Google Play Gets a New Look in Version 4.1.6 + MORE

Facebook released an update for its iOS app today with a number of small changes and improvements, including faster loading for events and a way for users to easily save photos from Facebook to their phone.
Events was one of the sections that hadn’t yet been completely rebuilt for speed like the News Feed, photos, messages and other areas have…

For the first time, Facebook users can now give star ratings to movies, TV shows, and books. That data could help Facebook show more relevant content and results in news feed and Graph Search. The feature comes alongside Facebook’s announcement that it’s finished rolling out “Sections” that show what apps you use…

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Google will launch music streaming through YouTube and Google Play, according to reports in The Verge and the Wall Street Journal [sub required].
The company, which has struggled to keep up with Apple in terms of media offerings, has reportedly signed licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, the reports said…

Facebook updated its standalone app for iOS this week with several small changes and improvements for consumers. Most notably, faster loading for Facebook Events.
Up until now, events was one of the features that hadn’t yet been rebuilt for speed like the News Feed, photos, messages and so on…

Just when you thought every great Twitter handle HAS to be taken, someone finds another one that you wish you’d thought of first.
And the folks who found THIS one are asking for your help, as they’re . . . controversial.
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Facebook has brought its new structured status update feature to its mobile website, allowing users to post what they’re watching, reading, eating, drinking, listening to or feeling from their phones.
When this feature was introduced in January and rolled out more widely in April, it did not have a mobile component…

Malaysia-based digital media companies Catcha Media and Says.com have announced a $20 million merger deal that will seem them combine to become one of the largest Internet advertising groups in the country.
Catcha Media, which specialises in online advertising, digital content and e-commerce solutions, says it will merge two of its business units with Says…

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Kenshoo Social, a platform for Facebook advertising, has shared the results of a study it recently commissioned by Forrester Consulting called “The Key to Successful Social Advertising.” The survey of 105 U.S. advertisers spending more than $100,000 per year on social ads found that more than a third were not satisfied with their efforts…

Google has updated its Google Play store for Android to version 4.1.6, bringing a change in design and several other improvements
The new, colorful home buttons (Apps, Games, Movies, Music, Books and Magazines) on Google Play are the biggest visual change in this release. There were also updates to the Application pages, as well as the Wishlist, which now shows apps in rows of three
Other new features include slight changes to functionality…

It’s been years since community news sharing site Reddit has made a major change to how things appear on its coveted front page of popular submissions, but today the company announced a new feature called multireddits that could do just that.
Reddit enables its users to submit links or self-authored posts to a variety of “subreddits” (aka a specific category)…

Facebook today completed its global rollout of the new Timeline design with sections for music, movies, books, fitness and more. Now, it will begin letting users rate content from those sections or from third-party apps.
Facebook says users have added nearly 200 million items to their sections daily…