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Angry Birds are flocking to Facebook as Valentine’s Day launch is revealed
The Angry Birds series is finally set to arrive on Facebook, with Rovio planning to introduce the games to the world’s most popular social network on Valentine’s Day, February 14....
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Forget Hulu and Amazon: What Netflix is worried about is TV Everywhere
Do you think Netflix is worried about the fact that Hulu Plus now has over 1.5 million subscribers? Well, think again. According to the letter its managers wrote to its...
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Yahoo is in talks to withdraw from its joint venture in Japan
Yahoo Japan has confirmed that it is in discussions with Yahoo Inc over the withdrawal of the parent company’s stake in the joint operations in the country, which are run...
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Yes, Apple’s iMessage is killing the text message, and I love it
When Apple announced that iOS 5 would launch with support for its own communication service iMessage, it seemed to be a clear cut stab at the heart of one of...
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Volpen lets you collaborate on your next book and share the royalties
Volpen is a new service that allows you to write full books with others by collaborating chapter by chapter. It’s an interesting idea that’s at least worth the experiment, as it...
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Social commerce site sneakpeeq spells out its success in this handy infographic
One of the companies that I’ve paid close attention to lately has been sneakpeeq. The social shopping site has layered in a new action to shopping that it calls “peeqing”,...
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Vice President Joe Biden set to do his first ever Twitter interview tomorrow
The White House has cranked up its social media activity since Obama was elected president (following his campaign that used it extensively), with yesterday’s State of the Union address being...
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iOS lost half its mobile video market share in 2011, but Android isn’t to blame
It’s well known that Android is catching up to iOS in market share, even if Apple is now the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer. But what’s interesting are the results that...
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E-commerce website loading speeds have actually slowed down since 2010
According to a study by Strangeloop, the creators of a site optimization tool, E-commerce websites keep getting heavier and heavier, with 8% more resource requests in 2011 than 2010. The...
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Facebook engagement by members of Congress for the State of the Union address [Infographic]
President Barack Obama gave the annual State of the Union address last night, and as Drew Olanoff pointed out, it was the most interactive speech ever made by a United...
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Location-aware apps aren’t just a battery-suck, they just suck period
If you live in San Francisco, then you can be a part of the crowd who is beta testing the new iOS app called “Highlight“. The app is location-aware, meaning...
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Apple retail mastermind Ron Johnson announces his plan for JC Penney
Ron Johnson, the former senior vice president of retail at Apple, announced his impending departure from Apple in June of last year. He has now officially vacated that spot to take on the...
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Use this super slick tool to compare the real-life sizes of smartphones
There is a huge difference in physical size between a phone like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which has a 4.65″ screen and the iPhone 4S, whose screen clocks in at...
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How one man got lost in a computer, and other tales from the forgotten days of tech
Some time ago, the editors here at TNW put out a post that was a collation of our first computing experiences. Given the age range of our staff, it was quite the list. However, once the post was out, a piece of email landed in my inbox that contained stories that not only dealt with [...]
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Netflix is back on track in 2011′s last quarter, but the transition from DVD continues
Netflix found its way back to customer acquisition for its streaming offer during 2011′s last quarter, the film & TV streaming and DVD rental service announced. Not only did it acquire 220,000 domestic streaming subscribers, but it also attracted 380,000 international streaming subscribers following its recent launch in Latin America, the UK and Ireland. As for [...]
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Google’s new privacy policy a potential issue for government customers
Google’s announcement of new privacy policies yesterday made headlines, with the company introducing a new simplified policy covering the majority of its services. The new policy means users’ privacy will...
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Microsoft, not Apple, holds the key to Smart TV success
For Christmas this year, I was finally able to shed the cash to pick up an Xbox 360 along with a Kinect. While I do enjoy playing the games, what...
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Get immersed in an animated game just by drawing a stickman
Even if you’re not an artist, you can draw a stickman, right? Everyone can! One site wants to take your poorly wonderfully drawn stickman and turn it into an interactive...
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Inspired by a photo & reproduced your own? A UK judge thinks that could be copyright infringement
They might say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but that isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to photographers in the UK. A recent and surprising ruling...
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The HTC Titan II is dead on arrival
According to BGR, the HTC Titan II, a LTE Windows Phone handset, is set to launch on the AT&T network on March 18th, along with Nokia’s Lumia 900. We feel...
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Teens in Tech Incubator opens up applications for next round of companies
Last year, Daniel Brusilovsky announced the full vision for his “Teens in Tech” property, which provides guidance to teens interested in building things on the web. I’ll save you the...
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Motorola Mobility sues Apple in the US over six products including the iPhone 4S
Motorola Mobility has sued Apple over various wireless patent violations by six of its products including the iPhone 4S, reports Retuers. The suit was filed in a Florida court and...
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If Nokia sells the Lumia 900 for under $100, Windows Phone is about to smack Android
If you had asked me what price point the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone handset would retail for (on contract) here in the United States, I would have said $199.99...
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YetYet turns your iPad into a Furby-like creature for kids
The verdict is in: kids love tablets. There’s something ultra-natural about the tactile nature of a touch screen that drives kids wild, even though these devices weren’t really made for them. iPads are great for kids and toddlers, but they simply aren’t “kid proof.” This is where the emergence of special, soft and friendly cases come to play. Those [...]
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As Netflix preps its latest figures, is Amazon planning its next movie-streaming move?
If Amazon founder Jeff Bezos knows one thing, it’s how to turn a digital vision into one of the Internet’s flagship companies. Bezos, who’s also the President, CEO and Chairman...
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Browsers aren’t just ‘big dumb windows’ anymore and RockMelt is ready to pounce
RockMelt started developing its social browser in 2009, and went into private beta in November 2010. At the time, the word of mouth buzz made it something worth checking out,...
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The Daily Mail is now the most popular newspaper website in the world
The Daily Mail’s website MailOnline is now the most popular newspaper website in the world, Buzzfeed reports. Referring to data from comScore, Buzzfeed Politics notes that the UK tabloid’s website...
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Keep it fresh for success: Why updating your website is crucial
As January 2012 draws to a close, I recently concluded a highly non-scientific study of various product websites and a random sampling of “business” sites via StumbleUpon. My mission? To...
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Does Google think you’re a 23 year old woman? Find out here
With yesterday’s news that Google was updating and condensing its privacy policies, the Internet has been in a bit of an uproar. While I still hold to my belief that...
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Texas tech firms are heading to East London for 2 days of networking…just before SXSW
What does the city of Austin in Texas, have in common with East London? Give up? So do I, but read on. The UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the Tech...
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Wikia is now the number two gaming network on the web, nabs editors from number one
Wikia is a popular content sharing site that lets its community create Wiki’s on any topic for free. What you might not know about Wikia is that it has quickly...
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Facebook is killing local social networks around the world
Vincenzo Cosenza, an Italian digital strategist, who has shared his social media research with us in the past has just published a new edition of his World Map of Social Networks....
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Did you know that you can send a tweet to get the lowest KLM airfares?
There’s a general idea that you shouldn’t automate the content that you push out on social media platforms. But like every good rule, there are exceptions. KLM airlines has a unique method use for Twitter and it could save you a few bucks, too. Just tweet your flight request to @KLMfares and you’ll get a [...]
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TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
Apple has a blockbuster quarter, UK mobile operator O2 leaks customers’ phone numbers to websites they access, and Obama’s State of the Union address is a Twitter hit. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Make sure to hit the [...]
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Watch this 10-part interview with Thrillist Co-Founder and CEO Ben Lerer
Grovo, an Internet education and training platform, has just released a 10-part interview with Thrillist Co-Founder and CEO, Ben Lerer. In case you haven’t heard, Thrillist is a men’s lifestyle brand based in New York with over 3 million subscribers. The interview is the second part of Grovo’s Expert Series, a recurring web series of interviews with leading entrepreneurs and Internet professionals. Last [...]
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Announcing: TNW Startup Rally 2012 at The Next Web Conference
Preparations for The Next Web Conference 2012 are well under way and we are eager to share with you our new plans for the TNW Startup Rally. For the past...
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How I spent last night playing with my Boxee Live TV
In May 2011, I told you all about how I spent the weekend playing with my Boxee, the sleek black box that turns your television set into an Internet TV. Since then,...
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Will the Xbox 720 be massively subsidized by Microsoft?
News came out today that essentially confirmed what we all knew to be true already: the next Xbox — the Xbox 720 — is coming this year, and it will...
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O2 fixes number sending issue, blames it on ‘technical changes” during routine maintenance
UK mobile operator O2 has responded to reports this morning that it was delivering customer phone numbers to third-party websites, noting that it has fixed the issue, adding that it...
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Telefonica’s startup accelerator Wayra and MIT sign a partnership in Latin America
Telefonica‘s startup accelerator Wayra and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a global partnership, the two entities announced. The agreement was signed during the launch of Mexico’s Wayra Academy. As we reported, Wayra is an initiative promoted by Telefonica Digital to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the ICT sector. Wayra works as a startup accelerator, [...]
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The Next Web is hiring two Gadgets Editors
Here at The Next Web, we’re expanding our gadgets coverage and we’re looking for two top-notch Gadgets Editors to join us. If you’re passionate about mobile phones, smart TVs, laptops, tablets – pretty much anything with an Internet connection – we want to hear from you. You’ll need to have a great eye for news, [...]
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Twitter to roll out support for right-to-left languages this spring
Twitter today announced that it has opened up its Translation Center to crowd-source translations of right-to-left languages, allowing users to read tweets in a specialised interface and use hashtags in...
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Google launches Public Alerts, providing users with emergency and public safety messages
Today Google announced a new service, Google Public Alerts, which has been integrated into the existing Google Maps. The new platform will provide users with up-to-date information on emergency messages, such as hurricane and storm warnings. Google will be providing weather, public safety and earthquake alerts, throughout the United States, using information provided by the US National [...]
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Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce
Fifty percent of world population is under 30 years old. Generation Y is the first generation to grow up with technology; they experience technology even before romance enters their lives. They are digital natives – their whole social lives are on social networks. And that impacts their behaviors, attitudes and expectations… especially their expectations toward [...]
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“I’m a Geek and it’s not my choice”: 10 defining idiosyncrasies
Before being a geek was the ‘it’ thing, we had to conceal our true identities in fear of being made fun of, outcast and pointed at. Things have now changed and we are able to proudly shout that we are geeks. People have gone to great lengths to prove how great we are and have [...]
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Rural Britain gets a boost, as the 4G LTE broadband trial is extended until June 2012
Last May we reported on the UK’s first multi-operator ‘superfast 4G mobile broadband’ customer trials, which eventually kicked-off in October. Cornwall was the chosen location for the pilot project, and...
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Apple begins recruiting for new research center in Israel, may open in February
Following the acquisition of Israeli memory technology firm Anobit for around $390 million in December, Apple is reportedly looking to move ahead with plans to open a new research center...
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How to be a great mentor (and a mentee)
Do you have a mentor? Ask any successful person this question, and they will surely tell you stories about how their deep, long-standing relationships with their mentors helped inspire, guide,...
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Hackers launch a DDOS attack on the website of one of Israel’s oldest hospitals
According to Monsters and Critics, despite pro-Israeli hacker Hannibal’s call for a ceasefire of sorts on January 21, yet another cyberattack has been launched on an Israeli website. This time, hackers took down the website of Israel’s largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center, but it’s unclear which group is responsible for the attack. The hacker who dealt [...]
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UK2′s new VPN is a notch above your average secure, remote Internet connection
UK2, probably best known for its Web hosting and domain registration services has now released a Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution that anyone can install on their Windows, Mac OS X or Linux system. There are lots of VPN services out in the wild, letting users access the Internet as if they were situated in [...]
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A third of trending messages on China’s Sina Weibo are from spammers, says report
New research from HP Labs Social Computing Research Group has suggested that the spam problem on China’s Sina Weibo, the closest thing to Twitter (which is banned in the country), may...
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How O2 could unwittingly help spammers conduct a nasty phishing campaign
Earlier this morning we reported that UK mobile operator O2 has been sending its customers’ mobile numbers to websites, effectively allowing website owners to monitor its visitors. The issue was...
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Classic ‘flick-to-kick’ football game Subbuteo is back in town, but PlayStation can rest easy
When I saw this message from Amazon in my Twitter stream yesterday, it was like being transported back to 1980s Britain. Could it really be – Subbuteo – making a...
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Netflix pens a deal with FremantleMedia to bring not-so-fresh content to UK screens
Less than three weeks after Netflix launched in the UK, the movie-streaming service has announced a deal with FremantleMedia (FME), the London-headquartered content and production division of Bertelsmann’s RTL Group,...
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FireHost switches on its European cloud hosting service
Cloud hosting company FireHost has announced the expansion of its operations into Europe, with news that its hosting services are now available at data centres in London and Amsterdam. Founded...
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India’s government refutes claims it wants to adopt Chinese-style Web censorship
The Indian government has denied that it is heading down a path that will see it block Facebook, Google and other Internet companies, as part of an ongoing legal dispute...
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UK mobile operator O2 sends your phone number to every website you visit
O2 may also be unwittingly assisting spammers, allowing them to match email addresses with phone numbers. See below for more updates. If you reside in the UK and you are...
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Nokia has now shipped 1.5 billion Series 40 handsets, sells 12 of them every second
Whilst the world might be looking at Apple’s incredible announcement of 37 million first fiscal quarter iPhone sales, there’s an even more impressive statistic coming out of Espoo, Finland, this...
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Smartphones on the rise in India after record sales, shipments in 2011
India’s smartphone market is showing significant potential, according to data from CyberMedia Research, which concludes that 2011 saw record shipments and sales in the country. During the first eleven months of last year,...
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More than 760,000 tweets were sent during the State of the Union address
Twitter has announced that President Obama’s State of the Union address saw the microblogging service record more than three quarters of a million tweets relating to the speech. According to...
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Steve Jobs on charity: Encourage shareholder donations by increasing Apple’s value
Last year new Apple CEO Tim Cook made a move that probably went unnoticed by the majority of Apple customers. It may not have been a new version of the...
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Fab.com gets a clone in the UK and its founder is none too pleased
In some cases, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That is unless your extremely popular site has been completely cloned. Fab founder and CEO Jason Goldberg tweeted about a...
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Tim Cook sends congratulatory email to Apple employees, promises ‘exciting new things’
After a Q1 earnings call today that blew apart all of the numbers we expected to see, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, sent an email to his employees heralding this quarter...
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Official Hotmail app now available on Kindle Fire
Microsoft has been unafraid to create apps that run on devices made by competing companies, and the latest official app to arrive is Hotmail for Kindle Fire. Previously, Hotmail could...
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Tonight’s Presidential SOTU will be the most interactive ever. Here’s how you can be heard
There is no doubt that the White House has become more social than it ever has been since Barack Obama was elected president. His campaign team took to Twitter to...
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There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day
With the release of its quarterly earnings earlier today, Apple revealed that it had sold 37.04M iPhones in fiscal Q1 of 2012. Those numbers are massive, far bigger than any...
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11 sexy script typefaces with voluptuous curves
The art of type design is for a special breed of designer. The insane attention to detail required to create typefaces is enough to drive the average person crazy, as...
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Google updates export tool Takeout to support Google Docs
Google Takeout, the service which allows Google users to download their data from various Google products all at once, has been updated with an option to be emailed when the...
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Federal judge rules that your encrypted laptop can be used to incriminate you
You might be familiar with the Fifth Amendment, which is often quoted in the press or used in movies and TV shows. You may have heard the line “I refuse...
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Apple: 3 million iTunes U, 600,000 iBooks Author app downloads in 5 days
Apple senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer today announced on Apple’s first fiscal quarter earnings call that the company has seen 3 million iTunes U and 600,000 iBook Author...
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Apple: 315 million cumulative iOS device sales; more than 85 million iCloud users as of today
Apple said during its earning call today that there have been a cumulative total of 315M iOs devices sold, and that over 85M of those are using iCloud. Apple’s iCloud...
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With 37 million iPhones sold, Apple is now easily the world’s biggest smartphone maker
Apple’s first fiscal quarter earnings are in, and they are huge, even by Apple’s own standards. With revenue totalling $46.33 billion in its first quarter and earnings of $13.87 per share,...
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Google is changing its privacy policies with one document to rule them all
According to a release from Google, the company is trimming down its privacy policies and blanketing many of them underneath a single release: “So we’re rolling out a new main...
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Apple Q1 2012: $46.33B revenue, record $13.06B profit with $13.87EPS, 37.04M iPhones, 15.43M iPads sold
Apple today announced its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2012. Apple’s revenue amounted to $46.33B in Q1. With earnings of $13.87 per share. The company’s net profit in Q1 was $13.06B. These...
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Focus On The User sees over 100k visitors since its launch 24 hours ago
According to Blake Ross, Director of Product at Facebook, the project “Focus On The User” has seen over 100,000 visitors in just 24 hours. How many of those visitors actually...
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Why #McDStories Didn’t Have a Happy Ending
I ate the best Big Mac EVER last night! It was so good, I even dreamt about it! #McDStories …That must have been what McDonald’s was hoping for when it...
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2 years with FoundersCard, an invite-only community for entrepreneurs
In May of 2011, we introduced you to the FoundersCard, a global community of entrepreneurs and innovators that offers a unique benefits program so startup founders can have the same sweet...
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The White House will be answering your State of the Union questions on Twitter tonight
The White House will be checking Twitter after President Barack Obama is done with the yearly State of the Union address, the company shared today. While the official White House...
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Watch this guy get rescued by his friends after being buried by an avalanche [video]
This clip, which was captured by a helmet-cam, makes me never want to set foot on a snowmobile. A group of guys are riding along, going up and down a...
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This is how Apple’s top secret product development process works
Many aspects of Apple’s product development process have long been shrouded in mystery. The process is discussed in a new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works, by...
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President Obama has invited Steve Jobs’ wife Laurene to State of the Union address
President Obama has exercised a tradition of honoring national heroes by inviting the late Steve Jobs’ wife Laurene Powell Jobs, to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, reports...
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Megaupload shutdown: the Catalan Pirate Party launches a civil action against the FBI
The Pirate Party’s Catalan branch (PP-Cat) is launching a collective civil action in Spain against the FBI with regard to Megaupload shutdown, the organization announced yesterday. The action already branched...
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Global startup competition launches to find the world’s next Jobs or Zuckerberg
It’s inevitable there will be the next Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Google or Facebook, the question is; where in the world will they come from? As the cost of innovation...
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Smartr for iPhone is like having a second brain for all your contacts
I find myself using my iPhone for email more each day. Something about email lends itself very well to a touch interface, in my opinion, and I keep finding that...
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COMMON partners with Threadless for a social change typography competition
COMMON, a creative community for accelerating social change, has just recently announced a “Typography Off.” The competition surrounds the phrase “Do shit that matters,” and asks designers to create their own...
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“Africa’s Bill Gates” launches ShopAfrica53, a continental enterprise
Tall and well-built, cheerful with an appearance of nonchalance, the man Inc. Magazine described as Africa’s Bill Gates is a man with a few tricks up his sleeve – as...
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Apple expects its new employees to be their own IT department
When Apple hires employees, they undergo a rigorous interview process and an extremely unique orientation procedure. Part of this is getting their new company-issued computer set up and connected to...
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Sazneo rolls out embeddable real-time group messaging for businesses
We first reported on Sazneo in January 2011, a platform that enables companies to have really smart online conversations within their teams. It’s a real-time group messaging service for businesses,...
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Latest Anonymous threat against Facebook is a fake, but the social network is ready
We reported yesterday that Facebook was yet again in the crosshairs of Anonymous, but as CNET is reporting today, that turns out to not be the case. The DDoS attacks...
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Since the 2011 uprising, Egypt’s first jailed blogger has been freed
Maikel Nabil, the first Egyptian blogger to be jailed after former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak stepped down from power, has been released. Today, Maikel Nabil’s brother, Mark, announced via Twitter that Maikel...
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The creator of the Kelihos botnet, which Microsoft whacked, worked for an antivirus firm
This is right out of the ‘oh come on, really’ department. According to Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (we love that name), The creator of the short-lived Kelihos botnet worked for an...
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Orange UK launches ‘Film Pulse’ to garner fans’ sentiment from across the social sphere
Building on its prior success at tapping the lucrative movie-market through branding a day of the week (see here), UK mobile phone operator Orange has created a new tool that...
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Austria’s first Facebook novel will be broadcast in universities
The Hungarian writer Gergely Teglasy (‘TG’) claims to be the author of the ‘first Facebook novel’, available on Facebook and as a podcast, the Austrian independent reports. Called ‘Zwirbler,’ the work in...
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Fresh indicators hint that Nokia’s Lumia 800 is selling well in Europe
If you read TNW with any regularity, you know that we spend a nearly unconscionable amount of time trying to figure out which smartphones sell the best, and how many total units they...
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Megaupload co-founder Dotcom joked about illegal exploits in a letter to his neighbours
In what has already been dubbed one of the “largest criminal copyright cases ever”, it’s been hard to avoid the buzz surrounding the Department of Justice’s all-out attack on the...
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An inside look at Vimeo’s first major redesign
Vimeo has just announced its first major redesign since 2007, and boy does it feel fresh. The longevity of its original design speaks volumes to its quality, but after a...
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Droid Razr Maxx said to have 24 hour battery; will be at Verizon on 1/26 for $300
In our initial review of the Droid Razr, we noted that the super-slim Android phone was screaming fast, but it had some issues with image clarity and a rather disappointing...
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Why the end of Microsoft Points bodes exceptionally well for Windows 8
If you are anything like me, the first waking moments of your day are spent staring, bleary eyed and sans glasses, at your smartphone, digging through everything that happened during...
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How the Fashion Industry Is Embracing Social Media
This post is brought to you by Mercedes-Benz. Every day, we strive to fulfill one simple promise: the best or nothing. Visit MBUSAto learn more. It’s impossible to deny the...
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Facebook begins full Timeline rollout, will be available to all “over the next few weeks”
Whilst Facebook has offered its new Timeline profile option to users for just over a month, the company is to transition all users to the new feature “over the next...
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Angry Birds are flocking to Facebook as Valentine’s Day...
