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Vooza’s data scientist solves a problem that’s worried men since the dawn of time
2014-11-01

Vooza’s smug data scientist is back, and this time he’s answering one of life’s great questions. Vooza – a video comic strip (...)

5 top social media campaigns of 2014
2014-10-31

When was the last time a social media campaign made you really feel something, whether it was happiness, hope or fear? Below are (...)

Amazon Diversity Report: 63% male and 60% white
2014-10-31

Continuing a recent trend among major tech companies, Amazon has released a diversity report for its workforce. Globally, 63 percent (...)

Check out Honda’s ‘double-sided’ YouTube video
2014-10-31

Honda is promoting its new Civic Type R Concept Car with a nifty interactive video campaign that lets you switch between two complementary (...)

10 of the best Android apps from October
2014-10-31

From maps to micro-investments, we covered a lot of ground with new Android apps in October. Here we present you with our selection (...)

Common email mistakes that’ll haunt most professionals
2014-10-31

Denise Chan is the US Inbound Marketing Associate for Mailjet, an email service provider with more than four years of experience (...)

Retro album makeovers for modern musicians from Miley to Drake
2014-10-31

Jami Miles is a University of Cincinnati student studying graphic design. She is passionate about music, fashion, photography and (...)

Slack nabs $120M at $1.12B valuation, not bad for a 1-year-old startup
2014-10-31

Few pieces of corporate-oriented software have managed to build a following the way Slack has. It seems others agree too, given that (...)

The challenges of marketing a high-priced product (and how to overcome them)
2014-10-31

Firas Kittaneh is the CEO of One Mall Group. Businesses make a killing selling products that rarely cost more than a hundred dollars. (...)

Spain orders Google to pay news publishers a tax for search results
2014-10-31

The Spanish parliament passed a ruling yesterday to allow news publishers to charge aggregators and search engines like Google each (...)

Facebook is now available on Tor for more secure browsing
2014-10-31

After enabling secure HTTPS browsing by default for all users in August last year, Facebook has taken another step to allow for secure (...)

October in Africa: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month
2014-10-31

October saw serious developments in the e-commerce, digital music and video on demand (VoD) sectors in Africa, as well as the usual (...)

Samsung launches mid-range slimline A3 and A5 full metal unibody smartphones
2014-10-31

Samsung has today announced two new mid-range smartphones that will go on sale in China and other markets from next month. The devices (...)

Companies can now highlight important email information in Google’s Inbox app
2014-10-31

Google just announced a new feature called Highlights in its email management app Inbox, to allow companies to make actionable items (...)

Madefire updates Motion Book Tool to let authors add animations to their stories
2014-10-30

Madefire has added a new and heavily requested feature to its Motion Book Tool for creating interactive digital comics: animated (...)

Seth Rogen reported to play Woz in the upcoming Steve Jobs movie
2014-10-30

After Christian Bale was set to portray Steve Jobs in the upcoming account of his life, Variety is today reporting that Seth Rogen (...)

Clowdy: A professional hub for all content creators, from director to intern
2014-10-30

While services like SoundCloud, Vimeo and YouTube allow content creators to share their work with the world, Clowdy is a relatively (...)

3 keyword data workarounds for your organic search campaign
2014-10-30

Stanley Meytin is the founder and Creative Director at True Film Production, a New York City-based video production company that (...)

Finding Stuff To Read In Flipboard Just Got A Whole Lot Easier
2014-10-30

The social reader app adds new algorithmic smarts, with help from a former competitor.Once upon a time, there were two clever personalized (...)

Any.do goes freemium with a slew of new features, costing $5/month or $45/year
2014-10-30

We’ve covered Israel-based startup Any.do for a number of years, and today the popular productivity-focused task-management app (...)

Lenovo completes $2.91bn acquisition of Motorola from Google
2014-10-30

Lenovo has today completed its $2.91 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility first announced in January this year. Formerly owned (...)

Flipboard launches a fresh new design and gives you 30,000 topics to follow
2014-10-30

Flipboard just launched v3 of its popular news aggregation app for iOS and Android devices, with a new UI and a host of smart new (...)

Channel your inner spook for our Halloween Vine challenge
2014-10-30

In the eerie spirit of Halloween, we brought on a true mastermind of spooky art, Jennifer Messmore, to guest-host our Vine challenge. We (...)

Microsoft Band is a new cloud-powered wearable fitness tracker
2014-10-30

Microsoft launched its new fitness-focused wearable that plugs into the new cloud-based Microsoft Health tracking service today. Dubbed (...)

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