Snapchat to offer camera-equipped sunglasses in first hardware push

Snap Inc, the newly renamed parent company of messaging app Snapchat, plans to start selling camera-equipped sunglasses starting this fall, Chief Executive Evan Spiegel told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.

The sunglasses, dubbed Spectacles, will be sold via limited distribution for about $130, said Spiegel, who described the device as a toy.

The first hardware to be sold by Snap, the sunglasses will record video from the user's perspective in 10-second increments that can be synched with his or her smart-phone.

Source: Reuters

Facebook assina acordos com empresas de mídia e celebridades

O Facebook assinou acordos que são avaliados em mais de 50 milhões de dólares com empresas de mídia e celebridades criando vídeos para seu serviço de transmissões ao vivo, noticiou o The Wall Street Journal.

O Facebook assinou quase 140 acordos, incluindo com a CNN, o The New York Times, Vox Media, Tastemade, Mashable e o Huffington Post, noticiou o jornal nesta terça-feira, citando um documento.

O comediante Kevin Hart, o chef Gordon Ramsay, o guru do bem-estar Deepak Chopra e o jogador da NFL Russell Wilson estão entre as celebridades com as quais do Facebook fez parcerias.

"Nós temos um programa inicial para um número relativamente pequeno de parceiros que incluem uma ampla faixa de tipos de conteúdo de várias áreas ao redor do mundo" disse o vice-presidente de operações globais e parcerias com a mídia do Facebook, Justin Osofsky, em um e-mail.

Fonte: REUTERS

Instagram launches a new logo - a 'simpler camera'

The updated icon is designed to reflect how "vibrant and diverse your storytelling has become", the company says.
"Inspired by the previous app icon, the new one represents a simpler camera and the rainbow lives on in gradient form."

More than 80 million photos and videos are now shared every day on Instagram.
It has 400 million users and overtook Twitter back in 2014.

It's also taken over as the go-to place to watch a celebrity spat unfurl.

"When Instagram started, it was primarily a place to edit and share photos," the firm explains.
"Five years later, it's a global community of interests where people share photos and videos."

Users will also notice the familiar blue backdrop is changing to white.

The simpler design "puts more focus on your photos and videos" without changing how you navigate the app.
The redesign started a year ago, Instagram tells Newsbeat.

"We wanted to create a look that would represent the community's full range of expression - past, present, and future."

Source: BBC