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Snapchat Adds Slow-Motion Video: What Now, Facebook?

Messaging app Snapchat today added a feature allowing users to add slow-motion, fast-forward and rewind to their “now you see it, now you don’t” videos, the latest offering ratcheting up the pressure on Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB)and others providing ultra-short video. Tech news site TechCrunch reported on Snapchat’s new feature Wednesday. The new “Speed Modifiers,” or filters, work with videos shot on devices powered by the Apple (AAPL) iOS or

Apple Burns Akamai Stock On Internal CDN Shift

Akamai Technologies stock plunged Wednesday on views that Apple (AAPL), its biggest customer, is shifting more of its own traffic to an internal content-delivery network (CDN) and that two other media customers are doing the same. A delay in Apple’s Web-TV service launch continues to be a dark cloud over Akamai (AKAM) stock as well, amid Akamai’s higher network investments to support so-called OTT, or “over-the-top” online video services.

Apple Stock Rises On Q4 Sales, Earnings Beat

Apple (AAPL) stock rose in late trading Tuesday after the iPhone maker beat Wall Street’s targets for September-quarter sales and earnings. Apple’s usually conservative guidance forecast sales that were slightly below what analysts have expected. For the quarter ended Sept. 26, Apple earned $1.96 a share on sales of $51.5 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected Apple to earn $1.88 a share on sales of $51.11 billion.