From Roses To Riches: Reality Stars Are Making Bank On Instagram
Every year, Sarah Boyd hosts a series of influencer marketing conferences for aspiring Instagram stars and digital marketers. In her seven years of hosting the event, Boyd, the founder of Simply, a...
View ArticleVine Is Dead, But The Internet Is Determined To Keep It Alive
“Why you always lyin’?”“Put ‘em in the coffin.”“Back at it again at Krispy Kreme."These are the hilariously bizarre phrases that continue to fill the texts of teens and twenty-somethings today.Such is...
View ArticleAMC's New Ticket Subscription Plan Might Convince You To Abandon MoviePass
AMC is coming for MoviePass with a brand new ticket subscription service that sidesteps many of the pitfalls of its competitor.On Tuesday, June 26, AMC will roll out AMC Stubs A-List. The service will...
View ArticleSnap's Spectacles Just Got An Important Upgrade
Update: June 22, 2018: Snap's Spectacles are getting snappier. Users will finally be able to export photos and videos taken with the shades in square and widescreen formats. Before today, you were...
View ArticleIntel's CEO Resigned Due To A Relationship — Is That Really A Bad Thing?
Last fall, at the height of #MeToo, questions inevitably swirled around whether the movement would impact office relationships. Some worried this would mark the end of men and women meeting cute at...
View ArticleWelcome to IGTV: An Interview With Instagram's Co-Founder
A seven-minute house tour from Chiara Ferragni, Tamera Mowry talking about her struggles with gray hairs, and a tongue-lolling adventure on the high seas with pro dog influencer Doug the Pug: These are...
View ArticleUpdate Instagram, Stat: You Can Video Chat With Friends Now
Turns out, you won't have to wait until Apple rolls out group FaceTime in iOS 12 to have video chats with multiple friends: Today, Instagram is rolling out video chatting within Direct, which will...
View ArticleA New Facebook Control Helps You Avoid Spoiler Alerts
Westworld spoilers, wedding season drama, and complaints involving “first world problems” all fall into the same category of posts we'd rather avoid on Facebook. They’re obnoxious, full of unnecessary...
View ArticleSummer's Unofficial Holiday, Amazon Prime Day, Is Almost Here
November has Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and May has Memorial Day weekend. When it comes to important dates for sales, July features an increasingly important calendar event: Amazon Prime...
View Article7 Easy Tricks To Make Sure Your Email Gets Read
We've all received bad emails: typos in the subject line, wordy text in the body that doesn't get to the point, stale sign-offs like "yours truly," and the recipient's name misspelled (sometimes in a...
View ArticleAt Last, An Easy Way To Put An Out Of Office Entry On Your Google Calendar
Maybe you need to leave the office at 5 p.m. on the dot every Thursday to pick up your daughter from daycare. Or, perhaps you're a night owl who struggles with early Monday morning meetings. Whatever...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About Unsending Messages On Instagram & Snapchat
You know that unbearable feeling of panic and regret when you realize you spelled a prospective boss's name wrong in an email you just sent? The same feeling usually hits after you send an Instagram DM...
View ArticleSoundtrack Your Story: Instagram Is Adding Music Options
Instagram has always been a platform for discovery, from launching new food trends to fashion brands, but music has been a more difficult area for the app from a discovery standpoint. Before the launch...
View ArticleThese Apps May Be The Secret To More Likes On Your Photos
Most of us can admit to having spent a considerable chunk of time scrolling through Instagram wondering what life is actually like for influencers: Would the endless notifications get annoying? What...
View ArticleThe Pipeline: The Sephora Innovation Manager Pushing The Beauty Giant's Tech...
Refinery29 is proud to present The Pipeline , our monthly commitment to highlighting young women who aren’t just making it in Silicon Valley — they’re thriving. This is your chance to hear the stories...
View ArticleA Subtle Change To Your Instagram Feed Makes It More Timely
In March, Instagram made a promise to users: After almost two years of seemingly endless complaints about the loss of the chronological feed, the app said it would introduce changes to ensure “the...
View ArticleRing In The Fourth Of July With These Incredible Tech Sales
Ready your BBQs, break out your star spangled flip flops, and dust off your boogie boards, folks. The Fourth of July is almost here.Although the midweek holiday is less than ideal for those of us who...
View ArticleAll The Amazon Prime Day Deals Starting Now
It's official: Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2018 will take place over the course of 36 hours, beginning at 3 p.m. on July 16 and ending at 3 a.m. on July 18. As, Amazon cheekily calls out in its...
View ArticleHow To Know Which Amazon Alexa-Enabled Device Is Right For You
Siri might have come first, but since Amazon introduced Alexa on the first Echo device in November 2014, the virtual assistant has taken over. Even after a strange laughing incident and privacy...
View ArticleMeet The 15-Year-Old Who Will Beat You To Space
15-year-old Alyssa Carson is on a quest to become one of the first humans to go to Mars — even if it means leaving Earth forever. Watch above to see her incredible journey, and how she and her father...
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