June 30, 2016
Apple might buy Jay Z’s Tidal music app
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. Apple is in discussions with Tidal about acquiring its music streaming app, which offers exclusives and early releases from big artists…
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June 30, 2016
Facebook throws out the news Paper
Facebook Paper could have given publishers the reach they lost yesterday in the News Feed, but no one wanted the standalone news reading app. Facebook has pulled the…
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Video app Chosen doubles down on music video creation with access to 20M songs
Started over a year ago by the ex-CEO of Beats Music, Chosen is a video creation app with a competitive element. Users create short clips on their phones, and…
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Hyper, the Mic-owned app for curated videos, comes to iPhones
Hyper founder and CEO Markus Gilles said he has a simple goal — to create “the single best video app.” We covered the company last August when it launched…
Read articleJune 29, 2016
Facebook puts friends above publishers in “News Feed Values” and ranking change
Those core values are that friends and family come first, that the feed should inform and entertain, that Facebook is a platform for all ideas, that authentic communication…
Read articleJune 28, 2016
Facebook from other sites with new Save and Share Chrome extensions
Facebook colonized the internet with its Like button that sees 10 billion views per day around the web. Now it’s getting a makeover for mobile alongside the launch…
Read articleJune 24, 2016
iZotope, Photoshop for sound, closes another $7.5M in financing
What does the trailer to Inception, a re-mastered Rolling Stones record and the podcast Serial all have in common? They’re all awesome. Their creators also all used iZotope products…
Read articleJune 21, 2016
Squeezing video blood from Twitter’s stone
After watching other social networks get rich off of video, Twitter’s tuning in. Brevity that inspires information density has always been what’s magical about Twitter. In 140 characters…
Read articleJune 16, 2016
Heads up Twitch, Facebook just hired gamer Snoopeh for its e-sports division
459,000 years. That’s how long Twitch users spent watching other people play video games last year, and Facebook wants a piece of the pie. It might sound weird,…
Read articleJune 15, 2016
Pew’s 2016 news media report is a tough read for journalism
The Pew Research Center’s latest annual State of the News Media report underlines how successful technology giants continue to be at creaming off digital ad profits, even as…
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