April 17, 2015
Trio Lets You Mash Up Your Own Media With GIFs, Vines, Music And More
If you spend entirely too much time creating, searching for and sharing the best GIFs and Vines with your friends, then you might get a kick out of…
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April 16, 2015
Snapchat Is Paying Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall 0.11% To Be An Advisor
A leaked email from the Sony Pictures hack indicates Snapchat set aside .11% of its stock for former Apple head of iOS Scott Forstall to be an advisor.…
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Twitter Is Winning The Live Streaming Battle
Following its acquisition of live streaming app Periscope, Twitter has been actively fighting to make sure its service beats that of independent competitor Meerkat, which had a slightly earlier…
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Tumblr 4.0 Arrives On iOS With Better Blogging Tools, Filtered Search, And A New Widget
Tumblr this morning has begun to roll out a sizable update to its iOS application with the release of Tumblr 4.0. The new application, which also now appears under a…
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LinkedIn Raises Its Game In Social Media With Elevate, An App To Suggest And Share Stories
LinkedIn, the social platform with 350 million users where people network for business deals, new jobs, news, and soon to learn a thing or two, is now tapping another business area: social media management. Today, the company…
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Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat
Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use…
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Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business
In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas like advertising and commerce, but a move made late Friday night points to another…
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Snapchat Goes Hard At Coachella With New Dynamic Filters
Snapchat wants to usurp Instagram as they way to share Coachella Music Festival adventure. So today it revealed a new style of Geofilters that change throughout the day…
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Lobster Wants To Be The Google Of User Generated Content
Lobster, a marketplace for licensing user-generated content, is now launching a universal search feature that allows brands and publishers to search for user-generated content across multiple social platforms.…
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U.S. Teens’ Social Media Activity Is Diversifying, Says Pew
Anyone in tech can tell you that Actual Teens are hallowed ground. Where teens’ tastes wander, the industry froths itself into a frenzy attempting to follow. For teens…
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