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Snapchat features may soon be available on WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is in the beta stages of testing a new feature called ‘Status’ which is very similar to what Snapchat offers.

Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, is becoming increasingly relentless in the leeching of Snapchat as there are many aspects of the platform in its new applications.

Facebook offered to buy Snapchat in 2013 for $3 billion but Snapchat turned the deal down.

After adding the ‘stories’ feature to Instagram, Facebook is prepping Whatsapp for the same upgrade.

This feature lets users share images with doodles and text captions, and just like Snapchat, they vanish in 24 hours.

To make this happen, a new tab will be added between Chats and Calls.

According to BRG, the move seems to be a part of Facebook’s new video-first strategy, which Zuckerberg highlighted during Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call earlier this week.

“You can see that a little bit in the announcement and launch of Instagram Stories and what we’re doing with Messenger and some of the additional tests on Facebook and the camera work that we’re doing in WhatsApp.

“So this is across the whole family of apps. This is a big part of the product experience that we want to deliver,” said Zuckerberg.

Sperm Donor Who Is Dad To 54 Children Launches His Own App

Declan Rooney is a one-man babymaking machine who is in an astonishing crusade to help women struggling to have children.
This year alone Declan has notched up 31 births after setting up an online sperm donation website last year.

Now he even has a smartphone app offering his services as a private donor and a free alternative to clinics.
And with 15 more buns in the oven, he has no intention of stopping – despite causing uproar among family campaigners.
Today Declan, 43 – who has eight children of his own with four different women – hit back at critics
of unregulated sperm donation, insisting in his case that everything is above board.
Looking exasperated while nursing the result of one of his donations, Declan said:

“I’m a nice guy. Why can’t people understand I am just doing this to help out?”

He insists he has not received any money as a donor apart from petrol expenses to deliver the sperm to the mother – once, he admits, in a takeaway coffee cup.

“Egg donors get treated like saints, sperm donors get treated like back alley, smutty boys,” says Declan. “But I’m not doing a bad thing. I’m not ashamed. I have helped women create families.

And some like what he offers so much, he even gets repeat business.

“I have seen five of the children in the past month because I have been donating for siblings,” he says.

Declan insists he imposes strict conditions on his services, which includes no sexual contact and banning women from smoking while they are trying to conceive. He also checks potential parents out to make sure they can afford a child.

The former graffiti artist and website designer decided to start donating sperm in March last year.
He said:

“There wasn’t a eureka moment. I just felt as I was in the right place and time of my life.

“It’s not really on an industrial scale. The first children were born last December and will be one this month.

“All of the recipients keep in touch. All the babies are healthy and happy. I have a watchful eye. They send me feedback and tell me how the children are doing.”

He knows that 17 of the 31 children born so far are boys and 14 are girls. After setting up his website, the requests soon started rolling in.

“I’ve been inundated from the start. There were women who had been trying to have a baby for three or four years so it was very busy to begin with.

“I have helped people who have been to clinics where it’s failed, and it has worked first time with me. There are more babies born in the UK by private donation than through private clinics.

Declan usually insists the recipients provide their own sterile sample kits. He says some of his clients simply want a baby without involving a man.

“One was a victim of abuse. She was desperate to be a mum but adamant she never wanted a sexual relationship,” he says. “Another was in her early 40s caring alone for elderly parents. A sperm donor was her only way of getting pregnant as she had no time to meet a man.

Declan’s current partner knows about his donations and he says she is OK with what he is doing.
But he adds:

“My eldest child isn’t too happy about it, but she found out before I was able to tell her. Two of my children are at university. The others are too young to understand. I’m a nice person.”

Two of the women who have had children with Declan are already trying to get pregnant again. And five of his donor babies have met each other because the mums are friends.
He says: “I have got things in place where everyone knows who everyone is, but privacy is still respected. I don’t pressurise people into telling me they are pregnant.

The prolific dad has a three-year-old boy, a two-year-old daughter and a year-old girl from his current relationship. He is also aware that children conceived using donor eggs or sperm can trace their biological parent once they reach 18, in the same way as children who are adopted.

One thing Declan is not concerned about is being stitched up by the mums he vets so carefully.
“I’m not worried about CSA claims because of the people I’ve chosen to help. It’s all done on trust. I don’t expect any problems,” he says

UK Mirror

Man Develops App To Discipline Children

Want your child to learn to finally clean up after herself, stop pushing people, or sit down in class? There’s an app for that. Seriously.

A Culver City, Calif., dad, Kevin Spiteri, created the Behavior World app, a positive-reinforcement tool for parents, teachers, and kids,released July 22 — with his Helping Hand Systems business partner, Bryan Saavedra — as a way to help Kevin’s son, Kyle, now 9, who was having a difficult time after Kevin split with Kyle’s mom in 2010.

“The divorce was very tough, on all of us,” Kevin tells Yahoo Parenting. “Kyle started struggling with his behavior in preschool. He was always a superactive kid, but he began doing things like pulling hair and not listening at all, and he kept being sent home.” As occupational therapists who work with children with and without special needs, Kevin and Saavedra (also a dad) know a thing or two about helping kids. But easing this difficult family transition for the boy was proving tough.

“I went as far as paying someone to be with him during the day at school, to make it through the day and not be disruptive to the class,” Kevin says. “I was willing to do anything to help him.”

When Kyle got to kindergarten, Kevin says his boy continued to act out. “There was a period of time when I tried everything to get his behavior under control,” says the single father. “I took away things. I punished him. I was desperate to try to help him gain control over his behavior, and nothing was working. It wasn’t until I used positive reinforcement that I started seeing a lasting change.”

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The most effective way that Kevin says he helped his son adjust his attitude was through a Candy Land-style game he came up with one day, jotted out on a poster with colored squares and the promise of a reward after progressing 10 spots on the chart documenting good behavior. “Kyle wanted this toy that shoots marshmallows,” says Kevin. “So I took a picture of him with it in the store, put that photo at the end of the chart, and worked with his teacher to put a happy-face sticker on his school sheet when he kept his hands to himself and listened well, which advanced him on the board.” It worked, and Kyle got his toy.

Read More: yahoo

Amebo: Nigerian Web-Startup Launches Exciting Mobile App

Innovative Nigerian web-startup Iceberg Infotainment has re-launched their mobile app called AMEBO – An app that pulls information from popular sources on the internet that provide quality Nigerian News on politics, sports, social events, job opening and more. Amebo mashes up all that info so you don’t have to worry about using multiple browser tabs and web apps.

Gbenga Emuwawon, Founder – Iceberg Infotainment, states,

“Our app offers users the best of Nigerian news and entertainment information on the go! The application pulls feeds from popular news, job vacancy, and gossip and sport websites with content for Nigerian audiences across the globe. We have Nigerians in diaspora using this app from Canada to Russia. We are happy that lost of Nigerians use our app as a go-to source for Nigerian news on their mobile devices.”

What sets AMEBO (by Iceberg Infotainment) apart from other similar apps is that it is very dynamic, adapts to various device displays and content can be shared across a wide variety of social media channels and even “Whatsapp”, brilliant!

Iceberg Infotainment is a web solutions company, specializing in website design, digital strategy and online marketing. Her mission is “to help clients reach more people and compete in quickly evolving global markets by providing top?quality web communication solutions.”

AMEBO (by Iceberg Infotainment) is available for Android devices on the Google Play Store

For iOS devices (iPhones and iPads), installation instructions are available on the firm’s website-www.icebergng.com

Gbenga Emuwawon,
Design Team Lead

Iceberg Infotainment.

Email: gbenga@icebergng.com
Phone: +44 794 774 7941
web: www.icebergng.com