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Rap Genius has announced a major rebranding to become just “Genius” as it moves beyond rap lyrics to become an annotation platform. With the announcement, the site has launched the Genius.com domain with subdomains for topics including rap, rock, literature, news, history and sports. Moving forward, Genius plans to release tools that will let publishers add annotation functionality to their own sites. For the juicy backstory on the rebranding, check out Business Insider’s profile about the company. Back in May, Rap Genius fired one of its co-founders for making inappropriate remarks on its site. ➤ Introducing Genius.com
Lyft has announced that it will puts its planned New York launch on hold in order to work on a fully-licensed version of its service that will earn the approval of the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission. After Lyft announced the expansion into New York earlier this week, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman attempted to block the startup by filing for a temporary restraining order. The company issued the following statement: There was no TRO or injunction granted today. Instead, the judge adjourned to Monday and we agreed to hold our launch and maintain status quo. We are obtaining the court transcript, and…
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Yahoo has acquired mobile video streaming firm RayV to bolster its Cloud Platforms and Services team. Word of the deal first leaked back in May. While RayV has been fairly quiet about its technology, the company’s product is a “full end-to-end solution that enables improved high quality streaming for our online and mobile video content partners.” Yahoo intends to use RayV to strengthen its existing video infrastructure. Yahoo has been pouring resources into its Yahoo Screen online video efforts with a focus on offering exclusive content. The company recently agreed to bring back the cult show Community for a sixth season. The Community reboot will likely…
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Have you ever wanted to tweet private links to multiple people on Twitter? If so, you should give the new Privatize Web tool a try. To get started, simply use the service to paste in a link and compose a tweet that @mentions the people you want to have access to it. If someone else clicks on the link, they’ll be redirected to the Privatize homepage. I couldn’t find any documentation on what kind of security Privatize uses, so you should probably hold off on tweeting any super sensitive links for now, but this is a neat trick to add semi-private functionality on top…
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