It's official: Meerkat has lost the live-streaming battle to Periscope and other top stories.

• It's official: Meerkat has lost the live-streaming battle to Periscope

  Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope. Recode reported yesterday (March 4) that the startup is changing direction to become a video social network where “everyone is always live.” “It was a fucking hard decision to say, ‘It’s not going to work, thank you everyone for the support,’”Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin told the website. In an email to investors two weeks ago, Rubin said the startup simply wasn’t able to grow as quic..

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• Tinder's New 'Share' Button Will Let You Play Matchmaker

  

  Tinder is testing out a “share” button that lets you send someone’s Tinder profile to a friend. Tinder describes the feature as a chance for you to play matchmaker. Once you send the profile, your friend will have the opportunity to swipe “yes” or “no” on the profile, and wait and see if they have a match. Tinder confirmed to Business Insider that these “profile links” are only directly shareable via text message, though the feature may have previously included integration with other messaging ..

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• Amazon to restore encryption to Fire tablets after complaints

  

  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it plans to restore an encryption feature on its Fire tablets after customers and privacy advocates criticized the company for quietly removing the security option when it released its latest operating system.“We will return the option for full-disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring,” company spokeswoman Robin Handaly told Reuters via email on Saturday.Amazon's decision to drop encryption from the Fire operating system came to light late this ..

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• Snapdragon 820 In Galaxy S7 Edge Tested Against the Competition - Android Headlines

  

  Although LeEco may have held the distinction of creating the first commercially available smartphone to boast Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon 820 processor, it didn't have the international clout to make the device a worldwide success. Samsung, on the ...

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• New Apple iPhone Needs One More Thing To Win In 2016

  

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