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A long-awaited photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc., Instagram’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ finally saw the light of the day. The new feature is now a part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, and the app now works beyond the camera.Create is a feature that makes Instagram a more ‘ubiquitous’ social network. However, be it as it may, this social network has the possibility to modify to a wider range of content formats.As for now,...

After long waiting, Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally officially confirmed that its upcoming next-generation console will indeed be called PlayStation 5 and will be ‘launching in time for Holiday 2020’.We have already reported of Microsoft and Sony that decided to merge in order to fight competition from Amazon and Google in the provision of cloud gaming services that are expected to take the gaming world by storm in the near future.Playstation never had imaginative names. Since the...

Apple has officially revealed that its new OS is now available. Called the macOS Catalina, the release comes with more than a few new features which Apple promises will give its users an unmatched experience. Two of the major changes to the macOS are the addition of a new option called the Sidecar, as well as the discontinuation of the popular media access software, iTunes.Per the official Apple announcement, the Sidecar feature is a simple extension to the Mac screen. Specifically, it lets...

PopSugar Inc an American media and technology company that is also the parent to the media property PopSugar, the shopping platform ShopStyle, and a monthly subscription business PopSugar Must Have was acquired by Group Nine, on Tuesday.The companies said the latest acquisition happened with a belief that they can spread their network and arrange a bigger scale in order to do better in selling online ads (Facebook and Google are rulers in this field so far).Sources familiar with the whole...

A micro-mobility company based in Santa Monica, California, Bird, recently closed a $275 million round in order to help put itself in a leading position in the electric scooter market. However, smaller European rivals also managed to raise money to grow their own business. German startup dubbed Tier Mobility, that manages 20,000 scooters in 40 cities in 12 countries, managed to raise $60 million, funding that, by the words of Tier’s co-founder and CEO Lawrence Leuschner, are to be invested in...

Apple recently announced and later released its new range of products including the iPhone 11 series. These products, especially when they are newly released, are usually priced considerably high, even though said prices may not necessarily quell what is now recognized as a persistent public hunger for the company’s new products. However, one of the industry’s top analysts has said that Apple will launch a much cheaper version, which should be publicly available sometime in the first quarter...

On Thursday, after Facebook announced its new Threads app, Snap Inc. (SNAP) stock fell up to 7%. Facebook’s latest attempt to clone features already being used by Snapchat is only one of many, which has since pitched both social media giants together in the public eye.Even though Threads is a stand-alone app, it allows users already on Instagram to exchange status updates and media including photos and videos, to specific people who make up their “close friends”, an Instagram feature which...

Bird, a startup that rents out electric scooters, has acquired an extra $275 million in Series D funding round led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital. After raising that amount at a valuation of $2.5 billion, the company claims that is a testament to its effort to improve its unit economics.Notably, the new funding raises Bird’s post-money valuation to almost $2.8 billion. This funding round comes just a few months after reports emerged that Bird wanted to raise a Series D round at a $2.5 billion...

Internet advertising startup IronSource has reportedly raised over $400m in fresh capital from the prestigious investment firm CVC Capital Partners which has in exchange acquired a 25% minority stake in the firm. As indicated by sources, the firm is now valued at around $1.55 Billion which represents a coming of age for the Israeli technology company.Before now, the company has raised capital from various partners who enabled it to gain a foothold in the mobile app monetization market. From...

Photo: MicrosoftOn Thursday we reported of Microsoft unveiling its next generation of Surface devices including the dual-screen Surface Neo tablet and the Microsoft Surface Duo, a smaller device that seems to be for all intents and purposes a new Microsoft foldable phone.We also said that Surface Duo will have Android instead of Windows OS. However, Neo will brag with the new variation of Microsoft’s operating system to keep track of: Windows 10X.Microsoft is constantly trying to push its...