Paytm Brings In App Messaging Service

Paytm, India’s one of the top digital wallet and payment service has finally unveiled its own in-app messaging service which will let its users chat, send and request money from their family and friends. The news of the chat feature called as Paytm Inbox came in the August. Paytm has over 225 million users and 5 million offline merchnat users. Deepak Abbot, Senior Vice President said there is a need of combining social messaging, commerce and payments together. 

The new feature will work as any other chat platform which will let you send messages, videos, photos with a built-in camera, share live location along with the money transfers through its wallet. You can transfer the money through paytm wallet, credit card, debit card or Net Banking. The feature is currently available for Android and will soon be availabele for iOS uers. The company is sure that this messaging feature will be helpful for millions of its users such as merchants, entrepreneurs, and retailers.

Also Read: WhatsApp To Bring An In Chat Payment System 

However, the company is not sure when will it be available to its iOS users. They even said that in-app messaging feature is encrypted end-to-end so there is no need to worry about the privacy of the chat. The App lets its users recall their messages using Delete for All. 

Paytm is trying to make the app more user-friendly for enhancing the user experience by adding Orders, Notification, and Games. All the cashback offers will be there under the notification tab. Under the orders tab, you will see your orders and transaction updates. Then comes the Game tab which will let you play games. According to the reports, few of the payments app have incorporated chat feature and has seen a spike in its number of users. Sending and requesting money is easy using paytm Inbox. You have to click on the Send Money or request Money option which is there in Chat. Then enter the amount you want to send or receive after that click Send Money or Request Money option. 

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Bitcoin Acquires Over 50 Percent Crypto Market Share

There’s no denying that Bitcoin rules the entire Cryptocurrency landscape. With a market cap of nearly $37.5 billion, it’s still way ahead of the other popular altcoins like Litecoin, Ripple and Monero. However, many people were of the opinion that the magic of Bitcoin is somehow fading especially with the emergence of new cryptocurrencies like Ethereum that took the whole world by storm in the recent years. For the first time in history, the share of Bitcoin had dropped down to 46 percent in the Crypto Market. But after a bumpy trip, the Bitcoin has made a solid comeback acquiring more than 50% of the Crypto Market Share once again.
 

The Downfall of Ripple

The world famous altcoin, Ripple had been on a magical journey several weeks backs. Lately, the market cap of Ripple had gone beyRead more at - http://www.oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/Bitcoin-Acquires-Over-50-Percent-Crypto-Market-Shareond $17 billion swallowing over 25 percent of the market share. However, the last one week has been awful for Ripple as it has lost more than 60 percent of its value in terms of BTC. The market cap of Ripple has also fallen sharply and it now adds up to $8.83 billion. The downfall of Ripple is one of the major driving factors behind the Bitcoin acquiring the 50 percent share in the crypto market once again.  

Also read Why Bitcoin Transactions Are Being Delayed.

The Rat Race Continues

Despite of being the world’s most extensively used Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin faces immense competition from the other popular Altcoins as already told. While on one hand, the BTC price is rising beyond expectations, it’s also losing its charm as the new Altcoins are getting more and more popular. Also, some persisting issues in Bitcoin have long been avoided, the most severe one of which is the scaling difficulty due to block size limit. Due to scaling issues, the Bitcoin transactions are continuously being delayed which has also led to an increase in the transaction fees. This is one of the reasons why the Bitcoin users are moving toward the other cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin price today, has reached an all-time-high. However, you might not have noticed yet the price of almost all the popular Altcoins is rising. Ethereum is leading the race with a whopping price value of $208 at the time of writing and the market cap of the latter has also reached $19 billion. With this, Ethereum alone acquires more than 20 percent of the total Crypto market share.

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Snapchat To Launch Augmented Reality Art Platform

Last year, snapchat acquired an augmented startup called Cimagine. Using that, Snapchat is planning to launch its augmented reality art platform that will feature arts by some of the great artists like Jeff Koons and much more. The details about this augmented art platform are out and people want to more about it. With the art platform, users will be able to pin art to any specific location they want and they will be able to see it when they will keep their phones in the correct location. The feature will be introduced with the Koon’s art from around the world like Sydney, Paris and Las Vegas.

According to the reports, Snapchat is collaborating with the artists to publish their art pieces on snapchat’s augmented reality platform. Snapchat has also launched a countdown clock to 3 PM over a photo of the central park and New York's skyline on the site art.snapchat.com. Group of technical people have decoded the meaning of clock and found out it is related to CEO Evan Spiegel's talk a Vanity Fair’s New establishment summit. The feature can be used to create animations of whatever you see through the rear-facing camera. Snapchat is trying its best to compete Instagram and Facebook. After so much innovation, snapchat is still behind its competitors. 

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The reason being is that they copy snapchat’s new features as soon as it launches them. By taking inspiration from facebook, Snapchat has launched the 3D world lenses which can be used for adding floating animations. The way it will work is still not clear for that we all have to wait for its launch. Snapchat has similar features as of Pokemon Go called geofilters. It lets its users unlock the filters to certain locations. When they will be near a piece of art, they will see lense. The lens indicted the availability of an art. 

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Most Exciting New Features

Microsoft has unveiled the major update of windows 10 ie Fall creators update which will available to all the users on October 17. Microsoft announced the launch of Fall creator update at the Build developer conference. They introduced many new features in the latest version. 

• Windows Mixed Reality
• Onedrive online File storage
• Windows story Mix

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One of the most interesting features that has been added to Windows with the Fall Creator Update is “Windows Mixed Reality” for VR headsets from Dell, HP, Asus, and Lenovo. Some people even call it augmented and virtual reality goggles. Although the Microsoft has planned some important feature for Fall Creator update now they are thinking of launching them in the next update which will be in the next year. 

Stand out feature of this update is "Windows story remix" with 2D and 3D features which are used for building video and photo stories. The other feature is new people integration which let people pin their contacts to the taskbar.  It also has built-in hardware support for these devices and many other headsets will be launching in October. 

“OneDrive Files online file storage” on demand which brings back the placeholder feature. It lets you easily access your clouds files without even syncing them. Microsoft is not focusing on the new features rather they are working on bug fixes as the launch date of Windows 10 is near. The company has put in lots of efforts in the accessibility features this time. The improved security now comes with this updated version. Unlike the name, you can access the files in desktops and documents folders which means it is not limited to only files. If you try to open a file which is not on your desktop, Windows will download it and open it. You will get the app is downloading a file notification when the app tries to access a file in the cloud. The option of hiding a notification is also there. 

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The New Google Maps Update Lets You Find Parking Spot

In the bustling streets and busy roads, it’s never easy to find a parking spot. We often see people struggling to find a parking space in the metropolitan cities like New York, L.A and Chicago. This is perhaps the most annoying thing to do especially when you are already getting late. Google Maps however, has something up for you that can make it a lot easier. The new Maps update allows Android users to find a nearby parking place on the go.

While navigating towards a destination, the app shows you a list of all the parking lots and garages that fall in the vicinity. You can find this list by tapping on the newly added Find Parking option on the Directions card. Once you have found a parking spot, it is automatically added to your trip. After you have safely parked your car, it also shows you the walking directions towards your destination. With this new update, Google has also revamped the Parking Difficulty Icons that were introduced earlier this year in 25 top metropolitan cities of the world. This stunning feature lets you check the availability of parking space on a location even before you are headed to that particular place. You can also save your parking location on the app just like before.

Also read Customised Google Maps Integration iOS.

Support And Availability

The Parking Difficulty feature was launched by Google for its Maps application earlier this year in the month of January. It is available on Android and iOS platforms. The feature was initially launched in the United States but Google has now expanded to 25 other cities. These are some of the world’s most popular metropolitan cities like London, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Rome, Paris, Milan and Rio De Janeiro.

On contrary to this, Find Parking feature is launched quite recently and is available only in the 25 cities of the United States including New York, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Orlando, San Diego and San Francisco. Also, it has only arrived on the Android platform as of now and it’s still uncertain when this would be coming to the iOS version of the app.

 

How It Works?

To provide a high level of accuracy, Google is using advanced Machine Learning algorithms and historical parking data. Based on that, it makes highly accurate predictions about the availability of a free parking spot. The parking difficulty depends on various factors like the type of area, time, crowd density of the area and the real-time traffic data gathered from the drivers roaming in that area at a particular time.

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