Mobile Minutes: Facebook lobbies for speed; Amazon pilots on Twitch; SoftBank?s PokeStops; Messenger instant video
Facebook wants advertisers to speed up their mobile Web sites and plans to limit where and when ads appear across its service if they point users to slow-loading sites.
Amazon.com Inc. has discovered a new use for Twitch Interactive Inc., which it purchased two years ago for about $1 billion. Seeking feedback from Twitch?s highly engaged audience of 10 million daily users, Amazon streamed two original TV-show pilots produced by its own studios on the gaming Web site.
SoftBank announced a deal with Niantic, the augmented reality game?s developer, to designate 3,700 of SoftBank?s retail phone stores in Japan as Pokemon Go hotspots, known as PokeStops, and Gyms within the stops.
Facebook is adding a new feature to Messenger: the ability to share video with friends while conversing with them in the mobile app.