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January 26, 2016
In case there was any doubt that Snapchat wants to be the mobile generation’s mass media, it’s just added Cosmopolitan Editor-In-Chief Joanna Coles to its board of directors.…
Read articleJanuary 21, 2016
How did Facebook go from 1 billion to 8 billion videos views per day in 18 months without the whole server farm catching fire? It’s called SVE, short…
Read articleJanuary 21, 2016
Facebook wasn’t built for sports. Its filtered, non-chronological News Feed made it tough to follow real-time chatter about the game. Twitter’s feed is great for it. But out…
Read articleJanuary 21, 2016
Numerous startups over the years have tried to tackle the problem of helping people track down the photos others have taken, but hadn’t yet shared with you. Today,…
Read articleJanuary 21, 2016
After more than a year in development, KnowMe, a new video creation and sharing platform, is launching on the iPhone. The app was created by Andrew Jarecki, the Emmy-winning…
Read articleJanuary 21, 2016
QuizUp, the Icelandic company that put trivia in an app, has announced that it is receiving up to $7.5 million in funding from Glu Mobile, with an option…
Read articleJanuary 18, 2016
Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next…
Read articleJanuary 16, 2016
Terrorists are communicating over a new secure Android app after getting kicked off WhatsApp, Telegram, and other messengers. Called “Alrawi”, the encrypted chat app makes it harder for…
Read articleJanuary 15, 2016
Anyone who has a credit card has probably experienced some sort of fraud over the last few years. I personally have had it happen several times and I…
Read articleJanuary 14, 2016
If you haven’t tried Peach out because you don’t have an iOS device, a developer has ginned up something called “Nectarine,” which is an unofficial Android and web…
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