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TikTok owner ByteDance is testing a new music app in emerging markets as it tries to pull off another global sensation akin to its viral video-sharing service.Called Resso, the new app is now available in India and Indonesia, two of Asia's most populous countries and places already keenly familiar with TikTok....

WhatsApp will stop working on millions of older mobile devices globally as the company has withdrawn support for such phones. The users on Windows Phones will be locked out forever after December 31, said Facebook. From February 1, 2020, any iPhone running iOS 8 or older will no longer be...

Hike Sticker Chat app that debuted to offer sticker recommendations in place of text messages has surpassed the mark of two million weekly active users. The app was launched in April this year as a spin-off of the original Hike app that was meant to compete against the likes of...

Google Maps Getting Incognito Mode on iOSGoogle has started rolling out "Incognito" mode to iOS to stop searches or places a user navigates to in Maps from being saved to their Google account. Users won't see personalised features within the app like a restaurant recommendation when the incognito mode is...

Fortnite Will Not Receive Exemption From Play Store's 30 Percent Cut, Google SaysSearch engine giant Google has made it clear that it will not provide Epic Games and Fornite an exception as it expects all developers to participate under the same terms. Epic Games had submitted Fortnite to Google Play...

Google Play Movies Could Roll Out Dolby Vision HDR Support SoonWhile the idea of 4K resolution content is now quite common and easy to access, high dynamic range movies and TV shows are still picking up in popularity. One of the two popular HDR formats is Dolby Vision, developed by...

To help you walk towards home safely, Google Maps is reportedly planning on adding a new feature to its service to highlight brightly lit streets. Google is said to add a new layer to show the street with lighting to make its users' commute safer. The streets that are lit...

Uber provided many numbers this week when it released its first-ever safety report, tallying thousands of incidents of sexual assault and death among its drivers and passengers.Now come the questions the 84-page report didn't answer.CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sat down with me in Uber's San Francisco headquarters to follow up on...

WhatsApp has begun the rollout of an update for its Android app that brings a highly useful feature – call waiting. As the name clearly suggests, this features alerts users when they receive a WhatsApp call when they are already in the middle of another WhatsApp call with someone else....

Adobe has announced that it is buying Oculus Medium, a virtual reality authoring tool born from Facebook's Oculus division, in bid to build up its VR strategy. Presently, Medium is being used by game developers, indie VR developers, feature film concept artists, VFX artists, makers, and more.Adobe intends to use...