Those of you who have paid subscriptions to Google Drive may find that you have already been moved to Play Store for billing. Google wants to bring all its payment-related processes under one roof, in Play Store. This will help the company to maintain safety and security. #fintech #Google
Amazon users in Bangalore can now sell used products for a nominal fee. The ecommerce giant is looking at expanding the service to other Indian cities and will likely prove to be a worry for Olx, eBay and other such companies. This will also help Amazon to differentiate itself from Flipkart, its rival. #ecommerce #Amazon
Snapchat is bringing more controls and features to advertisers and it is using machine learning to do so. Advertisers just need to decide how much they want to spend and Snapchat will optimize the bidding to suit the advertiser’s needs. This goal-based bidding identifies users who are most likely to engage. #social #marketing
In a growing sign of technology arriving to academia, the Jammu and Kashmir government has announced School Management Information System (SMIS), an internet-based technology framework. This helps to automate end-to-end management of school education across the state. It also helps in data collection, analyzing and reporting of educational data from across the state. #edutech #SMIS
If you thought diamonds were a girl’s best friends, they may soon become a computer user’s best friends too. Physicists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia have begun to work on integrating diamonds into quantum computing,because of their structural properties. This will likely change the way we look at both our computers and how we plan to develop programs for them. #developer #Quantum
Most users have complained that they can’t edit their tweets on Twitter. In order to fix this issue, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has announced that the company is developing an edit function for tweets. Users have often written to Twitter demanding an edit function, much like Facebook offers its users. #social #Twitter
Music industry has long suffered from copyrights infringement issues, leading to losses of millions of dollars. Now, Facebook has begun to devise a new copyright ID system that will help in stopping music rights infringement. The technology is purported to be similar to Content ID, a feature of YouTube. #Facebook #Music
Inspired by Tor’s browser, Mozilla’s engineers have brought a security measure to Firefox 52. The new patch helps to stop websites from fingerprinting users using system fonts. This security feature will likely help more users to safeguard their information online. #Firefox #Security
India’s prime minister has just launched a Universal Payments Interface (UPI)-based app for people to send and receive money. The app is currently available only on Android devices and users of other operating systems will have to wait a while. The app is called BHIM and is expected to be a safe and secure method to send and receive money. #fintech #App
A Russian owned website aims to track down all your download history, especially the ones you download from torrent websites. The download history is based on your IP address and at the moment, there does not seem to be a way to stop this, unless you hide your IP. Read this article to learn more about this new security issue. #security #Website
