As expected, YouTube is starting an ad-free, paid tier—but the site also plans to keep some exclusive content behind a paywall.
YouTube has been toying with the idea of charging its audience to watch videos for some time now, but it was only earlier this year that a leaked memo confirmed that YouTube would allow viewers to pay to watch videos without ads. According to Re/code, which cited unnamed industry sources, YouTube will also make some content exclusively available to those paying users.
Snapchat Discover insists people want to return to a time when you had limited channels, and limited time to catch shows.
Snapchat Discover, launched in January, was a counterintuitive offering from the messaging app. The Discover tab features a selection of channels that are based around brands, including Comedy Central, Food Network, CNN, and BuzzFeed. Unlike Twitter, YouTube, or modern-day television, the content on Snapchat Discover is limited—there are only 15 channels—and completely refreshes each day; there’s no way to go back and watch a video you might have missed.
Flipboard’s new interest-graph ad targeting promises more relevant ads in a less annoying format than we’re used to.
It’s no secret to publishers (or readers) that placing ads around stuff people want to read is a deeply imperfect, still-evolving science. In the heyday of printed magazines, advertisers could make only broad assumptions about audiences. Who doesn’t recall flipping past pages of irrelevant ads and choking on cologne samples along the way?
You’d be surprised which things in your timeline are tipping them off: your anger level and linking habits.
Twitter is largely a public forum, and most users know this. If you tweet about something you want to keep private, you’ve failed. But what many people don’t realize is that simply using Twitter at all can reveal a lot more than intended.
If your account has been compromised by a state-sanctioned attack, Facebook will alert you with this new notification.
Facebook announced in a post late Friday that it will start notifying users if it believes their account has been targeted or compromised by a government attack.
In a bid for accountability, a government-appointed task force is expected to issue specific recommendations by November 20.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration today said it expects to soon require the registration of many small consumer drones, a move that it hopes could improve accountability in case of accidents.
In a Medium post, Amazon PR head Jay Carney accused the New York Times of relying on biased accounts from former employees.
It’s been over two months since the New York Times published a brutal article about Amazon’s workplace culture and sparked widespread debate over the strenuous conditions endured by Silicon Valley employees. But it looks like the e-commerce giant is still bent out of shape over the allegations made in the exposé.
The online-storage kingpin is revealing details about its tool for team-based document creation.
For months, Dropbox has been teasing something it’s been working on: “a new way for teams to write together.” It’s been quietly testing the service with a small group of users and hasn’t told the rest of us much about it other than its name, Dropbox Notes.
The carrier will equip its entire fleet with free high-speed, in-flight Wi-Fi by fall 2016. Stream to your heart’s content, friends.
While airlines continue to make a business of nickel and diming customers for just about everything from checked luggage to leg room (and you will be uncomfortable regardless), JetBlue has announced a move toward a more humane air travel experience: free high-speed Wi-Fi on all of its planes.
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