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Wearable technology revolution of Fitbit

Fitbit has emerged as the Next Best Wearable Player after Apple, Say Industry Experts

The pricey Apple Watch may have led the global smartwatch shipments in the first quarter of 2019, but it is the San Francisco-headquartered activity trackers and wearables maker Fitbit which has emerged as the next best player after Apple, industry experts suggest. The top nine brands contribute to 75 percent of the market shipment and Samsung, Fitbit and Huawei grew exponentially in the first quarter, said the ‘Global Smartwatch Tracker’ report by Counterpoint.

Instagram now gives you an option to hide ‘like’ counts

Tik Tok is soon going to face some serious competition from Facebook’s new short video app

Oculus co-founder predicts the failure of Facebook’s dream of implementing VR Tech

16 Million Indian Influencers in Instagram have Fake Accounts

A whopping 16 million accounts of Indian influencers on Facebook-owned Instagram are fake, revealed a new study, suggesting such people are artificially boosting “vanity metrics” that marketers often use while selecting influencers, including followers and engagement.

Xiaomi wants better camera tech, opens R&D center in Finland

Aiming to work better on camera technology, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi has registered a research and development company in Tampere, Finland, the media reported. Xiaomi also decided to tap into Finnish camera expertise by founding a new company in Finland or more precisely, two companies, Xiaomi Finland Oy and Xiaomi Technology Finland Oy, tech portal nokiamob.net reported on Friday.

Microsoft bids farewell to all of its iconic Windows games

Software giant Microsoft is killing all of its iconic Internet games including Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon, MSN Go and Reversi from Windows version XP, ME and 7.

Twitter users face second service disruption in one week!

Twitter users on Thursday found themselves unable to log onto the platform as the US social media giant experienced the second service outage in a little over one week.

Apples has postponed it AR, VR dream

In what could be bad news for the tech industry, Apple has reportedly shelved plans to develop its Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets.

Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for LinkedIn India

Professional social networking platform LinkedIn July 8 said it has appointed Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for India, effective September 2, 2019. He replaces Mahesh Narayanan, who was the country manager for India from January 2019 to June 2019.