Saturday, October 18, 2014

Weekly Wrap Up: October 12 - 18


Here's what you may have missed this week:

  • Netflix Leads In U.S. Digital Video Subscriptions In Home And Among Millennials - A survey out on video viewing habits found that Netflix is the leading brand among U.S. households that subscribe to paid digital video subscription services, and it’s also the leading subscription service among the much-coveted Millennial, 18-34 year-old, demographic.
  • Mark Zuckerberg Drops $100 Million on Hawaiian Property - The 30-year-old Facebook founder recently purchased 700 acres of property on the North Shore of the island of Kauai, according to a Forbes report.
  • Skype Launches A New Video Messaging App For The Mobile - First Era, Skype Qik - Instead of focusing on live video calls and instant messaging-like chats, Skype Qik is designed around asynchronous video messaging – that is, mobile video messages you create and share with others who may not be online at the same time as you.
  • Stickers Launch on Facebook - Brace yourself: The stickers are coming to Facebook. Those adorable graphics or cartoons of special characters have, up until now, lived only in messages to friends on Messenger. But people will soon be able to share them in comments on posts from people, in groups, and on events, Facebook announced Monday.
  • Report: Thousands of Snapchat pics leaked online - It appears hackers have followed through on plans to leak thousands of pictures and videos from messaging service Snapchat. According to The Guardian, video and pictures from as many as 200,000 users were posted online over the weekend, after reports surfaced Friday that hackers were planning a leak.
  • Fitbit has new 'Charge' fitness trackers on the way - Gizmodo has obtained marketing materials that reveal a new Fitbit Charge, which looks more or less like a Force clone, and another model called Charge HR.
  • HBO is finally going to let you watch its shows without cable - Starting next year, you'll finally be able to watch HBO on the web without a cable subscription. In a dream come true for cord cutters, HBO CEO Richard Plepler has confirmed the company plans to launch a "standalone, over-the-top" HBO Go subscription offering at some point in 2015.

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