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June 23, 2016
Will voice replace our thumbs? Will brands drown out our friends? Are chatbots the future if nobody wants them? TechCrunch Disrupt SF will get the answers from David…
Read articleJune 22, 2016
Pinterest today said it was acquiring the team behind tote, a shopping app that highlights products suggested by fashion influencers and friends. The tote founders are joining Pinterest’s…
Read articleJune 21, 2016
A couple weeks back, Reddit announced that it would be providing its own image hosting solution to a handful of subreddits. The experiment appears to have been a…
Read articleJune 21, 2016
Now you can approve expenses, assign deadlines, check flights, and interact with other enterprise tools from inside Slack with its new Message Buttons. Slack is vying to become…
Read articleJune 21, 2016
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 21, 2016
If you’ve ever wanted a text message conversation to simply go away, but still wanted to do it gracefully, there’s a new bot that will help do that for…
Read articleJune 21, 2016
80% of Instagram users come from outside the US, up from 75% in September, showing the popularity of pretty pictures that cross language barriers. It still has 100…
Read articleJune 20, 2016
Tripstir is a new app that helps you share travel plans and tips with your friends. Think of it as a way to avoid those exasperating moments when…
Read articleJune 20, 2016
Facebook users can expect to start seeing more of the company’s Canvas format. For those of you who haven’t been following all of Facebook’s different ad formats, a…
Read articleJune 16, 2016
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,…
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