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Startup Genome launches Investor Compass to encourage a data-driven approach to tech investment
Since the launch of its first report a year ago, Startup Genome has been doing a great job of combining scientific study of the way startups operate with tools that help entrepreneurs improve their chances of success. Now it’s expanding its offering...
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Guerrilla trend: Make an ad so terrible that it will stand out, and drive clicks
The higher-quality the ad, the better its impact? Maybe not, in today’s saturated market.
In April, the Plenty of Fish Ad Blog put out a post that quickly made waves among the technorati and advertising-focused, as its conclusions were antithetical ...
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Bing Maps taps Nokia to power its Traffic feature and geocoding information
In a move that is certain to raise eyebrows and acquisition rumors (again), Bing today announced that Nokia will power the Traffic feature of its Maps product. Also, Nokia geocoding information will be integrated to improve routing results. Mapping is no ...
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Another Supercut of the Day
The only thing missing is at least one gratuitous sex scene from Game of Thrones.
(Not Safe For Work — naughty and naked TV characters.)
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Google launches ‘Beba,’ an NFC-enabled payment card in Kenya
Google, in a bid to boost its presence in the payments market, has launched Beba in Kenya, a pre-paid card enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) to allow people to pay their bus fare without using cash.
Yes, Google is doing this. Actually, according...
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Say hello to Dell’s Windows 8 tablet
The fine folks over at NeoWin managed to secure a slide detailing the specifications for Dells’ forthcoming Windows 8 tablet. Of course, Dell may issue several other models, but this appears to be, at a minimum, one of them.
The tablet is an Intel-b...
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RealNetworks reaches agreement over its e-commerce practices, including pre-checked boxes
RealNetworks had come under fire from the Washington State Attorney General’s office for some of its e-commerce practices in the past.
Two years after those complaints were made, the two sides have reached an agreement. The response from the compan...
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7digital’s Innovation Time results announced along with launch of Technical Academy
London-based content and technology 7digital is showing some interesting results from its developer program ‘Innovation Time’.
Launched in the UK in 2004, 7digital’s download store and mobile applications give consumers access to over 17 milli...
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TripAdvisor expands its City Guides to 50 destinations, adds new features for Android
Travel review and booking site TripAdvisor has just announced that its City Guides mobile app has expanded into 50 total destinations — up by 30 more destinations from its original offering. Additionally, Android users can expect a host of new featu...
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Networkupdater lets you know when your Facebook or Twitter friends make profile changes
The main reason why we use services like Facebook and Twitter is to stalk keep up with our friends. Unfortunately, there is only so much time in a day that we can dedicate to stalking checking out people’s profiles.
Luckily, Facebook publishes News...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
Yahoo launches a new search-centric browser called Axis, but all doesn’t go according to plan; T-Mobile USA isn’t looking to find another buyer, and the new iPad is reportedly outpacing the original iPad in terms of usage already. It’s a...
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Busted: New tech from MIT can tell if your smile is fake
Lie no more, my friends, as new technology can tell if that grin on your face is more grimace than pure delight. Even more, the patterns that the algorithm has uncovered can be applied by individuals, meaning that anyone with a bit of training will be abl...
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Tweetbot 2.4 brings offline favorites and read later, keyword muting and location search
The popular Twitter client Tweetbot has been updated with a nice array of tweaks to the already great app. Specifically, this build brings offline favorite and ‘read later’ queuing, improved local tweet search and other improvements.
We’...
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Facebook is testing out regional page switching on its own brand pages
If you’re a global brand and want to be able to reach as many people as possible with your marketing message, you might have difficulties in getting those people to the right brand page you’ve created for them.
It looks like Facebook is testin...
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Google launches in-app subscriptions for Google Play
Google is getting serious about its developer ecosystem, and has announced in-app subscriptions for Google Play.
Here’s what the team had to say about it today:
We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sel...
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Apple’s VP of Europe Pascal Cagni quits after 12 year tenure
Apple’s vice president of Europe Pascal Cagni has reportedly resigned after twelve years at the company, having originally joined in 2000 as a direct appointment by Steve Jobs.
The news comes by way of French newspaper Le Figaro, which reports that ...
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Purported screenshots show off ‘Microsoft Account’ user interface, Live rebranding
According to a set of four screenshots received and published by NeoWin, the great Microsoft Account rebranding that will overcome the aging, and flailing, Live brand may be little more than a paint-over at first.
The four shots contain pictures of variou...
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Facebook for Windows Phone updated again, bringing with it the ability to like comments
Today Microsoft made available a new version of the Facebook for Windows Phone application, bringing with it a slew of new features. It can be downloaded here.
In February of this year, Windows Phone’s official Facebook application received a very f...
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Facebook developers can now use age, location and more to show Open Graph stories to specific users
In a nice update to Facebook’s tools, developers can now choose to show Open Graph stories only to users that meet criteria they set, such as age, country or type of content. This should help them to target those stories more effectively and avoid e...
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A new app promises to let anyone use social media sentiment to guide them in the stock market
Derwent Capital Markets raised eyebrows when it launched a hedge fund that used analysis of Twitter to predict movements in the stock market. Now the London-based firm is set to open up its technology for anyone to use via what it’s calling the R...
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Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan Africa
Worldreader, the non-profit company that hopes to increase literacy through the distribution of digital books to children has kicked off a campaign with support from FC Barcelona (Barça) asking people to help to send one million e-books to students in sub...
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Regulator spanks Amazon over Prime One-Day delivery guarantee
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against Amazon EU about the retail giant’s guarantee to Prime customers to receive One-Day delivery on orders.
The problem is that Amazon says that its Prime customers can ha...
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Bump users have shared 600M photos with each other, can now bump photos to their computer
Bump, the app that lets people interact with one another by using their mobile phone, noticed that a feature of its app got extremely popular – photo sharing, which it launched two years ago.
The app is best known for sharing contact information by ...
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Making the case for a non-TV Apple TV
Apple is rumoured to be making preparations to enter the television market, releasing new TVs later in the year that are expected to feature the company’s Siri technology and access to its expanding App Store.
There has been no indication from Apple...
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Box tweaks its cloud storage service for enterprise users; upgrades admin controls, mobile security and more
Cloud storage and file-syncing service Box has today pushed live new upgrades and introduced new features specifically for its enterprise users, making it a lot easier for IT managers and contributors to managed their Box accounts.
As part of its new roll...
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Putting failed AT&T deal behind it, T-Mobile USA rubbishes sales talk and focuses on growth
Following the failed acquisition by US operator AT&T, T-Mobile USA has all but ruled out the future sale of its US business but will instead seek to boost customer subscriptions and earnings in the country, its CEO Rene Obermann said today.
Speaking t...
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Bharti acquires 49% stake in Indian Qualcomm unit, partnership to roll out 4G in four more locations
Bharti Airtel, the international telecomms company, and Qualcomm, the firm known for its next-gen mobile tech, have announced an agreement for Bharti to acquire an stake in Qualcomm Asia Pacific’s Indian broadband and wireless access (BWA) entities....
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Throwback Thursday and Larabar Uber

This week the kind folks at Larabar sent me a package of their new Uber bars to sample. I’ve been a huge fan of Larabars for years, and I was excited to give the new variety a try. In college, I lived on all sorts of protein bars and nutrition bars...
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Ignite100 the £1m accelerator is on the hunt for a new batch of startups
Ignite100, Europe’s first £1m ($1.6m) digital startup accelerator is calling out for a new set of startup teams to participate in its second program.
The North Eastern accelerator started work about a year ago when it invested £100k each in eight te...
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Millennial: tablets account for 20% of mobile ad impressions, Android has 49% share
Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media this morning released its ‘Mobile Mix’ report covering its findings for the first quarter of this year. The report looks at trends in ad impressions across mobile devices and operating systems.
The mobi...
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Behind the music: How MoogMusic.com survived the traffic influx of a Google Doodle
We’ve seen a number of stories in the past about the sort of traffic that being the subject of a Google Doodle can bring. But this is the first time when we’ve gotten a chance to peek behind the curtain, so to speak. With the Moog Doodle, the ...
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Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Music may be the food of love but engineers make the instruments”
As part of a wide ranging tour, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt gave a talk at the Science museum in London. Dressed in a smart grey suit and frankly looking pretty unruffled by the heat in the city that evening, Schmidt laid out a few vis...
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Daily email service Timehop now includes the text messages you sent last year
My favorite service on the Web right now has to be Timehop. The premise is simple, the service sends you daily emails about all of your social activities that happened the year before.
I look forward to waking up to my Timehop email, which includes tweet...
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Apple sued by patent troll STEC IP over data syncing in iCloud, iTunes and App Store
Apple is being sued by patent company Stec IP over patents that it holds referring to methods for synchronizing data, remotely accessing that data and more. The App Store, iCloud and iTunes are named in the suit as infringing on the patents.
The case was ...
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Disqus adds new features to upcoming release, including share a comment thread
Commenting on a blog is an artform. One could argue that the time and effort that goes into making a well-informed comment or starting a whole new discussion based off of a post is as important as blogging itself. One company that banks on that premise ...
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Yahoo! preps launch of Axis, a combined search and browsing product
According to LAUNCH, Yahoo! is set to release its own browser, called Axis, tonight at 9PM PT.
Our own Robin Wauters stumbled onto Yahoo’s trademark application for Axis last December, wondering what it was. Its website: http://axis.yahoo.com/, doe...
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HP’s restructuring will include a staggering 27,000 jobs cut by end of 2014
According to CNBC, HP plans to cut upwards of 27,000 jobs by the end of fiscal year 2014. This is a part of a larger restructuring plan being undertaken by the company.
That massive number accounts for nearly 8% of its current workforce.
HP’s presi...
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Apple calls e-book suit flawed, says its pricing spurred competition and e-reader advances
Apple has filed a response to a suit brought against it for allegedly conspiring to fix e-book pricing, reports Bloomberg. In the filing, Apple says that the lawsuit is fundamentally flawed and says that its promotion of the agency model actually spurred ...
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Facebook stock manages to move up more than 3% on the day, holds steady after-hours
Facebook ($FB) managed to scrape together a day’s gain in normal hours NASDAQ trading today, up some 3.23%. The company ended the day worth under $70 billion, a market slide from its IPO price point of some $104 billion.
The company’s initial ...
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Pandora posts 1Q13 revenues of $80.8 million – Shares spike in after-hours trading
Today Pandora reported its first quarter earnings of its fiscal 2013 year, with revenues of $80.8 million, and a GAAP net loss per share of $0.12. Compared to the same quarter one fiscal year ago, Pandora’s revenues were up 58%. The per share loss w...
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Facebook now lets developers track unique shares, reads, and clicks of Open Graph stories
We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative. Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content on user’s Timeline and News Feed. Even Tumblr saw a 2.5X increase in tra...
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WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg: social and mobile is the “fourth phase of our evolution”
The founding developer of the popular blogging software WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, shared some of his thoughts about what’s next for the platform today. WordPress is completely open source, but Mullenweg founded the company behind the business arm ...
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The private space industry has arrived: SpaceX has orders for 40 rocket launches, worth some $4 billion
Now that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has proven that private enterprise can fling rockets into space, and potentially dock with the International Space Station, what will the company do next? As it turns out, keep shooting rockets into space, at very regular ...
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Is MaiTai the beginnings of a new TED?
TED started in 1984 to bring together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design when founder Richard Saul Wurman noticed a convergence between the two industries. It started organically and grew into the global, inspirational brand it...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
Facebook shareholders sue the company as the fallout from last week’s IPO gets messier, Amazon launches an on-demand store for movies and TV shows that have never been available on DVD, and Apple’s Jony Ive arises as a Knight. It’s all i...
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Sonar launches new features towards building the perfect hyper-local social network
Sonar, today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, has just announced that it is taking new steps towards creating the perfect “real-time, here-now network.” With this goal comes three new key features, Sonar Status, Sonar Presence and Sonar Messaging, wh...
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Facebook shares the history of its “hackathon”
If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has held many official “hackathons” which allow its entire company...
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Summer in New York City? Check out Immaculate Infatuation’s “Guide To Killing It This Summer”
By day, he’s the VP of PR and Media at Warner Bros. Records, but at night go-getter Andrew Steinthal runs the dining and entertainment site Immaculate Infatuation, which he likens it to a Zagat “for the new generations”. Steinthal runs I...
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Kinvey teams up with Cloud Foundry, providing Platform-as-a-Service for mobile, tablet and Web apps
I remember seeing Kinvey at TechStars Demo Day in Boston a bit over a year ago. The company was doing something that I’d not heard of before – providing backend infrastructure as a service. For companies building mobile, tablet and Web apps, K...
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Microsoft announces the 106 finalist teams of its student ‘Imagine Cup’ competition
It’s always pleasant to see major corporations working to engage youths and students, spurring them to learn more, try new things, and of course, excel. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global challenge, today announced the 106 teams, from 75 countr...
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