Google acquires Fabric developer platform and team from Twitter

 Google is taking over Twitter’s mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash…

Vine shuts off sharing, launches Vine Camera

 Vine as we know it is dead. Today Twitter turned off sharing, Liking, commenting, and Revining…

Twitter loops all videos under 6.5 seconds as Vine shrivels into a camera

 Twitter itself will take Vine’s place as a social network for short videos. To prep for…

Saleforce’s Quip acquires ex-Facebook designer studio Unity&Variety

 Some ex-Facebook designers will be adding extra pizazz to Salesforce’s word processing company Quip, which today…

Snapchat launches universal search

 Snapchat just made it much easier to find friends, groups, Discover publishers, and Our Stories with…

Facebook previews journalism features like digests and subscription trials

 Between fake news and publishers struggling to keep a loyal connection to their readers, Facebook’s relationship…

Instagram Stories hits 150M daily users, launches skippable ads

 Instagram Stories now has as many users as the last number announced by Snapchat, the app…

Uber’s David Plouffe will run politics for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

 If you want to cure all disease and educate everyone, you’re going to need the government’s…