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 Numerous startups over the years have tried to tackle the problem of helping people track down the photos others have taken, but hadn’t yet shared with you. Today, the outsize winner in the space is Facebook, whose Moments application has taken over the social network’s photo syncing function, while leveraging Facebook’s massive scale to allow for easier private… Read More

 After more than a year in development, KnowMe, a new video creation and sharing platform, is launching on the iPhone. The app was created by Andrew Jarecki, the Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker behind The Jinx, Catfish, and Capturing the Friedmans. KnowMe was designed from the ground up to give its users access to video editing technology that would feel less complicated… Read More

 QuizUp, the Icelandic company that put trivia in an app, has announced that it is receiving up to $7.5 million in funding from Glu Mobile, with an option to call to acquire. This comes in the wake of a partnership forged between NBC and QuizUp, announced in October, with the network looking to turn QuizUp content into a proper TV show played both in studio and at home through the app. The… Read More

 Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report, and News Corp apparently denied the rumor, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the company feels right now as a public stock and perhaps as… Read More

 Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client. The company has been working on the web version of the app for the past few months in a closed beta, and is now ready to unveil it to the public. To get going on the web, users simply add in the same phone number they use with the mobile app, and verify their… Read More

 Facebook has added what it dubs “experimental support” for accessing its services via Tor on Android, using the Orbot proxy app for Android. The feature will be rolling out over the next few days, it said yesterday. Read More

 Netflix had another big beat for its fourth-quarter earnings, and once again showed strong international growth — so much so that investors seem to be overlooking its weaker domestic growth and sending shares soaring.
The company added about 4 million new subscribers internationally, and about 1.56 million subscribers domestically. That’s a big jump for the… Read More

 Twitter has had a tricky Tuesday. The social media site went offline for several hours, covering a number of — but not all — regions, and perhaps partly in response to that, its stock hit a new low after it opened up for trading after the long weekend. The company’s stock went as low as $16.43, before finally closing at $16.69 for the day, down nearly 7% from its… Read More

 Twitter is having a tricky Tuesday. The social media site has been offline the last several hours, covering a number of — but not all — regions, and its stock hit a new low after it opened up for trading after the long weekend. From what we’ve been able to see, the service was not working, either partially or not at all, in London and other parts of the UK, Switzerland,… Read More