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Facebook is beginning to roll out a design update for its Notes feature, that will let users add a cover photo, captions, and improved formatting. The intention appears to be aimed at encouraging people to compose more notes within the social network and potentially further facilitate a blogging platform that’s akin to Medium — basically […]... →

Hello internet aliens, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. As you can tell from the show, we spent the entire week in a warehouse talking about disruption, but have no fear, we’ve had our eyes and ears open about what happened this week. The iPhone 6S and 6S plus made their debuts, Watch OS2… Read More... →

Smartphone upstart OnePlus scored a minor success with its first phone, the OnePlus One, shifting 1.5 million devices globally in its first year in business. But all eyes were on the China-based company when its second phone was unveiled last month: the somewhat predictably titled OnePlus 2. Initial reviews were generally positive, and VentureBeat opined […]... →

Пользователи заметили, что Twitter тестирует новую опцию Poll в твитах, которая позволит пользователям проводить опросы в рамках платформы. Эксперимент запущен как в десктопной, так и в мобильной версии Twitter. Отсутствие адреса URL и источника указывает, что опрос – нативный, а не работает на базе карточки Twitter или через сторонний сервис. Возможно, текущий эксперимент связан с функционалом опросов для издателей, который Twitter тестировал в сентябре 2014 года. Репортер New York Times Майк Исаак (Mike... →

Dropbox has released Zulip, a group chat app, under an open-source Apache license. The move, announced today, comes after Dropbox acquired Zulip in March 2014. The client and server code is available on GitHub. You can download the client for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android here. “The world of open source chat has for a […]... →

Let’s say you want to come up with a great brand name for a new beverage brand you’re launching. You know what consumers are looking for, and you’re the creative type. What’s the biggest naming mistake you could make? How about a name like “Sweat” or “Pschitt?” Or something difficult to spell and pronounce? Those missteps would certainly be… Read More... →

Twitch is larger than ever. The game broadcasting behemoth is holding its first ever convention this weekend, and it revealed some of the numbers behind its success. This includes a total of 1.7 million individuals who use the Twitch platform to livestream games. Collectively, that group has sent 7.5 billion minutes of content to the […]... →

Flash suffers another blow. Emmet Shear, chief executive officer of Twitch, announced that the game-streaming site will switch over fully from Flash to HTML5 in the second quarter of 2016. This is another blow for Flash, which is losing support across the Internet. YouTube already switched over to HTML5. Twitch originally announced plans to lose […]... →

Twitch just strayed into direct competition with YouTube. Emmett Shear, chief executive of Amazon’s Twitch division, announced at the TwitchCon convention today that the company will add video uploads and playlists in 2016. Twitch has more than 100 million monthly active users for its gameplay livestreaming service, as well as 1.7 million live broadcasters. But […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Now you can stream Twitch from all your Sony consoles. Emmett Shear, the chief executive of gameplay livestreaming platform Twitch, announced that Twitch will be available this fall across all PlayStation devices. Speaking at the TwitchCon convention in San Francisco, Shear said that players are already broadcasting by the hundreds of thousands […]... →

Холдинг Mail.Ru Group объявил о перезапуске своего музыкального сервиса «Музыка Mail.ru», сообщает Roem.ru. На новой площадке появилась синхронизация треков с соцсетью «ВКонтакте».... →

Predictive search is nothing new, but as YouTube has grown to the second-largest search engine, it's spread to video. Does that help it? Experts say yes, both in direct and indirect ways.... →

SAN FRANCISCO — TwitchCon has begun. The first major convention for Twitch gameplay livestreaming broadcasters has started in at the sprawling Moscone West convention hall. Marcus “DJ Wheat” Graham opened the event, to a ton of and roaring. He went over the history of livestreaming, shoutcasting, and other forms of chat — all of which led […]... →

They’ve done it. Twitter has cracked the code. No, it’s not a new CEO. Nope, it’s not a new way to deliver content with context that you might be interested in. It’s polls. Read More... →

The tech industry’s complicated and sorry treatment of women has become a big topic. Lawsuits have helped blow up the issue. Most notably, former Kleiner Perkins partner Ellen Pao filed a discrimination suit against the VC giant last year, lost the suit this year, and recently dropped her planned appeal. Also in the spotlight are […]... →

ВКонтакте лишил Яндекс "социализации" в самом начале 2015 года, а осенью отдал подключение к музыке альтернативному проекту своих владельцев.... →

На должность гендиректор немецкого автопроизводителя Volkswagen назначен 62-летний Маттиас Мюллер. Об этом говорится в заявлении концерна.... →

Friday is one of the few days left without professional football, but now you can help fill that void with a new show about the virtual gridiron. The National Football League announced today that it is working with the game broadcasting site Twitch and publisher Electronic Arts to livestream a show about Madden NFL 16 […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Retention Science wants to make marketers’ lives easier by adding more intelligence to email marketing. Today, the Santa Monica, California-based company is announcing the Adaptive Lifecycle email marketing platform, its first venture into offering an operational tool. Previously, Retention Science made its living by helping companies better consolidate and target their existing customer data to […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Dremio, a startup founded by two former MapR employees who have developed the Apache Drill open-source project, has taken on more than $10 million in funding after just two months of operation. The eight-person startup is working out of space furnished by two of its investors: Redpoint Ventures’ San Francisco office, and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ […]... →