Snapchat is prepping two more Spectacles says new report
You remember Snapchat's Spectacles, don't you? These are colorful plastic sunglasses that are equipped with a small camera placed by one of the lenses. Pressing a button by the hinge of the glasses will record 10-seconds of video. Press it three times to record a maximum 30-seconds. The video can … …
It’s Still A Great Time To Be Alive As Future Previews A New Drake Collaboration On Snapchat
He wiped his socials earlier this year, which is what he previously did at the eve of new music. There's no project announcement yet, but he's teasing new music. He took to Snapchat earlier today to preview a new song with none other than Drake, who looks primed to drop …
Nobody Bought Snapchat’s Goofy Spectacles. So of Course It’s Reportedly Making New Ones.
He made messages disappear when the conventional wisdom was that social media companies had to collect and preserve as much data as possible on their users. He held Snapchat when everyone in their right mind was advising him to sell to Facebook. He built Spectacles despite the prevailing view … Read …
Rakuten rolls out cryptocurrency for loyalty program
Kik, the messaging app with 15 million users, has demonstrated one way that a loyalty program can evolve into a cryptocurrency. The company had created Kik Points in 2014 to test out if people would spend them on digital stickers to put into their text message. Kik last year introduced …
Cowboys reward chief scout Will McClay’s loyalty with 2-year contract extension
Every time an opening for a general manager comes up, Dallas Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay's name gets mentioned. But McClay, who has been with the Cowboys since 2002, has declined to move. On Friday, the Cowboys rewarded his loyalty with a two-year contract … Read More
Refreshed Gushue ready to defend Brier title
Brad Gushue and his curling team from St. John's made Brier history last spring when they won the Canadian men's curling championship on home ice. – Keith Gosse. With the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics officially in the books, and close to three months to get over his team's shortcoming at …
Environmental agency to fine Alabama Power $1.25 million
Alabama Power Co. faces a $1.25 million fine for groundwater contamination at five power plants because of coal ash, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management announced Friday. The proposed penalties were announced the same day that power plant owners faced a national deadline … Read More
Is YouTube TV Repeating Big Cable’s Mistakes?
To that end, it was surprising when Alphabet announced it was raising the cost of its YouTube TV service for new customers to add channels from Time Warner's Turner Sports network to bring NBA games to the service. While it's difficult to categorize an entire group of consumers, it's widely …
Social Feed: Fire department saves kid on Facebook; YouTube’s latest gaffe
Social media is a fluid technology — nearly every day, the major social media networks are announcing a big change, coming under fire for the latest controversy or moving forward in smaller ways. Social Feed is a collection of those smaller changes that you may have missed with this week's …
Dreaming of making it big on YouTube? Almost nobody’s even making a living
Reaching the top 3.5 percent of YouTube's most-viewed channels — which means at least 1 million video views a month — is worth only about $12,000 to $16,000 a year in advertising revenue, according to Mathias Bartl, a professor at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, whose … Read …