It looks like Twitter is testing an all-new ad unit that shows app advertisements in a carousel right inside the feed. The new ad type appears to show a number of apps if you swipe to the right and takes up a good chunk of the screen when displayed. A number of users on Twitter have noticed the large new ad appearing in their feeds today. Wow this is an aggressive ad unit pic.twitter.com/uLZItg58nX — Nathan Bashaw (@nbashaw) March 19, 2015 Twitter’s suggested apps ads have been around for a while, but traditionally they’ve been smaller tweets that blend in with the…
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This morning, Twitter lit up with people excitedly exclaiming that they’d finally gotten access to try Google Inbox on their Google Apps accounts, then, after a few hours it retracted a whole lot of those invitations. Some people managed to actually get up and running on Google Inbox with Google Apps — almost all of those reporting that it worked seem to be using the grandfathered, free version of Google Apps — but others using paid accounts have received an email from Google apologizing for the mistake. Here at The Next Web, we received an invite but the option to enable the app hasn’t appeared in…
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With Microsoft’s newfound love of open source code, the company has announced today that it’s open-sourcing Visual Studio’s build tool for the first time. MSBuild is a build engine used for compiling applications from source. It helps automate the process of building code, performing tests and packaging the application. Today’s announcement makes available a version of the build tool that’s similar to what’s included in Visual Studio 2015 available on Github, but has some small differences. Microsoft says these differences will eventually be removed and it will be the same code in the future. Microsoft also promised it’ll be porting MSBuild to…
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