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Facebook helps you host viewing parties for live TV

Post author By Randall
Post date March 13, 2019
Categories In app, Facebook, gear, Internet, Mobile, Music, social network, social networking, socialnetwork, socialnetworking, Sports, spotify, sxsw, sxsw 2019, sxsw2019, Tech, Television, Tv, watch party, watchparty
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[ad_1] The company is testing the feature worldwide in Facebook Groups during certain sports events, including UEFA Champions League matches. It’ll eventually spread to “all kinds of live events and cultural moments,” Facebook said, citing award shows and premieres as likely candidates. Facebook isn’t just catering to TV junkies today — it’s also courting music […]

Twitter’s experimental beta testing app is available today

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2019
Categories In app, gear, Internet, ios, Ipad, Iphone, Mobile, social network, social networking, socialnetwork, socialnetworking, sxsw, sxsw 2019, sxsw2019, Tech, Twitter, twttr
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[ad_1] You can apply for the company’s Prototype Program now, although we’ll be honest: the chances are slim that you’ll get in. Twitter only plans to invite roughly 2,000 English and Japanese speakers at this stage, and there’s only mention of supporting iOS so far. The one consolation is that those users can share their […]

NBC’s free news streaming service will fully launch in May

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2019
Categories In app, gear, Internet, Nbc, nbc news, nbc news signal, nbcnews, nbcnewssignal, News, services, signal, streaming, sxsw, sxsw 2019, sxsw2019, Tech
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[ad_1] Some of the material you see will be original, but Oppenheim added that News Now will pull material from the “other corners” of NBCUniversal, including E News and sports. The service will be entering a competitive field. ABC News Live is the most obvious rival due to its relatively recent launch, but there’s also […]

Series will give Snap’s founding story the ‘Social Network’ treatment

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Post date March 10, 2019
Categories In Entertainment, evan spiegel, Mobile, quibi, snapchat, sxsw, sxsw 2019, Tech
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[ad_1] According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script depicts Spiegel as a hard partier in his college days who elbowed out one of the app’s original programmers, replacing her with a male counterpart. One part of the script even shows the Snap chief exchanging text messages with Taylor Swift. “Hamptons?” the singer asked in the […]