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Seeking its first killer app, App.net launches Broadcasts, a push messaging platform
2013-11-21

App.net, the ambitious, year-old project to built a social platform, has released a new feature that it hopes will be the first killer (...)

Motorola stops voiding developer device warranties when owners request unlock codes, reinstates old warranties
2013-11-21

Motorola today announced two big changes to its Developer Edition Program after receiving feedback from customers who purchased the (...)

Stop Obsessing About Productivity--Why Asana Embraces Mindfulness As A Business Model
2013-11-21

For Asana cofounders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, mindfulness means embracing the inhale and the exhale of the workday--and (...)

Facebook sues alleged spammer over bogus celebrity sex-tape links
2013-11-21

Facebook is suing a spammer who bombarded the social network with fake links to celebrity porn. As Courthouse News reports (via BBC), (...)

How To Buy Your Next Van Gogh Online
2013-11-20

Auctionata, an online auction platform for fine art, has attracted over $20 million in funding and is targeting a unique demographic--the (...)

The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News
2013-11-21

From 1977 to 2012, she recorded 140,000 VHS tapes worth of history. Now the Internet Archive has a plan to make them public and searchable.In (...)

Kwikdesk is Twitter-meets-Snapchat, with a hidden public timeline of ephemeral messages
2013-11-21

If you crossed Twitter with Snapchat you’d probably get something like Kwikdesk – a way of sending messages of up to 300 characters (...)

Google’s Eric Schmidt thinks government censorship will be wiped out within ten years
2013-11-20

Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt is highly optimistic — he thinks that government censorship can be ended within a decade, (...)

Pinterest moves into travel after launching new tools to help users plan trips
2013-11-20

Pinterest has introduced a new way to help its users derive value from pins in a whole new market: travel. Tonight, the company showed (...)

Google launches campaign to get more women in India to use the Internet
2013-11-21

Google is one of a number of companies that firmly believes that everyone has a right to Internet access, and that’s the motivation (...)

Microsoft Store is selling ‘Keep Calm While Google Steals Your Data’ mugs, shirts, and hats
2013-11-20

Shopping for the perfect Christmas present for your paranoid, conspiracy theorist uncle? Look no further than the Don’t Get Scroogled (...)

Google’s Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 now available at T-Mobile locations in the US
2013-11-20

Google today announced that both its Nexus 5 smartphone and its Nexus 7 tablet are available in T-Mobile locations across the US. (...)

Google Translate for Android gets faster and simpler speech translation, gestures, support for more languages
2013-11-20

Google today released an updated Google Translate app for Android with faster and simpler speech translation, gestures, and support (...)

Everything you should know before working with investors across Asia
2013-11-20

Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO.  Entrepreneurs (...)

New Chrome experiment: ‘A Journey Through Middle-Earth’ brings The Hobbit to your laptop, phone, and tablet
2013-11-20

Google today unveiled a new Chrome experiment called “A Journey Through Middle-Earth” that was inspired by the upcoming motion (...)

5 Fast Tips For Accelerating Your Online Revenue
2013-11-20

A conversation with Steve Power, chief revenue officer for BigCommerce, who breaks down five key lessons for growing your online revenue.For (...)

Nokia Music rebranded as Nokia MixRadio; Windows Phone app gets personalized mixes, voting, and social sharing
2013-11-20

Nokia today rebranded its Nokia Music service as Nokia MixRadio, and relaunched its Windows Phone app to match. You can download the (...)

Google launches its own Newsstand for Android, replacing Play Magazines and Currents
2013-11-20

Google has launched Google Play Newsstand, an Android app that combines its previous Play Magazines and elements of its Google Currents (...)

Google now holds a patent for posting personalized automated responses on social networks
2013-11-20

Google has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for “Automated generation of suggestions (...)

It’s finally happening folks, Instagram lands on Windows Phone today
2013-11-20

Instagram is launching a Windows Phone app today, enabling more people to share their photos on the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social (...)

LittleBits Gets $11.1 Million To Bring Its Lego-Like Electronics To Everyone
2013-11-20

The company that makes electronics kits for home tinkerers is building its own platform so anyone can design products for LittleBits.LittleBits, (...)

Propeller Keeps Asthmatics Out Of The ER By Harnessing The Internet Of Things
2013-11-20

An inhaler with a sensor on top beams data to doctors that helps reduce emergency room visits and lowers health care costs.Earlier (...)

Leap Motion unveils Free Form, a 3D sculpting app, and previews its new gesture tracking software
2013-11-20

Leap Motion is taking the next step in improving its gesture-controlled design technology. The company launched a new app called Free (...)

Nokia Music for Windows Phone rebranded as Nokia MixRadio, gets personalized mixes, voting, and social sharing
2013-11-20

Nokia today relaunched its Nokia Music app for Windows Phone as Nokia MixRadio. You can download the new app now directly from the (...)

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