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TikTok has launched a new in-app feature called Donation Stickers. These make it easy to donate to charity without ever leaving the TikTok app. And the first charities supported through Donation Stickers have all been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Helping Charities Survive the Coronavirus Crisis The current COVID-19 crisis has affected almost every country

With populations around the world either in lockdown and/or following social distancing rules, video chat has suddenly become much more popular. And Google is responding to that explosive uptick in interest by making Google Meet free for everyone to use. How to Use Google Meet for Free In a post on The Keyword, Google announced

At one point in time, Facebook forced you to hand over your phone number in order to set up 2FA (two-factor authentication). However, since 2018, Facebook has no longer required you to provide a phone number, meaning anyone can now use 2FA on Facebook. For the uninitiated, two-factor authentication offers an extra layer of security

When trying to stay in touch with friends, you aren’t limited to video chats. You can actually spend time in the same room as your friends without seeing them in real life. Do you want to hang out with your friends in a virtual space? Then convince them to invest in a VR headset, and

Anchor has launched a new video-to-audio conversion feature which lets you turn your video chats into audio podcasts. This means that you can hang out with friends on Zoom or Google Meet (now free for everyone) Everyone Can Now Use Google Meet for Free With the use of video chat apps exploding in recent weeks,

Since June 2019, Skype has let you share your screen on mobile. This was a popular feature on desktop, which led Microsoft to add screen sharing to the Skype mobile app for Android and iOS as well. And in this article we’ll show you how to do it. Microsoft has allowed you to share your

Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook and its Messenger platform were hacked. A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform. Facebook’s Instagram account was also hacked through third-party platform, and a photo of the hackers’ group was posted.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube have refused to pull down an edited video posted by US President Donald Trump that showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up a copy of the former’s State of the Union address. The five-minute video, posted on Trump’s social media accounts, shows Pelosi tearing up the speech while Trump honoured

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Advertisement Do you love posting your photos on Instagram, but wish you could do so using your PC or Mac? Since the service focuses on mobile, uploading to Instagram from your computer isn’t easy. But don’t worry: you have

Facebook said on Friday production of its Oculus virtual reality headset would be hit by the recent coronavirus outbreak, which has weighed on businesses dependent on Chinese supply lines. Earlier in January, the world’s largest social media network started restricting its employees from travelling to China, in the face of rising death toll from the

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Want to download a public video off Facebook? You have no shortage of options. There are dozens of sites and you can also download them straight from Facebook without any third-party tools. But how do you download a private

WhatsApp Pay, which is so far available to India users under a pilot, has secured a licence from National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to kick off a phased rollout in the country, according to a media report. The new development would allow WhatsApp to grow its payments service that uses the government’s Unified Payments

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Snapchat remains one of the most popular multimedia messaging apps on the planet. And you can even make your own Snapchat filter. So, in this article, we detail how to make a Snapchat filter. With Snapchat geofilters, you can

Snap, the parent company of social media app Snapchat, on Thursday rolled out support for five additional Indian languages Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. These join the four Indian languages – Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi – that are being supported since last year. With expanded support for vernacular, the company is hoping that

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. It’s hard to look back and remember a time when the world operated on SMS. Services like WhatsApp have made chatting with your friends and family easier than ever. However, that ease of communication has come at a price.

Chinese short-video making platform TikTok is testing a user profile redesign similar to Facebook-owned photo and video-sharing platform Instagram. “We are always looking for ways to improve the user experience on TikTok. We are currently testing profile designs and functionality to ultimately give users more ways to personalize and engage with their profiles,” a TikTok

Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s “contacts upload” feature. In a statement published on its privacy blog, Twitter said it had identified a “high volume of requests” to use

Mark Zuckerberg has made his long-time friend Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of file hosting service Dropbox, one of the members of Facebook board of directors. Zuckerberg and Houston have been friends for several years, appearing in photos together at birthday parties and other events. “Houston brings valuable perspective to our board as a leader

Facebook said on Tuesday it plans to add new tools and features for parental control in its messaging app for users under the age of 13, months after questions rose about application’s privacy protection for children. The new features will include access for parents to see their children’s chat history and will allow them to keep

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg put out word Monday that she is engaged to marry, nearly five years after being widowed. The social network’s number two executive announced her engagement to the head of a consulting firm, Tom Bernthal. In a post on her page at the leading online social network, Sandberg proclaimed herself engaged

Snap missed Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue on Tuesday as it faced tough competition from digital advertising giants Google and Facebook, sending its shares down 10 percent. Snap, which owns the popular photo messaging app Snapchat, had earlier warned its peak advertising demand period between Black Friday and the December holidays had one fewer

Twitter unveiled a plan Tuesday to curb the spread of manipulated content including “deepfake” videos as part of a move to fight misinformation which could result in violence or other harm. The policy was announced after Twitter asked for comments last year on ways to reduce “synthetic and manipulated media” on the online platform that

Deluged by misinformation about the new coronavirus on social media, some Asian governments are fighting back with arrests, fines and fake news laws – something free speech advocates fear will entrench measures that can also silence dissent. At least 16 people have been arrested over coronavirus posts in Malaysia, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong,

Match Group missed Wall Street’s quarterly revenue estimates on Tuesday, as sequential subscriber growth on its popular dating app, Tinder, fell to its lowest in at least a year, sending shares down 10 percent after the bell. The online dating service provider also forecast first-quarter revenue in the range of $545 million to $555 million, below

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Dom Hofmann, the co-founder of the long-lost but never-forgotten Vine, has launched Byte. This is a new way to create and share short videos. So Byte is not only the spiritual successor to Vine, but also direct competition to

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Advertisement Kik is a popular messaging app for Android and iOS, but it isn’t for everyone. So, if its appeal has faded for you, it may be time to delete or deactivate your Kik account. This may be because none

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Facebook has launched a new tool which puts you more in control of your data. Called the Off-Facebook Activity tool, this shows you which websites and apps are sharing your data with Facebook. It also lets you clear your

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Advertisement Lots of businesses errantly use a Facebook profile rather than a Facebook Page to interact with their followers, customers, and sales leads. But this isn’t a good idea. Facebook profiles have a more limited set of features than

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Pinterest has launched a new feature called Try On. This uses augmented reality (AR) technology to let you virtually try on makeup before you buy it. Which should enable you to try different brands and shades before you spend

Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Twitter is full of great videos. But how do you save them for posterity? While tweets can feel temporary, you might want to save videos you have seen on your timeline. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t offer a native way to