Mobile Minutes: Twitter's Highlights feature; Nasdaq and social; Apple Watch app store; Samsung teases smartwatch
Twitter launches 'Highlights,' to help users cut
through the chaff
The company announced on Thursday a feature called Highlights that -- like
Facebook's News Feed -- is designed to draw on a user's information to deliver
relevant content and keep people from becoming overwhelmed.
Read more on CNET
This time social media sending Nasdaq to brink of 2000
high
Companies tracked by the Solactive Social Media Index have surged 15 percent
this year as LinkedIn Corp. and Facebook Inc. posted gains at least four times
larger than that for the Standard & Poor?s 500 Index. The gauge is up 7.6
percent this month alone, helping pull the Nasdaq within 14 points of an
all-time high.
Read more on Bloomberg
As first watches ship, Apple opens app store for new device
Apple opened the App Store for its Apple Watch Thursday, just ahead of the
first shipments reaching customers who pre-ordered the new device.
Read more on Wall Street Journal
Samsung hints at new smartwatch on Apple Watch launch
day
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd teased the market with hints of a new version of its
Gear smartwatch on Friday, the same day that rival Apple Inc's long-awaited
wearable devices went on sale.
Read more on Reuters