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August 5, 2015
Tinder is tiptoeing into the friend zone and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just…
Read articleAugust 1, 2015
About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company’s head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering side next to co-founder Evan Sharp and…
Read articleJuly 31, 2015
Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company’s early typefaces and icons, has joined Pinterest. She’ll be part of Pinterest’s creative team as a product design…
Read articleJuly 31, 2015
35 million people run into a Facebook email and password login roadblock on iOS each day, and over half of them bounce. That’s why Facebook confirms to me…
Read articleJuly 30, 2015
Facebook today detailed plans for its solar-powered, laser-connected, Internet-beaming Aquila drones, but confirmed it’s not going to compete with Internet Service Providers. “Our intention is not to be…
Read articleJuly 30, 2015
The latest perk of working at Facebook: getting to play the new Nintendo game Super Mario Maker a month before it comes out. Yesterday, Facebook hosted a hackathon…
Read articleJuly 30, 2015
Mobile messaging app Line saw its revenue decrease quarter-on-quarter for the first time as the Japanese company battles to grow its user base amid increased competition worldwide. The…
Read articleJuly 29, 2015
Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another one of them may soon enter the so-called unicorn…
Read articleJuly 29, 2015
With 700 million Messenger users, investors are eager to see Facebook earn money on the platform. But Zuckerberg put the brakes on those expectations today during the Q2…
Read articleJuly 29, 2015
Yahoo unveiled a new app today called Livetext, where users can send each other video and text — but no sound. To get a sense of how it…
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