Slack Technologies Inc. closed a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, giving it more ammunition for expansion in an increasingly competitive market for workplace messaging services. The financing round values the startup at $5.1 billion, up from $3.8 billion the last time. The Vision Fund is joined by Accel and other investors, […]
With over 300 million smartphone users in India and rapidly improving connectivity, the internet is becoming a daily part of life for many Indians. That includes messaging friends and family, searching the web for information, reading news, watching music videos, or playing games. But when it comes to paying for things in the real world […]
We recently determined that older versions of our Piriform CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 had been compromised. We estimate that 2.27 million people used the affected software. We resolved this quickly and believe no harm was done to any of our users. This compromise only affected customers with the 32-bit version of the v5.33.6162 […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook today opened Apple’s fall iPhone event with a touching tribute to ex-CEO Steve Jobs. It’s fitting. The stage Cook stood on, after all, was the focal point of a new theater bearing Jobs’ name. Apple Watch Watch, according to Cook, has grown 50 percent over the previous year. It’s now the number one […]
The Facebook-owned messaging service is planning to eventually start invoicing companies for recently introduced features that help bridge the gap between businesses and consumers, WhatsApp COO Matt Idema told Fox Business. “We want to put a basic foundation in place to allow people to message businesses and for them to get the responses that they want,” Idema […]
Opera Max, the app that allowed users to manage and reduce data usage across their Android mobile phone applications, was initially released in 2014. Opera has now decided to discontinue Opera Max. The product had a substantially different value proposition than our browser products, and represented a different focus for Opera. We, therefore, focus on our […]
WhatsApp released its status feature earlier this year for iOS and Android devices. The company has now rolled out the feature for the desktop version of the app too. The company was reportedly working on the feature for last three months, and it has finally launched as a part of WhatsApp Web update version 0.2.5854. Users […]
Have you ever wondered how many people were watching the same video as you at the same time? Well, if YouTube’s test goes as it should, you may not have to for very long. The latest YouTube server-side test we’ve spotted brings live watch counts to the Android app. The new test is self-explanatory; it’ll […]