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Social video chat app Rounds has reason to be proud: the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding and now has more than six million users across the breadth of its platform, which includes Facebook, Chrome, and desktop. Today, however, the company is launching a brand new mobile app for the first time called Rounds Video Chat Hangout.

Along with facilitating a standard video chat, the Hangout app lets users who are already spending time together (in the real world) continue to interact on their phone.

In Rounds Video Chat Hangout, users can watch YouTube videos together, upload photos for shared viewing, and add video effects to the media they send to one another. Users can even draw or scribble over their friends’ video messages. And to get even more creative, the Rounds Hangout app lets the

Video-sharing site Vimeo has updated its iPhone app, working to improve its upload process and simplify navigation for watching other people’s videos. A lot of the big changes in the iPhone app revolve around things that Vimeo has taken out, rather than what it’s put in. For instance, the app has streamlined the process of getting their videos onto Vimeo, first by removing the editor — which not a lot of people used anyway — and by making uploads a lot faster.

Netflix just refreshed the front end of its Android app a few weeks ago, and is now tweaking the look and functions of the player itself again after previously making changes back in April. As seen above, version 2.1 brings a look that's closer to the one we've seen on iOS since the spring, with large red buttons, a bigger volume slider, 10 second skip back and stills that change in the background as the user moves the scrub bar. The changelog also notes added support for Android 4.2 plus other unspecified playback and stability bug fixes, grab the newest edition at the source link to try it out for yourself.

Outlook.com broke the 10 million user mark in August, and managed to break past 1 million in its first day live as a service. Today Microsoft has announced that its new email service has more than 25 million active users.

Microsoft, a company whose email product, Hotmail, had become a punch line, has managed to build a product that appears to resonate well with consumers.

For fun, here’s a chart of Outlook.com’s user growth:

0If you're an iOS user, there are a wide variety of choices for reading ebooks — there's the first-party iBooks solution, as well as strong options from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google. If, for some reason, those apps don't meet your needs, Sony has just announced the availability of its Reader iOS app. Much like the aforementioned apps, Sony Reader lets you log in with your Sony credentials and download all of your purchased books to your iOS device.