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Twitter Launches New Ad Product, Promoted Video, Into Beta
By Sarah Perez Twitter announced this morning it will began beta testing a new feature called “Promoted Video,” which is aimed at brands looking to upload and distribute their videos to the Twitter network. The feature, which expands upon the Twitter Amplify program, was previously revealed during Twitter’s recent earnings announcement, when new CFO Anthony…
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Shift Is Developing A Debit Card That Lets You Spend Digital Currency, Loyalty Points And Regular Money
By Sarah Perez In the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the world, 100 people are testing out a debit card that lets them pay with bitcoin and Ripple, and, in the future, regular money and loyalty points. These users are a part of a pilot program run by the Y Combinator-backed startup called…
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Shotclock Turns Messaging Into A Popularity Contest
By Natasha Lomas Meet Shotclock: an app which bills itself as the fastest way to share photos or videos with your friends. It runs with the camera view as its permanent backdrop so you’re always ready to shoot, lets you snap a photo or take a video — and then hit one button to simultaneously…
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Tinder Hires Amazon’s Jerry Heinz To Lead Engineering
By Jordan Crook In the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, Tinder has some positive news to share around a recent hire. Jerry Heinz, former head of Engineering at Amazon, has recently joined Tinder as VP of engineering, overseeing the team of thirty as the mobile dating app continues to scale. Heinz led the effort…
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Google Opens Classroom, Its Learning Management Tool, To All Teachers
By Frederic Lardinois Back in May, Google announced the limited preview of Classroom, a tool that aims to make it easier for teachers to stay in touch with their students and to give them assignments and feedback. Google says more than 100,000 educators from 45 countries signed up to try it since then. Today, it…