Twilio on Thursday showed itself to be a standout in a tepid IPO market. Shares of the San Francisco-based cloud communications company nearly doubled on their first day of trading, closing up 92 percent at $28.79. The company sold 10 million shares at $15 per share on Wednesday, above the $12 to $14 range it …

T-Mobile is doling out freebies again. The wireless carrier on Thursday announced a trio of bonuses for its customers — one of which is open to non-subscribers as well. Free unlimited data across most of Europe: Beginning July 1 and wrapping up at the end of August, T-Mobile Simple Choice customers will get free unlimited data up to 4G speeds …

WhatsApp, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, reached a big milestone Thursday. It can now boast that 100 million voice calls are made through its app everyday. That ends up being about 1,100 calls a second. Due to its ability to provide end-to-end encryption, the app is popular among users concerned with privacy and security. Its encryption abilities …

Apps are big business, with industry leaders like Snapchat worth billions in just a few years. Now, Google is hoping to help the average Joe and Joanna make the next big thing. The company on Wednesday launched an app-development course with online university Udacity, aimed specifically at the building of apps for its Android operating system. The difference between this …

Now playing: Watch this: YouTube brings live streaming to its mobile apps 1:40 YouTube is about to push live streaming from the web to your mobile device. The video-sharing site will soon offer support for live streaming on its YouTube app, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday at the VidCon conference in Anaheim, California. YouTube will soon offer live streaming …

Adele’s “25” was the number one album of 2015, and has sold more than 8 million copies in the US. Now, seven months after its release, the hit album will make its debut on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. Adele’s album “25” is due to hit streaming services worldwide at midnight Friday, local time, according to Recode. That …

A Chinese company suing Apple for patent infringement appears to be virtually non-existent. Known as Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services, the company filed a lawsuit against Apple in 2014, claiming that the iPhone 6 and 6S looked too much like its 100C phone. Baili wanted a ban placed on iPhone 6 sales in Beijing, something the capital city’s intellectual property regulator …

Buy an iPhone 7 later this year, and you may spot at least a few minor design changes. Expected to launch in September, this year’s iPhone will feature a longer ear speaker, according to a blog post Thursday by Japanese site Makotakara. Further, the ambient light sensor, which automatically adjusts the screen’s brightness based on the surrounding light, will swap …

The clock is ticking on BlackBerry’s phone business, and it looks like time is almost up. BlackBerry CEO John Chen has repeatedly vowed to exit the phone business if it continued to be unprofitable. If Chen sticks to his word, BlackBerry phones may soon be a thing of the past. The company’s numbers only continue to disappoint. The Canadian company …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Fiber expands with acquisition of Webpass 1:32 Google Fiber agreed to purchase Webpass, a small internet service provider. Webpass brings gigabit internet to businesses and apartment buildings in five major markets. The deal should close in the summer if all goes right. Now playing: Watch this: What browser is best for your laptop battery? 1:21 …

Video viewership on the popular social networking and photo app Instagram has increased 150 percent over the past six months, the company said Thursday. To address this trend, it will begin featuring videos based on a user’s favorite interests. The video channels will be folded into the “Picked for You” feature in Instagram’s Explore menu. Content on Explore is autocurated, …

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Fresh off hitting 500 million users, Instagram has announced that user bios, comments and captions posted in foreign languages will be automatically translated to the user’s native language. Now, we can better enjoy the snaps of breakfast, dogs and memes posted by our friends abroad (and the occasional photo featuring actual humans, too). “The Instagram community has grown faster and …

Now playing: Watch this: JBL Clip: Tiny, travel-friendly Bluetooth speaker adds… 2:13 Thanks to the universal limitations of Bluetooth compression, most of the name-brand portable Bluetooth speakers actually sound very similar. It comes down to supplemental features and pricing for customers to decide which one to buy. If you’re looking to add a soundtrack to your summer, now is the …

Silicon Valley’s new mantra: Have a problem? Solve it with training! The latest example comes from Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, who said the company has begun teaching employees how to spot and manage political bias in their work, following outcry over the company’s trending-topics feature and concerns it doesn’t equally display conservative and liberal news topics. The effort is part …