No stranger to live video content, YouTube will soon open streaming up to the masses with a social media friendly app. As Twitter's early riser Periscope attempts to become an industry standard and Facebook slowly builds out its Live video service, YouTube doesn't want to be be left behind. Shareable snippets Set to be available […]
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Who says watching TV isn't great for stimulating your grey matter? Indeed, new research from Twitter reveals that TV viewers have superior rates of ad recall. Couch not slouch potato Twitter announced the news in a blog post. "Not all TV audiences are created equal: we’ve long believed that viewers respond differently to commercials depending
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Success can be fleeting – just ask Snapchat. For a couple of hours in late March, the popular social app was the No. 1 free iPhone app in the USA, overtaking rival Facebook's app, and its Messenger and Instagram products. It's a long way to the top While Snapchat has reached No.1 in other countries
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Foursquare has just released Swarm 4.0, an overhaul of the app that includes plenty of goodies for users and brands. Swarm on this Swarm is the spin-off app from Foursquare, and allows users to check-in to to locations and see which friends are nearby (arguably, these were the most popular features of Foursquare). Swarm now
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While most of our business transactions can be handled electronically, signatures remain stubbornly hard to nudge online. So if you're sick of printing out documents, signing and scanning them – look no further than SignEasy. Easy does it SignEasy is an iOS and Android app that makes it easy to digitally add your signature to documents.
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Popular task-management app Todoist has already had a busy 2016. Earlier this year it overhauled its iOS offering, now it's followed suit for Android with the release of Todoist 9. To Do or not To Do Todoist for Android now features a Quick Add feature, which lets you create tasks using everyday language. For example,
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They say good things come to those who wait. Apple fans might get all their Christmases at once, if reports that Apple Pay is rolling out globally are true. Pay to play According to ReCode, Apple Pay is preparing to move beyond apps to websites later this year. Apple Pay, which currently allows users to
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While Facebook might be slowly closing in on the location game, Yelp's been doing it longer than most. Today we're taking a closer look at the plucky geo-location app and social network. Yelp all about it Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons. The pair first came up
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While Google has never shied away from building its apps and services for iOS, some have taken time to appear on iPhones and iPads around the world. Almost 18 months after Apple introduced third-party keyboards with iOS 8, Google is reportedly set to release a keyboard with a slew of user-friendly features. Search, search, search
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Pinterest has just announced a new feature called how-to Pins, designed to give users practical tips on everything from baking bread to crafting keepsakes – and keep them on the platform for longer. How-to Pin to win Pinterest announced the news in a blog post. "Today we’re introducing how-to Pins—so you can see at a
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