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Reddit, including the Apollo app, are now shutting down due to the platform's upcoming paid API (Application Programming Interface), fans are sending them off with heartfelt posts and memes. «Apollo, one of the best iOS apps period. The official app, a buggy, clumsy mess.

Gen Z are 50% more likely to buy products based on a friend's recommendation than that of an influencer or a celebrity endorsement. This indicates a shift in the perception of content creators and their 'influence' on the demographic cohort that also forms one of the largest audience groups on most social media and content platforms. In its Not all Gen Z report, Yuvaa--a youth media, insights and impact company--exclusively shared this and other findings with ET on the behaviour and ideologies of the generation born between 1997 and 2012.

Social media giant Meta's Facebook took action against only around 27% of complaints it received from users and Instagram against less than half of total grievances raised by users in May 2023, according to the company's latest India Monthly Report. Individual grievances on Facebook more than doubled to 16,995 and jumped over 68% on Instagram in May compared to April data.

AAP said it cannot share any platform with such a party. «The Congress cannot be an alternative to the BJP in Assam. The people of the state have rejected Congress due to its misgovernance and corruption,» AAP media coordinator Jayanta Kumar Kalita said after a meeting of the party's state executive.

The entire day, we try to contain our excitement and eagerly wait for the clock to hit 6 so that we can peacefully settle into the weekend vibes. Especially these days, with several companies offering four-day work weeks, employees feel more productive and efficient towards the end of the week. However, the moment Sunday evening arrives, we start experiencing certain emotions, popularly known as “Sunday scaries” – basically when Sundays become stressful, instead of rejuvenating. Just the thought of returning to the normal work routine pushes you into a state of panic and despair. And, you find it hard to prepare your mind and body to transition back to the rise-and-grind environment. But what if we told you there is a new workplace trend to help you get rid of these Sunday scaries and Monday blues? It allows you to get the important work done and smoothly ease your way into the rest of the week. It is called “bare minimum Mondays”.What exactly is ‘bare minimum Mondays’?

Investing.com — It’s here: The July oil bulls have been waiting for. The July the Saudi oil minister plans to make a difference with, via an additional million barrels per day in output cuts. The July where some of the most optimistic forecasters for crude think it could set highs of $90 or more for a barrel of Brent.

PTC India Ltd has clocked 16 per cent growth in its power trading volumes during the first quarter of this fiscal and hopes for around 20 per cent rise in the entire 2023-24, driven by targeted segment wise trade and innovative products, according to CMD Rajib Kumar Mishra. PTC India's trading activities include long-term trading of power generated from large power projects and short-term trading arising from supply and demand mismatches, which inevitably occur in various regions of the country. The company also has a mandate to trade electricity with Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

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James Packer has returned to the world of media, emerging as a key, multimillion-dollar investor in Alan Jones’ Australian Digital Holdings.

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Bluesky has «disabled» new sign-ups. According to Bluesky's status page, the platform was experiencing «degraded performance» late Saturday.

One of Australia’s largest asset managers is set to give the exchange-traded fund sector a boost.

Twitter cofounder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey said it was difficult to run the microblogging platform and that the team at Twitter is doing the best it can under the constraints they have, following Elon Musk’s new diktat of applying ‘temporary limits’ on posts readers can read daily. “Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone.

Google to look for deserving or undeserving help. Google is ready to help more with sprinkles of AI magic. The ‘Help me write’ feature in Gmail is an excellent AI tool to use to draft emails.

SGX Nifty, the Singapore Exchange Ltd.-traded futures on India’s key equity NSE Nifty 50 Index, will be known as GIFT Nifty from July 3, and all outstanding orders will be transferred to the GIFT City, the new financial hub in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The switch from SGX to the NSE International Exchange at GIFT or Gujarat International Finance Tech-City also highlights partial success of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration’s attempts to attract India-centric trading that had moved to global financial centers such as Dubai, Mauritius and Singapore to its shores.

Bitcoin registered a second straight quarterly gain, tightening its grip on crypto markets as smaller tokens nurse losses. The largest digital asset rose 7% in April through June, aided by optimism about increasing demand if BlackRock Inc., Fidelity Investments and others succeed in their efforts to start spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the US. In contrast, smaller tokens have been weighed down by the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s growing list of coins viewed as unregistered securities, a designation that can make those assets harder to trade. Bitcoin doesn’t face a similar overhang because American officials view it as a commodity. An index comprising the bottom half of the top 100 tokens by market value dropped 25% this quarter. The divergence between Bitcoin’s performance over the period and the latter gauge was the widest since the last three months of 2020. That’s even with an end-of-quarterly rally in tokens such as Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin.

Narendra Modi will advocate sharing best practices from the Indian Startup sector to promote innovation and business in the Eurasian region at next week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. The PM has put special emphasis on promoting Startup culture through the SCO platform to encourage young entrepreneurs and boost the economy of the vast Eurasian region. Besides the PM, presidents of Russia, Belarus, China, Pakistan’s prime minister and other Central Asian leaders, would attend the SCO Summit virtually.

Twitter users expressed frustration on Saturday as they experienced difficulties accessing the social media platform, leading to the trending hashtags «TwitterDown» and «RateLimitExceeded.» The disruption started around 8 a.m. EST on Saturday and persisted throughout the afternoon, as reported by DownDetector. By 1 p.m., there were already more than 7,000 reports of service outages related to the website.

Naruto series by watching it in chronological order, rather than the order of its release. Additionally, it highlights the streaming platforms where Naruto and its spin-off series can be accessed.

Rahul Gandhi to marry. Given that Sonia Gandhi keeps getting upset over her son's refusal to get married, was it just an affectionate elder politician offering advice to a younger leader, that too on a public platform? Or, did Yadav really eye a stronger opposition unity through an envisioned 'Baraat Jodo Yatra' when he said that all opposition leaders would come as 'baraati's for Gandhi's wedding? Or did his advice go much beyond that? A significant number of successful politicians in India are/were indeed conspicuously single/unmarried.

A newly-listed crypto project, MEME token, took the crypto space by storm after it clocked over 20,000% in 24 hours.