WeChat, Line move to conquer Europe

Asian social networks, already hugely popular on their continent, have set their sights on Europe where they could prove stiff competition for their US rivals. China's WeChat and Japan's Line, which let users make free calls, send instant messages and post funny short videos and photos, take attributes from Facebook, Skype and messaging application WhatsApp and roll them all together.Line's logo is green with a conversation bubble inside, and looks remarkably similar to the icon of WeChat, which began in January 2011. 30% of Line's overall turnover and in July alone, users bought eight million euros ($10.8 million) worth of stickers. The social network has already taken root in other parts of Europe. In Spain, for instance, Line has forged heavyweight partnerships with football clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, brands such as Coca-Cola or tennis star Rafael Nadal. FC Barcelona, for instance, has a home page on the app where it posts photos that has already drawn more than 8.2 million friends. Line even has a permanent office in Spain, where it counts some 15 million users already. 

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Twitter improves photos experience in embedded tweets

Twitter has rolled out a major update to its embedded Tweets with photos.Users can click the photo to check out the conversation behind the Tweet. There is also an option to interact with embedded Tweets.Twitter's improvement to its photo experience comes shortly after Facbeook introduced embedded posts for third party sites. Facebook's embedded posts display just like they do on Facebook, and come with support for pictures, videos, hashtags, and other content.

Instagram, now a unit of Facebook, recently launched videos and embedded posts. Twitter's Vine videos are also embeddable.

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Hyundai Care service app for smartphones by Hyundai India

India’s second largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor India Limited, has launched what it calls “the industry first integrated service mobile application”, ‘Hyundai Care’. The application is available for Android smartphones at the moment, and will soon be available for iOS devices. The application allows users to view their vehicle’s service history, get service reminders, get estimates for repairs, insurance premium calculations and search the pan-India dealership network.

launch of the Hyundai Care, Mr. Rakesh Srivastava, Sr. Vice President Sales & Marketing, HMIL said, “We have developed Hyundai Care service mobile app to provide features that give real- time benefits to the customer.We feel the Hyundai Care application will allow them to experience Hyundai services in a digitize and exciting new platform. This is another step in leveraging the potential of mobile technology to offer convenience and value to our customers.”

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