Mobile Minutes: Snapchat movie; Apple Pay?s struggles; Grab, Lyft hook up; Facebook Messenger adds emojis
First movie filmed on Snapchat, Sickhouse starring Andrea
Russett, debuts on Vimeo
?Sickhouse,? a horror movie starring digital celeb Andrea
Russett based on 10-second video snippets posted to Snapchat, is now available
for purchase ? another test of whether social followers will become paying
customers.
Read more on Variety
Early days, but Apple Pay struggles outside US
More than 18 months after Apple Pay took the United States
by storm, the smartphone giant has made only a small dent in the global
payments market, snagged by technical challenges, low consumer take-up and
resistance from banks.
Read more on Reuters
Grab, Lyft hook up ride-sharing apps as anti-Uber effort widens
GrabTaxi Holdings Pte and Lyft Inc. have linked their apps
so customers of Southeast Asia?s largest ride-hailing service can hail a car in
the U.S., and vice versa.
Read more on Bloomberg
Facebook Messenger adds more diverse emojis
Facebook Messenger is adding 1,500 emojis including more
than 100 to better reflect a diversity of gender and skin tones.
Read more on USA Today