Skype’s Qik now lets you share your videos to any social network

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Skype’s Qik messenger, a tiny app for sending quick video messages, today received an update that lets you easily share your videos outside the app. The update adds a new share menu that lets you use the phone’s built-in share screen to send your videos to whatever service you want, without needing to save them to your phone. Qik’s sharing update is only available for iPhone and Android users at this time, but will eventually make its way to Windows Phone too. ➤ Qik [iOS / Android]





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Uber’s panic button is now live in India

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Uber has been in all kinds of trouble in India in the past year, but the company is looking to change that. It introduced enhanced background checks for drivers a few days ago and has now added two new safety features for passengers. A new SOS button lets passengers taking a trip immediately contact local police. Users will need to tap the button and confirm the call. The second feature – Send Status – replaces Uber’s existing Share My ETA option. It sends live GPS information along with driver and vehicle details to up to five of the passenger’s contacts.…



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Yelp gets into the delivery business with Eat24 acquisition

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Yelp is about to get a bit more useful. The app and site you check before you eat anywhere new just announced that it has acquired food delivery service Eat24. Announced today, Yelp wants to expand Eat24 to work with the one million Yelp restaurants listed on the service. That’s a huge ramp up from the current 20,000 restaurants that have partnered with Eat24 for delivery. Commenting on the acquisition via a press release, Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman said, “As more food ordering transactions move online, further integrating Eat24 will enhance our user experience with an easy-to-use product…



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Facebook brings Internet.org app to India

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Just three weeks after launching its Internet.org Android app in Ghana, Facebook is bringing the free app to India with nearly 40 services in tow. Facebook has partnered with mobile operator Reliance Communications in India to make the app available in six states: Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana. Through the app, mobile users will be able to access a host of news, health, travel, sports, and local government and job information English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati and Marathi. Besides Facebook, the roster of services include Aaj Tak news, AccuWeather, AP Speaks, Babajob, BabyCenter & MAMA,…



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Skype for Android now supports offline photo sharing

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If your main form of communication with a friend is via Skype, it’s been frustrating for Android users to send photos while that friend is offline. Well beginning today, you can send as many photos as you like and know that they will receive them when they sign on via the mobile app. The latest version of Skype for Android not only handles offline photo sharing, but it also features picture in picture view for phones. Now you can leave Skype for other applications and still see the person you’re chatting with. This feature appeared on Android tablets in December…



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Madonna to premiere music video on Snapchat today

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Maybe that Snapchat original series was a bit of a misfire. But, you can’t go wrong with Madonna. Billboard reports that the Material Girl (do the kids still call her that?) will be premiering the first music video off her upcoming album, Red Heart on Snapchat today. The video for Living for Love will appear in the Discover section of the app. Snapchat has been branching out to be more than the app you use to send pictures of your nether regions. The service is hoping that its new Discover feature will convince users to stick around and watch videos…



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TheScore launches an Android app for eSports news and updates

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If you eat, sleep and breathe electronic sports, you’ll love sports media company TheScore’s latest app. Creatively dubbed ‘eSports‘, the free Android app brings breaking news, live scores, stats, and video streams from around the world of competitive video gaming to your mobile device. eSports currently covers a handful of popular games including Dota 2, League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty, StarCraft II and Hearthstone. The company says that it will add more games and regions to its list in the near future. An iOS app is also in the works and should be out soon. ➤…



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You’re about to see Twitter’s promoted tweets in some new places

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Twitter has announced that it’s experimenting with delivering Promoted Tweet ads beyond its own services. It’s starting the experiment by bringing them to Flipboard and Yahoo Japan. In a post on its Advertising Blog, the company points out that tweets already “flow from Twitter to other mediums seamlessly.” The obvious conclusion is: why not do the same with ads? It uses the example of Nissan running a Promoted Tweet campaign on Twitter, then reusing the same creative on Flipboard. Word that Twitter was working on plans to bring its ads to eyeballs beyond its own site and apps leaked out…



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Magisto brings its mobile video editing skills to Windows PCs

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Magisto, a mobile app for Android and iOS devices that automatically pulls together images and videos stored on your device to create a movie, has launched for Windows PCs. Released today, the new app brings the same sort of functionality found in its mobile offerings – albeit aimed at desktop Windows users. The company said the new build is aimed at addressing specific problems currently associated with creating simple movies on the desktop, including the management of files and transcoding large video files from GoPro (and other) cameras. With it, all you need to do is hover your mouse over…



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Microsoft quietly launches a free lock screen replacement app for Android

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Things are busy at Microsoft Garage, where the company’s employees share experimental projects they’ve been working on. The most recent release is Picturesque Lock Screen, a free Android app that adds useful functions, handy shortcuts and beautiful images to your lock screen. Picturesque Lock Screen feels almost like a second home screen. It features multiple screens that you scroll through and adds a Bing search bar, a customizable news feed, weather reports, device notifications, shortcuts to frequently used apps and settings toggles. It also pulls in the daily Bing homepage image to use as a background and lets you swipe…



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