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  Twitter launched today a faster data-saving version of its mobile website. That way it becomes the third leading platform with a step towards data-friendly internet after Facebook Lite and YouTube Go. The company announced on its blog that “45% of mobile connections are still on 2G”. That’s why it optimized the speed and navigation of mobile.twitter.com. Now the site launches 30% faster and navigates quicker while still providing the key features - your timeline, Tweets, DMs, trends, notifications and more. More than 40% of data is saved with the optimized mobile site, and it can go up to 70% when you click on your profile picture and then select Data Saver. If you use Google Chrome on Android OS with the latest version, the browser will ask you to add a bookmark on your home screen that acts like an app. You can also receive push notifications and alerts. Twitter Lite offers offline support when your connection is weak. Twitter also announced it is partnerin...

WhatsApp which is owned by facebook is finally going to implement the online payment system, starting first with India, its biggest market in the world. The company is said to be working on a system based on India’s UPI or Unified Payments Interface to allow person to person transactions. The UPI system was borne out of India’s drive towards a cashless digital economy and has been adopted by all the major banks and even some services such as Truecaller. Facebook currently has a job opening for Digital Transactions Lead, India in Menlo Park, California, with one of the job requirements being ‘Ability to understand and explain UPI, BHIM, Aadhar number’.   Speaking to Bloomberg, WhatsApp said it wants to “contribute more to India’s vision for digital commerce.” While India might be the first market on WhatsApp’s roadmap it will eventually bring this feature to other markets.

Its has been recorded that the percentage of users of the automated teller machine (ATM) in Nigeria has far exceeded that of the United Kingdom (UK) and Ghana, a technology firm Computer warehouse has said. Chief Executive officer of CWG, Mr James Agada who disclosed the outcome of an assessment the firm carried out, said the average ATM in Nigeria dispenses thrice the number of notes in Ghana and 10times the number of notes in the UK. Agada who spoke at an ICT editors workshop which was organized by the technology firm at its group academy in Lekki, Lagos said though the number of the ATM's deployed across the country fell short of the requirement set down by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), it has not deterred users. "The core issues we have with the ATM's is that we don't have enough of them and the few around are usually overfilled," Agada said. The CWG chief also spoke bout the background of ATM related frauds in the country, said it is not conversant...

Google is getting ready to release their smartphones which will be under its own brand name, with the launch likely to be scheduled for next month. According to our source, these smart phone will be made available after the launch in some countries but first in India, with details of roll out to other market unknown at this point. Google will likely unveil two Android Nougat running smartphones, one having a 5 inch display and the other having a 5.5 inch screen size. This smartphones will be coming in 32GB and 128GB variants. These storage capacities and sizes match the leaked specs of the two Nexus smartphones Sailfish & Marlin that have been in rumor  for a while. It has been known that these smartphones will not be released carrying the nexus brand name, instead will be embedded with the Google brand, though they may be manufactured by HTC according to report. Google may be positioning these devices as premium smartphones with excellent overall experience in an attem...

Facebook has announced the financial results for Q2, 2016. The social network giant has recorded $6.44 billion revenue for the quater which ended on june 30, 2016. Facebook said it now has over 1.7 billion monthly active users adding 60million new users since the last quater. With a daily average of 1.13 billion active users (DAU), an inrease of 17%year over year. The social network had over 1.57 billion mobile users. Facebook announced another milestone of 1.03billion mobile daily active users (recording a 22% increase over the years). The founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said, OUR COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS HAD ANOTHER GOOD QUARTER. WE'RE PARTICULARLY PLEASED WITH OUR PROGRESS IN VIDEO AS WE MOVE TOWARDS A WORLD WHERE VIDEO IS AT THE HEART OF ALL OUR SERVICES. Mobile advertising revenue recorded approximately 84% of advertising revenue for the second quarter of 2016, up to from approximately 76% of advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2015.