Google purchased Waze in 2013 and developed it as a separate community-based GPS navigation app with several real-time, crowd-sourced social networking features. “Wazers” can alert fellow drivers to accidents, hazards, road closures, speed traps, police activity, and other issues that may call for route changes, and that information comes with an ETA based on current …
Reddit is rapidly becoming a social media platform teens and young adults are using to discuss topics that are important to them with likeminded individuals. For young people, it is becoming a primary source for news, information, and entertainment, and most parents have never heard of it. The concept is simple: Reddit users post whatever …
Spotify is the king of music streaming. Although Spotify’s core features – a great catalogue, intuitive experience, affordable price plan – make it a fantastic service, the platform stands out for its constant innovation by way of new features, redesigns, customized playlists and even new offerings such as Spotify Lite and Spotify HiFi. These improvements …
PicsArt, the popular image-editing and photo-social-networking app continues to reinvent itself, adding AI-enhanced art filters like those popularized by the Prisma app, which can transform mobile photos, giving them the appearance of bona fide artworks by masters like Picasso or Mondrian. Alongside this addition, this app has undergone a clarifying redesign and now features a …
Roku is a company that makes a family of media-streaming devices that all run the Roku software (the latest version is Roku OS 9.4). The name means “six” in Japanese because Roku is the sixth company launched by its founder, Anthony Wood. The company launched its first product — the Roku DVP — in 2008 …
With faster performance than the mobile site and quicker access to your most-used functions, the official Facebook app is undoubtedly the best way to interact with Facebook from your Android device. The app keeps getting better, with a fresh new design, improved sharing options and a feature that lets you find your friends who are …
Discord is a free app for mobile and PC that lets people chat via text, voice, or video in real time. Combining the internet-calling features of Skype with Reddit-like discussion boards, it’s broadened from gamers-only to a social networking site for communities of all types, including those with non-gaming interests like anime, TV series, music, …
Although Netflix’s streaming service started as a niche offshoot of the company’s disc-mailing service, it is now the front-runner in the category, thanks to its reliable core catalog and some of the best original programming. Netflix also integrates excellent features across interfaces, allows offline downloads on mobile platforms, and features 4K content. Netflix has an …
Venmo is a peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfer mobile app, similar to Square Cash, that has a social media twist: You can send or request money via emoji-studded text messages, which show up in a Facebook-style feed. Don’t worry, though — dollar amounts always remain private. Venmo lets you send and request money to and from …
Facebook Messenger is a standalone app that lets you chat with your Facebook friends, send them photos and stickers, and even make free VoIP calls to your friends and family who are already on Facebook. It takes the best parts of chatting over Facebook on the Web and puts them on your Android device. In …
