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Twitters website now supports emoji icons

There's a good chance that some of your smartphone-toting friends use emoji to express themselves on Twitter -- wouldn't it be nice to see those icons while you're surfing the web? As...

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Japanese messaging app Line now has 400 million registered users

Japanese messaging app Line revealed that it now has 400 million registered users. While the app is most popular in Japan, it boasts having over 10 million users in 10...

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Ultrakam app lets you take film-quality videos on your iPhone

While Sony and Samsung are busy making phones with 4K recording capabilities, one developer has worked its pixel magic to get more from iPhone cameras.Ultrakam is the first iOS app capable of recording 2K film...

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Online finance marketplace Zencap launches in Germany

Rocket Internet, the venture fund of the Samwer brothers, launches a second p2p lending service. Zencap will facilitate loans from 10,000 to 150,000 Euro to companies. To qualifiy the company has to...

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Xiaomi has shipped over 11 million smartphones so far this year

There’s no denying that Xiaomi has become and incredibly popular smartphone brand in a short time, but just how explosive their growth has been is genuinely surprising. Nobody is surprised...

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Dropbox to acquire German reading platform Readmill

With fresh capital in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company’s recent purchase of workplace chat solution Zulip, it’s in...

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Roku streaming stick launches in the U.S. for $49.99 a pop

They say that good things come to those who wait, and while patience is a definite virtue, it should not be sorely tested as even the most patient of men...

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WeCam connects you with friends from multiple social networks

WeCam Inc. announced today the launch of its socially-integrated WebRTC video chat application that lets users discover and connect with like-minded people anywhere in the world. The app lets users...

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Twitter tries changing “retweet” to “share”

Twitter can't help itself. If it's not new pictures, tweet views and video previews, then it could be an epoch-defining change to what the social network called one of its core features: retweets. So, it's...

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Twitter’s iOS app is undergoing testing for a profile redesign

Twitter has been testing designs furiously all winter, including a tile-like format for tweets and a Facebook-style profile page on the web. But TNW has spotted an update in the Twitter app that brings the...

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Facebook now has over 1 billion active mobile users

During a call with investors today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network had reached over one billion mobile users. That’s up from only 945 million active users in...

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Twitter bug is causing popular tweets to disappear

The Twitterverse is in an uproar because many of its favorite tweets have vanished into thin air. CNBC, Daily Mail, The Ellen Show, One Direction, Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber's accounts all appear to...

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