By Mike Wuerthele Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 08:25 am PT (11:25 am ET) Apple’s editorial team reportedly takes pitches from large reporting venues on a private Slack channel, and a team of about a dozen staffers decide if the story lives or dies on Apple News, and as a result, what makes money from […]
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Flipboard CEO knocks Apple News for closed ecosystem, says product is ‘living in the past’
By Mikey Campbell Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 06:50 pm PT (09:50 pm ET) Flipboard CEO Mike McCue had a few choice words for segment competitor Apple News, describing Apple’s news service as “living in the past” because it does not curate media, offers no social sharing integrations and lacks other features that would set […]
Facebook is creating a news section in Watch to feature breaking news
Facebook is going to create a new news section in its video streaming platform Facebook Watch to feature breaking news stories. The move, which Campbell Brown, the company’s year-old head of news partnerships, announced onstage at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, is part of a broader evolution of Facebook’s news strategy. Facebook launched […]
Facebook works it out with Apple to test news paywalls on iOS
Facebook will begin allowing news publishers to run paywalls inside Facebook’s iOS app starting March 1st. Faceobok first started testing paywalls on Android in October, but at the time it couldn’t come to an agreement with Apple about how subscription revenue would be taxed. Today on stage at Code Media, Facebook’s head of news partnerships […]
Huawei patents MateX moniker – GSMArena.com news
Huawei announced its Mate 10 series back in October 2017 and ended some rumors about eventual renaming of its flagship Mate X. The moniker appeared again during the weekend in an application on the EU Intellectual Property Office website. The trademark MateX was filed by UK representative of Huawei and was classified as mobile phones […]
This week in esports news: Teaming up for Fortnite and the girls showing how it’s done
Fortnite hasn’t got an esports scene yet, but that hasn’t prevented some teams forming up around the popular Battle Royale title. Other news this week includes a Canadian taking down stiff competition in StarCraft II, bagging $50,000 and the expansion of the Overwatch League to bring more teams to the league table. Canada brings home […]
Hanako: Honor & Blade Comes to BrightLocker Friday 2/9 news
We have joined forces with BrightLocker to help grow and interact our community and help us nail our early access to full release journey. BrightLocker is the world’s first platform empowering developers to engage with their players for the life of a game, from idea to launch and beyond. Source link
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week. An Unexplainable Structure Earth’s solid inner core formed about one billion years ago. Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how it happened. Credit: Shutterstock One day, […]
Apple adds live news channels to TV app for iOS and Apple TV
After teasing the feature back in September, Apple is adding support for live news in the TV app on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV — 9to5mac first spotted the new section. For now, it’s quite limited as it only supports a handful of channels for American users. If you’re running the most recent versions […]