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06/14/2019

Snapchat is replacing users' profile selfies with Bitmoji avatars — and the Internet isn't too happy about it! 👻

02/12/2019

We had so much fun covering the “Isn’t It Romantic” LA premiere tonight for BRON! 💝

01/22/2019

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May we remember the dream and make it our own.

12/04/2018

Congratulations, Aaron! 🎊

Congrats Aaron on being recognized by Variety's annual Dealmakers Impact Report for being a key player in the industry! 🙌

10/12/2018

Happy birthday, Hugh Jackman

We wish Hugh Jackman a very happy birthday today! 🎂 In celebration of "The Front Runner" star’s 50th birthday and the Vancouver International Film Festival premiere screening of the film, we’re offering 1/2 off tickets with the promo code “WELOVEHUGH” at checkout! Grab your tickets now: https://viff.org/Online/f28413-the-front-runner

10/03/2018

Facebook tests Snap Map-style redesign of Nearby Friends

Facebook is testing a Snap Map-style redesign of Nearby Friends! It replaces the list view of the neighborhoods and cities friends are in with a map that groups friends together by city. Snapchat TechCrunch

Helping friends meet up offline has been a massive missed opportunity for Facebook . Whether because the brand is too creepy or the politely opt-in 2015 rollout of its location sharing feature wasn’t creepy enough, Facebook Nearby Friends never quite took off. Only 103 of my 1120 friends in S…

09/24/2018

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Congrats to our friends at BRON!

"BRON and Creative Wealth will continue to propel each other to bigger and more ambitious projects." -Playback Online. Cheers to more success with Creative Wealth! 🥂

09/21/2018

Facebook Dating launches today with a test in Colombia

Facebook Dating is now a reality! Four months after announcing that it would add dating features, the social network has begun testing its new dating product in Colombia. The Verge

Adding a new kind of marketplace

09/11/2018

Don't know where to watch tomorrow's Apple iPhone event? Apple will also be streaming its iPhone announcement on Twitter for the first time tomorrow, September 12 at 10 a.m. PDT!

09/06/2018

Another BRON must-see! #TheNightingale

We are so proud to see everyone who worked hard to make "The Nightingale" happen at the Venice Film Festival! 🎥 Sam Claflin Made Up Stories

09/05/2018

Uber is going to turn your smartphone into an automatic crash detector! The ride-sharing app is introducing a host of new safety improvements for both riders and drivers, including a feature called “Ride Check” that utilizes the GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors inside a smartphone to detect whether there has been a vehicle crash.

08/30/2018

Apple sent invites today for its annual fall iPhone event where it’s expected to announce multiple new iPhones and possibly a new Apple Watch and an updated iPad Pro. It’ll take place on September 12th in Cupertino, California.

08/28/2018

You can now apply to be verified in Instagram

"Accounts that have large audiences can now directly ask for verification through a form, instead of hoping that Instagram will one day grant them the status." The Verge Instagram

So you don’t have to rely on luck or the black market

08/23/2018

Insta Novels

The New York Public Library is using Instagram Stories to bring classic novels to your smartphone! 📚 With "Insta Novels," they're converting classic novels into a fun, more eye candy-driven format that could draw in a generation of younger readers.

08/22/2018

Facebook is removing over 5,000 ad targeting options to prevent discriminatory ads

"Facebook says it’s now removing over 5,000 ad targeting options that could have been misused to place discriminatory ads across its platform." TechCrunch: https://tcrn.ch/2MLwy17

Facebook announced this morning it’s making a change to how its ad targeting system works in order to tackle the misuse of its platform to discriminate and exclude audiences based on factors like ethnicity and religion. The company says it’s now removing over 5,000 ad targeting options …

08/20/2018

GIPHY Stories

GIPHY is launching its own take on Stories with curated GIFs throughout the day! Stories will be centered around the day’s trending subjects, told through GIFs. One story will be published every hour, curated by categories of Entertainment, Sports, and Reactions.

08/17/2018

It's not far off to see the next big film in an Amazon theater! Looks like Amazon.com is putting itself in the running to acquire Landmark Theaters, which claims to be the United States’ largest chain of movie theaters focused on art house movies.

08/16/2018

You can now send polls through DMs in Instagram! It works the same as adding the poll sticker to your Stories, but you can now send the story to your own choice of friends. Everyone in the group chat will be able to view the poll results as they vote in real time. The Verge

08/14/2018

Less than 24 hours after it first started hitting devices, the latest beta of iOS 12 was pulled after reports of buggy performance lag, freezes, and crashes. Apple

08/09/2018

Facebook now deletes posts that financially endanger/trick people

"It’s not just inciting violence that will get Facebook to remove posts by you or your least favorite troll. Endangering someone financially, not just physically, or tricking them to earn a profit are now also strictly prohibited." TechCrunch

It’s not just inciting violence, threats and hate speech that will get Facebook to remove posts by you or your least favorite troll. Endangering someone financially, not just physically, or tricking them to earn a profit are now also strictly prohibited. Facebook today spelled out its policy with ...

08/08/2018

The Oscars added a new category so superhero movies can win, too

The Academy announced changes to the 2020 Academy Awards including an earlier air date and the addition of a new award category for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film! The Verge

The Academy Awards are struggling to stay relevant

08/07/2018

The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat's growth. Snapchat’s daily user count shrank 1.5 pecent percent to 188 million this quarter, down from 191 million and positive 2.9 percent user growth last quarter. TechCrunch

08/03/2018

Facebook Dating App

Facebook has started internal testing of its dating app to test the end-to-end product experience for bugs and confusing UI. The company's launch of a dating service would make it an immediate powerhouse in the market for online romance. Would you use it?

08/02/2018

Apple has become the first US company with a market cap of over $1 trillion! Given the erratic nature of the market, however, it’s possible they may not stay a $1 trillion company for very long, or it could bounce back and forth over the $1 trillion mark in the coming days.

07/26/2018

Facebook's stock price dropped 19 percent today. The decline, which erased about $120 billion in market value, is the largest one-day drop in the history of the American stock market.

07/24/2018

YouTube is experimenting with a new Explore feature that will help users easily find new channels and videos on the platform while browsing on mobile. The Explore feature will pop up as a “tab” at the bottom of the app’s home screen for a select 1 percent of iOS users.

07/22/2018

Google's Move Mirror

Google just launched a bizarre AI experiment called 'Move Mirror,’ just for fun! It's similar to a reverse image search, but it uses machine learning to match your poses with images.

07/18/2018

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We can't wait for this one! Assassination Nation BRON

Not safe for work, school, parents, or fragile male egos. Assassination Nation is in theaters everywhere September 21. 🇺🇸

07/17/2018

It's been a great year for Cardi B!

This week on entertainment, Cardi B and The Carters lead the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards nominations. The artists earned 10 and 8 nominations, respectively.

07/16/2018

Apple is adding 70 new emojis which will be available to users as part of an update to iOS 12 sometime after its release in the fall!

07/12/2018

Netflix just beat HBO for the first time with 112 Emmys / Television Academy nominations! Netflix ends a 17-year winning streak by HBO, which previously topped the nominations.

07/11/2018

Twitter will globally purge accounts it has previously locked (i.e. after suspecting them of being spammy) by removing the accounts from users’ follower metrics.

Most people will lose around four followers because of the change, but large accounts could lose hundreds of thousands of accounts such as Former President Barack Obama who lost 400,000 followers immediately after Twitter made the change.

07/09/2018

Timehop database hack sees 21 million users' data stolen

Timehop, the social media "time-traveling" app, revealed that its security was breached and 21 million of its users' data was compromised. Users are advised to change their Timehop passwords as well as all the passwords used to grant Timehop access to your other social media accounts.

The social media time capsule was hacked July 4.

07/06/2018

Memoji on iOS 12

Tech reviews rave about Apple's new Memoji on iOS 12! With a huge selection of hairstyles, face shapes, skin tones, and other facial features, Apple may have beat Samsung and Snapchat on the avatar game. Read more on CNET: https://cnet.co/2J08bqq

07/05/2018

Netflix is testing a new, pricier ‘Ultra’ subscription tier

Netflix is reportedly testing out a new “Ultra” subscription tier that would up the monthly price to offer more 4K options. Read more on The Verge.

Would you pay $17 per month for Netflix in 4K and HDR?

07/04/2018

Celebrate freedom! Hope your Day of Freedom is filled with family, friends and fireworks!

07/04/2018

Celebrate freedom! Hope your Day of Freedom is filled with family, friends and fireworks!

07/03/2018

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Leave No Trace Movie is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times raves it’s “a deeply affecting story about a veteran and his teenage daughter – movingly played by Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie.” See it in select theaters NOW!
🎟 Buy your tickets here: https://fandan.co/2z3rVda

07/03/2018

Race to $1 trillion

Who will get to $1 trillion first - Amazon.com or Apple? Amazon is closing in on Apple in the $1 trillion stakes. Bloomberg

07/02/2018

This week in film, "Leave No Trace" maintains a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes! See "Leave No Trace" in select theaters now.

06/29/2018

Google Duplex is our for testing this summer! #Duplex is the #AI system designed to make human-sounding voice calls on your behalf so as to automate things like booking #restaurant tables and hair appointments - and it works! @Verge

06/29/2018

Google Duplex

Google Duplex is our for testing this summer! Duplex is the AI system designed to make human-sounding voice calls on your behalf so as to automate things like booking restaurant tables and hair appointments - and it works! The Verge

06/25/2018

iOS 12 is all about making your phone work better

iOS 12 is all about improving your phone's performance! Unlike previous splashy releases, the new iOS will focus on keeping performance fast - even on old devices like the iPhone 5s. Apple TechCrunch

The pace of iOS innovation has been so intense that even Apple couldn’t keep up. In some ways, iOS 11’s main feature was that it was packed with bugs, with autocorrect bugs, messages arriving out o…

06/22/2018

FB Messenger Auto-Translate

Facebook Messenger will now offer optional auto-translation of English to Spanish and vice-versa for all users in the United States and Mexico! It could be especially powerful for U.S. companies looking to use Messenger for conversational commerce without having to self-translate everything. Read more on TechCrunch: https://tcrn.ch/2tmLTu2

06/21/2018

musical.ly, the lip-syncing app maker, is killing off Live.ly two years after it launched the standalone app for live-streaming video. Musical.ly will instead merge Live.ly into its primary app. Read more on @Variety: http://bit.ly/2KfADtr