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Meerkat live

Meerkat has added new features, including a “Cameo” mode. Meerkat Personal streaming viewers can now become guest stars. Live streaming video app Meerkat announced two new features designed to bring streamers and viewers a little closer together, including a way for people to jump into streams and a way to store a library of recordings. Meerkat said its new “Cameo” …

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​CommBank shows you the money with new tablet app

The new look CommBank app for Tablets. Commonwealth Bank Commonwealth Bank has announced the launch of a new graphics-heavy tablet app that it hopes will engage customers with their finances and bring some excitement to the dry world of internet banking. Rather than the lines of numbers, the tablet app has a much stronger focus on visualisations and animations that …

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Yahoo brings real money to its fantasy sports app

The new Fantasy Sports feature lets users play daily games, instead of contests that last an entire sports season. Screenshot by CNET Yahoo hopes to score by expanding its already popular Fantasy Sports app. The Internet giant on Wednesday announced it will host daily and weekly fantasy sports games where users can place real bets. Previously, Yahoo’s service offered only …

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Facebook floating videos follow wherever you scroll

You love watching videos. You love scrolling. Now you can watch videos while you scroll on Facebook. In this CNET Update report, learn about Facebook’s newest video feature and an app that promises to track people that unfriend you. (So you can plot your vengeance for their digital betrayal?) Also in bad-social-media-ideas: Twitter adds birthdays to profiles. But there is …

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Is your shirt smarter than you?

The Hexoskin shirt might not make you run any faster, but it will provide the stats that show whether you’re reaching peak performance or mired in slacker territory. Sarah Tew/CNET The tight black tank top beamed a signal to my smartphone, chronicling every data point about my breathing, heart rate and movement. All while I slept. By the time the …

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