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TikTok Announces Shut Down of Separate TikTok Music App
25Sep By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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TikTok Announces Shut Down of Separate TikTok Music App

In news that will impact… well, very few people in all honesty, TikTok has announced that it’s shutting down its separate “TikTok Music” streaming app, after various operational challenges and limited user interest. TikTok Music was initially launched in India in late 2019, under its original name “Resso”, which aligned with TikTok’s own meteoric rise in the nation. And while TikTok was banned in India in 2020, somehow, Resso avoided the same restriction. Yet, even so, Indian users didn’t show a lot of interest in TikTok’s own streaming provider. And when the app was eventually banned by Indian authorities earlier this year, it was pretty much already on the outs as a viable alternative in the region. TikTok renamed Resso to “TikTok Music” last year (which may have led to its ban in I...
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Google Announces New AI Features Coming To Google Maps
2Dec By Matt G. SouthernNo Comments
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Google Announces New AI Features Coming To Google Maps

Google has announced several new AI-powered updates coming soon to Google Maps that aim to help users plan trips, navigate unfamiliar areas, find electric vehicle charging stations, and discover new places and activities. Immersive View The most visually advanced new feature is Immersive View for routes, providing users with a detailed preview of their journey from start to finish. Using advanced AI to fuse billions of Street View and aerial images, Google claims Immersive View will allow users to experience simulated journeys as if they were there. The Immersive View preview is an interactive experience, allowing users to explore routes from different vantage points, zoom, pan, and even change the time of day or weather conditions. This gives users a sense of what the journey will be like...
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X Announces That its Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st
22Sep By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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X Announces That its Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st

RIP Circles, the latest feature to be shut down as part of the transition of the app into X. Which is no surprise. X owner Elon Musk has been talking about getting rid of Circles for months, so really, it was just a matter of time. But now the X team has set an official end date. As per X: “X is deprecating Circles as of Oct 31st, 2023. After this date, you will not be able to create new posts that are limited to your Circle, nor will you be able to add people to your Circle.” Circles, which previous Twitter management first launched in May last year, was one of various projects that sought to better align in-app engagement with the broader shift of social interactions to more intimate groups, as opposed to public posting. Given that an increasing amount of users are now interacting this w...
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Google Announces 7 Local Search Updates
22Jan By Matt G. SouthernNo Comments
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Google Announces 7 Local Search Updates

At Google’s annual Search On conference, the company announced seven new features and updates to local search. These updates will significantly enhance how people explore neighborhoods, businesses, and restaurants in Google Search. The local search changes rolling out soon include: Search for restaurants by dish Discover restaurant specialties More support for digital menus Enhancements to Google Maps’ Live View Aerial views of famous landmarks Immersive view Neighborhood vibe checks Read all the details about these updates in the below sections. 1. Search For Restaurants By Dish Google is upgrading its restaurant search capabilities with the ability to find local places that serve a specific dish. The new search experience will allow you to enter a query like “soup dumplings near me,” and...
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Meta Announces Coming Digital Payment and NFT Options as it Advances Towards the Metaverse
22Jun By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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Meta Announces Coming Digital Payment and NFT Options as it Advances Towards the Metaverse

Given the current volatility in crypto markets, which have been intrinsically connected to the current NFT trend, it seems like a strange time for Meta to be making a bigger push on NFTs, and its various NFT projects across its apps. But that’s what it’s doing, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing coming digital payment options, and Meta previewing new NFT features, along with a new guide as to how NFTs work to help people get into the market. First off, on payments – as part of a broader confirmation of the re-naming of ‘Facebook Pay’ to ‘Meta Pay’ instead, Zuckerberg has also announced that Meta’s working on a new ‘wallet for the metaverse’ which will provide a more integrated way to securely manage your digital identity and purchases. As explained by Zuckerberg: “In the future the...
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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces Her Pending Exit from the Company
2Jun By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces Her Pending Exit from the Company

As Meta gradually evolves from Facebook, and focuses on the next stage of digital connection, it will be doing so without one of the company’s key leaders, with COO Sheryl Sandberg announcing today that she will leave the company in the next few months. In a long post on (of course) Facebook, Sandberg has provided an overview of her experiences working at The Social Network for the last 14 years, with Sandberg coming into the company in 2008, just four years after Mark Zuckerberg created the first iteration of the app in a Harvard dorm room. Sandberg has played a key role in developing Meta’s business, overseeing the introduction of its ads infrastructure, and acting as a central figure in almost every major update at the company ever since. The experience, as you would expect, has had ...
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Meta Announces ‘Recurring Notifications’ for Business Messaging, a Significant Shift in its Platform Approach
23May By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments
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Meta Announces ‘Recurring Notifications’ for Business Messaging, a Significant Shift in its Platform Approach

This is an unusual switch up in Meta’s business messaging rules. This week, at its first-ever ‘Conversations’ messaging conference, Meta announced ‘Recurring Notifications’ on its Messenger Platform, which will enable businesses to send ‘proactive, automated messages, to people who have opted in to receiving them’. As you can see here, businesses will soon be able to send recurring notifications to users that opt in, with the upfront prompts outlining the frequency of messages that they’ll likely receive if they choose to get them. Businesses will be able to send sales notifications, updates, newsletters – pretty much whatever they like, with the frequency options ranging from daily to monthly, ‘so businesses can reach customers at any moment in their journey’. Which is pretty much the ...
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Google Announces Closure of Google Play Music | by Tapaan Chauhan | Dec, 2020
27Dec By Tapaan ChauhanNo Comments
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Google Announces Closure of Google Play Music | by Tapaan Chauhan | Dec, 2020

Google has announced the closure of its popular Google Play Music service. The Google Play Music service is first shutting down in countries like New Zealand, South Africa from September. Later, this service will be stopped in all other regions from the month of October. If the company believes, then by December, this service will be stopped entirely. After this, users will not be able to use the content of Google Play Music nor transfer it.1. 3 Tips for your Voice and Chatbot Program from Gartner’s Customer Service Hype Cycle 20202. Deploying Watson Assistant Web Chat in Salesforce Lightning Console3. Are Chatbots Vulnerable? Best Practices to Ensure Chatbots Security4. Your Path to AI — An IBM Developer SeriesAlbeit, Google Play Music started allowing its users to transfer literally ever...
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