Instagram Shopping launches personalized Explore channel, expands Stories tags after testing them since June, and lets brands add a shopping bag icon to Stories
but here's how it's trying to woo window-shoppers in its current one Kaya Yurieff / CNNMoney : Instagram just made it a lot easier to shop on the app Robert Williams / Retail Dive : Instagram expands ...
Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving; Christie Smith, who spent 17 years as a principal at Deloitte, will be taking over
not long after making controversial remarks about white men Silicon Valley Business Journal : Apple diversity chief who made ‘white, blue-eyed blonde men’ comment is leaving Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac...
Microsoft discontinues Groove Music Pass service, effective December 31, partners with Spotify, which it will recommend to Windows users instead
without your phone — for $77 Jerry Johnson / Windows Experience Blog : Microsoft to bring Spotify to Groove Music Pass customers Peter Bright / Ars Technica : Microsoft getting out of the music biz, m...
Snap Inc.'s S-1 SEC filing for IPO
and it was finalized this week Ari Levy / CNBC : Here's who will get rich from the Snap IPO Kerry Flynn / Mashable : Snapchat files for IPO as $SNAP — looks to raise $3 billion Chris Velazco / Engadge...
Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to use its ethnic affinity marketing in housing, employment, and credit ads
but only for some ads Andrea Peterson / Washington Post : Facebook to stop allowing racially targeted ads for housing, employment, credit Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Facebook prom...
Uber announces major rebranding with icons designed to reflect regional colors and patterns, as well as a new logotype
Apparently at the end of a teleology that began … Devin Kate Pope / TechSpot : Uber's rebrand tries to be ‘substantial,’ ends up closer to ‘confusing’ Stacy Liberatore For / Daily Mail : What on Earth...
Rdio to shut down its service, file for bankruptcy, with Pandora acquiring key assets for $75M in cash
then Apple, Google, and Microsoft showed up Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology Shawn King / The Loop : Pandora acquires ‘key assets’ from Rdio, will l...
Sources: Instagram is testing ads that use 3D Touch and Apple Pay
Instagram experimenting with 3D Touch ads and Apple Pay Chris Davies / SlashGear : Instagram: No, we're not testing 3D Touch adverts Eric Slivka / MacRumors : Wegmans Shoppers Club Card Showing Up in ...
Apple News app to include more than 50 publishers when it launches this fall
Fresh useful insights … Sneha Johari / MediaNama : Apple's yet to launch News app comes preloaded on iOS 9 Nick Salerni / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple's News App in iOS 9 Grows to Over 50 Publishers ...
Apple's ‘Proactive’ to take on Google Now with deep iOS 9 search, Augmented Reality Maps, Siri API
AND NOT CREEPY JC Torres / SlashGear : “Proactive” to turn iOS Spotlight into Google Now rival Tech2 : Apple's Proactive for iOS 9 to challenge Google Now Ulrich Bachman / Tech News Today : Here's Wha...