Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday resigned from the social network firm’s board and sought to be replaced by a black candidate. Following Ohanian’s post on Reddit, the company’s Chief Executive Steve Huffman said the company would “honor” his request and is working to strengthen its content policy to combat racist speech on its platform. Ohanian’s decision to step down comes at a time when the United States is witnessing widespread protests against racism and police brutality after an unarmed African American, George Floyd, died at the hands of…

Instagram lets you embed posts from any public account on the platform. This may however get difficult as you may need to get the permission to embed someone’s Instagram post. This new development was confirmed by Instagram itself following a lawsuit was filed by photographer Elliot McGucken against Newsweek for embedding his Instagram’s post. Newsweek on not getting to license the photo taken by McGucken, decided to instead embed his Instagram post on their website. Newsweek cited Instagram’s terms of services which gives the company a copyright license along with…

Mitron, the Indian alternative to TikTok, was pulled off the Google Play Store on June 2. “We don’t allow apps that merely provide the same experience as the other apps already on Google Play. Apps should provide value to users through the creation of unique content or services,” Google explained. Mitron was inherently identical to the very popular short video streaming app TikTok.  However, the app is back on the Play Store now.  Google has said yesterday – “We’ve given this developer some guidance and once they’ve addressed the issue…

  Microsoft’s efforts to get back in the browser has worked with Edge becoming the 2nd most popular globally. Microsoft Edge has managed to beat Mozilla Firefox, according to NetMarketShare’s March report. Microsoft Edge now has 7.59 per cent share in the desktop browser segment. Firefox has taken the third position with 7.19 per cent  followed by Internet Explorer with 5.87 per cent  market share. Google Chrome still leads with a mammoth 68.5 per cent market share overall. Edge browser’s competition will most likely be with Firefox considering Chrome is practically untouchable right now….