Facebook Will Now Translate Page Posts

You don't need to post bilingual posts on facebook as the social media giant brings a new technology that will allow users to read posts on their preferred languages.

The AI-powered translation tool has been tested from the beginning of the year by the company owners and had been made available to certain facebook users and now has been made available to the public. The company already had a translation engine as many frequent users have noticed on the social network but this move by Facebook will bring an improvement to translation of text into a variety of languages to allow easily accessibility to some pages and services on the platform.

This amazing tool by Facebook is currently limited only to desktop users which lets users select from a variety of languages while composing a post. The post will be published in the language that has been selected by the the composer but it will appear to readers in the language that they prefer for example, English will be automatically to translated to Spanish to a Spanish Facebook user, so users will receive posts in the languages that they prefer.

The translation feature is available to those who are managing pages already, so if you are using a page then you check activate it on your page setting as the feature going through even though it is made available to use. the feature can be enabled in the language section on Facebook settings and also on the page settings.

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Apple Becomes The Most Valuable Company

Apple has taken their first position in the world as it had lost many of its rankings after the Steve Jobs death tragedy.

Since 2012 Apple was able to grow from $36 billion to $76 billion within ten months as shown by the the Interbrand's 2012 global brand rankings. Since the 2012 growth Apple has been holding second position after Coca-Cola. This has been a very great improvement by Apple as they had shown a very good growth that year as they moved from position eight to position two.

In 2014 Apple was able to take over the first position once again after the negative critics the company had as it had a massive growth from $76 billion in 2012 to a staggering $$124.2 billion in 2014. Since then Apple has been holding the position as the most valuable company until Google stepped in the beginning of 2016 due to the bad financial reports that were reported by Apple and surprisingly Apple was able to reclaim their position. The quick bost in the company value has been boosted by the announcement of the Iphone 5se and the Iphone Air 3 , which had rapidly increased the share demand.

What are your thoughts, do you think that Apple will continue hold position number one despite the presence of its rivals Google, Microsoft and Facebook? Please leave your opinions on the comment box below.

Google inline to unveil its new Nexus software

Google is to launch it new make of their smartphones their well known Nexus smartphones which many smartphone users have awaited for.

Google has sent out invitations to many media houses including us to attend the launch of their latest release of the nexus android smartphones. The Company is believed to release two types of smartphones and eventually a new version of chromecast, The new Lexus smartphones are believed to named Nexus 6P and and Nexus 5X which are believed to be manufactured by top industry smartphone makers like Huawei and LG according to a recent report by Droid Life.

Another recent report by Mashable it was confirmed that there was a leak of some data from Google which had some of the development plans for Chromecast, Which is also believed to be released on 29 September together with the new Nexus make.

Google should have new things to unveil to us as we currently do not know much about their plans for the event but we know that much is going to be revealed to us the media. This event will also be live streamed on Youtube and we will encourage readers to stay in touch for more upon this event.

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Pinterest Hits 100 million Users

Pinterest has hit a very huge growth recently after its marketing campaign in March 2015, which has made them to break the 100 million daily users milestone.

The addiction to the pinterest network has increased as it had on imstagram as the app has reached over 100 million active monthly users which has increased it market value to over $11 Billion USD which has it to

It is confirmed that about 70% of the 100 million monthly active users on Pinterest are not there for pins and other related things but usaully visit the social network for saving links or clicking on to learn more. The number of Pinterest searches has grown to 70% last year as confirmed by the company.

With this increase of monthly active users, the number of daily pins have increased to 24 million pins shared by the users.

Pinterest has become more of a place where users want to share the products they want to buy online and sharing online for reviews on what they want to purchase online while at the other hand advertisers have been finding Pinterest useful when it comes to promoting products on the internet. Pinterest has introduced sponsored pins which appear on the users news feed, the sponsored pins are usaully used by businesses to share their products on the app.

Pinterest has shown a big growth but it probably far from the rivals Twitter and Instagram which are above three times as Pinterest. Follow us on Pinterest @ajaxsurf, wish you the best user experience on the App.

Facebook Working on a 'Dislike' button

The long waited for 'Dislike' button which many Facebook users have been waiting for, has been confirmed by the CEO Mark Zuckerburg as one of their plans for development.

In 2009  Facebook was tempted by some users who were suggesting the company to bring out a "Dislike"
Button which will look like an inverted like button. Facebook did not accept the 'Dislike' button because it was believed that the button would not sound good to other users as many may feel bad or harassed when their posts were disliked, but due to many requests by the social network users Facebook has no choice but to make the 'Dislike' button to all of the app users.

This button is believed to be a disaster by many media houses as they believe that this button will not go well as other social networks have used it before but did not work very well as planned, this button will eventually cause a reduce on the self esteem of some users causing them to not post often on their walls as they might fear of getting more dislikes than likes.

Mark Zuckerburg believes that the Dislike should not be used to express discouragement but instead it should be used to impress sympathy, not to make others feel bad about their post. The 'dislike' button is designed to show compassion not to show hatred or any form of disrespect towards other users. As Zuckerburg confirmed that with the dislike button they are surely not intended to turn facebook into a forum where users will like or dislike, but to use the 'dislike' button to show compassion.

With the Facebook 'Dislike' button rolling out in the next months, what do you have to say about this great move by Facebook. Please feel free to leave your views in the comment box below.

People now spend most time using apps than watching TV

Mobile users have taken over the internet recently which introduced mobilegeddon in April 2015 and now smartphones have taken another step into being very much more used than TVs in the past three years.

It seems as the world is getting to a new technology phase as more people from around the world spend most their time on Apps rather than watching TV.

In a recent report by furry they have confirmed that more US consumers spend much time using mobile apps rather than watching TV, as in the survey that was done in the beginning of 2013 till this time has shown a very huge improvement in the number of smartphone users. Please note that the time findings used on this article does not include the time used on mobile browsers but the time spend on mobile Apps. In the year 2013 the average time spent on mobile was 126 minutes , in 2014 the avarage time increase to 139 minutes and right now the average is sitting to 198 minutes on mobile Apps over 168 minutes spent watching TV.

Flurry also notes that the it is very difficult to measure the exact figures as some people use Apps while watching Tv, making it hard for them to measure accurate results. But it is confirmed that TV usage is not decreasing but might increase as time goes as large tech companies like Apple are looking forward to creating internet and gaming TVs which are believed to boost usage in the upcomming years.

The most used things on mobile apps is games as more mobile users have spent most of their time in buying more and more online games in such that the most ranked apps are games.

Google and Twitter team up to Bring Instant Articles

Google and Twitter team up to bring instant articles, which will be displayed only for mobile users.

Recently Facebook, Apple and Snapshot have introduced an “instant article” feature which is designed to give instant articles to the site mobile users. This move by Google and Twitter will allow mobile users to get instant content delivered to their mobile smartphones without having visit the publishers sites.

This move by Google will favour many bloggers and publishers online as the instant articles will be snapshots which will be taken from different online sources, this move has not found favour with some sites from around the world as it is believed that it will cause many sites to lose traffic as readers will not have visit the internet for articles but will have to read articles from snapshots.

There are critics by many publishers as it will cost them a lot of revenue as readers might not be able to to visit the home pages of these sites, which will cause high drops of traffic.

Publishers also had to criticize this move as Facebook introduced instant articles which caused many publishers to complain about this move by tech companies as they use Facebook and Twitter to get traffic, and with the introduction of instant articles many sites are to be affected.

This automatic articles will not be branded or have any attributes on them but will rarely be snapshots that could be easily read by the mobile users.

The plans of Google and Twitter are far more different than those by Facebook and Apple as they are have not stated about the revenue that can be given to the publishers as they will be using snapshots. The Good news about the Facebook instant articles is that publishers will get 100% of the Ad revenue generated by their content.

Facebook will be turning Pages into an Online Mall

The social media giant Facebook has made things easier for marketers and companies as they have made headlines as by turning the app into an estore.

At first it was shopify which allowed users to promote product through facebook which was not a success, now Facebook pages will now have services and shopping section which will allow companies to easily sell both their products and services without leaving the social network.

Facebook which is a home to over 50 million pages will now make things easier for page administrators by allowing them to sell on Facebook, this was tested by Facebook two months ago and the implementation has been confirmed by the company COO, Sheryl Sandburg. The company is believed to change the way ecommerce works as it will cause many clients to abondone many ecommerce sites into joining Facebook and using it to sell their services and prices.

This will allow retailers to sell their products on Facebook and many other services such as plumbing, garden services and many other things will be easily done on Facebook. The new features are currently being tested by a group of retail businesses and some of the features will be released to Facebook in the next comming weeks.

Facebook will surely takeover some blogs with this move as they will be adding some special estore features such as the "add to cart" , "Buy now" and the "donate button" which will allow non profit organisations to recieving funds directly from Facebook.

Facebook is looking forward to improve the seller and customer relationship by including contact buttons which will appear on the page, Facebook as a social network will allow customers to contact, call or send messages direct to the retailers. This imptovements by Facebook are believed to improve the user rate of facebook as many bloggers and online retailers will be turning into Facebook due to its wide upcomming ecommerce services.

Governments want your personal data, Twitter Confirms Requests have increased by over 52%

Well user privacy cannot be guaranteed these days as governments have seen social networks as an advantage of which they can easily access user data. Social Networking sites have been attacked by governments requesting user data for conducting investigations. These sites includes Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, Linkedin and Whatsapp.

In the recent months facebook was made to release the data which belonged millions of users to the united states government and to the other regions of Europe and now Twitter is getting the sting to do the same. Twitter has confirmed that the requests have increased by over 52% in the first half of this year.

The senior manager of Twitter   Jeremy Kessel have confirmed on the Twitter Blog stating that this is the biggest data request ever to be submitted to twitter, within the June to August period request have increased 56% internationally as governments want to access peoples profile data.

The largest requesters of user data has been USA, Japan and China with USA having over 50% of the data request followed by Japan and China both sitting at 10% while the other international governments fill the the remaining 30% of the data requests. The United Kingdom and Turkey maintian an avarage of 8% data requests making them one of the major countries that are forcing Twitter to release user data.

Twitter has refused to give user data to some international countries as they had to strongly protect the user privacy, Turkey and Brazil are among the countries with rejected orders, Turkey standing with over 768  court orders and Brazil with only 17 court orders.

The Twitter live streaming service Periscope have received over 1391 copyright takedown which have been made by Governments which are fighting for the release of user data for investigations. These takedowns have been done in the last six months since the beginning of 2015 to an unbelievable 1391 requests in a short amount of time.

Twitter publishes most of thesevgovernment takedowns on the web site known as the Chilling Effects which you can use to see recent data requests sent on Twitter.

Google takes a Major Reconstruction to Bring “Alphabet Inc.” the new boss

Google made announcement on Monday 10 August 2015 as they had to take a major reconstruction which will re brand Google into being “Alphabet Inc.” which will make it a co-operation which will run all of it services like Google+, Gmail, Google, Google Maps and Youtube etc.
This big move by Google has made headlines and is expected to have a very large impact on the stocks as it will bring a boost for the company investors. Google will be under Alphabet and will have a new CEO which is Sundar Pichai who will take over Larry Page. These move by the company is believed to bring growth to Google and other related companies as confirmed by the Alphabet Inc CEO Larry Page.

The name Alphabet is already secured by BMW which has forces Alphabet Inc to use the domain http://abc.xyz instead of using alphabet.com which is not a usual way for domain names since it does not have the company name on it but has the alphabetical domain name which could be seen as creativity.

According to a post by Mashable it has been confirmed that the main reason for this change from Google was the high growth rate of their services which has improved amazingly in the recent months despite a small share price drop in the April and May period.

All the current Shares of Google will be automatically be converted into Alphabet Which will continue trading on the stock trader using the post Google symbols GOOG and GOOGL.
The company will continue providing searvh services as usaul but will give it Search Engine Optimization services to rising star Sundar Pichai, Which has not been really not confirmed what will happen to services like blogspot.