August 30, 2015
Giffiti Jazzes Up Photos With GIFs
In the ever-escalating social media arms race, GIFs are the best way to get attention. Static photos are so 2013. But a new app called Giffiti (like graffiti with…
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August 28, 2015
SocialBattles Is A Photo App For People Who Think Instagram Isn’t Competitive Enough
Andre and Sandro De Moraes must really like to see people compete. The brothers previously created GoldMic, a now-defunct social network for hip hop battles. Now they’ve launched…
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Vine ❤️ Music
Vine, the six-second looping video app from Twitter, has today announced a significant feature update that brings more attention to the audio in users’ videos. Starting tomorrow (Friday),…
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Former Facebook And Instagram Marketer Eric Edge Joins Photo Startup PicsArt
PicsArt is announcing that it has hired Eric Edge as its vice president of marketing. Edge spent the last four-plus years at Facebook (where he led the company’s…
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OpenFeint Founder Jason Citron Returns To A Familiar Place With Discord App For Gamers
Some founders keep returning to the same ideas over and over in new form. Jason Citron, a lifelong gamer, was the creator of OpenFeint, an early mobile social…
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Life360 Acquires Chronos To Add “Quantified Self” Tracking To Its Family Locator App
Life360, the maker of mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that help keep families connected, has acquired Chronos Mobile Technologies, a startup behind a number of…
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Why Angry Birds Games Aren’t Enough For Rovio
Earlier today, Rovio said it would lay off 260 employees. This was fascinating news to the Internet, given Rovio’s status as one of the vanguards of mobile gaming as the…
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Facebook Goes Nuclear On The Messaging War With Its M Assistant
All messaging apps are the same no more. A few years ago, there were few differences between SMS and a slew of chat apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Kik,…
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Facebook Is Adding A Personal Assistant Called “M” To Your Messenger App
We’d been hearing rumblings that Facebook was working on an “assistant” within Messenger (along with others), but today we’ve gotten the details that pull it all together. This…
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Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers
Simon Khalaf, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products, today outlined some big shifts in the mobile ecosystem and unveiled some new tools for mobile developers. He made the…
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