Gen Z in India will lead the key trends on Instagram next year, from prioritising careers to being super on point with meme preferences, and exploring a variety of food flavours, the Meta-owned company said on Monday. In various realms, including food, beauty, and fashion trends, Indian Gen Z have shown a heightened inclination to embrace and explore emerging trends, according to the ‘2024 Instagram Trend Talk’ insights.
After Twitter owner Elon Musk introduced reading post limits on the platform, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday said that running the micro-blogging platform is “hard”.
Meta on Wednesday brought its verified subscription bundle on Instagram and Facebook to India that includes a verified badge that authenticates accounts with government ID, proactive account protection and access to account support. Meta Verified is available for purchase on Instagram or Facebook in India via a monthly subscription for Rs 699 ($8.50) on iOS and Android.
Soulful diva Tina Turner, who had a lengthy run of ’60s and ’70s R&B hits and struck major pop stardom in the ’80s, died on Wednesday in Switzerland, reports ‘Variety’. She was 83. “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” her representative said in a statement to ‘Variety’.
Indian American Sabeer Bhatia, who co-founded the first free email service, Hotmail.com in 1996 and is a serial entrepreneur, is busy with his new project using AI to condense knowledge about a variety of academic subjects, including entrepreneurship, in short videos.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it will cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees; the first big tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs.
A bald eagle arrives to steal a perch on a tree log that offers a strategic view of the shoreline at the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in Alaska. When other eagles drag freshly caught salmon in from the water, these bystanders swoop in to take a share.
The Facebook and Instagram accounts of former US President Donald Trump will be reinstated by Meta after a ban of two years, a New York Times report said.
“I am not betting on Twitter but on Musk,” says Indian American venture capitalist Sanjit Singh Dang, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who recently invested in the California-headquartered microblogging platform.
Elon Musk on Monday put Twitter on fire, after saying that Meta-owned Instagram makes its users depressed while his micro-blogging platform makes people angry. “Instagram makes people depressed & Twitter makes people angry. Which is better?” he asked.
A Twitter poll by its owner Elon Musk on Monday revealed that a whopping 57 per cent of those who voted wants him to quit as the CEO of the microblogging platform, currently facing a myriad of issues ranging from banning journalists and other social media platforms amid Tesla stock nosediving.
Bharti Airtel, India’s premier digital communications solutions provider, and Meta Platforms, Inc. have decided to collaborate and support the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. Airtel and Meta jointly announced that the companies will jointly invest in global connectivity infrastructure and CCPaaS-based, new-age digital solutions to support the emerging requirements of customers and enterprises in India.
Indo-Canadian TikToker Megha Thakur, known for spreading messages of body positivity and self-confidence, passed away “suddenly” and “unexpectedly” last week, an Instagram post by her parents said.
Tech layoff season continues as Amazon reportedly plans to fire approximately 10,000 of its workforce in corporate and technology roles beginning this week, a media report indicated.
Indian American Nabeela Syed, 23, scripted history by becoming the youngest member to get elected to the Illinois General Assembly. In the recently held US midterm elections, Syed vanquished her Republican opponent, Chris Bos. She received 52.3% votes in the election for the 51st District in the Illinois State House of Representatives.
The “large-scale” job cuts, to begin at Meta from Wednesday, could affect “thousands” of workers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Om Malik- Om Malik is a partner at True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital group. Prior to joining True, he was the founder of Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog and media company. Adobe has to embrace AI and become an even better fast follower in order to survive & thrive in the […]
A student, Neeraj Sharma from Jaipur, has received a reward of Rs 38 lakh[USD 43,000] from Instagram for saving social media accounts of crores of people from being hacked.
IANS- Chennai-based security researcher Laxman Muthiyah has won $30,000 as a part of a bug bounty program after he spotted a flaw in Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram. Muthiyah said the vulnerability allowed him to “hack any Instagram account without consent permission.” He discovered it was possible to take over someone’s Instagram account by triggering […]
IANS- The current dominance in online commerce enjoyed by Amazon could be endangered if Instagram, with its one billion users worldwide, pushes ahead with its plans to enter that space, as its new chief, Adam Mosseri, has said he intends to do. In his first public interview on the company’s future strategy since taking […]
Ritu Jha – Several Indian American Google employees have openly joined Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly. The original letter, put together by Amnesty International along with 14 other human rights organizations this August and addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, described concerns about reports that Google is developing a […]
