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Google will be ending support for its Wallet card starting from June 30th. The company announced this through its website stating that “After careful consideration, we’ve decided that we’ll no longer support the Wallet Card as of June 30. Moving forward, we want to focus on making it easier than ever to send and receive money with the Google Wallet app.” The physical Google wallet card has been in use in some markets but it looks like Google is finally killing it off as it wants to get people to use the Wallet app. Google went ahead to say that…

A few weeks ago, Oppo unveiled one of its best camera phones yet, the Oppo R9 and R9 Plus. Both these phones were launched in China and we were not sure if they would be available for the international markets. If you have been waiting for the international versions of either the R9 or R9 Plus, you may be happy to know that Oppo will be launching them next week. Oppo will be taking the R9 and R9 to India first as from April 5. The company has already sent out media invites to an even it has next week…

Microsoft Office is the most popular productivity suite you can find on the market. Almost everyone has at some point in their lives tried any one of the many different applications under the Microsoft Office family. According to Microsoft, there are now over 1.2 billion people using Office around the world. The company announced this yesterday at its annual Build Conference. 1.2 billion is a very huge number and this means that almost 2 out of every 7 people use Microsoft Office. Microsoft went ahead to reveal that the 1.2 billion Office users spend on average 3-4 hours every day…

Samsung has today launched the Galaxy J3 in India. The Galaxy J series consists of entry and mid-range smartphones from Samsung targeting developing and emerging markets. The Galaxy J3 joins some of Samsung’s existing entry level devices such as the Galaxy J1, J1 ace, J1 Mini and the Galaxy J2. The Galaxy j3 was initially launched last year in China and was available in very few markets then. The Galaxy J3 comes into the market just over two months after the company launched the Galaxy J1 (2016) in Dubai and 3 weeks after it unveiled another cheap variant, the Galaxy…

When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 to the world, the company also introduced a new web browser, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge was meant to support Internet Explorer which was one of the worst browsers on the market. Microsoft has announced that its Edge Web browser will be getting a native ad-blocking support with the next update. The company announced this at this year’s Build 2016 conference. This is a bold move for Microsoft and it’s something I never expected from the company which has been a bit too slow in introducing new features that consumers want. Including native ad-blocking support will…

We have been hearing about the HTC 10 smartphone for over a month now and if you are waiting for this phone you probably know that it will be unveiled on April 12. This will be the company’s 2016 flagship smartphone and you expect it to be amazing. The latest leak comes from a GFXBench listing that reveals the key specs of this phone. The HTC 10 specifications revealed through the GFXBench database include a 5.1 inch AMOLED display with a QHD resolution. It will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB…

After weeks of leaks and rumors, Samsung has finally unveiled the Galaxy A9 Pro to the world. We first started hearing about this smartphone at the beginning of the year. We then saw numerous leaks suggesting some of the features it was to come with and the last one was at the beginning of this month when it was certified by Tenaa. Read: The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro has been certified by Tenaa, expect its unveiling anytime soon The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro has just been announced in China and there is still no info if it will be available…

Mobile-based financial services company Branch has raised a Series A equity funding round of $9.6 million, as it positions itself for further growth and expansion into new markets. The funding will allow for the scaling of its operations, hiring talent in Kenya as well as expansion across East Africa in 2016. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) , a prestigious US-based VC firm that has previously backed top international technology companies such as Facebook and Airbnb.  Alex Rampell, the partner who invested on behalf of the fund, commented on the deal: “The combination of smartphones, digital money, and…

WhatsApp is currently the most popular messaging application out there but the app is still lagging behind when it comes to customization features. Even though there a few things you can do on WhatsApp to customize your experience, there is still more to be done for an even better experience. This is probably what the company currently had planned when it started working on its latest update that will bring a ton of customization features to the app. The company is working on the next WhatsApp version, which is still in beta, which will bring features such as the ability…

Instagram has been busy rolling out new features in a move aimed at keeping users engaged and strategically positing itself to attract advertisers. The latest update that Instagram has rolled out is the introduction of 60 second videos. From today, you will be able to upload/create 60 second videos on the social networking site. Previously, Instagram videos could only be 15 seconds long. Instagram says that extending acceptable video length to 60 seconds is informed by the trend the company has been observing on the site. The company says that over the past 6 months, the time spent watching videos…