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The move comes as messaging app Facebook’s WhatsApp, which plans to soon add an option on its service to allow its users to send and request money, recently began testing a tool called WhatsApp Business to explore commercial use-cases for its service.
The tool is integrated with Tilt Brush and Blocks, respectively Google’s VR painting and sculpting apps, and is meant to provide an art library for people building with Google’s ARCore, Apple’s ARKit, or various VR development platforms.
The company today announced that LinkedIn integration within Outlook.com is now going live, allowing email users to view insights, profile pictures, work history and more from within their inbox.
Firebase is now Google’s platform for developers who need a backend and other services to build, run and manage their mobile and web apps.
Sonar, as the project is called, is a linting tool and site scanner with a focus on helping developers build better, faster and more secure websites.
Today, a hurdle for the adoption of Progressive Web Apps has been cleared as Mozilla has announced that they are coming to the homescreen Firefox for Android. More specifically, Mozilla has announced that Firefox 58 for Android will ship with Web App Manifest support, in the form of “Add to Home screen” functionality.
Google’s push to make the web more secure by flagging sites using insecure HTTP connections appears to be working. The company announced today that 64 percent of Chrome traffic on Android is now protected, up 42 percent from a year ago. In addition, over 75 percent of Chrome traffic on both ChromeOS and Mac is now protected, …
The deeper integration with Messenger’s platform, which will also include PayPal’s first customer service bot for handling customer questions and requests for help, follows a series of tie-ups between the two companies.
Facebook is allowing developers to add in-app purchases as well as interstitial and rewarded video ads. Players get a virtual good or bonus life in exchange for watching rewarded videos.Facebook is allowing developers to add in-app purchases as well as interstitial and rewarded video ads. Players get a virtual good or bonus life in exchange for watching rewarded videos.
The company’s latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over
