Cut down YouTube videos to 20-second clips with Bloop It

While there are those short video creation apps such as Vine and Instagram, Bloop It stands out of that crowd by providing a service that cuts down YouTube videos to clips that are 20 second or less long. The iOS app doesn’t just trim down the videos but lets you share the video through Facebook, Twitter, and email. An Android version of the app is reportedly coming in the next week or so.

Source: The Next Web

Apple reportedly creating service for mobile payments

A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is hoping to penetrate the mobile payment arena to help customers who use their credit cards to pay for items on iTunes. Jennifer Bailey, an Apple executive that works on the company’s online stores, is supposedly developing the service at the moment. Meanwhile, iTunes and App Store head Eddy Cue and a “key lieutenant” of CEO Tim Cook are meeting with industry executives to discuss this possible new venture. How this will affect the existing mobile payment industry or compete against the other services is yet to be seen.

Google and Samsung enter 10-year patent licensing agreement

Google and Samsung have entered an agreement to license their patents over the next decade. The move is seen to help speed up product development and research and lessen any future patent lawsuits. Looks like Samsung wants to stay in Google’s good graces even as the company develops its own operating system and Google acknowledges the importance of Samsung devices for the Android market.

Source: Samsung Tomorrow

GetGlue to be rebranded as tvtag

Following the acquisition of i.TV in November 2013, social network for TV shows and movies GetGlue will be renamed as tvtag and have a change of its corporate colors from blue to red. A new update is said to follow the rebranding in the coming week. GetGlue currently has around 4.5 million users.

Source: The Next Web