Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is removing the ability to log in to their services using Facebook or Google. Users will be required to have a Yahoo! ID. Yahoo! said that this requirement will let it “offer the best personalized experience to everyone.” The change will be rolled out over time, starting with Yahoo! Sports Tourney Pick’Em.
Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie and posted it on Twitter during the Oscars. Over 3.2 million people retweeted the selfie. She wrote the tweet using a Samsung smartphone so the electronics giant decided to donate $3 million to the charities of Ellen’s choice. The charities include St. Jude’s and the Humane Society.
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Paramount has released a trailer for the movie ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction.’ The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, and Kelsey Grammer. The movie is expected to open on June 27, 2014.
Flyby is a messaging application that lets users share text and recorded videos. It is the first app that uses recognition capabilities using Google “Project Tango.” Project Tango is an Android-based smartphone that has 3D sensors, which can build visual maps.
“The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening wrote a tweet that tells the ugly story behind the Oscar selfie. You will notice in the tweet below that Homer Simpson is getting stepped on by Hollywood A-list celebrities. You may remember that Ellen broke the retweet record when she took a selfie at the Oscars over the weekend.
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TreSensa, a company that offers tools for development and distribution of mobile games, has raised $2 million in Series A funding led by Caribou Asset Management with participation from Tremor Video co-founders Jason Glickman and Andrew Reis. American Media CEO David Pecker and AdMeld founder Ben Barokas also participated in this round. TreSensa is focused on games that are built using HTML5 for mobile browsers.
Tony Hawk and Back To The Future‘s Doc Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd) have launched a campaign for a hoverboard that is known as HUVr. The PR stunt for HUVr features video clips with testimonials from celebrities like Tony Hawk, Moby, and Christopher Lloyd. One of the video clips features Lloyd delivering the HUVr to Hawk.
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has launched a Messenger app for Windows Phone. The native Facebook Messenger app is now available on the Windows Phone Store for download now.
