Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change”
Posted by Aaron Schildkrout … Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Uber adds tipping Louise Matsakis / Motherboard : Uber Will Now Share Its Teen Fee With Drivers Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Uber adds tippi...
Mark Zuckerberg talks about progress and challenges building his home assistant Jarvis, a project he's spent 100-150 hours on this year
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build … Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Zuckerberg realizes his dream of building an AI-assistant Ryan Matthew Pierson / ReadWrite : Mark Zuckerberg has the same IoT pr...
Facebook buys Nascent Objects, a startup with tools for rapidly prototyping hardware ideas
Nascent Objects was founded … Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Facebook buys Nascent Objects to develop hardware faster PYMNTS.com : Facebook Buys Nascent Objects For Undisclosed Sum Larry Dignan / ZDNet : F...
Twitter debuts Promoted #Stickers for brands, starting with Pepsi; clicking on a Promoted Sticker takes you to tweets containing the same sticker
Tech Roundup PepsiCo / PR Newswire : PepsiCo Announced As Twitter Launch Partner for Promoted #Stickers English Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Twitter teams with brands to monetize its stickers feature Adn...
Facebook buys popular selfie filter app Masquerade, will keep it operational as a stand-alone app, integrate its technology
they're totally over Yik Yak Michael Hafford / Refinery29 : Facebook Just Bought This Popular Face Swapping App Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Facebook acquires face-swapping app Masquerade Sandeep Sarma /...
Sources: Twitter building new product to let users share tweets longer than 140 characters
People are suddenly … Nick Cowen / htxt.africa : Twitter may be expanding the character limit on tweets Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch : The Super Tweet — Twitter is about nine years old and has a little...
Vine adds music functionality, creates seamless audio looping product Snap To Beat
Today marks the beginning of our commitment … Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge : Vine can now put perfectly looping music over your videos Colin Stutz / Hollywood Reporter : Vine Announces New Music Func...
Periscope announces 2M daily active users, claims more than 10M have created accounts since launch
We'd like to share an exciting update … Kiruti Itimu / Techweez : Periscope Cares More About “Time watched” Over “Daily Active Users” Metric Nate Swanner / The Next Web : Periscope now has 10 million ...
Google acquires startup behind Timeful, a popular iOS time-management app
welcoming Timeful to Google Kevin Tofel / ZDNet : Google buys Timeful, promising intelligent event scheduling for Inbox and Calendar Andrew Grush / Android Authority : Google's latest acquisition will...
Facebook to shut down FriendFeed on April 9, five years after acquiring the service
We wanted to let you know that … Kelly Fiveash / The Register : Facebook-owned, Billy-no-mates FriendFeed starves to death Brett Molina / USA Today : Tech Five: Qualcomm jumps off dividend boost Dunca...