Insta to introduce payment feature within messages

Insta to introduce payment feature within messages

Instagram is getting a payment feature that will allow users to buy from small businesses through direct messages, parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has said.

Users of the photo-sharing app need to message the business, add customizations if required and place the order in the chat,...


Snap buys Netherland-based 3D scanning studio Th3rd

Snap to introduce web version of Snapchat app

Snap Inc. said on Monday it is introducing the web version of its photo messaging app Snapchat, allowing users to chat, snap and video call from their computers.

The company said that the feature will be exclusive to Snapchat+ subscribers beginning July 18 and will start with subscri...


Google to notify if users’ personal info appear in search

DOJ likely to rebuff Google sops to avoid antitrust suit

The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit over Google’s dominance of the online advertising market, according to people familiar with the matter. While Google has made at least one settlement offer to the Justice Department’s antit...


Twitter engineer fired for helping colleagues

Twitter services down for an hour on Thursday

Twitter services came back online on Thursday after an hour-long outage  that kept thousands of users across the globe from accessing the social media website.

The outage affected nearly 2,000 users as of 9 am ET (eastern time in the US), down from the peak of 50,000 incidents an hou...


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Twitter sues Elon Musk for cancelling deal

Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeovers of the social media company by accusing him of “outlandish” and “bad faith” actions that have caused the platform irreparable harm and “wreaked havoc” on its stock price. Back in April, Musk pledged to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, which a...