Mirroring the moves of parent company Facebook, Instagram warned users and businesses today that their photo feeds “will soon be ordered to show the moments we believe you will care about the most.” Up until now, Instagram organized its feeds in reverse-chronological order. That … | Continue reading
Many claim that Pope Francis is the most liberal Pope to date, and with his decidedly left-wing stances on gay marriage, economics and the environment, it’s hard to argue. Now, Pope Francis is set to drop liberal politics in exchange for liberal use of hashtags and filters by joi … | Continue reading
In 2013, billionaire eccentric inventor Elon Musk announced an idea called the Hyperloop: a super-fast, low-friction transportation system that looked like the prom photo for a subway tunnel and a bullet-train. Musk made the Hyperloop an open-sourced project, inviting thinkers, s … | Continue reading
B&H Photo is selling the Motorola Moto X Pure Edition with a 32GB microSD card and a photography accessory bundle for just $299.99. | Continue reading
OnePlus Gallery has just been launched. They tout is as a "no-nonsense app" that is "perfect for everyday browsing, editing and organizing". | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: There’s no limit to the range of emotions that arise from playing games. Yet if most stock photos are anything to go by, pure excitement is the most common expression when someone’s caught up in the latest pretend Xbox One or PlayStation 4 game. I asked some well-known … | Continue reading
If you're building a new social network likely to get battered in the marketplace, you may as well call it Waffle. The latest entry in the ever-expanding category of Weird Samsung Things allows you to post a photo that your friends can annotate by adding their own photos or drawi … | Continue reading
Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers shows off his workout routine: playing one-on-one basketball with other coaches from the NBA championship team. Photo: Lisa Wiseman for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Attention Instagrammers: You no longer have to do math!The single most annoying thing about Instagram is that it displays a photo or video's upload date as so many "weeks" ago as opposed to the date. Change is finally coming. Over the weekend, we noticed the Instagram app now sho … | Continue reading
The Seattle-based e-commerce company recently filed a patent application for a process that would allow shoppers to make a purchase by taking a photo and/or video of themselves rather than keying in their account password. The application is related to a separate patent Amazon ho … | Continue reading
Instagram is currently one of the biggest social media networks and by extension one of the best places to market your brand. Once considered an app for retailers, hotels, and restaurants, the photo-sharing app has quickly transformed into an effective brand-building tool for all … | Continue reading
Blowing a meter-long kudu antelope horn has been a rite of passage for companies listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 2002. AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito blew the horn in January. Photo: Denise Barnard/JSE | Continue reading
SXSW is known as the tech conference at which bizarre things happen, whether its people queuing for hours to have their photo taken with a cat, or companies spending huge amounts of money to build promotional landmarks, such as a life sized TIE Fighter. But quietly and away from … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Shutterstock is flexing its AI muscles with the news that the stock photo giant is introducing new computer-vision search smarts to its platform. The company, which is headquartered in New York’s Empire State Building, went public back in 2012 and now offers more than 7 … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for the excuse to jump on the Nexus 6P bandwagon, B&H Photo Video has the perfect deal for you. The Nexus 6P is available from the US retailer for $50 off, plus a $50 gift card! | Continue reading
The phrase ‘Kodak moment’ is universally understood as a memory worth sharing. We have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat for sharing those but let’s face it, those feeds are noisy. From the people you haven’t spoken to in years posting hourly updates of their lives to the … | Continue reading
The European Central Bank ramped its efforts to boost the eurozone's economy with a package of measures it unveiled on Thursday. Luca Paolini, Pictet Asset Management chief strategist, joins Tanya Rivero to discuss the ECB's move. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Shutterstock is today launching a couple of tools that will make it easy for users to find photos without having to figure out the right keywords for what they’re looking for: reverse image search and visually similar search. It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. With rev … | Continue reading
In case there was any doubt where Instagram was drawing the line when it came to its shutdown of third-party feed reading apps, it appears that its decision to revoke API access doesn’t just extend to those that offer an alternative means of browsing the photo-sharing service. It … | Continue reading
Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens to several local Fox newsrooms around the U.S. Using the company’s iPhone app, participating Fox-owned stations will be able to sen … | Continue reading
Less than a year after it introduced the ability to automatically upload photos from your hard drive, Flickr is removing the feature from free accounts. Flickr users will now need to pay a monthly subscription fee to Flickr Pro to use the Flickr Uploadr desktop tool, a move that … | Continue reading
European Union leaders have announced the framework for a deal that would return to Turkey refugees from Syria who are now in Greece. What does Turkey want in return? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
If you opened Snapchat on Tuesday and noticed that things look a little different, you're not losing your mindSnapchat updated its font on the iOS app, which now appears throughout the app — though not in photo captions or on Snapchat DiscoverSee also: 10 hidden tricks to make Sn … | Continue reading
Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free. Starting today, its desktop Auto-Uploadr tool will be exclusive to paying customers. But all is not lost, as the company is offering a 30 perc … | Continue reading
Bill Gates is starting another Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but as any regular AMA visitor knows, he first needs to verify his identity with a photo. Usually that means holding up a sheet of paper with your name and the date on it, but Gates went for something far more inte … | Continue reading
What if your friends could see every photo you took? Not every photo is flattering, or even interesting, but a new photo sharing app called Shorts wants you to look past all that. Shorts is a photo sharing app with a twist, and a unique one at that — it wants you to open up your … | Continue reading
No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy peeking at every photo, video, and screenshot, not just the best ones. So call it creepy or the next frontier in social media, but that’s what Shorts does. It’s the new iOS … | Continue reading
Are you ready to share not just your best photo moments, but almost all the contents of your camera roll with friends, family and maybe a few strangers?This is the new vision from app developer Paul Davison, most known for his social "near me" app Highlight that went viral years … | Continue reading
Google Photos, the service that allows you to back up, organize and search across all your photos and videos, has just rolled out a notable update on iOS. The iPhone and iPad application now supports Live Photos, the animated photo format introduced with iOS 9 and the newer iPhon … | Continue reading
Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot with a look back on the the former first lady’s life and accomplishments. Photo credit: Associated Press. | Continue reading
Following a historic 18 years in the NFL, celebrated quarterback Peyton Manning is retiring. What might he do next? WSJ sports editor Geoff Foster and Tanya Rivero discuss. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed John Kasich in a Snapchat video on Sunday and joined the Republican presidential candidate's campaign rally in Ohio. Photo: Snapchat/Arnold Schwarzenegger | Continue reading
A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called, offers a crazy twist on our carefully curated online personas – instead of allowing you to choose a photo or GIF to share with frien … | Continue reading
The software engineers behind Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram are constantly looking to improve the app’s performance. Performance improvements might sound like an exercise in perfection for perfection’s sake, but in fact they can lead to important things — like more u … | Continue reading
In the latest blockbuster overseas acquisition by a Chinese company, AMC Entertainment will buy Carmike Cinemas, becoming the U.S.'s -- and the world's -- largest movie-theater operator. The WSJ's Rick Carew has the details. Photo: AFP/Getty | Continue reading
Japanese lager brand Asahi launched its super slow-mo photo booth experience during a special event at the Old Truman Brewery in London's Shoreditch last night (3 March). | Continue reading
As always, it's been an interesting week for Kanye West.Earlier this week, West tweeted a photo of his computer that included a tab on the website Pirate Bay, which quickly led to many jokes on Twitter. Sources close to West insisted that the photo itself was meant as a joke, but … | Continue reading
If you were hoping to get more followers on Telegram or Snapchat from your Instagram profile, you may be out of luck.The photo sharing app recently began cracking down on certain types of links in users' profiles, including those that link back to Telegram and Snapchat accounts. … | Continue reading
Capturing the key moments of the 2016 Oscar ceremony— when Spotlight was crowned Best Picture and Leo finally got his award— took a team of nearly 20 Getty Images staffers, lightning fast reflexes and just a little help from robots.Getty Images, one of the biggest photo services … | Continue reading
Before I start the story, I need y’all to look at one picture. Ready? This was a photo that went semi-viral from the Samsung blog, which depicts a man on his dinner date looking absolutely absurd in his Gear VR. The future is now. Fast forward to today, things are about to get ev … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down deeplinking to other social media services. Previously Instagram users were able to include ‘add me’/’follow me’ links on their profile page, directly linking out to any other profiles … | Continue reading
Aubrey McClendon, one of the pioneers of the U.S. shale boom and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., died in a single-vehicle crash early Wednesday. Photo: kwtv skynews 9 hd/Reuters | Continue reading
Google Photos is one of the best ways to store all of your photos and videos online. Now, it's even better.The web version of Google Photos at photos.google.com just rolled out a way to let you edit photos using easy-to-use adjustment sliders. The new editing tools were announced … | Continue reading
Kanye West may have singlehandedly pushed Tidal to the top of Apple's download charts last month, but when it comes to actually making music, he apparently relies on less legal services. Late Tuesday night, the rapper tweeted out a photo of a Safari browser that was opened to a Y … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Instagram is one of the few “authentic” social networks. Why? Because it lacks a feature Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all enjoy, but one that makes those platforms open to abuse and bots. Automated posting. Because Instagram doesn’t allow you to create posts through … | Continue reading
Thousands of migrants remain stuck at Greece’s northern border with Macedonia, where some clashed with police amid growing frustrations with tight border controls. Photo: AP. | Continue reading
Snapchat is a hugely popular, ephemeral photo-sharing service and ‘the kids’ love it. Seriously, they’re crazy for that stuff – stickers, filters and a whole range of stupid effects to make your boring face and boring life less boring. You might have guessed from my tone that my … | Continue reading
A presentation by Volkswagen at the Geneva Motor Show was interrupted by a demonstrator on Tuesday. The man, dressed as a VW mechanic, walked on stage and said that Volkswagen's chief executive had sent him to fix a display car's engine, alluding to the carmaker's emissions scand … | Continue reading