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Silicon Valley The Inside Story of Vine’s Demise Former employees paint a picture of management issues, changing strategies, and existential questions. Nash Grier, a Vine star, at the premiere of his first movie The Outfield in November 2015. By Laura Cavanaugh/WireImage/Getty Images. The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles holds a…
Begin: WordPress Article Content The Touch Bar is serious business. Apple’s interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros leaked earlier this week. No doubt some apps will find a way to be creative even under the stern eye of Apple’s party police,…
storytext 5 stunning stats about Netflix Netflix is once again a Wall Street darling after reporting strong earnings and solid international subscriber growth. But could that make the red hot company a takeover target in the rapidly changing media world? Source: Why Disney should buy Netflix instead of Twitter
storytext There’s an apartment building on Vine Street in Hollywood that is famously home to several of the most well-known faces of Vine, a social media platform that Twitter announced on Thursday it would be shutting down indefinitely. The news came as a shock to some, but the 6-second video-making residents of the building were…
Illustration by Angelica Alzona If someone asks you to send them money on a dating app like Tinder, don’t do it. This might sound like common sense, but in a world where more people are meeting potential partners online, it can become all too easy for otherwise intelligent people to get scammed. And these Tinder…
Updated Oct. 21, 2016 7:43 p.m. ET Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ’s posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed for violating the site’s rules on…
Image: Getty / Facebook / Adam Clark Estes There’s a lot of weird stuff happening on Facebook, and our readers often send us tips and screenshots of strange happenings from their News Feeds. This week, we received an unusual one. It was sent to us in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report about…
Rep. Steven Smith of Georgia’s 15th District was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump and has been a vocal and provocative advocate for the candidate on Twitter. Two things, though: Georgia doesn’t have a 15th District and there’s no such congressman named Steven Smith. Meet the man behind the myth. Molly Taft…
Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content to mobile internet users with its Accelerated Mobile Pages, but the initiative is getting mixed reviews from publishers as some worry about its impact on their advertising revenue. Google unveiled AMP about a year ago and hundreds of companies are now publishing AMP versions of…
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 24, 2016 Make no mistake, Periscope is a dying live video network. Social media has made yet another victim.Subscribe here ► https://goo.gl/B2DEr0 Show more Show less Source: How Periscope is On Its…