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Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch hits the UK on November 7 for £329
2014-11-05

Announced back in August, Samsung’s new Gear S smartwatch is a proper ‘smart’ watch, given you can make calls and go online (...)

Mozilla’s Firefox OS is launching in Africa
2014-11-05

Firefox OS, Mozilla’s open-source mobile operating system, is continuing its rollout to new territories with the news that Africa (...)

3-D-Printed Lampshades Project Mesmerizing Patterns Using Ancient Cartography Methods
2014-11-04

Ptolemy would be proud.Stereographic projection is a mapping technique that allows a spherical object to project a pattern onto a (...)

Mozilla and GSMA partner to bring the mobile Web and content creation tools to the next 4 billion
2014-11-05

Mozilla has announced today that it is entering a partnership with the GSMA to help enable internet access and local content creation (...)

Unicode Is Finally Proposing More Diverse Emoji
2014-11-04

Adding to the emoji library is not as easy as one might think.This week, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text (...)

SoundCloud is launching its subscription music service with Warner Music Group in 2015
2014-11-04

Today SoundCloud announced that the Warner Music Group is the first partner for its upcoming subscription service. The service (...)

7 trends fueling a blue ocean opportunity for SaaS companies in Asia
2014-11-04

Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based startup building messaging for work. What do you get when you combine (...)

Facebook sees a 24% increase in government data requests since second half of 2013
2014-11-04

Facebook today released its third Government Requests Report, meant to provide greater transparency on the amount of data authorities (...)

Why I think about ‘Star Wars’ whenever I make a PowerPoint
2014-11-04

Seth Dotterer is the VP of Marketing at Conductor. Whenever I create a PowerPoint, I think about Star Wars. I’m a geek who grew (...)

HTC kicks off holiday discounts with half-price Nexus 9 tablets for $199
2014-11-04

HTC is running a holiday promotion with limited quantities of the Nexus 9 tablet for half-price. The 16GB WiFi version will cost (...)

Amazon gives Prime members unlimited full resolution photo storage
2014-11-04

Amazon today revealed the newest tool its Prime members have at their disposal: Prime Photos. As you might surmise form the name, (...)

7 ways to staff a strong social media team
2014-11-04

This post is part of a series titled “Business Social,” and is brought to you by Hootsuite.Managing your social media as a (...)

Vimeo boosts its global credentials with new captioning and translation tools, currencies and more
2014-11-04

Video-sharing platform Vimeo is receiving a number of new features as the company looks to expand its international credentials. With (...)

Germany ponders new data law that could hit US tech firms hard
2014-11-04

Germany may soon require IT companies operating in the country to reveal their software source code and other proprietary data, (...)

Disney Movies Anywhere now lets you watch purchased titles on Android devices
2014-11-04

Well in time for the holidays, Disney is now partnering with Google to bring its Disney Movies Anywhere service to Android devices, (...)

Kansas City now has the fastest Starbucks Wi-Fi in the US thanks to Google Fiber
2014-11-03

If you’re a coffee-drinker and frequent internet user, you’ve probably found yourself sitting in Starbucks on more than a few (...)

Facebook’s Parse now lets you A/B test push notifications for free
2014-11-03

Today, Parse is adding a new feature to its platform, Parse Push Experiments. The new tool now lets you easily create A/B tests for (...)

Disqus takes its programmatic ‘Sponsored Comment’ ad platform global
2014-11-03

Disqus has announced that it is making its programmatic ‘Sponsored Comment’ ad platform available globally from today, following (...)

PayPal officially launches Pay After Delivery in the US, letting you delay payments up to 14 days
2014-11-03

PayPal today officially launched a Pay After Delivery service, which gives you an extra 14 days to receive an item before your payment (...)

Samsung confirms the Galaxy Note Edge for a November 14 US launch
2014-11-03

Samsung today announced that its Galaxy Note Edge will be available in the US beginning November 14. The 5.6-inch screen phone is (...)

ZipJet: Rocket Internet launches on-demand laundry service in London
2014-11-03

Germany-based technology incubator Rocket Internet has launched a new on-demand online laundry service in London. Available on Android (...)

Smartphones are the hotel room keys of the future
2014-11-03

You can already use your phone to pay for your groceries and start your car – and soon, you’ll be able to use it to enter your (...)

3 ways to attract the coveted active monthly user
2014-11-02

Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social (...)

3 ways to attract to coveted active monthly user
2014-11-02

Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social (...)

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