Category: <span>Tech News</span>

Instagram  this morning announced the global expansion of its Instagram Shopping service across IGTV. The product, which lets you watch a video then check out with a few taps, offers creators and influencers a way to more directly monetize their user base on Instagram, while also giving brands a way to sell merchandise to their followers....

Google has just announced an updated version of its Live View function within the Google Maps app, enhancing the overall augmented reality experience for greater functionality. The news was published in a recent blog post in which the tech giant announced a number of updates that will bring even greater convenience to users, with the most important upgrade being landmark...

Uber Technologies Inc said on Friday New York-based private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group would invest $500 million in its logistics arm, Uber Freight, valuing the unit at $3.3 billion on a post-money basis. The ride-hailing firm said it would maintain majority ownership of Uber Freight, and use the funds to scale its logistics platform...

Facebook promised that it would make messaging easier across all of its apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp) last year, and we’ve already seen evidence that the company was working on integrating Facebook Messenger with Instagram. The company has made that move official, introducing what it’s calling a new Messenger experience on Instagram. We already reported on the integration when it was...

President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 result has made Twitter  a busy place in the past 24 hours, including some tweets that have publicly wished — some subtly and others more directly — that he die from the disease caused by coronavirus. Twitter put out a reminder to folks that it doesn’t allow tweets that wish or hope...

Google will start paying select media outlets to display curated content on its news app in a concession to the industry which has accused the search engine and other tech giants of unfairly using content for years. The company has set aside more than $1 billion (R16.5 billion) to cover the program’s first three years,...

Our youth unemployment crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, but this is not news. High unemployment has been the status quo for so long that it seems to have become acceptable. Let’s be clear: high unemployment is entirely unacceptable, especially when we realise that 58% of our population is classified as...

If you’ve been on LinkedIn recently, you may have noticed several new updates. The website has a new design, and updated search and messenger functions, among other things.  But one of the most notable features is the addition of “LinkedIn stories” — a tool that lets you, much like Instagram or Snapchat, post minute-by-minute updates...

Twitter said Tuesday a service that monitors tweets for police, alerting them to brewing social justice protests and more, does not break the platform’s ban on being used for surveillance. Twitter defended letting the service, Dataminr, tap into the flow of public tweets to send alerts to police or other government agencies about plans for...

A new WhatsApp update will allow users to delete an image, video or gif on someone else’s phone after sending it to them.  The Expiring Media feature, first spotted by the website WaBetaInfo, causes media to disappear after being viewed within a chat. In order to enable the feature, the sender needs to select a “view once”...