The NBA plans to create two “live original programs” -- which will probably look a lot like live TV -- to stream exclusively on Twitter. What’s more, “It will also double the number of NBA game highlights it posts to Twitter-owned properties, including Vine, and those highlights include ads that Twitter and the NBA make revenue from,” Recode reports.

Facebook has made small increases in the number of women and minorities it employs, the social giant just admitted. “Facebook blamed its problem on the ‘pipeline,’ meaning the number of women and minorities entering the tech industry,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “Many observers, however, say the pipeline of available talent for the tech industry isn’t the primary issue.”

Google is working on a “dedicated headset that blurs the line between virtual reality and augmented reality,” Engadget reports, citing sources. “Sources said the headset currently in development will not require a computer or phone to power it.” This unconfirmed report comes a day after an unconfirmed report from Recode, which suggested that Google has killed a VR project that would have directly competed with high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift.

Twitter just partnered with Pac-12 Networks to stream more than 150 university sporting events during the 2016-2017 season. “The news follows similar deals Twitter has made with the NFL to stream Thursday Night Football this fall; Wimbledon; CBSN, to live stream convention coverage; and Bloomberg, for financial news,” TechCrunch notes.

Among other news outlets, C-SPAN plans to use Facebook live to broadcast both the Republican and Democratic conventions. “In addition to C-SPAN, Facebook is partnering with 21 media organizations, including CNN, Yahoo!, Fox News, The New York Times and local media in both cities to use the ‘Facebook Lounge’ which will act as a studio for live broadcasts,” Politico reports.

Twitter-owned data platform Gnip just opened its Audience API so that brands can use the analytics tool to gain insights into the demographic and interest data around groups of Twitter accounts. “And it’s making it easier for any brand using the tool to find out about people who may have come across the brand’s tweets or stumbled onto its website,” Marketing Land notes.

Among other critics, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) wants to know more about Niantic – the company behind Pokémon Go -- and its privacy policy. “I am concerned about the extent to which Niantic may be unnecessarily collecting, using, and sharing a wide range of users’ personal information without their appropriate consent,” Franken writes in a letter to the tech firm. “I ask that you provide greater clarity on how Niantic is addressing the issues of user privacy and security.”

Despite continuing to develop its own workplace communication and collaboration service, Facebook has signed a deal to use Microsoft’s online email and other software. “On Tuesday, Facebook will announce plans to use Microsoft’s Office 365, the web-based version of the software giant’s suite of workplace productivity programs,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “Facebook previously used the on-premises versions.”

After receiving a cease and desist from Twitter, tweet archive PostGhost just turned out the lights. “Twitter emailed the group threatening to shut down their API access for the crime of displaying deleted Tweets,” TechCrunch reports. “This crime, which could be traced to European data deletion laws and/or a desire to improve the general popularity of the evanescent Tweet, is banned by Twitter’s terms of service.”

Expecting Snapchat’s new Memories feature to change the way publishers use the platform, Nieman Lab asked some of them what that might look like. For one, “Memories will make producing [evergreen] content easier in the sense that it doesn’t have to all be done in real time, but harder in that I think it will raise the bar for repackaged content,” Taylor Lorenz, director of emerging platforms at the The Hill.