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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 — 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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram doubles monthly users to 500M in 2 years, sees 300M daily — Photos transcend language barriers, leading Instagram to hit a major milestone today, Its growth is actually accelerating over time, thanks to popularity overseas in countries like Japan, Germany, France, and Indonesia.| 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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SoftBank President Nikesh Arora to Step Down — Former Google executive has been under pressure from investors — TOKYO—Under fire from investors, SoftBank Group Corp. President Nikesh Arora is stepping down, marking an abrupt end to the tenure of founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son's handpicked successor.
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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...| 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.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine — Docker, which is hosting its sold-out developer conference in Seattle this week, today announced a major addition to its core Docker Engine. While the company previously split up many of the features it takes …
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Taylor Swift among 180 artists and organizations signing petition for DMCA reform in ad spot, protesting “safe harbor”, upon which services like YouTube rely — For the last three months, the music industry has been fighting — or at least negotiating in public — with YouTube.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Adobe Creative Cloud update brings Content-Aware Crop to Photoshop, new VR features, more — Today Adobe is shipping updates to its Creative Cloud desktop apps for CC subscribers including new features in Photoshop plus enhancements to After Effects CC, Adobe Experience Design (XD) Preview, and more.| 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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Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup Number26 raises $40M in Series B round led by Horizons Ventures, touts over 200K users — Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup that's setting out to create the bank account of the future, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures.
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Bank of America offering cardless withdrawals using Apple Pay at over 3K ATMs equipped with NFC in US — Bank of America has begun rolling out support for withdrawing cash from its ATMs using Apple Pay. — Approximately 650 card-less ATMs were deployed in the San Francisco area in May …
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