Apps

WhatsApp brings Meta Verified, customized messages to small businesses in India

WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages to customers. India is home to more than 65 million small and medium-sized businesses, but only about 5 million of them sell online, according to a joint report by Meta and

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YouTube Shorts’ collaborative Add Yours sticker is now available to all users

YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its collaborative “Add Yours” sticker for YouTube Shorts is now fully rolled out. The Google-owned company first announced the feature back in July. The sticker works just like Instagram’s feature of the same name, as it prompts users to share their own take on a creator’s video. Both platforms’ “Add

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Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature. Audio conversations will give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app, such as course readings or legal briefs. Since its launch, the NotebookLM has used

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Apple’s newly available ‘win-back’ offers let developers reach lapsed subscribers

Following Apple’s iPhone 16 event earlier this week, the company announced to developers on Wednesday the launch of “win-back” offers, a new type of offer for auto-renewable subscriptions in App Store Connect. The company first announced this solution that allows app developers to target lapsed subscribers with specialized offers at WWDC in June. Apple explains

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Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content

Verse, a new AI-powered creative app, is aiming to help Gen Z users create hyper-visual and expressive content. The iOS app allows users to design and publish multimedia content on an interactive canvas with the help of an AI assistant.  You can create a mini website, called a Verse, for things like moodboards, greeting cards,

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Bumble to leverage AI to help users with profile creation and conversations

Bumble is increasing its investments in AI and branching out with new features to stay relevant amid a generational shift in dating behavior among younger users. During Goldman Sachs’ annual technology conference on Monday, Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones unveiled more details about the app’s upcoming AI capabilities, including a photo selection tool as well as features

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Drybaby is a dating app for the ‘sober curious’ movement

Drybaby is the newest dating app designed for singles who are sober or interested in reducing their alcohol consumption.  The app arrives as 41% of Americans are cutting back on drinking as part of the so-called “sober curious” movement. According to a recent study commissioned by NCSolutions, Gen Zers have expressed particular interest in the movement,

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Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps and services. But what’s Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to other generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama and Microsoft’s Copilot? To make it easier to keep up with the latest Gemini

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