Facebook has shared information about the acquisition of GIPHY through its official blog and it has been said that GIPHY will get Instagram support. With this, the company has added more than 100 GIPHY employees. After this deal, Instagram users will easily get GIF and stickers for their stories and messages, which will make the messages more special.

The company says that ‘Our community knows and likes GIPHY first. Even 50 per cent of GIPHY comes from the Facebook community. By bringing Instagram and GIPHY together, we can make it easier for people to find better GIFs and stickers in stories and direct sharing, for sharing GIF on Facebook, it has to be downloaded separately.

In the blog, the company also added that ‘We have used GIPHY’s API not only in Instagram but also in Facebook app, Messenger and WhatsApp. There will be no changes to GIPHY’s library and we are eager to invest with its technology, content and API partners. People will still be able to upload GIFs. Developers and API partners will continue to have equal access to GIPHY’s APIs. Also and the creative community of GIPHY will still create great content.

The company also shared a tweet about this information on its official twitter handle

Basically, Tech Together is an online one-stop platform of collection of useful resources to help those individuals who are experiencing substance disorder or battling from the addiction of drug overdose and alcohol. This platform offers all types of substantial information for families and individuals looking for support and resources to cope up with substance disorder at any stage.

https://safemedsonline.org/2020/04/technology-companies-come-together-to-support-addiction-recovery-during-covid-19/

The executive director of CSIP Marjorie Clifton said in a statement that, this helping platform is in partnership with numerous national non-profits corporations who are involved in the recovery efforts and includes a collection of technology tools and resources provided by Twitter, Google, and Facebook  to share information and put tools and communities in front of people looking for support.”

Clifton also adds that this site will be promoted on Facebook, Twitter, and Google to reach those individuals who are in very need of support and resources to tackle their disorders.

Research showed that people use online technology to connect with other people and support each other. This online intervention leads to recovery from substance disorder. So, Tech Together will be an excellent platform to find support and resources regarding the disorder and drug overdose.

Why Facebook is spending millions for a minority stake in Jio

With Jio’s 388 million customers, Facebook will help people and businesses to operate more effectively in this digital world. For example, by connecting JioMart, Jio’s small business initiative, with the power of WhatsApp, Facebook can enable people to connect with businesses. Facebook also owns a minority stake in other Indian companies such as Meesho a social commerce company and Unacademy, an online education startup. For Facebook, India has emerged as an important market in recent years. India has more users of Facebook than any other country. The deal will help reduce RIL’s debt burden, which has emerged because of the rapid expansion of Jio and other businesses.

How Jio and Facebook can work together to make an invasion in India’s internet

1.Virtual Reality (VR)

Facebook was the first company to make consumer VR headset Oculus. Jio already has tied its both virtual and augmented reality (AR) experiences with its broadband service. Jio could add Oculus into this to enhance the worth proposition.

2. Video Streaming

India’s video streaming market is expected to grow to 488 million viewers by 2022. Facebook and Jio have their video streaming platform. While Facebook has its live video streaming platform and Jio has Jiomovies platform only available to Jio subscribers for free. Both the platform Facebook and Jio can enhance the offerings of one another and use their partnership to capitalize on this growth.

3. Payments

Both Facebook and Jio are involved in the payment space.  While Jio has the JioMoney application, Facebook is awaiting regulatory approval to enable digital payments in India through WhatsApp which is a UPI-based payments application. However, Facebook is also working on the Libra cryptocurrency service. It is expected that Facebook can bring libra to India for experimenting with cryptocurrency payment on a large scale.

Wake up call for amazon and Flipkart

The nationwide lockdown has exposed the weaknesses of the e-commerce businesses, while neighborhood kiranas stores offer better service to customers.  Facebook and RIL, the first collaboration will happen over the reliance e-commerce venture JioMart. Jiomart to use WhatsApp’s business features to quickly bring local Kirana stores on board to reach out to customers and to help 60 million small businesses in India. This deal will be a wake-up call for amazon and Flipkart. As they need to review their business model or logistics services to fulfill the grocery demand. The Jio-Facebook deal is an attempt to marry the local commerce with the social part and to hold the trend, and eventually, this will be a lift to the Facebook ad platform as well.

According to Stats, WhatsApp is the most popular worldwide mobile messenger application. It has about 1.6 billion monthly active users. In 2019, Facebook Messenger had 1.3 billion users and WeChat had 1.1 billion users.

According to the Google Play Store, South Korea was the fastest-growing WhatsApp market, with the mobile messaging app. Downloads have increased by almost 56 per cent in 2019. Additionally, for the first time in five years, Google has not chosen Facebook as the best publisher of mobile processors.

Analytics firm Sensor Tower recently revealed that Google collected more than 850 million downloads in the last quarter of 2019, compared to Facebook’s nearly 800 million. In terms of overall downloads for the year, Google still lags behind Facebook.

While Google received nearly 2.3 billion downloads, Facebook received nearly 3 billion downloads in the last 12 months. Of the top five most downloaded applications worldwide, four holds by Facebook: WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.

TikTok, the video-sharing processor owned by Byte Dance, is the second most downloaded program in the world in 2019.

Instagram has released this information on its official Twitter handle and it clearly states that the company is testing direct messaging for the web, after which you can read and reply to the message anywhere. Along with the tweet, the company has also shared its desktop image. Explain that the direct messaging feature is available for mobile users first and now web users can also take advantage of it.

This new filter option of Instagram is present in Boomerang Composer’s Instagram Stories camera. With the help of SloMo feature, Boomerang will be able to convert videos from their original speed to half speed. With the help of the Echo feature, you will get a double vision effect which can be used in both Boomerang and Duo. With the new OTA update of Instagram, users will be able to trim Boomerang as well as adjust its speed and length.

“With the help of an Instagram camera, you will be able to express yourself and share what you are thinking, feeling about your friends. Boomerang is a special format of feature camera. Boosting this creativity, Instagram will get an opportunity to express itself in new ways in the Boomerang feature that it uses every day. ” Company said in a statement.

Instagram implemented this new law with the aim of following US law. For this reason, it is very important to be at least 13 years of age to open an Instagram account. After implementing this rule, Instagram said in a blog that the purpose of implementing it is to keep younger users away from the reach of Instagram. The company said that because of this rule, children will stay away from Instagram content and safe. Apart from this, knowing the age will allow Instagram users to experience the content according to their age.

According to a company, the new logo is meant to convey “optimism” while the re-branding is focused on “clarity”, “empathy” and “creating space”.

The rumours of the new logo have been quite popular for a while and now finally the Facebook company has finally revealed its new logo. Some marketing experts are saying that the re-branding process is similar to what Google did with its parent company alphabet.

Some security issues and regulations hindering the Whatsapp Pay launch for a quite some times, despite successful testing of payments.

Mark Zuckerberg said, “We have our test going in India. The test really shows that a lot of people are going to want to use this product. We’re very optimistic that we’re going to be able to launch to everyone in India soon, but of course, will share more news when we have that,”

People from around the world are experiencing bugs and glitches. People are telling that they are not able to send and also not able to download images and videos properly on Whatsapp, Instagram, and Facebook. On Wednesday Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram have been inactive for nearly an hour.

According to the media report, people are experiencing the issues majorly from Europe, the USA, and Africa. Facebook has said that “We’re sorry for the issues and glitches people are experiencing and we are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible.”