• Tinder 'Wheels' Out A Video Future
    Tinder wants to add video to help people hook up. It has acquired Los Angeles-based Wheel, an app that allows users to collaborate on videos. According to Variety, Tinder helps create 26 million matches a day, and 20 billion a day.  
  • Google Pulls Ad Sense Plug On Two Anti-Semitic Sites
    American Free Press has run posts and videos alleging Jewish control of the White House and promoting Holocaust denial. Counter Currents has run posts hailing Hitler and deriding “white submissivist." Google has axed both of them from its AdSense ad platform.
  • Major Brands Decide To Not Fund Jihad
    Advertising for major brands programmed automatically showed up on jihadist and neo-Nazi sites. Jaguar Land Rover and Sandals Resorts are among advertisers that discontinued all their digital ads as a result, the Times of London reports, though the carmaker has resumed with new safeguards in place. 
  • AwesomenessTV Is All About Gen Z, CEO Says
    All the talk about millennials is getting old, like they are. AwesomenessTV CEO Brian Robbins says it's Generation Z people (born 1995 or so) that make up "probably the most influential generation ever" but are overlooked by marketers still doting on millennials.  
  • CBS News Promotes Josh Elliott. Check That. Fires Him
    CBSN anchor Josh Elliott announced on air that he was leaving for another gig at the network. For saying that without authorization, he's fired. Some say CBS was covering up its own bad internal communications.
  • Maybe Facebook And News Don't Mesh
    The place you go to post photos of your cuddly pussycat may not be the best place to see stories about the Supreme Court nominee. 
  • New YouTube Go App Lets Users Download, Watch Offline
    Google has unveiled YouTube Go, an app that lets you download video to your phone to watch later offline. For people who judiciously guard their data or live in places where Internet access is iffy, this is very good news
  • Facebook Hires MTV Exec To Develop Content
    Facebook has hired MTV's Mina Lefevre to head its content development, another sign Facebook means to be a content site users might want on Apple TV and other places to watch full-blown programs. She will be working with Ricky Van Veen, who co-founded CollegeHumor, who joined Facebook last year.
  • Will Google Merge YouTube Music and Play Music?
    The product teams working on YouTube Music and Google Play Music are being combined into a single unit, The Verge reports, citing sources. “Nothing will change for users right now, and both apps will continue to exist independently for the moment,” it writes. “But the move is likely to pave the way for a single unified music app from Google.”
  • Distribution, Not Content, Is King, Says Author
    Nothing much goes viral unless there are sources that carry it, says the author of a new book, and that means old media like broadcasting and cable are still mighty important  
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