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Cynthia Littleton Business Editor It’s a social media app that blends TikTok-esque user videos, mobile gaming and donations to charitable causes. Robert Weiss, a TV producer-turned-executive-turned digital entrepreneur, calls it Roar Social, and he’s spent the past three years fine-tuning the app experience that he has dubbbed “gamified giving.” Backed by $10 million in seed funding, Roar Social is set to launch beta form later this year on Apple’s App Store. Weiss has been nurturing the big idea behind Roar Social for more than 10 years. But it was during the hard early months of the pandemic, in August 2020, when he felt the time was right to dig in to developing an platform designed to bring one-swipe ease to making charitable donations via an entertaining digital media experience. The emergence of the TikTok video format changed everything.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Manta, one of the leading platforms for subscription-based digital comics, has unveiled plans to launch more than ten original cartoon series through the third quarter of 2023. The company, which is owned by Korea’s RIDI Corporation, launched in 2020 and has become the number one comics app on Google Play in certain territories including the U.S., Mexico and Spain.Webtoons are a made for mobile genre of comics, that have become yet another Asian entertainment category that is having fast-growing international success. Many webtoons offer vertical scrolling, opportunities for new creators and content that is immediately available in multiple languages.

Travellers are being warned to avoid USB charging points in airports over scamming risks.

Loose Women star Jane Moore unveiled her eye transformation on Thursday after undergoing blepharoplasty last week.The journalist and presenter, 61, revealed the results from her 45-minute procedure live on-air, joking even her own phone doesn't recognise her anymore. Showing a before and after picture, Jane, who admitted she had been "nervous" about the result, explained: "I had it done on Wednesday [last week]. It's called blepharoplasty, and they just take the loose skin.

WhatsApp users will soon be able to access a new feature that could hugely improve their experience on the messaging platform, but it could come at a cost.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan appears to have been a fan favorite over the July 4 weekend.

Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele, and more top players. As one of golf’s favorite apparel brands, Adidas has players decked out on the green and now you can get the look for less thanks to Amazon's Prime Day deals that are already available now. Prime Day 2023 is less than a week away and it's one of the best times of the year to save on everything, including golf gear.

Banking group NatWest have announced today a further 36 branches across the UK will close down between 2023 and 2024.

Former drug dealer Curtis Warren has been arrested months after being released from jail. Warren was detained and arrested on suspicion of breaching his Serious Crime Prevention Order.

A barrister has claimed a domestic violence victim who began a relationship with a police officer who met her on duty was not vulnerable. Ben Summers is representing PC Dean Birkhead, a serving GMP officer at a disciplinary hearing.

A Manchester neighbourhood will be transformed as more than 100 new homes are built. Construction has started on the properties in Ancoats - on a disused brownfield site.

Chester Zoo is offering some positions that could let you work directly with animals.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Right now, the powerful S22 Ultra is 33% off ahead of the huge shopping event. Available in white, black, green, and burgundy, the discount is available on all three storage capacities. The main reason to choose the S22 Ultra is the phone's 108-megapixel camera with an f/1.8 aperture lens, making it the best of Samsung's phones at capturing photos in low light. Get $400 off the Galaxy S22 Ultra at Amazon.The impressive previous-gen smartphone is packed with unbelievable camera skills and boasts lightning-fast performance and load times. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra comes equipped with an S Pen so you can write, draw and more, directly on the screen.

New family-friendly outdoor activities are coming to Helix Park's adventure zone if planning permission is granted.

Martin Lewis has shared how to drastically cut down on bills as he bid people to act today to save thousands.

A mum who peddled cocaine and cannabis from her family home has walked free after a judge ruled her three daughters would suffer 'significant harm' if she went to prison.

A weekly market is returning to Bathgate on a permanent basis after a trial run was hailed as a huge success which helped to boost trade in the local area.

A Lanarkshire bowling club is now able to welcome people with mobility issues to its grounds after it received a massive £10,000 grant from a nearby wind farm.

Thousands of properties in Trafford are without internet this evening after three underground cables providing broadband were damaged.

A drug dealing 'family man' with an EncroChat alter ego hid a gun under his patio. John Duffy, 41, was part of a gang which helped to import huge amounts of cocaine and heroin into the UK.

Nick Holdsworth Naqqash Khalid always wanted to make films. An English literature graduate of Salford University in Manchester, England, who began his working life as a lecturer in the university’s School of Arts and Media, Khalid dreamed of working with actors to create films that reflect our 21st century experience of a fractured world, dominated by mobile phones and social media, where time no longer seems to follow a linear path. His chance to make his dreams reality came when a script he wrote while still teaching at Salford was picked up by iFeatures – a BBC Film/Creative England/British Film Institute program for debut directors. A development grant in early 2020 enabled him to realize his script “In Camera,” which had its world premiere Saturday in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Proxima competition slot (for the Variety review see here).