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Weekend podcasts- Facebook, Tinder, Instagram


MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. Have you noticed a lot more videos in your Facebook news feeds lately?

That's because Facebook has been pushing hard on getting more video plays there, encouraging publishers to share moving images with their followers, in a bid to dramatically take on industry leader YouTube.

This week's Paste BN podcast collection starts with Facebook's announcement of 8 billion video views daily--and goes from there. What's next? Will we see complete movies and TV shows in our news feeds soon too?

Another  big battle--Microsoft vs. Apple. Remember when Apple used to be an after thought in computers, an industry so thoroughly dominated by Microsoft's Windows? Well, now Apple is considered to make the best, and most expensive laptops, and has a huge fan base for its wares. Microsoft wants to cut in on that, with a line of Microsoft produced laptops for the first time, that's taking direct aim at the MacBook Pro. Microsoft's Dan Laycock explains.

Our Kim Hjelmgaard attended the Web Summit, a huge tech conference in Dublin, and sat down with Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger to talk about the dynamic growth of the hugely popular photo sharing app. His report:

He also chatted with Sean Rad, the co-founder of red-hot dating app Tinder, who sneak peeked some big news the company will announce on Tuesday. 

Finally, for some fun, listen to our look ahead to a futuristic new camera that will be out next year--one with a whopping 16 image sensors. (Your iPhone only has one.) Dave Grannan, the co-founder of Light, explains how he tried to get DSLR quality into a camera the size of a smart phone.