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Reddit has announced a new feature that gives users the ability to search comments, alongside a few other search-related features. According to Tech Crunch, the new feature helps users in searching for comments directly via a new ‘comments’ tab in the search bar, rather than having to click on several comments to find threads while

YouTube is adding new features to provide more creative options to Shorts creators. The Google-owned video platform is expanding YouTube Shorts to the Web (desktop and mobile browsers) and tablets. With the latest update, a new Shorts tab will appear across devices over the next few weeks allowing users to scroll through Shorts vertically. Additionally,

The Edit Tweet feature introduced by Twitter has been in the news for quite some time now. While there were concerns about the nature of the ‘Edit Tweet’ button, it appears that the new feature may leave a digital trace of your tweet’s history. According to The Verge, the edit function seems to have an ‘immutable’

Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter sparked concerns among Tesla investors and analysts that the electric carmaker could suffer as the chief executive becomes distracted by his takeover play and the possible sales of Tesla shares to fund the deal. The billionaire entrepreneur, who also heads rocket company SpaceX, targeted Twitter on Thursday with a $43

Twitter adopted a ‘poison pill’ on Friday to limit Elon Musk’s ability to raise his stake in the social media platform, as a buyout firm emerged to challenge his $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,250 crore) bid for the company. Thoma Bravo, a technology-focused private equity firm that had more than $103 billion (roughly Rs. 7,86,250 crore) in assets under

China’s internet watchdog on Friday started a two-month special campaign to clean up “chaos” in online livestreaming and short video businesses, part of a broader plan to promote what is deemed as appropriate and legal content. As the starting point, the focus will be to rectify content that is “pornographic, ugly, strange, fake, vulgar and

WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out new granular privacy controls to certain testers on the latest beta version of the app for iOS, that allows advanced management of privacy settings on the app. First spotted in development last year, the feature is designed to give users granular control over who can see their last seen, about,

Elon Musk, Twitter’s newest big shareholder, could alter the course of the social media company as management battles a set of proxy proposals focused on topics from civil rights to politics at its upcoming annual meeting, shareholder activists and corporate governance experts said. Whatever the outcome of Musk’s $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,250 crore) bid to

Meta is working on a Web version of its Horizon Worlds social metaverse platform, an executive teased on Thursday. The new development will expand the platform and take it beyond its existing form that works only with Quest VR headsets. Although the expansion is expected to make the virtual experience bigger and more accessible to

Elon Musk took the world by surprise with his proposal to buy Twitter. The Tesla boss has offered to acquire the social media platform for a whopping sum of $43 billion (roughly Rs. 3,28,080 crore) in an all-cash deal. Musk is one of Twitter’s largest shareholder, with a stake of 9.2 percent. People have flooded the microblogging

Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal sought to reassure employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday that the company was not being “held hostage” by news of Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. As Agrawal took questions from staff that were posted on the company’s Slack

Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter, saying the company has extraordinary potential and he will unlock it. The world’s richest man will pay $54.20 (roughly Rs. 4,120) per share in cash, representing a 54 percent premium over the January 28. closing price and a value of about $43 billion

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $2.9 million (roughly Rs. 22 crore) last year. In a fresh update, the same NFT gathered the highest bid at a shockingly small amount of $280 (roughly Rs. 21,000) earlier this week after its holder Sina Estavi listed it for a

Twitter has acquired the Dublin-based mobile engagement platform, OpenBack, to regulate and enhance device-side control of push notifications. It will join Twitter’s Bluebird product team and work towards enhancing notifications on the social media platform. Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s head of consumer product, took to the micro-blogging platform to announce the acquisition of OpenBack on Tuesday.

Clubhouse, the popular social audio chat app, announced that it has introduced a Wild Cards Game, to offer users a new way to hang out on the app. The new game feature will give you a deck of cards full of conversation ideas to liven up the room with a question-and-answer play that gets people

WhatsApp is found to be testing a dedicated Communities tab for its Android users. A screenshot suggesting the functionality of the new tab has appeared online. Alongside Android, WhatsApp is working on bringing the dedicated Communities tab to iOS, a previous report suggested. The instant messaging app is also found to be making it easier

Meta Platforms and Snap were sued over a teenager’s suicide in the latest effort by an advocacy group to hold the social media giants responsible for addiction to their platforms.Christopher James Dawley, who went by CJ, was a college-bound honours student who played sports and enjoyed outdoor activities, but he got so deeply drawn into social

Snapchat has announced a new Dynamic Stories feature within its Discover feed to highlight news and information for users. This feed option will allow users to view the world’s latest happenings on the platform as it breaks. The social media platform will create Stories from the content created by the verified media publishers and content

Zoom has unveiled new features for its Education users in response to requests from teachers and administrators. These features span Zoom’s chat and meeting offerings, including Virtual Background and Blur for Chromebooks, Anywhere Polls, and Breakout Room enhancements. The new features are designed to engage students in submitting homework assignments, as per the company, and

The moment Elon Musk posts something on Twitter, some scammers running different crypto scams respond to his tweets and try to steal some attention — and also money from his followers — by impersonating him. Bad actors use deceptive tactics such as using the same profile photo of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO that he