Microsoft has recently announce the shutdown of Project Spark, the software giant’s free-to-play platform and free creation suite similar to LittleBigPlanet and Super Mario Maker. Apparently, the platform’s lack of money-earning prospects forced the company to pull the life-support plug on August 12 this year.
WhatsApp has recently become Brazil’s primary means of communicating among mobile users. Meanwhile, WhatsApp just announced the addition of encryption to ensure the protection of privacy of its users.
Facebook has released an open-source project named Surround360 with a matching reference design for a 360-degree 3D camera. By doing so, the social networking giant hopes to speed up innovation in a future where social networking would be heavily laden with virtual reality.
Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) has just announced the commercial roll-out of Haven OnDemand- a cloud-based platform that helps developers, startups, and enterprises process complex big data on their own- after two years of beta trials.
A CNBC report claimed that Facebook users wasted 55 million labor years or $3.5 trillion of lost productivity that could have been better spent making money.
Google might be working on a teleconferencing platform that could let users host teleconferences and schedule or join important business meetings online at a click.
Microsoft's real-time polling platform Bing Pulse - version 2.0 of the search engine's analytics platform - has been made public. Bing Pulse has been empowering major news outlets for the last two years.
Tumblr is taking the front seat as the fastest growing social media platform, putting the leader of social media, Facebook, far behind.
