Spotify’s foray into video has gone live on iOS a little earlier than expected. On Monday, The Wall St. Journal reported that Spotify had begun to roll out its video product to all users, beginning with its Android app this week. The iOS launch of the new “Shows” section, however, was not expected until “the next week or so,” a spokesperson told us at the time.… Read More
Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time, and they came from about a dozen publishers. Slidejoy Trends, on… Read More
The mobile experience for Reddit has honestly always kind of sucked, and that’s one of the things Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has devoted a ton of resources to fixing since coming on as redditor-in-chief. Today, in a post on the site, Huffman announced that Reddit would be releasing the beta of its Android app today with an iOS versions soon to follow. “Whether you access it from… Read More
Tinder users will now have better chatting tools, thanks to an upgraded messaging experience in the mobile dating app. Amid a flurry of changes that began rolling out last night to the iOS application, and soon Android, Tinder added support for sending your matches GIFs. It also upgraded the size of emoji in chat and also now lets you “like” the individual messages you received from… Read More
Google announced today a couple of updates to the commenting features in its Google Apps productivity suite . These include the launch of mobile commenting in the iOS and Android apps for Slides and Sheets. Thanks to this, the commenting experience in Google’s apps is now (almost) the same across all of its apps — whether on the web or on mobile. I’m not sure why… Read More
You can now message your friends on the World Wide Web version of peach, a new chat app created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. The iOS app became a viral hit in Silicon Valley after it first launched at the beginning of this year. Someone else even made an unofficial web and Android version of the app called Nectarine. Some think Peach has already used up its 15 minutes of tech fame,… Read More
Mozilla today launched the latest update to its Firefox browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The highlight of this release cycle is the addition of web-based push notifications to its desktop browser. Firefox already supported a different type of web notifications before, but to see those, you had to have a site open at all times. These new push notifications — which will… Read More
