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Social media giant Instagram has announced the start of a pilot programme that will eliminate the Recent tab from the hashtag search result. According to a report by Mashable, Instagram also claims its redesign as a basis for connecting individuals to more information about social movements involving hashtags. The company has decided to prioritise the presentation

Zoom is bringing new updates with features to make web calls easier and a lot more convenient. Some among this range of features include Gesture Recognition, Zoom IQ for Sales, improved Zoom Whiteboard, and Backstage for Zoom Events. Be it recording your response through a raised hand gesture, or using a whiteboard or sticky note

Twitter-rival Koo on Wednesday said it has become the first significant social media platform to publish the philosophy and workings behind its core algorithms, thereby empowering users to understand why they are seeing the content that they do. These algorithms were made public on Koo’s website, according to a statement. Algorithms are a set of

Instagram has received a new feature ahead of Earth Day on April 22, i.e. ‘Fundraise on Instagram Reels’. With the help of this feature, Instagram is rolling out an option for users to create and donate to fundraisers through reels. This feature will be available in more than 30 countries, and users can donate to more

Elon Musk is willing to invest between $10 billion (roughly Rs. 76,435 crore) and $15 billion (roughly Rs. 1,14,664 crore) of his own money to take Twitter private, the New York Post reported on Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The billionaire, who is Twitter’s second-biggest shareholder with a 9.1 percent stake, is

Elon Musk took a swipe at the board of Twitter on Monday after the social media company adopted a “poison pill” to protect itself from the second-biggest shareholder’s $43 billion ( roughly Rs. 3,28,470 crore) cash buyout offer. “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year (roughly Rs. 22 crore) saved right there,” Musk tweeted

WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new polling feature for group members on iOS. The functionality will allow users to create polls within the group quickly on the Meta-owned instant messaging platform with possible options. The latest update is reportedly spotted on the WhatsApp beta for iOS 22.9.0.70 update. WhatsApp is reportedly planning to add

Intelligence agencies have unearthed a cybersecurity breach by military officials which is suspected to be linked to espionage-related activities by a neighbouring country. Responding to an ANI query on the cybersecurity breach issue, defence sources said: “The military and intelligence agencies have unearthed a cybersecurity breach by some military officials, which is likely to be

Reddit has announced a new feature that gives users the ability to search comments, alongside a few other search-related features. According to Tech Crunch, the new feature helps users in searching for comments directly via a new ‘comments’ tab in the search bar, rather than having to click on several comments to find threads while

YouTube is adding new features to provide more creative options to Shorts creators. The Google-owned video platform is expanding YouTube Shorts to the Web (desktop and mobile browsers) and tablets. With the latest update, a new Shorts tab will appear across devices over the next few weeks allowing users to scroll through Shorts vertically. Additionally,

The Edit Tweet feature introduced by Twitter has been in the news for quite some time now. While there were concerns about the nature of the ‘Edit Tweet’ button, it appears that the new feature may leave a digital trace of your tweet’s history. According to The Verge, the edit function seems to have an ‘immutable’

WhatsApp is found to be making it easier for businesses to create new orders for customers available on the platform. The new experience would let business users add items that they are selling to a customer in the chat screen. WhatsApp is said to be currently testing the feature internally, though some of its references

Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter sparked concerns among Tesla investors and analysts that the electric carmaker could suffer as the chief executive becomes distracted by his takeover play and the possible sales of Tesla shares to fund the deal. The billionaire entrepreneur, who also heads rocket company SpaceX, targeted Twitter on Thursday with a $43

Twitter adopted a ‘poison pill’ on Friday to limit Elon Musk’s ability to raise his stake in the social media platform, as a buyout firm emerged to challenge his $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,250 crore) bid for the company. Thoma Bravo, a technology-focused private equity firm that had more than $103 billion (roughly Rs. 7,86,250 crore) in assets under

China’s internet watchdog on Friday started a two-month special campaign to clean up “chaos” in online livestreaming and short video businesses, part of a broader plan to promote what is deemed as appropriate and legal content. As the starting point, the focus will be to rectify content that is “pornographic, ugly, strange, fake, vulgar and

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out new granular privacy controls to certain testers on the latest beta version of the app for iOS, that allows advanced management of privacy settings on the app. First spotted in development last year, the feature is designed to give users granular control over who can see their last seen, about,

Elon Musk, Twitter’s newest big shareholder, could alter the course of the social media company as management battles a set of proxy proposals focused on topics from civil rights to politics at its upcoming annual meeting, shareholder activists and corporate governance experts said. Whatever the outcome of Musk’s $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,250 crore) bid to

Meta is working on a Web version of its Horizon Worlds social metaverse platform, an executive teased on Thursday. The new development will expand the platform and take it beyond its existing form that works only with Quest VR headsets. Although the expansion is expected to make the virtual experience bigger and more accessible to