Facebook recently gave millions of North American users a great reason to leave the platform, and now it applies to the whole world. Thankfully, there’s also a great new reason to stay. Facebook continues to give users greater control over their content. NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook’s Data Transfer Project (DTP) tool is now available to all users worldwide, providing billions of users with an easy way to export all their photos and videos directly to Google Photos without having to download them first. After an initial trial in Ireland last year, the DTP tool received a staged release to…
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Approximately 147,000 people have been rejected for student loan forgiveness. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loan Forgiveness: Debt Statistics The U.S. Department of Education, which is led by Betsy DeVos, released the latest statistics for public service loan forgiveness: As of April 30, 2020, 150,545 student loan borrowers have submitted 196,046 applications for public service loan forgiveness. Of that total, approximately 180,798 applications have been processed. Another 15,248 applications are pending. Of the applications processed total, 3,376 have been approved and 177,422 have been rejected. Of approved applications, 74% of borrowers work for the government and 26% work for non-profit organizations. How many…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp for JioPhone is set to get a big feature as the team behind KaiOS is working towards letting users add status messages, the media has reported. This would let its users upload photos, videos, or GIFs as statuses for 24 hours. According to Joe Grinstead, who leads software engineering for WhatsApp on KaiOS, the status feature for JioPhones is at “Gold Master” stage that means the feature would see the light of the day soon, according to an Android Central report. The team is also working to introduce more useful features to the platform over the coming months.…
After Twitter gave one of President Trump’s tweets a modest reality check, the president threatened to “shut down” social media companies, personally targeted a Twitter employee, and signed an executive order that would affect the entire internet. It’s the latest salvo in a long-simmering feud between the president and his favorite social media platform. Although he has more than 80 million followers and has been on Twitter since 2009, Trump has long complained about what he considers anti-conservative bias on the platform (but without citing evidence). Twitter had elected not to delete or modify Trump’s tweets, even when they violated…
MUMBAI : Suryoday Small Finance Bank Ltd has raised ₹62.14 crore in equity funding through a private placement offer from five of its existing investors including Gaja Capital, private insurer Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co. Ltd, said a senior official at the scheduled commercial bank in an exclusive interaction. Three other investors that helped the Navi Mumbai based bank in raising funds include — Impact investor Lok Capital, New York-based financial services firm Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association fund (TIAA), and Kolkata-based LNB Group’s investment arm Kiran Vyapar. “Maintaining our capital adequacy is one of the key focus areas amid…
TL;DR: Turn your social media skills into a career with the 2020 Social Media Marketing Bootcamp Certification Bundle for $29.99, a 98% savings as of May 27. You know what’s weird? Only ten years ago, Facebook was just starting to explode in popularity, Myspace was near death, and Instagram didn’t even exist. Fast forward to today and you can make a full-blown career out of managing content on social media. My how things have changed. Businesses of all shapes and sizes are constantly searching for talented folks to market their products and services on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.…
As we switch from fear to a gradual state of restart, the questions about family finances after Covid-19 are stark. The going is too tough for some families, and easy for the fortunate. However, the recast view of income, spending, saving and investing is tough to miss. Those four pillars of household finance have changed drastically. Risks to income are the most significant. The migrants struggling to get home have lost their livelihood. It is unclear if they will find work in their villages; it is unknown if there are better times ahead when they will comfortably travel back to…
The creators of a new, grassroots social media app want to remind users that the current big name platforms such as Facebook and Twitter often push less than 5% of their chosen content to friends and followers. That means, on the other end of the equation, that user is only seeing a fraction of the posts from the people and pages they follow. To return social media to a concept of friends, families and followers, the new app AllSocial is a platform promising to operate without algorithms limiting the reach of content. The service will not filter or highlight content…
New Delhi: Epic Games` digital videogame store is the talk of the town in the last couple of days. So much has been the rush around the gaming store that Epic Games` digital videogame store crashed down as gamers thronged the online site for free access to Grand Theft Auto V. The Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is available on PC for free. Media reports, first appeared in Gamepressure, said that the GTA V will be available for free on the Epic Games Store between May 14 and May 21. Here are few simple steps you can use to…
Former Arsenal forward Ian Wright has revealed that he was recently subjected to vile racial abuse on popular social media platform Instagram. Wright on Monday shared screenshots of the sickening messages he received on Instagram as he received support from top personalities related to football and others as well. One of the messages he received, read: “Your (sic) like 65 years old if I get corona I will cough in your face and give you your death sentence. If I see you I will put you on your death bed.” After receiving such taunts, Wright took to Twitter to post…