Tag: users
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Steam Now Locks Out Chat Prior To Payment
There’s always been a certain lingering problem of fake or bot accounts on game distribution service Steam. There are occasionally benefits to subscribing with a separate account on the game app, but now owner Valve has decided that in order to fully use the service and messaging functions users must spend a minimum amount of […]
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33% Of US Teens Are On Google+
A study over in the US has shown that increasing amount of teenagers are heading over to underdog social network Google+. However, youth figures from the US still reflected what we already know – youngsters in one of the world’s biggest social media using areas still prefer Facebook. Other social networks such as Instagram and […]
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Twitter Adds Feature Explaining Hashtags
Twitter hashtags can get pretty obscure – the text limit and acronyms often leave users confused as just to what the topic is about. Often a quick Google search is in order, but sometimes you want to hear what the company itself has to say about a particular hashtag. Twitter’s now defunct Discover tab previously […]
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Pirates Won’t Get Free Windows 10 Upgrade
It’s not a great idea to pirate your operating system these days, especially a Microsoft one. Whilst of course there are ways to circumvent the law, you can’t run and hide from the anti piracy measures forever. In fact, as is the case with the upcoming Windows 10, anti piracy measures are going to be […]
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WhatsApp Grows To 700 Million Users
WhatsApp has been going forward in leaps and bounds with regards to user numbers – the messaging network now boasts a user base of 700 million, and apparently messages sent on the service every day total to around 30 billion. The numbers we see today in the tech world get more staggering every year, and […]
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WIndows 10 Logs 1 Million Testers
Microsoft’s Windows 10 preview has been open for around a week, and has allowed a massive number of users to get their hands on the brand new version of Windows, an operating system which ‘runs on everything’, according to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO. The Windows Insider program lets users get hold of and test new […]
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Facebook to Help Local Trade With New Ads
Facebook has recent push for better on location advertising has come through recently, as the site’s new system for targeting advertisement to users for businesses in their local area has now gone live. The new system allows small businesses and shops to pay to advertise to people within a small mile radius area, with adverts showing […]
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Flickr No Longer Allow Facebook and Google Sign-ins
Now Yahoo have taken control of image sharing site Flickr their strict ‘no competitors’ policy has taken effect, meaning that now, unfortunately, Google accounts and Facebook profiles will not be able to log into the site to use the service. Regarding Flickr’s purchase by Yahoo in 2005, apparently “Yahoo bought it and murdered it and […]
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Spotify has 40 Million active monthly users with 10 million paying subscribers!
Spotify has today confirmed that has over 10 million paying subscribers globally for the music streaming service with a whopping 40 million active monthly users for non-premium service alone. The Swedish company has announced the figures, which showcase just how big the service has got in its 6 years of activity. The service was originally […]
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WhatsApp hits 500 Million users – 50 Million news under Facebook!
“What’s cooler than a Million users, 500 Million users” Yes it’s a cliché now, but Facebook’s purchase of free messenger service WhatsApp has allowed us to use the Social Networks quotes when talking about WhatsApp’s success. WhatsApp have confirmed that they have passed the 500 Million users Milestone today, which is half the way to […]
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Facebook has 1 billion mobile users and over 200 million Instagram users!
With Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg chatting about their latest purchase in the form of the virtual reality company Oculus, the social network founder also mentioned a few interesting points about Facebook (and Instagram) too. During a conference call to announce the Oculus VR purchase, Zuckerberg revealed that Instagram now has a user base of over 200 million […]
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Massive security breach sees 4.6 million Snapchat user details posted online
Users of the Snapchat app in North America may have been put at risk as a massive database containing the phone numbers, usernames and locations of 4.6 million users has been posted online. The huge security issue for Snapchat occurred after the profile data of millions of users was uploaded and started to appear on […]