Business Insider take a closer look at Confide -- a startup positioning itself as the Snapchat of the business world. Among other tricks, Confide just launched a "wanding" feature, which lets users peek at documents or photos through a tiny window, which “reveals only a sliver of the full message,” BI reports. “It's basically the same technique that Confide uses to block screenshots of text messages, forcing users to move a finger across the words of message to reveal what they say beneath the blocks obscuring them.” 

Twitter is testing a homepage designed specifically for users who visit its site or app, but don’t have their own account. “Twitter’s existing homepage that new users see is almost a dead end,” Re/Code notes. “There’s nothing to do there except look at a single photo.” The new version, however, “provides visitors with a glimpse of what they could see if they did have an account.” The effort is obviously intended to create a more welcoming experience for first-timers. 

Twitter’s “instant timeline” -- which it promised would give new users immediate access to interesting tweets -- is finally ready for public testing, and the first reviews appear promising. The New York Times’ Vindu Goal has good things to say. “While the feature doesn’t solve all of Twitter’s interface problems, there is no question that it’s a huge improvement to the sign-up process,” he writes. “Setting up an account is quick and nearly painless, and you are then plunged into Twitter’s information stream.” 

Dick Costolo is facing increasing pressure to relinquish his role as Twitter’s CEO, Kara Swisher reports in Re/Code. Twitter co-founders and board directors Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams are reportedly standing by their embattled fried. At a recent closed-door meeting, “They said they believed in the plan that Costolo was spearheading and the direction Twitter was headed in under his guidance.”