Daily Archives: November 12, 2015





moments Just yesterday, Tinder launched an update that adds employment/education information into the user’s profile as well as a revamped inbox, placing new matches in the top bar and current conversations in the lower part of the screen. With the inbox revamp, Moments, the app’s Snapchat-like photo-sharing tool, is retiring. Moments launched back in the summer of 2014 with the goal… Read More

Tinder Ditches Moments


facebook-360-video Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it. By embracing the format, Facebook can stay fresh for consumers by offering the most vivid way to connect with places you can’t go. Meanwhile, attracting organic VR videos will provide cover so it can slip VmaRketing into the feed. After bringing 360 video… Read More

Facebook Unleashes VR-style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS



upthere-apps The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who signed up for an invite in slowly. Upthere Home and Upthere Camera for iOS, Android and Mac are now live, and I’ve been playing with them for a better part of the last week. The service is free during… Read More

Upthere Launches Its Home And Camera Apps Into Beta


youtube-music-app1 You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered to that specific vertical. The team rolled out YouTube for gaming last month and today it is launching YouTube Music for iOS and Android. The enhanced, paid, experience is free during a 14-day trial.… Read More

YouTube Launches Its Long-Awaited Music App



youtube-music-app1 You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered to that specific vertical. The team rolled out YouTube for gaming last month and today it is launching YouTube Music for iOS and Android. The enhanced, paid, experience is free during a 14-day trial.… Read More

YouTube Launches Its Long-Awaited Music App


CTmm_68UcAAul3T Oops! A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with software downloaded from the Mac App Store that prevented them from using their apps. The warnings prompted them to delete and then re-install their apps, but this was not necessarily correcting the problem, customers found. The issue, as it turned out, was related to Apple’s failure to renew… Read More

All Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security ...



ces2 CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products. TechCrunch cares much more for the hardware startups than the big CE players. We want to see the future FitBits and… Read More

Attending CES? TechCrunch Wants To See Your Company


cola As text messaging takes over of more and more my communication, I find myself on more and more long, complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a startup called Cola aims to replace all that back-and-forth with a set of interactive “Cola Bubbles.” For example, let’s say you wanted to message someone and schedule a time to meet up. Read More

Cola Is Building A Platform To Help You Send Fewer ...