Apple Music has surpassed 60 million subscribers globally in the past four years since its launch in 2015, company’s iTunes chief Eddy Cue has said. Cue said this in an interview with French media site Numerama, and added that “in the Apple ecosystem, Apple Music is the number one streaming … Read More
To further streamline videos based on the content that interests users, Google-owned video-sharing app YouTube has decided to give users more control over their Home page and Up Next videos. As part of the changes, YouTube would now let users explore more topics and related videos on their Home page … Read More
Nearly 25% of the Indian consumers prefer to watch content on the over the top (OTT) platforms for free, says a report. OTT refers to film and television content provided via an internet connection rather than a cable or satellite provider. As many as 25% of Indian respondents want to … Read More
India is a key growth market for Alexa’s global team at Amazon and witnessing the potential, the team is working on to introduce more regional language capabilities in the voice-based assistant that has stormed the living rooms in the country. Though the smart speaker is a relatively young product in … Read More
Software giant Microsoft is bringing its traditionally console-centric subscription service Xbox Game Pass to Windows 10. The company is promising a new, “curated library” with more than 100 titles from various third-party developers including Bethesda, Deep Silver, Devolver Digital, Paradox Interactive and Sega, Engadget reported on Thursday. Phil Spencer, Head … Read More
US-based Amazon is bringing in a new Alexa Privacy Hub that will allow users to delete recordings on all Alexa-enabled devices using a simple voice command as it looks to allay concerns around privacy. Currently, a user has to go to the app to delete Alexa recordings one by one, … Read More
Facebook has removed more than three billion fake accounts in the October 2018-March 2019 period, saying that about 5% of its monthly active users were fake. Facebook disabled 1.2 billion accounts in Q4 2018 and 2.19 billion in Q1 2019. “For fake accounts, the number of accounts we took action … Read More
India offers great potential for Google-owned YouTube’s growth and the latest in the journey is YouTube Music that has been downloaded more than 15 million times in the country, CEO Sundar Pichai has said. Admitting that recent ad product changes in YouTube and Search are hurting its top-line growth, the … Read More
Amazon Pay on Monday launched person-to-person (P2P) payments for Android users who can now make instant bank-to-bank transfers using the UPI platform on the Amazon app. Amazon customers can also pay bills, rent and various daily subscriptions, the company said in a statement. “With this launch, we have the largest … Read More
The TV and the broadcasting industry has been filled with unrest lately especially after the introduction of the new tariff regime by Trai. As such, the affinity of subscribers and TV viewers has increased a little bit towards OTT applications and video on demand applications. The viewers who were consuming … Read More
Google-owned YouTube is now offering its music streaming service for free on Google Home as well as other Assistant-powered smart speakers. “With YouTube Music and Google Home, you can ask Google Home to play the right music for any moment or mood and YouTube Music will play the perfect station,” … Read More
A day after admitting it “unintentionally” uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored on its servers in a readable format. Last month, Facebook said that it fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users’ passwords were stored … Read More
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