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See the Super Bowl buzz brands are generating on Twitter with this social media tool
Brandwatch, a social media monitoring tool, has just launched an interactive page giving insight into the kind of buzz generated about the 36 brands that also happen to be Super...
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Startup America relocates to s.co URL and offers free .co domains to all members
Startup America, a private sector organization working to help young companies grow in order to create jobs in America, is moving to a new home on the Web today – the super-short...
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Samsung signs joint venture with Corning to create stronger OLED mobile displays
Samsung has signed a new joint venture with Gorilla Glass maker Corning to manufacture a new range of speciality glass substrates for its new organic light emitting diode (OLED) equipped devices....
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US-based social CRM startup Nimble launches a UK hub to cater for big demand in Europe
Nimble, the US-headquartered social customer relationship management (CRM) startup, has announced that it’s expanding into Europe and launching a UK office, in response to growing demand for its service in...
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Viadeo brings its professional social network to BlackBerry smartphones
Viadeo, the social network for professionals, has announced that its mobile app is now available for BlackBerry smartphones. The free app can now be downloaded now from BlackBerry App World....
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11 February will be a day of protest in Europe against the controversial ACTA treaty
With calls to fight the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills in the US — which Google, Wikipedia and other technology giants moved to campaign against – proving a success, similar calls are being...
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UK consumers are getting 22% faster Internet, as subscribers flock to better broadband
Ofcom, the UK regulatory body for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries, has released its latest report outlining the state of play regarding consumers’ broadband speeds. According to the report, consumers...
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Apple grabs another gaming executive with appointment of Xbox Live marketing chief
Apple has named former Microsoft Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as the head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe, becoming the latest games executive to join Apple’s ranks. MCV...
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Sony posts a spectacular $2.1 billion net loss in its third quarter
Japanese electronics giant Sony posted a spectacular $2.1 billion net loss in its third quarter, seeing declining sales in its television business and environmental disasters affecting its operations. Sony noted...
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Amazon moves into India’s e-commerce market with the launch of Junglee
Online retail giant Amazon has taken its first step into India’s e-commerce market with the launch of its Junglee shopping service which went live in the country today. India’s online...
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Facebook’s testing a new photo layout that’s remarkably similar to Google+
As the world digests the 200+ pages from Facebook’s S-1 IPO filing, many users are starting to receive a new update on the social network, adapting the way that it...
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HTC acknowledges some of its Android devices may leak Wi-Fi passwords
HTC has acknowledged a flaw in the way that some of its handsets handle specific Android requests may expose the security credentials on Wi-Fi networks they are connected to. Researchers Chris...
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South Korean man faces jail for retweeting North Korean Twitter messages
A 24 year old man is facing up to seven years in jail in South Korea after he retweeted messages on Twitter that were sent by neighbouring North Korea’s government....
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Disjointed Sony had four different groups developing iPad-killing tablets
It looks like Sony’s change of leadership was very much a necessary step. According to the Wall Street Journal [subscription], workings at the company were so disjointed that no fewer...
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Have you seen this memo on Mark Zuckerberg’s desk during Facebook IPO day?
How would you keep yourself grounded as the project you started at college less than ten years ago prepared to file for a $5 billion IPO? Facebook CEO and founder Mark...
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Facebook IPO: Company unsure on ever striking compromise for “complex” China
In case you have been living under a rock, the year’s most anticipated tech event just happened as Facebook filed for IPO less than 12 hours ago. One of the more...
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Remember that Gawker redesign? A year’s worth of data says it worked
On Feburary 7th, 2011, the entire Gawker Media style changed from a typical one you’d see on a blog to a hipper more programmed feel. The design focused on a...
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Who’s going to win the Super Bowl? Let’s ask the Internet [infographic]
The Super Bowl is this Sunday and everyone’s talking about who’s going to win the game. In a rematch of Super Bowl XLII, the New England Patriots look to exact...
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The Mounty Kickstarter project is a quick, clever handlebar mount for your iPhone
If you’re a cyclist then you know it’s Sophie’s choice when it comes to securing your iPhone. Either its on an armband and the cord is getting caught up in...
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5 more ways to start learning how to code right now for free
Learning to code is one of the most powerful and satisfying things you can ever do. If you’re a designer, learning to code can help you understand what you’re creating for,...
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Evernote for Mac gets a redesigned note interface for a more intuitive experience
Evernote has announced a new update to its Mac desktop app featuring a completely revamped note interface, which is far more in keeping with the sleek look that is to be...
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Zuckerberg’s letter to potential shareholders discusses strengthening the economy
Today, Facebook filed its S-1 paperwork to take the company public, and along with the filing came a letter from its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In the letter, Zuckerberg discusses how...
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Facebook considers its platform a competitor to Android and iOS, and that makes it worry
There are still many interesting facts being unearthed in Facebook’s IPO filing today, many of which we are dissecting for your pleasure. One of the most interesting I found was...
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IPO filing says that Zynga accounted for 12% of Facebook’s revenue in 2011
As expected, Facebook has filed its S-1 paperwork to go public. In the paperwork filed today, Facebook unveiled just how important Zynga’s relationship is to their overall success and profitability....
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Facebook has 845 million monthly users, and other interesting S-1 facts
Facebook’s S1 has dropped, at last. Here are some of the things that caught our eye at first. To begin, the figures on the company’s current userbase: Financial Numbers...
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How Campus Party’s next edition hopes to attracts over 200,000 participants and visitors
Have you ever attended a Campus Party? If not, let’s hope you’ve already signed up for Sao Paulo’s. Although there are six days left before the event, which will take...
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It’s Official: Facebook has filed for a $5 billion IPO
In a move that has been hotly anticipated, Facebook has filed with the SEC to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock in the United States. The...
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Apple releases OS X 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.3, extending languages supported and fixing bugs
Apple has today released OS X 10.7.3, an update to its operating system for Mac computers, reports Macrumors. The update adds support for several new languages and fixes various bugs....
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Internet Explorer snagged market share from both Chrome and Firefox in January
Consider us surprised. The January market share numbers are out for web browsers, and Internet Explorer not only failed to leak new market share, it gained over a point, seemingly...
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Google responds to Microsoft’s criticism of its privacy policy changes
Earlier today, Microsoft took the overblown controversy around Google’s privacy policy changes (which are mostly harmless) as as an opportunity to criticize Google and offer its own products as alternatives,...
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It’s ‘Change Your Password Day’ and Dashlane will manage them all for you [invites]
I think it’s safe to say that a lot of us fall victim to picking really bad passwords. Or if we pick a good one, we tend to use it...
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Play expressive, wonderful sounds and melodies on your iPad with Orphion
The iPad is quickly becoming as important for creation as it is for consumption. It’s being used in countless ways, from planning and productivity to music and writing, which is why TNW’s Matthew Panzarino insists that tablets are PCs. The idea of writing songs and creating music on your iPad sounds magical, but sometimes the promise falls [...]
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It’s high time Microsoft detailed how ARM-based Windows 8 machines will handle apps
For a company that has worked so hard in recent years to curry favor with developers, Microsoft has certainly been annoyingly secretive about its plans for with Windows 8 and ARM. As you well know, that Windows 8 will run on ARM chips has been a central selling and pitching point for the operating system. [...]
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With over 40M views in January, Viddy continues to leverage celebs for success
Mobile video app maker Viddy has not hidden its plans to help them dominate the market of social video, it’s been bringing celebs onto the platform in an interactive way....
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Mobile ads exploded in the last year, with Apple up 981% and Android up 759%
Everyone knows that the future of our computers is mobile, just ask. But sometimes it takes a year’s worth of numbers to demonstrate dramatically just how huge our use of mobile gadgets has become. The numbers in the graphic below show off a year’s worth of growth, from the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, [...]
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The Guardian’s Tokyo City Guide offers immersive video, Vimeo timelapses and Space Invaders
With the launch of one of its latest city guides, the Guardian has gone all out in bringing together an interesting collection of tech tools making it easier than ever to discover a new city. Coinciding with the launch of the its Tokyo city guide, the Guardian has made a few interesting additions to its Beta series, bringing [...]
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Google Docs for Android gets offline support and a tablet refresh
The Google Docs team has announced a few helpful updates for the Android version of its Google Docs app. Most notably, the capability to view documents offline and sync them later has been introduced. Once you grab the new version, you’ll see the option to “Make Offline” appear for most of your documents. According to [...]
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In 2012: Early adopters, startup trends and the importance of design
Technology startups are trendy–for better or worse. Suddenly an entrepreneur holds the same clout that your high school quarterback once did. There will always be knock-offs and over-baked trends that operate in...
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Worried about HTML5/CSS3 being unsupported? This site tells you what’s safe
HTML5 and CSS3 have come a long way, but many important features are still risky to use — that is, they aren’t supported by all browsers. So if you’re eager...
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Japanese social gaming firm DeNA adds support for Baidu Yi devices in China
Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA has announced a strategic alliance with Baidu that will see its Mobage games platform get its own dedicated section on the mobile app store for...
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Twitter starts rolling out brand pages to UK businesses
Twitter has begun rolling out more brand pages for some businesses in the UK, according to the company’s head of UK PR Rachel Bremer. Now if you go to the...
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Tim Cook defends choice of John Browett as Apple retail chief in a personal email
Following the appointment of John Browett as Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail yesterday, an outpouring of criticism due to the choice has made many question the move. Browett, as the CEO of the nearly universally panned UK electronics chain Dixon’s, was seen as an uninspired choice for the head of retail for a progressive firm like [...]
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TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
Facebook files the S-1 for its $5 billion IPO. Twitter rolls out brand pages in the UK. A South Korean man faces jail time for retweeting North Korea. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Make sure to hit the subscription button of your choice below [...]
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iMessage bug shares iPhone messages with strangers if you’ve swapped SIMs
We’ve been hearing rumors of an ongoing iMessage but for a while now, but a new report by Gizmodo breaks the thing wide open with a repeatable and obvious example...
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Let your mood do all of the work for discovering music with this iOS app
There are quite a few ways to find new music that could jump right into your daily listening playlist, but most of the services either require your friends to participate...
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Social ranking platform PeerIndex rolls out ‘topical influence’ with its new API
Algorithmic social ranking service PeerIndex has announced that its API (application programming interface) is to be boosted to incorporate ‘topical PeerIndex’ (TPI) scores and category-filtering for developers in vertical markets,...
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Foodspotting relaunches as a discovery app for finding places to eat, rivaling Yelp
Foodspotting, an awesome community for rating and sharing dishes, is relaunching today as a discovery app for deciding where to eat. This new move places the startup in an interesting position, since it is retaining its initial purpose, while inching towards Yelp’s territory. We previously covered Foodspotting’s 1 million downloads milestone back in August, and it has [...]
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iPod Nano prototype shots surface with a hole for a tiny camera
A camera on the teeny tiny iPod Nano? Maybe, if these spy shots posted by Japanese blog Apple.pro are any indication. The shots show a casing that is very similar...
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Chicago debuts five fresh companies and a hot coworking space
Last night at Technori’s Pitch event, which we wrote about here, Chicago showed off just how mature a market it has become for technology companies of any size. Yet again, the 520 seat Chase Auditorium sold out, as the brightest lights from the local tech scene gathered to catch pitches from more than just startups. We’ll get into what [...]
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Google receives a €500,000 fine over Google Maps’ “unfair competition” in France
Google and its French subsidiary have been sentenced and fined for abuse of a dominant position by the Commercial Court of Paris, the AFP reports. It is not the first time...
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Leaked screenshots of iPad 3 development tool show LTE, quad-core processor
Some screenshots have been sent to BGR by a source that claims to be in possession of an iPad 3 production prototype. The shots appear to indicate that the iPad...
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Create a gorgeous photoblog of your Instagram photos in minutes using Jux
If you’ve been looking for an easy and stylish way to share your Instagram photos with your non-iPhone owning friends, Jux may have the perfect solution for you. We’ve already taken a close look at what Jux has to offer, and the simple blogging platform has continued to grow since its launch, adding HMTL5 and iPhone [...]
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Crackle launches on the Xbox 360, brings hundreds of Sony’s films with it
Sony’s Crackle video network launched on Xbox LIVE today, bringing with it more than 200 films, and some 1,500 television episodes. Sony competes directly with the Xbox brand with its Playstation line of consoles, but this move is simply an action by the content side of the company to ensure that its products have the widest possible distribution. [...]
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The Pirate Bay switches to a Swedish domain to prevent seizure from US authorities
The Pirate Bay‘s founders may be facing jail after being refused a Supreme Court appeal, but the people behind the site are clearly determined to keep the site active and...
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Apple seeking ‘higher level customer service and satisfaction’ with Browett hire
Just a day after Apple announced that it had named Dixons CEO John Browett as its new senior vice president of Retail, Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the appointment...
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Coldplay buckles and finally launches Mylo Xyloto on Spotify
Back in October, we pondered whether Coldplay’s decision to say no to streaming was a good or bad thing for the UK band. Whatever the right answer may be, the...
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Summit Series Basecamp: Embracing entrepreneurship at 6,000 ft
650 people have just returned home from Summit Basecamp, a 3 day event in the snowy mountains of Lake Tahoe. Each person carries home a unique experience, soaked in new inspiration, and...
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5 tips to increase engagement on your Facebook Page
Advising brands to get active on social media is, in the words of Black Eyed Peas, “so 2000 and late.” Every brand smaller or bigger has at least a Facebook...
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Gov.uk launches in beta, bringing all the UK government’s services under one roof
Last May, we reported on the UK government’s AlphaGov website, which was its attempt to centralise all its online information within a single domain. The Alphagov.co.uk website launched on May 11th, with its introductory gambit saying: “Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a single UK Government website. It aims to be as simple as possible, [...]
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HootSuite releases its Engagement API and adds Digg, Trendspottr, and InboxQ apps
Social media management dashboard HootSuite is continuing its push out into the social sphere, announcing the release of its Engagement API (application programming interface), which will be accompanied by a...
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11 innovative music apps and services from Midem Hack Day
If the Midemlab startup competition is the roaring fire of tech innovation at Midem, the Hack Day is its coalface. Organised by the same team behind the regular Music Hack...
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Artist uses 1,000 self-taken photos by Apple Store shoppers for art exhibition
Every day, hundreds of people enter their local Apple Store, try out some of the products on offer and for some unknown reason, decide to snap a photo of them...
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Singapore-based Fitness Buffet puts the fun and value back into exercise
The idea for Fitness Buffet came to Callum Laing while he was on the treadmill “sweating off the excesses of Christmas”. The then Bangkok-based entrepreneur wondered why exercising had to...
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Microsoft launches a newspaper ad campaign slamming Google’s new privacy policy
Last week, Google trimmed down its privacy policies into a single document to cover all its products, and followed this up with a letter to Congress explaining the reasons behind...
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Flipboard launches new Content Guides in the UK & Ireland, Australia and Canada
Digital content delivery app Flipboard has launched new Content Guides specifically for readers in Australia, Canada, and the UK & Ireland, delivering more relevant recommendations to Flipboard users in those countries....
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The Pirate Bay’s founders face jail after they’re denied a Supreme Court appeal
The founders of controversial BitTorrent search site The Pirate Bay have been denied a Supreme Court appeal in Sweden, meaning that the prison sentences and fines they were handed in...
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Samsung Galaxy S III to launch in “first half of the year” at dedicated event
Samsung has confirmed that it will not launch the successor to its popular Galaxy S II Android smartphone at Mobile World Congress, confirming earlier reports and tips from our sources...
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DeNA countersues GREE as the Japanese gaming firms’ feud escalates
Japan’s two largest mobile gaming social networks have taken their rivalry to the courtroon, for the second time in less than three months. The Mainichi Daily News has details of...
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Sony outs Howard Stringer as president and CEO, names Kazuo Hirai as his replacement
As the company faces its fourth straight year of losses, Japanese electronics giant Sony has announced that it has named former president of its Consumer Products & Services Group Kazuo Hirai...
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Google in talks with Chinese authorities to keep Google Maps operational there
Google is in discussions with the Chinese government as it seeks the granting of license required to continue to operate its Google Maps service in the country. This morning, Chinese...
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Donald Trump: It would be “a great thing” to see Apple build devices in the US
Donald Trump has never been a shrinking violet and now, the man who questioned the US President on the details of his birth and acceptance to college, has challenged Apple...
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This browser extension lets you block and delete Google+ spam comments in one swift ‘nuke’
If you’re an avid user of Google+, you know that one of the things that makes your experience crappy is the spam you get. You know what I’m talking about....
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The ultimate test of your logo’s effectiveness? A 5-year-old kid
Companies pay designers astronomical amounts to create a brand that can be easily recognized world wide. They have representative logos designed and refined and spend millions making sure that they weave their...
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HTML5 is sexy, but Flash still rules when it comes to games [infographic]
Most gamers aren’t thinking about the technology behind the games that they’re playing online, all they care about is whether it works or not. Thanks to HTML5 bundled with either...
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New Leaked image of the BlackBerry 10 ‘London’ Superphone reportedly surfaces
An image has surfaced that seems to be a new design of the rumored BlackBerry London prototype. Crackberry is reporting that the image is of a new class of device,...
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Fantastical adds slick zero-effort localization and tweaks to recurring events
Once of my favorite productivity apps, Fantastical, just got a sweet update that ads hands-off localization, improvements to recurring events and more clarity on event timetables. It doesn’t seem like a huge update up front, but basically required re-writing the app to include 5 different languages in one package. I’m a huge fan of the [...]
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10 Beautiful examples of responsive Web design
These days, everyone is consuming content differently. My mom has a netbook, I have a laptop, my friend has a 27″ iMac, my girlfriend and I have smartphones and her mom has an iPad. Since your content is now being viewed on more devices and browsers than ever before, you have to design it with [...]
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Leebre: a Jamendo-inspired platform for free ebooks
Commercial ebook publishing and distribution is a crowded space: Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes and Noble and others each have stores and devices for digital books, which have been seeing consistent...
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Google Finance adds real-time stock quotes for the UK, Germany, and Italy
Google Finance is already a premier destination for getting real-time stock quotes and information for the United States, China, and India. Today, the Google Finance team announced that it would...
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Facebook reportedly to opt for a $5B IPO tomorrow rather than expected $10B
According to a report by Reuters, Facebook will file initial paperwork for its public offering tomorrow, seeking to raise $5B in its IPO bid. While its no surprise that Facebook...
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Typing too easy for you? Try posting to Twitter via morse code
You can post to Twitter from your phone, computer, tablet and just about any other device, but what about with century old telegraph technology? The Tworse telegraph key is a hacked...
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PulsoStartup10: and the winners are…
The startup competition PulsoStartup10 has just announced the winners its jury picked among the 20 Latin American semi-finalists it unveiled a couple weeks ago. As you may remember, PS10 is organized by the Latin America-focused tech news website Pulso Social. During two weeks, its readers had the opportunity to support their favorite participant, and the startups which received the [...]
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Amazon revenue fails to meet Q4 estimates; $17.43B vs $18.25B
Amazon has released its Q4 financials, and they’re not looking so hot. According to MarketWatch, Q4 revenue was $17.43B vs $18.25B estimate. Earnings per share were up sharply, however, at $0.38...
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Ever wondered if there’s a site to find the s%#t _____ say? Here you go
Unless you haven’t used in the Internet in the past two months, you’re most certainly aware of the mega-meme “Shit that _____ says”. For me it’s sitting somewhere between “make...
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This site mocks 37 Signals after it attacked a YC startup for stealing code
Over the weekend, Y-Combinator graduate Curebit was caught stealing code and designs from the very well-known 37 Signals. Essentially, code was directly lifted and Curebit was called out on it rather aggressively via...
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Look, tablets are PCs, get over it.
Yesterday, some new numbers were released by analytics firm Canalys which placed Apple in the top position of all PC manufacturers worldwide. This move in position was largely due to...
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The EFF sets up a site to help Megaupload users get their files back
It’s been two weeks since the Department of Justice arrested seven employees of Megaupload and shut it down. After all of the back and forth discussion about how this landmark...
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Buddy Media’s CEO says 2012 is the year of Tumblr
At LeWeb we had the pleasure to meet Michael Lazerow, CEO and founder of Buddy Media, a social enterprise software company with an impressive list of clients, featuring some of...
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Apple rejects Steve Jobs tribute calendar app, developers turn to Cydia
A calendar app might not be the most news-worthy app when you think about all of the cool things, but when it’s one that was built as a tribute to...
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Privacy isn’t an issue with Burn Note because all messages will self-destruct
If you’ve ever worried about someone holding on to a private email or text you’ve sent them, then you aren’t alone. A developer named Jacob Robbins decided to build a...
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SocialFolders adds Evernote support, making it easy to share files across cloud-based services
We told you about SocialFolders back when it had just launched its private beta, the site which makes it easy to back up content from various online accounts to your...
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Firefox adds new developer tools that rival Chrome’s offerings
Firefox has just added built-in developer tools that rival Chrome’s own offerings. The new tools provide a clean and easy way to inspect elements in a single window. More specifically, it’s...
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BBC Sport online to relaunch with a new design, focusing on live sports coverage
The BBC is to launch a new redesigned BBC Sport website which will focus on live coverage, as the UK gears up for what is likely to be an unforgettable...
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YouTube cleans out zombie accounts, expect your subscriber counts to dip slightly
YouTube is sweeping out the cobwebs, removing older inactive accounts and channels. This could result in a dip in subscriber counts, especially if you have an older channel, reports Digital...
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Social media matters more than ever in this US presidential election
The rise of social media during the 2008 US presidential election created an entirely new type of campaign, where both candidates reached the masses through never-before-seen tactics that utilized an unprecedented level...
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President Obama sends his Startup America Legislative agenda to Congress
President Barack Obama, one day after holding a very personal interview on Google+ Hangouts, has stayed true to his word and sent an official Startup America Legislative agenda to Congress...
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5 ways to maximize your QR codes
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, QR codes are here to stay and seem to be popping up just about everywhere you look. According to ComScore, 20 million Americans scanned a...
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Community-powered satnav app Waze hits 12m users and launches Android app v3.0
Waze, the GPS navigation service that allows drivers to share traffic conditions automatically in real-time, has announced that it has hit the 12m user milestone, on the same day as...
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Study shows that only 27% of Twitter users tweeted during a 3 month period
A recent study by Semiocast has revealed that while the US leads with the most number of Twitter accounts, currently standing at 107.7 million, the Netherlands has the most active users....
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EU lawmakers are proposing 20 cents per MB data roaming, 15 cents for a 1-minute call
If you haven’t yet felt the pain of traveling across the European Union and then getting your mobile phone bill, there’s a good chance that you might be spared from...
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