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At Long Last, Instagram Ends The Tyranny Of The Square

The image-sharing service now lets you go wide—or tall—for photos and videos that don’t fit into its iconic square frame.

In its own way, it’s been as defining a restriction as Twitter’s 140-character limit. Instagram photos (and videos) come in one format: square. It forces the service’s photographers into choosing thoughtful compositions, and provides an aesthetic link to the square snapshots that folks once took with Instamatics and Polaroids.

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An Uber Competitor Is Coming To New York’s Taxi Fleet

The new app will allow you to bypass surge pricing and Uber’s $2 cab-hailing fee.

One of New York’s largest providers of taxi cab tech is teaming with a startup to take on Uber. Queens-based Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York’s cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone. Arro’s app will not charge the $2 fee that Uber currently tacks on when customers hail a taxi—and will be devoid of Uber’s surge pricing.

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Google Strikes Back Against Europe’s Antitrust Charges

“Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive,” Google wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

Google published a blog post on Thursday responding to the European Commission’s claims that some of its practices are anti-competitive. The commission, which acts as the executive body of the European Union, filed formal antitrust charges against Google in April 2015, alleging that its search results unfairly ranked its own shopping service over competitors.

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