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Apple Drops Cryptocurrency Apps in India Following Legal Concerns

Apple has taken a significant step in its India operations by removing a selection of cryptocurrency apps from its App Store. This move comes in the wake of India’s Financial…

Critics Applaud New MacBook Air’s Bigger Screen: A Review Compilation

The unanimous verdict from tech critics points to the 15-inch MacBook Air as an unrivaled consumer laptop, primarily due to its larger display. Wired lauds Apple’s initiative to provide a…

Weird Apple Music iPhone dock bug sparks conspiracy theories

Have you recently installed Apple Music on your iPhone, only to find that the app is automatically appearing on the device dock – knocking another app off the dock in…

“Inappropriate” Ukraine posts deleted from China’s leading social networks

As might be expected given the circumstances, there has been plenty of chatter across the key social media platforms in China about Russia’s attack on Ukraine – even if the…

Ads “Most Likely” to Make People Cancel Video Streaming Subs

IBM’s Cloud Video division has published the results of a recent survey investigating the habits of subscribers to such video streaming services as Hulu and Netflix. Among the interesting revelations…

Twitter Estimates its User Base in China is About 10 Million

Unsurprisingly considering that it has been blocked in China since about 2009, Twitter has only a small user base in the East Asian country. However, an anonymous source inside Twitter…

iOS 10 Kernel Intentionally Left Unencrypted, Apple Reveals

Following this week’s discovery that the kernel – the core – of the preview version of iOS 10 is unencrypted, Apple has now confirmed to TechCrunch that it was left…

New Student Membership Option Discounts Apple Music by 50%

Today, a student membership option has been introduced for Apple Music, allowing students enrolled at an eligible college or university to enjoy the streaming service for just $4.99 per month….

Facebook Announces Roll Out of Group Calling in Messenger

Over the next 24 hours, group calling will roll out globally on the Facebook Messenger app on iOS and Android. The new feature will allow users to make a group…

Twitter’s First View Program to Allow More Visible Video Ads

Twitter today announced First View, an initiative aimed at helping marketers to bring their video adverts to the attention of a much higher number of the social media site’s users….

Apple Watch 2 Unlikely to Launch in March, Sources Suggest

If you’ve been putting off buying an Apple Watch due to rumors of the second generation model arriving soon, you might actually have to wait a little longer, according to…

PayPal Exec Poached to Run Comms for Facebook Messenger

Facebook already has a former PayPal worker as its Vice President of Messaging Products – and, now, Christina Smedley from the payment firm is set to join Facebook to run…

Google Reveals New Plans for Further Dismantling of Google+

Google+, the social networking arm launched by Google in 2011, hasn’t thrived like the search giant would have hoped. The company now seems to be accelerating the breakup of Google+,…