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Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators — Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds. — There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
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Twitter's new Engage app makes it easier for celebs to handle their fans, by filtering out some interactions — A decent chunk of Twitter's early success came from its adoption by major celebrities as a way to speak directly to their fans — with the occasional chance for those fans to speak back.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: this year's iPhones will deviate little from current models, keeping same 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays, but will not have a headphone jack — Tech giant plans to break with tradition of overhauling its design every two years; headphone plug likely to disappear
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram doubles monthly users to 500M in 2 years, with 300M checking daily, but the rate of growth for images shared per day is slowing — Photos transcend language barriers, leading Instagram to hit a major milestone today, Its growth is actually accelerating over time …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tencent and its partners to pay $8.6B for a majority stake in Supercell, in a deal that values the Finnish game maker at $10.2B — Chinese internet major's deal to buy stake from Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion — HONG KONG—Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd …
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| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank President Nikesh Arora to step down; some duties will be taken over by Ron Fisher, a current board member, and Baer Capital Partners founder Alok Sama — Former Google executive has been under pressure from investors — TOKYO—Under fire from investors, SoftBank Group Corp. President Nikesh Arora …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google will soon list possible health conditions when you search for symptoms, will start rolling out the changes on mobile in coming days — From sport results to maps, Google Search now shows a lot more than just 10 blue links. Especially useful on mobile, Knowledge Graph aims … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
FAA unveils new rules for low-altitude drones weighing less than 55 pounds, letting US firms operate drones with just a certificate and test rather than license — This morning the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled “Part 107,” a new set of rules to govern the use of drones by commercial operators.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft brings Docker Datacenter to Azure Marketplace, shows off SQL Server in a Linux container — Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies' on-premises data centers.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV — Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works.| Kay Yin / Medium: |
Photos app in iOS 10 can distinguish 7 facial expressions, generate 33 Moments categories, and detect 4,432 searchable objects — This is not documented anywhere, so I took the liberty to jot some of these down. Next time when testing, you would have a better idea...| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Flow, an IFTTT-like tool for managing workflows, launches on iOS; Android version in works — Microsoft Flow, the company's recently launched workflow management tool, has now arrived on mobile in the form of an iOS application. Essentially a direct competitor to IFTTT …
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Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Flow, MacStories, The Next Web, SlashGear, Neowin, The Register, MacRumors and App Store. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft delivers promised SharePoint mobile app, available for free on iOS — Microsoft SharePoint mobile app for iOS, the first of its three promised new SharePoint apps for mobile devices, is available for free. — In May, Microsoft officials said they'd soon deliver new SharePoint mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows.
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Slack now lets developers add buttons to their Slack bots, making it easier for users to navigate commands; a dozen apps have already integrated the feature — Do more of your work from Slack — Imagine getting an expense report in Slack and simply tapping Approve or Deny to change its status.
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