December 14, 2015
Lightsaber Yourself With Facebook’s Star Wars Profile Pics
Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures. Just in time for the release of…
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December 14, 2015
SocialRank Helps You Understand Your Followers — And Now It’s Getting Collaborative
Hey, it’s great that you’re trying to get more followers, but what about understanding the followers you already have? That’s what New York City startup SocialRank aims to…
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Families Get Screwed Sending Dollars To Mexico. TransferWise Does It 4X Cheaper
Money transfers are a crooked racket. They’re designed to hide just how much cash they steal from immigrant workers sending funds to family back home. Western Union, Moneygram,…
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Reddit’s Official Android App Is Coming Soon
If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to…
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Facebook Is Killing Photo Syncing, Asks Users To Download Its “Moments” App Instead
Facebook clearly believes it has its next hit app on its hands to follow Messenger with its private photo-sharing service, Moments. The company has now announced it will…
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Postmates And Twitter Product Guru Sara Mauskopf Is Working On Parenting App Called “Winnie”
During stints at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube and Google, Sara Mauskopf has touched many of the products that you use on a daily basis. With that knowledge, having just…
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Google Photos Gets Easy-To-Use Shared Albums
Since breaking off into its own product, Google Photos has been on a bit of a roll as far as adding new features quickly. One such feature is…
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Flipagram’s Stories Are Sticky And You Can Now Create 60-Second Flips
In case you’ve forgotten about Flipagram, we told you about them back in July when they raised $70 million and said they had 30 million users. The company…
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Swarm Now Lets You Spend Those Coins On Upgraded Stickers
Remember when Swarm launched coins? While the reward for checking in was entertaining, the coins had no real use other than providing a measurement by which to rank…
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Flickr Comes To Gear VR With 360 Degree Photo Viewing Experience
Flickr’s 15 billion photos are there for our consumption at any time, but beyond seeing static photos there hasn’t been much of an experience upgrade over the years…
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