTube testing product for playing online games

YouTube mulls online store for streaming services

Alphabet Inc's YouTube is planning to launch an online store for streaming video services, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The company has renewed talks with entertainment companies about participating in the platform, which it is referring to internally as a "channel store", the WSJ report said Friday, citing people close to the recent...


Google opposes, Fb & Twitter support self-regs in India

Google opposes, Fb & Twitter support self-regs in India

Google has grave reservations about developing a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to hear user complaints, though the proposal has support from Facebook and Twitter, sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

India in June proposed appointing a g...


Snapchat to pay $50k to sound creators in India

Snap rolls out parental control; plans to lay off people

Snap Inc, owner of the popular messaging app Snapchat, rolled out its first parental control tools on Tuesday, which will allow parents to see who their teens are talking to, but not the substance of their conversations.

The new feature called Family Center is launching at a time whe...


Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams

Twitter users have ‘spoken’ on bots: Elon Musk

A poll by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that nearly 65 percent of his followers do not believe in Twitter's claim that less than five percent of daily users are fake/spam on the platform. Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal, last week b...


Meta secretly testing Twitch-like platform ‘Super’

Meta secretly testing Twitch-like platform ‘Super’

Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has been secretly testing Super, a live-streaming platform modeled after Twitch. As per ANI, Meta had reached out to influencers to test the platform, and they gave the publication information and a complete deck of slides that the business has been using to pitch the service to creators. Su...


WhatsApp rolls out new catalog feature

WhatsApp rolls out new catalog feature

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp may soon allow users to WhatsApp’s toolkit. As per ANI, the site also debuted Communities, a brand-new way to connect with individuals who share your interests, and raised the maximum number of participants in group talks from 100 to 512. Administrators and users reportedly want to keep track of those...