Instagram testing group mention feature for stories
San Francisco, Aug 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Meta-owned Instagram is testing a new group mention feature that will allow users to tag more than one person in a story using a single mention. In a post on…
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Musk puts up Twitter signs, other items for auction
San Francisco, Aug 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tech billionaire Elon Musk has put up signs and things from the Twitter building for an auction, just a few weeks after the company rebranded to X. The bidding for…
X close to breaking even, video calls arriving soon: CEO Linda Yaccarino
San Francisco, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino on Thursday said that the company is at the verge of breaking even, after it went through a massive churn in the last few…
Video calls arriving on X soon, confirms CEO Yaccarino
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday announced to soon bring video calling on its platform, as it aims to become an “everything app” like China’s WeChat. X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino…
Check Point acquires Perimeter 81 for $490 mn to boost its security tools
San Francisco, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Cyber-security company Check Point Software Technologies on Thursday announced it is acquiring Perimeter 81, a security service edge (SSE) company, for approximately $490 million. With this, Check Point will help…
22% of consumers bought fake goods endorsed by social media influencers: Study
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) About 22 per cent of consumers aged 16-60, who are active on social media, have purchased counterfeit goods endorsed by influencers, a new study said on Thursday. In the study,…
Indian startup workers get average salary hike of 8 to 12% in 2022-23: Report
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian startup employees received an average salary increment of 8 to 12 per cent in 2022-2023, with the variation attributable to individual and company performance, the quality and level of…
Amazon says digitised 62 lakh MSMEs, created over 13 lakh jobs in India to date
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amazon on Thursday said that it has cumulatively digitised over 62 lakh (6.2 million) micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), enabled nearly $8 billion in cumulative e-commerce exports and created…
Ola Electric registers whopping Rs 784cr loss in FY22
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) IPO-bound Ola Electric posted a net loss of Rs 784.1 crore in the financial year FY22, a four times jump from Rs 199.2 crore in FY21. The company finally published…
People with low levels of Vitamin K have less healthy lungs: Study
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) People with low levels of Vitamin K in their blood are more likely to have poor lung function and to say they suffer with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),…
AI-based automated microscope successfully detects malaria in travellers
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) An international team of researchers has tested the accuracy of an automated microscope, combined with AI software, to identify malaria parasites in blood samples of travellers in a true clinical…
After MPL, gaming startup Hike lays off employees amid 28% GST row
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) After the Mobile Premier League (MPL), gaming startup Hike became the second casualty of the government’s 28 per cent GST decision on online gaming, as Kavin Bharti Mittal-founded startup has…
RBI’s user friend technology focus on UPI in move towards cashless economy
Chennai, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Conversational, offline and enhancement of limits for small transactions in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are some of the measures for payment systems that the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta…
Google announces eSignature beta for Docs, Drive
San Francisco, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Google has announced that eSignature is now available as an open beta on Google Docs and Drive. In June last year, Google began alpha testing the ability to request and…
Top VC firms face lawsuit for ‘aiding and abetting’ collapsed crypto exchange FTX
San Francisco, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Several top venture capital firms like Temasek, Sino Global, and Softbank have been named as defendants in a class-action lawsuit filed by crypto investors in the US for their roles…
WHO designates ‘Eris’ Covid strain ‘variant of interest’ as cases rise globally
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated a new strain of Covid-19 — ‘EG.5’ or ‘Eris’ as a “variant of interest” as cases rise globally. “EG.5 is a descendent lineage…
India’s e-commerce industry witness 26% order volume growth in FY23: Report
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s e-commerce industry has recorded an impressive 26.2 per cent (year-over-year) order volume growth in FY-2023 supported by a 23.5 per cent rise in annual GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume) compared…
Metaverse could reach up to $900 bn by 2030: Report
New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Despite reports that the “metaverse-hype” is slowing down, the metaverse could reach up to $900 billion by 2030, a report said on Thursday. According to new research by Bain &…
Infosys to set up UP’s first Makers Lab at AKTU
Lucknow, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Software giant Infosys will set up Uttar Pradesh’s first Makers Lab at Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU). The lab will have Artificial Intelligence, Internet of things, Robotics and 3D…
Researchers find microplastics in human heart tissues before, after surgical procedures
San Francisco, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Researchers have found microplastics in many heart tissues of people who underwent heart surgery, a new study has shown. Microplastics are plastic fragments less than 5 millimetres wide, or about…