Apple today is introducing a brand-new section in its Apple News application for iOS, iPad and Mac that’s designed to familiarize voters with the 20 U.S. Democratic presidential candidates ahead of the first Democratic debates hosted on June 26 and June 27 by NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo in Miami, …
Read More »300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators
Meme architects have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks like Instagram and Twitter that pay back none of their ad revenue to artists and comics. But 300 million monthly consumer meme and storytelling app Imgur wants to pioneer a …
Read More »YouTube will let bigot monetize if he removes link to homophobic merch
YouTube has shaped the weakest, least fearless response to mass backlash involving its ruling yesterday that right-wing personality Steven Crowder’s racist and homophobic assaults on Vox video producer Carlos Maza didn’t violate the current policy. Now YouTube says it’s demonetized Crowder’s channel because his” motif of heinous activities has harmed …
Read More »India’s most popular services are becoming super apps
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest sell, to borrow up to some hundreds of dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it …
Read More »Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable
Causes grew to a jawdropping 186 million consumers as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and donors. Induces acquired Votizen to augment shallow clicktivism with a style to remind friends to election. But …
Read More »Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase
Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …
Read More »Old Facebook finally wants you to ‘Meet New Friends’
Facebook’s social graph is aging, full of long-lost acquaintances and hometown friends you don’t care much about interpreting in the News Feed any more. But Facebook is now testing a fulcrum away from its core identity of connecting you with existing pals so it can revitalize the social graph and …
Read More »Don’t Use Facebook? Facebook Tracks You Anyway – Tom’s Guide
Don’t Use Facebook? Facebook Tracks You Anyway Tom’s Guide New report details how dozens of Android apps share user data with Facebook, even if you don’t have a Facebook account. Read more: tomsguide.com
Read More »MoviePass Films Somehow Scores Three-Picture Deal With Bruce Willis
MoviePass, the e-ticketing corporation that has spent the majority of members of the last year in a slow-motion cataclysmic meltdown, has somehow sucked Bruce Willis into a three-picture deal with its make company, Deadline reported this week. Read more … Read more: gizmodo.com
Read More »Look out for these 22 Android apps that contain ‘sophisticated’ malware
Security researchers are informing users about virtually two dozen Android apps found to contain “sophisticated” malware. According to cybersecurity firm Sophos, 22 apps on the Google Play store, which have received more than two million downloads in total, were found to be a part of numerous click-fraud schemes. The apps, …
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