You may not think Instagram is the best use of your time, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an extremely strong market value. Per TechCrunch, Citigroup raised the valuation of Instagram this morning from US$19 billion to US$35 billion. The photo-sharing network recently announced it had surpassed 300 million active users, and has taken […]
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Batman will be playing the part of Steve Jobs. And he didn’t even have to audition. Per Bloomberg, actor Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. “We needed the best actor on the board in a […]
You’re going to have to start using Facebook’s Messenger app. Per TechCrunch, Facebook has announced that the service will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its standalone Messenger app. Facebook first started requiring users in Europe to use Messenger back in […]
We’ll be posting info on updates of some of our favorite software along with some high profile apps that are pretty essential to anyone on a Mac or iThing, just in case you missed them. This information is brought to you by updates I get from developers and my own software use, but mostly by MacUpdate, although […]
We recently did a piece on iPhone battery saving tips, but it looks like we need to add another one to the list. Evidence has been found that Facebook’s iOS app may be a suspect in shortening battery life. The web site overthought.com, run by Scotty Loveless, has its own battery saving tips which adds Facebook’s […]