Will the BBC Challenge Netflix With ‘Britflix’? — Tech Roundup

So far Netflix (NFLX) - Get Report has been the dominant leader in the streaming revolution, with others, like Amazon Prime (AMZN) - Get Report and Hulu, not all that far behind. The streaming media platform has attracted plenty of competitors, both small and large, and the BBC appears to be the latest.

The BBC project, named Britflix, is being worked on by the media company, which could team up with a several different production companies.

Apparently, the service would have some of BBC's older content, as well as feature some new original content, which companies like Netflix and Amazon have been doing much more of lately. Especially Netflix, with the success of its House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black.

The BBC, which is Britain's oldest and largest broadcaster, would certainly have enough of its own content to begin with. It's the future content and features that it would need to bring in mass subscribers. In any regard, it's good to see an old dog learn some new tricks.

Of course, consumers shouldn't expect the BBC's new project to debut anytime soon, as the company isn't close to a launch. 

Shares of Netflix closed at $89.12 Monday, up 1.4%.

There's been much made about the character limit on Twitter (TWTR) - Get Report . In March, the microblogging site stuck to its guns and confirmed that it will maintain its 140-character limit in its tweets, rebuffing reports that the company may increase the limit to as much as 10,000 characters.

However, when users tweet links or photos, they probably notice that their character count is cut down. This made it difficult to either add commentary or a description around these types of tweets, particularly around links. Links eat up a fair amount of characters; 23 to be exact, even when shortened.

However, in as early as the next few weeks, users could see the character count be unaffected by links or photos. Although a small change, it should help improve the user experience.

It should be said again that although shares of Twitter are down more than 60% over the past year, the company continues to make incremental changes and ink deals that will hopefully make for a better overall user experience over time.

There's likely nothing that CEO Jack Dorsey can implement that will make the company's fortunes turn around overnight. But over time, investors are hoping he can make enough small changes to have a big outcome.

Shares of Twitter closed at $14.29 Monday, up 1.3%

Alphabet's (GOOGL) - Get Report Google doesn't plan on keeping Adobe's (ADBE) - Get Report Flash software up and running in its Chrome browser. At least by default, and at least for most sites -- just not the most popular ones.

Google plans to phase out support for the software but the end of this year, but will keep it live on several sites, including YouTube and Facebook (FB) - Get Report , two of the most popular websites in the world. Others include Amazon and Twitch, (which is owned by Amazon).

Of course, these websites will be supported by default. However, that doesn't mean that users can't access Flash when using Chrome. They'll simply have to activate it on their own. Luckily for users, once they enable certain sites to use Flash, Chrome will save those settings, so they don't have to constantly make the change.

Many big tech companies have been looking to separate themselves from Flash, partly because of security flaws, but it's been difficult because so many sites use the software already.

Shares of Alphabet closed at $730.30 Monday, up 0.75%.

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