Twitter experiments with News tab

Twitter continues to try out new features in hopes to get more people to use their social network. This time around, they introduce a new Trending News tab to show iOS and Android users the trending news on the app. When you tap on a news item, it shows you an image, block of text and link to the source. At the same time, it shows tweets from other publishers and Twitter users related to the item. The items here are populated algorithmically. Since it’s an experiment though, we’re not sure if it’ll be a permanent feature.

Source: Buzzfeed | Via: Engadget

Car consortium buys Nokia's HERE mapping business for US $3.01 billion

A consortium made up of Audi, BMW and Daimler has agreed to purchase Nokia's mapping business for an approximate US $3.07 billion. This puts to rest a long standing bid to sell the business which Nokia has developed since it acquired NAVTEQ in 2007.

HERE Maps is ideal for motoring applications and it looks like while the big 3 carmakers have made the investment, the consortium of carmakers that can make use of the technology can only grow. Part of Here Maps' strength lies in consolidating real-time traffic information from vehicles. Uber was reportedly in talks with Nokia for the mapping business and had allegedly offered up to US $3 billion on the table.

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Pinterest looking to diversify its workforce

Pinterest has plans to bring in more women and minorities into its staff, according to Evan Sharp, the company’s co-founder and CEO. Sharp detailed in a blog post how they plan to change its full-time engineering sector to have 30 percent female and eight percent minorities. They also intend to put to practice the “Rooney-rule” where they are required to interview at least one person from an underrepresented background and one female candidate for every available leadership role. By making their plans public, Pinterest hopes other companies will follow suit.

Source: Pinterest | Via: Jezebel

Leak shows off new Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+

Well-known tipster Evan Blass (a.k.a. @evleaks) showed off what Samsung has up its sleeve for its August 13^th event. He tweeted what looks like official product shots of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ as well as supposed specs of the Note 5.

The new phablet looks to be a refinement of its predecessor with a 5.7-inch quad HD display, 16-megapixel rear camera, and 32GB of internal storage. It’ll also supposedly be carrying the Galaxy S6’s octa-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5-megapixel front camera. Unfortunately, it’s said this’ll lose the microSD card slot, too. The Note 5 is said to be shipping with Android 5.1 and most likely will be carrying some new pen-related features. Not much was said about the S6 Edge+ though. At the moment, these are all still rumours so you must take them with a grain of salt. We just have a few days to wait anyway to see what’s real and what isn’t.

Source: Engadget