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Source: Twitter will stop counting photos and links in the 140-character limit as soon as within next two weeks — Company said to make the change in next couple of weeks — CEO Jack Dorsey aims to make it easier to compose tweets — Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links …
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Google announces Spaces, a new app for small group sharing around any topic, for Android, iOS, and web — Group sharing isn't easy. From book clubs to house hunts to weekend trips and more, getting friends into the same app can be challenging. Sharing things typically involves hopping between apps to copy and paste links.
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| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owned 9.81M Apple shares on March 31, valued at $1.07B — Legendary investor, who previously avoided technology stocks, also slightly increases position in IBM — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a new position in Apple Inc. in the first quarter …
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Waze tests carpooling option in Bay Area, starting with 25K+ employees from select firms, with new Waze Rider app that matches similar commutes among Waze users — Waze, the Google-owned traffic navigation app, said Monday more than 25,000 employees at select companies in the Bay Area …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Click-fraud botnet with 900K+ infected devices changes search results for popular search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo, according to Bitdefender study — Botnet made 900,000 victims all over the world — Researchers from Romanian security firm Bitdefender have revealed today … | Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
WhatsApp beta users briefly get the option to make video calls, hinting at future in-app feature — A beta version of WhatsApp for Android included the option to initiate a video call. The feature was not active for most users, and it was removed with a later update … | The Intercept: |
The Intercept begins releasing installments of NSA's internal newsletters starting from 2003 — SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA's most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years' worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003.
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Sources: BBC working on subscription streaming service to rival Netflix, dubbed Britflix, delivered via iPlayer; ITV and NBC Universal are involved — The BBC is to push ahead with plans to launch a British rival to Netflix, after getting the go-ahead from the government to develop a new subscription streaming service.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google plans to make Flash plugin click-to-play by default in Chrome in Q4'16, rendering HTML5 instead when available, except for 10 top sites relying on Flash — Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve Flash …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple tries to improve iTunes navigation, adding persistent sidebar and other UI tweaks — Apple knows that the iTunes interface is extremely confusing and needs work. But apparently its solution is to add even more menus. — Apple released an update to iTunes today that's supposed to give it …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
On-demand startups increasingly touting forms of “profitability” that exclude key expenses — Facing a tougher fundraising environment, on-demand companies are touting financial metrics to show the health of their businesses—using whichever definition looks rosiest.
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook's video ads now available on third-party sites via Facebook Audience Network, and can now appear on both desktop and mobile — Facebook's Audience Network is chasing brand budgets with new video ads that mark its first foray onto the desktop web. — If an ad can run on Facebook …
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