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Instagram’s updated Explore feature takes on Twitter with focus on real-time events

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Forget Tinder: Use this new app to break up with your significant other

Binder, which is available for iOS and Android, allows users to end a relationship with just one swipe to the right.
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This app helps you find out who’s free to hang in your neighborhood

A new app called Free helps you find out if your friends are free to hang out and coordinate activities together.
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Swarm finally brings back Mayorships, gives us a reason to check-in at Starbucks

Swarm, the social check-in app has been updated so its users can become Mayor of their favorite local establishments, once again.But this time, it’s more fun because users can compete against the entire Swarm network to be the mayor of their favorite local hot spot.
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Snapchat boss wants his messaging app to make money without being ‘creepy’

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What the prez?: 15 most revealing quotes from President Obama’s chat with Marc Maron

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Do you really want complete digital privacy?

Tim Cook sparked controversy when he advocated for digital privacy on Apple devices last week. Here's why that's an improbable goal.
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Myspace founder Tom Anderson’s two-year-old selfie is just now getting attention

Tom Anderson posted a smiling selfie, captioned "I am behind on processing photos! In other news, I think Japanese sushi is good for my skin :-)."
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Twitter tries to improve its shopping experience with full-fledged product pages

In an effort to expand its shopping experience, Twitter announced Collections, which introduce product pages on the social media site for the first time.
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European regulators block Facebook’s Moments app due to privacy concerns

Facebook's Moments app isn't available in Europe due to facial recognition concerns.
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Twitter will allow you to follow events instead of people for breaking news

Twitter announced Project Lightning, a dedicated news platform that lets users follow events instead of people for breaking news.
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YouTube breaks the news with Newswire, a channel for verified eyewitness videos

YouTube and Storyful announced Newswire, a channel for watching verified and newsworthy eyewitness videos from around the world.
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With more effective blocked lists, Twitter is ramping up fight against trolls

Twitter is letting users join up with their buddies to block trolls more efficiently on the social media site.
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No live-streaming! Golf fans at this week’s U.S. Open ordered not to use Periscope

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Now you can spout your political opinions on this new app instead of Facebook

Brigade Beta is a new app for iOS and Android that lets users express what they think about important political issues.
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Snapchat CEO sits in dark room and explains his app to parents around the world

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The 12 best Facebook ad campaigns of 2014 — Did your favorite make the list?

On Monday, Facebook announced the winners of the fourth annual Facebook Awards, crowning the 12 best Facebook marketing campaigns of the past year.
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Freaking out about selfie-stick bans? Get a grip with this handheld accessory

The Grip Dat is a smartphone accessory that gives you a more comfortable hold, ideal for short-distance selfies or action shots.
Twitter may eliminate its 140-character limit on direct messages

Twitter will now autoplay videos in your timeline by default

Twitter's latest update will now autoplay videos in user's timelines on iOS and the Web. The update will hit Android soon.
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This website claims it can find out who your true soulmate is on Facebook

Do you want to know who your soulmate is on Facebook? CaptainQuizz will analyze your Facebook friends list and tell you who you should be with forever.
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Facebook Moments auto-tags your friends, so it’s easier to share pictures

Facebook's new standalone app Moments scans your camera roll for familiar faces and lets you share photos with the right friends.
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Kim Kardashian’s pink MySpace page uncovered: Proof that nothing on the Internet ever dies

Us Weekly uncovered Kim Kardashian's MySpace page from 2006, when she had barely 850 friends! It also looked as bad as everyone else's.
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Belgian privacy watchdog sicks its lawyers on Facebook for privacy violations

Belgium's Commission for the Protection of Privacy is taking Facebook to court over growing privacy concerns.
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Smiling cat, rose bud, rocket, clover: Your next PIN could use emoji for added security

The next unbreakable passcode could be made with emoji. A British company came up with a system of creating four-digit passcodes out of emoji
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Facebook experiments with ‘buy button’ for Shopify merchants

Facebook has started experimenting with "buy buttons" that lets users buy directly from Shopify merchants, without leaving the site.
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Americans spend an alarming amount of time checking social media on their phones

According to this latest research, people in the U.S. check their Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts a staggering 17 times a day.
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Weekly Rewind: 10 important tech stories you may have missed

Apple announced OS X El Capitan at WWDC 2015, Facebook released its first game for Messenger, and Oculus unveiled its Rift consumer virtual reality headset.
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Facebook is watching you watch the News Feed

Facebook has announced it's now measuring how much time you spend looking at each of your friends' social media updates.
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Texas teacher gets the pink slip for insensitive Facebook post on the McKinney incident

Texas elementary teacher Karen Fitzgibbons was fired after she wrote an insensitive Facebook post in response to the McKinney incident.
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Snapchat now lets you use front and rear cameras for your videos

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to step down July 1, co-founder Jack Dorsey steps in

Dick Costolo, Twitter's embattled CEO, announced he will be stepping down from the helm on July 1.
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Twitter waves bye-bye to square videos with new landscape mode

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If you can’t beat ’em, Tweet em: How VH1 is changing the ratings game with hashtags

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Line launches Line Music app in Japan, where the CD still dominates music sales