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Google's search results for apps get a facelift
Google has reportedly modified its search results page for queries related to mobile applications in Android devices. Instead of a one-by-one lit with a short description of each app, the new interface displays them in colourful grids. With a look-and-feel of an app store itself, the grid displays the title, user rating, and the price of an app.
YouTube set to launch two subscription services
YouTube will reportedly launch two subscription services before the end of this year. While music key, its ad-free, paid subscription service, has been in beta since November 2014, the website's other unnamed, pay wall service is set to target premium content creators and consumers. However, a few music labels are seeing this as a appeasement strategy before refreshing contracts in 2016.
Google enters home services market
Google launched a service on Friday in San Francisco wherein it connect users with professional home service providers directly through its search result page. Google will lt users contact pre-screened professionals (plumber, handymen, locksmiths), who in turn would pay to be featured in top results. With this, Google escalates competitiion with the likes of Amazon, Yelp and TaskRabbit.
Twitter to increase diversity in workforce
Twitter made its list of diversity goals public through its official blog on Friday. The website aims to have given employment to overall 35% women and 11% under-represented minorities by 2016. Interestingly Twitter already has 34% woman staff and would reportedly require to recruit at least 41 female employees worldwide to meet its gender goal.