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Facebook buying a 9.99% stake in Reliance Jio platforms gives both the companies a chance to make inroads into the Indian Internet domain. Reliance Retail will get to use WhatsApp to get more customers onto JioMart, its grocery delivery platform for starters, but there are more things that this partnership can facilitate. Mobile gaming Mobile gaming in India has been on a high since Reliance Jio’s entry into the telecom space that brought in cheap data and easier access to the internet. This also allowed developers to reach more gamers. In fact, many developers feel that Jio is instrumental in changing the mobile gaming landscape in the country. Facebook’s Gamerooms was popular amongst developers till a few years ago. The platform had a lot of games but it could not get very popular. Add Facebook’s recent Gaming app to this. Facebook Gaming is similar to Microsoft’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube Gaming - a streaming platform.One that could benefit off Jio bringing in low-latenc...

WhatsApp’s sticker game seems to be going strong. The instant messaging app’s sticker library has  not just grown in the recent times  but with the flexibility to create custom stickers has made communication even more interesting than before. Although making a custom sticker requires you to dedicate a bit more time, the easy way out is by using the pre-made stickers listed inside WhatsApp. You just need to download them. And how do you do it? Follow the simple steps below. In Android: Step 1:  Open WhatsApp. Step 2:  Go inside a chat window. Step 3:  Tap on the Emoji icon in the text typing bar. This will open the Recently used emoji section by default. Step 4:  Inside the section, tap on the Sticker icon at the bottom. You can see it placed alongside the Emoji and GIF icons. Step 5:  Once accessed, tap on the plus (+) icon on the right corner. This will open the Sticker pack section. Step 6:  From here you can download the stic...

WhatsApp, in the past couple of weeks has rolled out a bunch of new features to help people amid the lockdown enforced in countries across the globe in light of the Covid-19 outbreak. The company, among other things, has also imposed  strict limitations on forwarded messages  in a bid to contain the spread of misinformation about the virus outbreak. Now, word is that   WhatsApp   is introducing new group calling limits on its Android and iOS based apps. Up until now, a group couldn’t have more than four participants. But now a new  report  by WABetaInfo suggests otherwise. On the company’s iOS-based app, this limit is being increased to accommodate eight participants. If there are more than eight participants in a group, WhatsApp will ask users, which participants they want to connect to. However, if there are less than eight participants, the app will connect to all the participants at once. To call people in a group, all users need to do is open the...

Xiaomi's budget phone Redmi Note 3 will be available for buying without any registration on April 27, the company has announced via Twitter. The Redmi Note 3 will be available in open sale on April 27 from 2PM on Xiaomi's official Mi.com/in online store. The Redmi Note 3 is available in two RAM/internal memory variants. Prices start at Rs 9,999 (2GB RAM/16GB memory) and go all the way up to Rs 11,999 (3GB RAM/32GB memory). Both the variants support expandable storage of up to 32GB via microSD card slot. Both the phones support dualSIM, 4G LTE and run Android Lollipop-based MIUI 7.   In terms of specifications set, the Redmi Note 3 comes with a 5.5-inch FullHD display with a 1080x1920 pixels resolution. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor. The Redmi Note 3 sports a 16-megapixel camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel camera on the front. The phone comes with a full-metal unibody and boasts of a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. It is backed by a 4,050mA...

OnePlus on Saturday announced a price cut on  OnePlus X  in India. The smartphone will now be available for  R s. 14,999, which is  R s. 2,000 less than its launch price, on the company's exclusive online partner Amazon India. The phone is available in three variants: Onyx, Champagne, and Ceramic. However, the price cut is applicable only for the lower-end Onyx version. The company announced the new prices on its  official Twitter handle  on Saturday morning. The OnePlus X smartphone comes with a 5-inch FullHD AMOLED display with a 1080p resolution and 441ppi pixel density. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor coupled with 3GB RAM. It comes in 16GB and 64GB internal memory options, both expandable by up to 128GB through a microSD card. Launched in October 2015  in India, the OnePlus X is the third and the cheapest phone from the company. The phone was earlier available through the invite-only system, which was later r...

Micromax is in the process of developing its own online store from where it will sell phones and other devices. The company executive, while unveiling the Canvas Spark 3,  hinted that the store could go live before Diwali. "We will be disappointed if we approach Diwali without having our own store. It is a case of having an exclusive product strategy for the online store," said Shubhojit Sen, chief marketing officer, Micromax. However, the company admitted that the whole idea of exclusive online store for Micromax products was in the early stages of planning. This could be to better compete with Xiaomi which has started selling products on its Mi Store. "Should we develop a range of accessories or preview our products online, I don't know," said Sen. He admitted that online had disrupted the market as the cost of doing business was less. The company also admitted that online retail had become too big for it to ignore and said that it couldn't...