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Mobile App Development – Offering Great Prospects for Entrepreneurs Teenage Mobile App Developers Do you know that there is an increase i n the number of teenage mobile app developers? Several big companies are encouraging the efforts of these young developers irrespective of their age and education. In 2012, a teenager based in California developed a mobile app for the Home Depot in a contest and won $10,500, which impressed a Facebook official and the company offered internship for her. Nearly seven months back, Yahoo bought a news-reading app, ‘Summly’ from a 12-year-old British teenager for tens of millions of dollars. The company also employed him and is planning to incorporate his algorithmic invention in its own mobile apps. Entrepreneurial spirit is a precious gift indeed – something that combines passion, confidence, positivity and ambition. A real entrepreneur is not daunted by the prospect of failure and is willing to embrace both highs and lows with the same p...

Top 10 Features of New Android Oreo Google finally announced the 8th version of Android. Android O is now officially Android Oreo preceded by Android Nougat. The all new Android Oreo of Google has entered for carrier testing in Pixel and Nexus devices. It will roll out widely to other devices very soon. Android Oreo includes all the features that were promised at the Google I/O such as Picture-in-Picture, notification improvements, scanning of all the apps in Google Play, Autofill tool that fills the personal information and passwords quickly and securely and etc. Let’s take a closer look at the prominent features that you can expect from this latest version of Android. 1. Picture-In-Picture The much-awaited picture-in-picture feature is here. It allows the user to perform multiple tasks. For example, you can check your email while video calling your friends by opening two apps simultaneously. This would look cool for phones with large screens. You need to enable this featu...

Mobile Security—How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices, Actually? Whether it’s searching embarrassing symptoms or letting curiosity win and checking out the latest photo leak, we all get up to some questionable things online from time to time—things we wouldn’t want our boss or maybe even friends to know. We aren’t ones to judge, but if you think that in this day-in-age you’re just as safe (or safer) doing all that on your smartphone as your PC, you might want to reconsider. For example, a recent study examining 10,000 mobile devices in the UK and the US, showed that 40 of the 50 top porn sites were susceptible to software that may harm your phone badly. Another security report issued by Nokia in March 2017, revealed a new all-time high in mobile device infection rates—a stunning 400 percent increase over last year! Spyware that exposes your text messages, contact lists, GPS coordinates and other data that you’d rather kept to yourself, hits both Android and iOS-run devices. Yet ...

WhatsApp to bring in-chat payment option to India by December Highlights WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The messaging platform has teamed up with three Banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC. It will need a bank's UPI structure. We've been hearing about WhatsApp to soon offer payment option within WhatsApp chat. Now, a new report surfaces claiming WhatsApp Pay could be made available by December. According to , WhatsApp Pay feature is in testing and could be launched by December. India could be among the first countries. India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp and so this move isn't surprising. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The report further adds that the messaging platform has teamed up with three banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC . It will need a bank's UPI structure. WhatsApp is working on an in-chat payment option. This is in lin...