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Tinder is launching a new safety feature

Tinder is introducing a feature that lets users run background checks on required dates, as the company continues to address concerns about the safety of users on dating apps. This new feature of Tinder gives users the opportunity to search the criminal records on  potential dates

Users can avail up to two free checks and this won't reveal any personal data but will show if the user has a violent past or any other information which is deemed as risky to a user's safety. After using the first two free background checks, users have to pay $2.50 to conduct background checks.

Match Group Inc.’s Tinder has teamed up with a nonprofit organization to offer this background checks feature. Match Group said it has been developing the tool since last March, when it announced an investment in Garbo Technology Corp., a nonprofit background check organization. Tinder members who tap the feature in the app’s safety center will be directed to Garbo to fill in information about themselves as well as details about their match, such as name and phone number. Garbo will surface arrests and convictions for certain violent crimes, as well as sex offender registry status, and indicate whether it has high, medium or low confidence in the results.

In a recent tweet,  Tracey Breeden, head of safety and social advocacy at Match Group said that “This is an initiative that’s been done in this industry. My vision is really focused on preventing not just physical harm, but psychological, emotional abuse, harassment.” 

In addition to background checks, Tinder has added features to verify identity and prompt users to reconsider sending messages that could be seen as harassment.

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YouTube Launched Live Rings Icon to Show Users When a Channel is Live

YouTube has launched a new feature that will make it easier for users to identify a channel when it’s live streaming.

YouTube is adding a new indicator to show when a channel is live streaming on the platform. The feature would make it easier to find live content. The new update will display a ring with the word “Live” on it around a channel’s profile picture when they are live streaming. 

The feature is already used on a couple of other services. TikTok features a similar pulsing ring effect on a channel's profile picture when they're live streaming and you scroll past their video in your feed.

In a recent tweet Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer, said that they had really focused making it easier for users to identify livestreams on YouTube. So they have launched the Live rings feature on mobile! YouTube Creators streaming live will now have a ring around the channel avatar and clicking on the avatar will take you directly to the livestream.”

“And in the months ahead, we will bring even more engagement and monetization options across all three formats,” Neel Mohan added.

Besides this, YouTube has also planned to introduce collaborative livestreaming, and  gifted memberships. The collaborative live streaming feature helps creators go live together. YouTube is testing gifted memberships feature where users can purchase a channel membership for another viewer in the livestream with a small group of channels.

Have you noticed the live ring feature in the recent videos? Additionally, do you have suggestion of feature that could be included in YouTube?

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Twitter’s New Feature: Users can Now Place Content Warnings on Individual Tweets

Social networking platform, Twitter has been testing a new content warning feature for over a year. As the name suggests, the content warning label lets users avoid any unwanted or unsafe posts that they do not want to look at. Twitter offers three warnings including Nudity, Violence, or Sensitive information.

This feature is now available on Twitter's Android, iOS, and web apps. Users can put a content warning on posts by adding a photo or video, tapping to edit it, and then hitting a flag icon that will bring up the options listed above.

How does the new feature work:

Open Twitter and compose a tweet.

Tap on the flag icon on the top of the composition dashboard

Based on content type, select one or more warnings from options like Nudity, Violence, or Sensitive.

Once selected go back and tap on “Tweet”

In addition to this functionality, Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to untag themselves from irrelevant conversations which they do not wish to be a part of. Having known about the new content warning feature of Twitter, What do you think about this new feature?

Do you think this feature will help in improving the user experience?

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Top 5 Amazing facts about Amazon that You Might be Surprised to Know

Being an ecommerce giant,  almost everyone has used Amazon to buy or sell something. While Amazon is invading the ecommerce industry, there are some interesting facts you need to know.

1.Started as a bookstore: When Amazon was started in 1995, it was a bookstore run out of his home garage. So when Amazon opened their first physical bookstore in 2015, it was staying true to the roots of the company. The first book  sold on Amazon was “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies” written by Douglas Hofstadter. 2. Second business to accomplish $1 trillion in market capitalization Among the most fascinating statistics about Amazon is that it is only the second firm in history to reach $1 trillion in revenue. Given that Amazon earns 49 cents for every dollar bought online in the United States, this is unsurprising. In 2018, Apple became the first firm to hit the $1 trillion mark.

3. Amazon Will Pay Employees To Leave The Company Amazon introduced a "Pay to Quit" program in 2014 with the goal of reducing the number of unmotivated warehouse workers at its fulfillment sites. If a person resigns, they will receive anything from $2000 to $5000, depending on how long they have worked there. (Employees must have been with the company for at least a year.) What's the catch? You will never work for the company again if you accept the money. Only about 10% of the first wave of employees who were offered the deal took it.

4. Amazon Bought a Robotics Business in 2012

Kiva Systems was purchased by Amazon for $775 million. This small robotics firm provided its new owner with mobile robots that were designed to transport item racks from worker to worker and scan barcodes on the surface for guidance. Amazon received an army of robots custom-built to whizz around buildings and fulfill shipping demands at breakneck speed as part of the agreement. Kiva had committed to maintain distributing its technology to other suppliers even as an Amazon subsidiary. But it didn't pan out that way: Amazon renamed Kiva to Amazon Robotics in the spring of 2015.

5. Amazon is a pet-friendly environment.

Amazon's employees love having their pets around the office. There are about 6,000 dogs that work at Amazon's campus in Seattle. It has always been a pet-friendly environment. There is even a doggy deck in one of the buildings with a fake fire hydrant.

Among these, which of the fact amazed you?

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6 Best online business ideas that you can start without much investment

As people are shifting towards online trends, it is a profitable option to start an online business. To start an online business, you need not necessarily want to have a huge amount of investment. There are a lot of online businesses that you can start without much investment. Here you can find the top 7 online businesses that can be started without much investment.

1.Get started with Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a performance-based business where affiliate marketers earn money through revenue-sharing.  It means they will receive a fixed amount as commission when a specific targeted action happens to the products, they are marketing. Affiliate marketers are the independent promoters for the product, service they choose. Being an affiliate marketer, you will get the freedom to choose the techniques or strategies you want to use to reach the greatest number of consumers.

Are you looking to start your own business but just haven’t been able to save up the required amount of money to start it? Affiliate marketing provides the best answer to your wishes.

Why Affiliate Marketing?

When it comes to affiliate marketing, you don’t need to have a huge capital on hand. All you need to have is electricity and adequate internet connectivity.

Unlike other sales channels, you need not have to be a tech-savvy person to sell a product. Knowing effective social media marketing techniques is more than enough to increase your chance of winning.

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need to leave your existing job.  You can simply have it as your side-line income and see how it works, and how much you can earn overtime.

Besides, if you decide to work full-time in affiliate marketing, you can very well turn into your best bet at earning money fast via passive income. 

2.Set up an ecommerce business

Generating profit in business is pretty challenging if a seller is just starting out. Due to the heavy competition in the market, it is essential to make smart investments. For instant sales and massive profit due to low operating costs, the modern seller should consider using the internet. With millions of people using the internet daily, it’s natural that people tend to buy the online product that catches their eye. Therefore, starting an ecommerce business is always a good idea as it helps several businesses earn more and to keep your business on top of the trends.

Setting up an ecommerce store not only requires lower cost than brick-and-mortar setups, it also allows you to expand  your business globally.

When it comes to online business, you can opt for personalized options like chat bots, and target based paid ads. So, it substantially reduces the staff requirements for your business.

With a digital presence of your business, you can instantly share your customers' appreciation over social media platforms of your business. As these reviews are publicly available for everyone to view, you can easily influence your new users to get converted as customers.

3. Sell Handcrafted Goods Online

Are you good at making amazing handmade crafts for birthday gifts or any occasion? Or just you do it for yourself where your friends frequently suggest you explore your creativity to the world. Have you ever thought about converting your skill into a profitable business, but worried about the huge investments for it? If yes then don’t sweat it, lots of online platforms are available to help you achieve in your business. It’s much easier than you think to start your own handmade crafts business.

Why can you sell handcrafted items online?

As you are allowing customers to order your products online, you need not have to go out of your house unless you want to deliver it yourself.

As the customers order online, you don’t have to pre-stock the goods for the sake of display. You can purchase/prepare your handmade products once you receive an order from the customer.

You don’t have to spend any cost on promoting your products, you can simply make use of free online marketing techniques.  4. Become an online tutor In today’s pandemic situation, the notion of teaching methods has changed completely. As the parents are looking for academic help for their children outside the classroom, private tutoring is becoming increasingly important. With the advancement of internet technologies, today’s tutoring methods have become digitized. But the one which never changes is the knowledge which is enhanced to students personally, customized learning practice, and one-to-one support.  Why can you opt for online tutoring?

Opting for online tutoring eliminates the time and cost of commuting for both students and tutors. Also, it is sustainable and environment friendly, especially if you are commuting on car/bike. As online tutoring eliminates the location barrier, the tutors and students can find each other from anywhere around the world. So, they do not have to make a far-fetched commute to teach/learn.While coming to online class, there is more scope for opting advanced teaching practices. It includes recording live classes for future reference, sharing important notes as PDF documents, conducting online tests with auto tracking of time and performance of students.

5. Become a blogger

Over the last decade, blogging has evolved from having more personal to more professional goals. Instead of individuals solely blogging for their friends and family, blogging began to encompass professionals blogging for the public to promote their personal brand and their business. 

Why can you start blogging?

Blogs have unlimited growth potential. You can expand into affiliate marketing, ecommerce, courses, and essentially any other online business venture. Some blogs even use a paid subscription model to drive revenue.

A blog is a long-term play. While you won’t see overnight results, they are likely to be more sustainable. A blog lives on the internet forever—or at least until you delete it.

It lets you practice your writing—an essential skill to have in business and communication. Use tools like Grammarly or Hemmingway to improve your writing.

6. Become a Freelancer

Demand for freelancers is growing as businesses are increasingly outsourcing tasks such as bookkeeping, social media marketing and email management to freelancers instead of completing the tasks themselves or taking on new, permanent staff. As a freelancer, you will provide support by completing a range of administrative services for individuals and businesses remotely.

Why is Freelancing a good choice?

The biggest perk of being a freelancer is that you will be the CEO of your own company. So, you can fix your own rates and find clients who are willing to pay you what you’re worth.

Being a freelancer, you will have more flexibility in work timing whereas you can decide when to work. You can also choose which tasks you would like to perform and perform well. As you have flexibility in work, you can take multiple projects simultaneously and can work on it. So, by following this, you can earn more, if you work more.

So, did you find these online business ideas helpful?

Besides, do you think any other online business ideas could be added to the list?

If yes, comment below.

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Then vs. Now: Top 5 Mobile Apps which are making our lives smarter

In this technologically growing society, the growth of mobile apps is inevitable. And, apps are taking one step further by providing advancements and updates frequently.

From buying groceries to performing a banking transaction, irrespective of what you need to do, everything is simply at your fingertips with mobile apps.

Have mobile apps changed for the better or worse? Well, it’s still a debate.

Let’s keep that aside, and discuss the top mobile apps that have made our lives easier.

1. Taxi Apps

Online taxi booking services have seen remarkable advancements with the help of state-of-the-art technology. This sector has experiencing yet further revolution and this time it is because of the taxi booking apps like Ola, Uber, Lyft, and Careem. 

2. E-commerce Apps

Whoever says money can’t buy happiness simply didn't know where to go for shopping. To enhance the shopping experience of users, many shopping apps like Amazon, Flipkart, Etsy, and Walmart.

3. Healthcare Apps

Like most other industries, the healthcare industry has undergone a rapid transformation. With more and more people relying on them, The usage of healthcare applications like Teladoc, Practo, Zocdoc, Healthgrades has increased worldwide, for everything from medical treatments to general health and well-being.

4. Messaging Apps

In the current era of hyper-communication, messaging apps have become a vital part of daily life. With billions of monthly users, messaging apps offer endless opportunities and massive marketing potential and growth for companies around the globe.

5. Food Delivery Apps

With a huge number of young professionals in big cities, people hardly find time to prepare food. That’s why, the food delivery apps like Zomato, Ubereats, Doordash, and Postmates have brought major convenience in, enabling us to eat out from the comfort of our homes. 

Do you think, we can add any other apps to the list?

If yes, mention your recommendation in the comments