Tinder wants you to know it’s not a hookup app, try not to laugh

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Tinder came under fire last week when journalist Mary Jo Sales wrote a piece for Vanity Fair about how the dating app, and others like it, are affecting hookup culture. Ever vigilant, the company woke up only hours ago to tell off Sales, who tweeted that according to GlobalWebIndex, 30 percent of all Tinder users are married. Tinder then launched into a 30-tweet-long tirade about how Sales’ story was not only off the mark, but also about how its service helps people create “meaningful connections”. Hey @nancyjosales — that survey is incorrect. If you're interested in having a factual conversation,…

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Rdio now lets you stream from nearly 500 live broadcast stations for free

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Music streaming service Rdio is taking its namesake to heart: today it’s announcing support for nearly 500 live broadcast stations from throughout the US. It’s free regardless of whether or not you’re a paying subscriber. The addition makes Rdio unique player in against competitors, offering a mixture of algorithm-based stations and expert-curated ones, in addition to the traditional radio stations you’re used to listening to while driving. As with Apple Music, Rdio will let you know what song is currently playing on live stations, from where users can save it as a favorite, share it or start a custom station based on that…

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Facebook is reportedly working with publishers to build a breaking news app

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News consumption via Facebook is continuing to rise, and it looks like the social network giant is looking to further capitalize by creating a new app just for breaking news. According to a report by Business Insider, Facebook is working on an app that lets publishers write 100 characters of text along with a URL to share breaking news to their fans or followers. The URL must come from that publisher’s website, meaning other publishers can’t send alerts out from a secondhand source. On the consumer end, users can download the app and subscribe to publishers they wish to receive alerts from, or…

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Skype for Business preview is hitting Android and iOS

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Skype for Business arrived in April as a replacement for Lync, but so far it’s been limited to desktop users. That changes today with the announcement of a preview app for iOS and Android. The app differs from the standard Skype offering by featuring your contacts, recent conversations and upcoming meetings all on your dashboard; the normal Skype app just shows you recent conversations by default. You can search for contacts right from the dashboard by first name, last name, alias or phone numbers, and on iOS your phone contacts are automatically included in search as well. For upcoming meetings, you…

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InboxVudu’s new iOS app helps you conquer your email to-do list

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Email-first startups are still a relatively rare breed, but Sunrise, Timehop and Product Hunt are all notable examples of services that started off sending out useful emails to users, only later expanding into an app or website. InboxVudu now joins the list, with the added twist that it’s an email-first startup focused on email. After beginning with a daily email picking out to-do list action points from your inbox, it first expanded with a Chrome extension and has now launched an iOS and Apple Watch app. The iOS offering has a ‘Highlights’ tab that picks out the emails it thinks contain requests you…

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Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging

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Pushbullet, once a simple tool for sending files between your various devices, has announced that it now supports end-to-end encryption for additional user privacy, as it continues its march towards becoming a fully-fledged messenger. Announced in a blog post, the new encryption is applied across notifications that are mirrored between devices, any text captured by the universal copy-and-paste option and any SMS messages that are sent using the platform. Once enabled (achieved by entering a password on each device), it means that data passed using Pushbullet isn’t visible to the service itself or the company – only encrypted data is…

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Wildcard relaunches as a beautiful way to get the news you care about

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Wildcard, which launched in late 2014 as a way to browse the Web as cards instead of webpages, is launching version two of its app today and it looks very different (in a good way). The original vision was a type of browser that presented data as cards, to help users decipher the information that mattered in a meaningful way. Today’s update changes that focus to hone in on news and nothing more. It’s an attractive update that I’ve been using for the last few days and presents the news in a very readable way. It’s very simple right now, with a…

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Snowball for Android is like an adblocker for your notifications

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Notifications have got significantly better on Android over the past couple of years, allowing you to interact with them without having to launch the app in question. But increasingly, developers are bombarding people with promotions and reminders to use their apps more, often adding little or no real value to the experience. Snowball gives Android users some respite. The app prioritizes critical notifications — like messages, email and calendar alerts — and displays them above unimportant ones like those from games and shopping apps. Snowball makes it easy to manage your notifications and surface important ones You can still act…

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Plex for iOS gets total redesign, better sync and Rotten Tomatoes integration

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It’s been a long time since Plex updated its iOS app, but today it’s announced a major overhaul that brings a number of new features and makes the app available for free. The first thing you’ll notice is the revamp of how the app actually works. The overhauled Plex iOS app The old shelf layout has been dropped for a design that’s more in line with how the Web app feels; it’s broken up into what’s ‘on deck’ and recently added, with the content you were last watching right at the top. In each section you’ll get recommendations similar to how they’re…

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