Snow is a selfie app which once was bought by Faceboook. Today, the company behind Snow has scooped up a $50 million investment from SoftBank and Sequoia China.

Snow was started by Naver, the Korean firm behind popular messaging app Line, and it had proven popular in Japan, Korea, China and other markets in Asia thanks to a focus on localized filters, stickers and features.

A major updated that dropped last week removed Snow’s user-to-user communication features and turned it into a dedicated selfie camera app. Without chat, the app doubles down on filters, stickers, augmented reality (AR), and other selfie-related features to make photos and other media that can be exported to social networks or chat groups. Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on January 22, 2018 9:51 am and last modified on January 31, 2018 7:03 am.

Did you know that 1 in 10 social media users have been a victim of a cyber attack and more than 600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised everyday? That’s 219 million accounts a year!

Think of all the personal information you keep on Facebook – including your email, phone number, address, correspondences and photos. Wouldn’t want that stolen right? Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on January 17, 2018 10:06 am and last modified on January 17, 2018 10:06 am.

More than 40,000 south koreans petitioned to recall the chairman of the financial supervisory commission today, according to the south Korean economic news website.

Morning, South Korea’s justice minister said PiaoXiangJi is preparing legislation against the south Korean exchange of digital currency trading, causing a global digital currency markets tumbled, deepened the conflict between south Korean regulators and investors.

South Korea’s finance minister said it had not reached an agreement with the ministry of justice to close an encrypted currency exchange.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on January 11, 2018 3:21 pm