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Younity’s personal cloud service adds Instagram support for easier #TBT sharing

Aug13

by Sindy Cator on August 13, 2014 at 1:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

While the focus of Instagram is — well, instant — the app does allow you to reach back into your photo archives to post older pictures to its service, as long as those photos reside on your phone. If the photo you want to post is somewhere else, say on your laptop hard drive or an external hard drive attached to your desktop computer, it takes a multi-step song and dance to get it posted on Instagram. But Throwback Thursday just got easier with Entangled Media’s Younity, a free personal cloud service that now lets you publish photos stored on your hard drive directly to…

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ZTE eyes Southeast Asia, seeking to build its brand with launch of three Android KitKat smartphones

Aug13

by Sindy Cator on August 13, 2014 at 10:50 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Gadgets, Product Launches

A market research firm recently pinned Chinese handset maker ZTE as the fourth-largest in the US according to shipment volumes. This came as a bit of a surprise, given that the company hasn’t really built up a reputation among consumers as a smartphone brand holding its own against the likes of Samsung and Apple. ZTE is, however, out to change that perception, and one of the regions it’s targeting is Southeast Asia. Today in Singapore, the company launched three new Android smartphones running KitKat — Blade VEC 4G, Blade L2 and KIS 3 — which will go on sale on…

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WeChat climbs to 438 million monthly active users, closing in on WhatsApp’s 500 million

Aug13

by Sindy Cator on August 13, 2014 at 10:16 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, messaging apps, Product Updates, wechat

Tencent published its earnings today for the second quarter of 2014, revealing a new milestone for its WeChat messaging app: it has risen to 438 million monthly active users, up from 396 million the previous quarter. The new figure, which covers both WeChat and Weixin – the version Tencent offers in China — means that it is closing in on rival WhatsApp’s 500 million active users. However, it can also be seen that WeChat’s growth is flattening quarter-on-quarter, which means it may struggle to catch up to its Facebook-owned competitor. WeChat is also facing difficulties in China, where its largest userbase is. Recently, the Chinese government…

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Twitter launches data visualization tool for commonly tweeted topics in the UK

Aug13

by Sindy Cator on August 13, 2014 at 9:42 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, UK

Twitter has launched a tool for brands and advertisers in the UK that makes use of its collated ‘Everyday Moments’ data to show exactly how often, where and when people interact when talking about certain topics. For example, you might want to check out the UK’s ongoing war between tea and coffee drinkers or you might want to see how many people around the nation are grumbling about traffic delays. To start with, there are more than 80 preset topics to choose from and using it is really very simple: just select your topics from the left-hand bar and then move…

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