Facebook updates Moments for iOS 9, improves search

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Facebook has provided an update to its photo syncing and sharing app Moments to prime it for iOS 9. The update (2.2), includes support for Apple’s latest mobile OS, as well as a few new features. Perhaps the most important addition is an update to its search function, allowing users to sift through photos based on location or by Moments’ Smart Labels — like selfies. This is an expansion to the current search service, which currently allows users to search by name, and will likely make the function much simpler. Moments also includes an ability to thank friends for syncing…

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Instagram hits 400M users in less than five years

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Another year, another big milestone for Instagram. The platform today announced it has reached 400 million monthly active users. That’s up from 300 million users last December; that it was able to add 100 million users in less than a year is a huge testament to its popularity and continued growth, especially considering it first launched less than five years ago. In its announcement post, the company highlighted its global spread with over 75 percent of its users living outside of the US. It also indicated that most its new users come from Europe and Asia. The specific countries with the most new Instagrammers were…

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Google may soon launch a service called YouTube ‘Red,’ but what is it?

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Google Alphabet is bad at naming things. When YouTube Music Key launched November last year, I thought it was an unnecessarily long name compared to services like Spotify, Rdio or Apple Music. That looks like it could be changing soon. Android Police spotted a the most recent update to the Android app that uses a curious ‘YouTube Red’ branding instead of the aforementioned YouTube Music Key. The branding only seems to show up as a notification blurb when you leave a video playing in the background as you switch to another app, or as a pop-up when you try to re-open YouTube…

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SimplyBuilt makes it easy to create a website for your small business

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Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York on November 18. Back in the day, building a Website for yourself or your small business was a huge undertaking. You had to buy and learn new software, figure out how to pull together images and other assets, not to mention settling on a domain name and hosting plan. And you still had to actually run your business. Template-driven site builders seek to remove much of that stress from small businesses who — let’s face…

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Swarm now lets you check in belatedly based on your GPS history

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Swarm is still thirsty for your check-in activities, and will now let you do so belatedly if you noticed you might have been at specific establishments at some point in your day. The latest version of Swarm for iOS (3.2) states that the app will now suggest places to check in later so you can add those places to your location history. The goal is to help those who may have experienced bad reception or are hanging out with actual friends outside of their phone screens, and thus are unable to check in. That said, the app will continue doing its…

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Gmail now lets you block annoying senders on the Web and Android

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Google is rolling out an update for Gmail that allows you to quickly and painlessly block specific email addresses in just a few taps. The block feature is being switched on from today on the Web and will roll out to Android devices in the next week. Once blocked, all mail from that address will go straight to your spam folder – it isn’t retroactive though, so you’ll have to delete the older mails yourself. And if you have a change of heart and want to unblock an address, you can do that in ‘settings’. In addition, Android users can now…

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Slash Keyboard for iOS partners with popular Web services to share just about anything

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If you ever need information or advice about what to do or where to go while out an about, you might throw a query to Siri or Cortana. But they have nothing on Slash Keyboard, a new app for iOS that arrives today. Slash is a free, intelligent helper that makes it easy to share links and other information without switching apps. Just tap the forward slash (/) on your keyboard to access partners like Foursquare, Stickers, YouTube, Contacts, Genius, Google Search and Maps and others. Slash is integrated with a total of 15 apps, including Giphy — its launch partner. Slash is accessible the same way…

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Backblaze takes on Amazon S3 with dirt-cheap data storage for developers

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Amazon’s S3 storage service is popular among developers because it’s cheap, fast and highly available, but Backblaze might be about to shake that up for good. The company, which is well known for unlimited file backup, has launched Backblaze B2 today to take on Amazon’s S3 service — at incredibly low prices. Built on top of the custom storage pod infrastructure Backblaze designed itself, B2 costs just $0.005 per GB, compared with Amazon’s $0.022. B2 launches into private beta this October for developers to start using before it becomes available widely later this year. Not only is B2’s storage price cheaper than…

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Storehouse kills off social features, focuses on story creation

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Storehouse started life as a social network for sharing your photos and videos in an attractive narrative layout with friends, but has big news today: it’s pivoting away from the social part. A major reboot of the platform is launching today, which removes all of Storehouse’s social features. There’s no more following, likes or timeline in Storehouse 2.0 which is now in the App Store. That might come as a surprise for a company that received an Apple Design Award and was hyped to be the best way to share your story with friends, but CEO Mark Kawano says that the company found…

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