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About Vineesh Mohan

A Technical Support specialist with strong customer service and good communication skills. I live in the city of Cochin, which known as the Queen of Arabian Sea.

Google will give you $5 for inviting a friend to use Wallet

Google announced a money giveaway promotion to encourage Google Wallet users to invite friends to the service. Existing customers can initiate a money-send request in an amount as little as one penny. If the recipient has never created a Google


Google Nexus 6 to go on sale in India today

Google’s flagship Nexus 6 is all set to go up for pre-orders in India on today. Flipkart, which listed the Google Nexus 6 as “coming soon” on its website several days ago, has now changed the status of the device


Snapchat launches Snapcash payment feature with Square

Snapchat, is in the news again. Today Snapchat unveiled a partnership with payment processor Square to launch payments inside the Snapchat app. The feature, dubbed Snapcash, allows users to send money to friends and family on the network by simply


Facebook in talks to provide free internet access across Africa

Social media giant Facebook wants to sign a deal with satellite company Avanti, which would supposedly bring free access to the internet over large regions in Africa. This is not the first time that the social network has pushed to


Facebook to launch work-based social network called ‘Facebook at Work’

Facebook is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” to get a foothold in the office that will see the social network of more than 1 billion people compete directly with Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn. The website,


Latest WhatsApp now lets you disable read receipts

WhatsApp introduced a new feature recently that showed two blue checkmarks next to messages when a message was read by recipients. Now the newest version of WhatsApp for Android (version 2.11.44) allows you to disable the new receipts under the


Google Play Music subscribers get access to YouTube Music Key

When YouTube Music Key was announced a couple of days ago, we came to understand that subscribers would also get access to Google Play Music’s streaming service. Well, it looks like as if it’ll work the other way, too: Google


Facebook launches new Places Directory

Facebook has launched a new Places Directory, which allows you to search for the best destinations in cities across the world. Once you have searched for a specific city or town, you can select from restaurants, hotels, bars, cafes, attractions,


Google India doodle marks Children’s Day with Pune girl’s colorful art

Google doodle has featured a Pune child’s artwork to celebrate Children’s Day. Doodle 4 Google winner Vaidehi Reddy’s idea of a depicting the colourful and aesthetically rich state of Assam in Google Doodle is commendable. The day is celebrated on


Facebook launches video tool to help friends say ‘thanks’

Facebook today announced Say Thanks, an experimental service for sending personalized video cards to your friends. There are a number of different themes to choose from, though it doesn’t sound like customization will extent far beyond choosing that and what