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Study: Snobby Salespeople Make You Want To Buy More Stuff
2014-04-30

People who are rudely treated by the sales staff of a high-end retailer are more eager to buy those products, a new study finds.A (...)

AT&T is reportedly looking to buy satellite TV firm DirecTV
2014-04-30

AT&T is reported to have approached satellite TV firm DirecTV over a possible acquisition, according to the Wall Street Journal. (...)

Goodbye, Hoodie: Facebook Grows Up
2014-04-30

Standing in front of thousands of Facebook developers at the company’s third F8 conference, a reflective Mark Zuckerberg, (...)

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: A ‘whisper mode’ would encourage friends to privately discuss public conversations
2014-04-30

Twitter is looking to encourage more private discussions on its service. CEO Dick Costolo would like to have a “whisper mode” (...)

Inside App Links, Facebook’s open-source effort to make mobile apps more like the Web
2014-04-30

Earlier today at F8 2014, Facebook unveiled App Links, a new open standard for deep linking across different mobile apps. The official (...)

Everything Facebook announced at F8 2014 in one handy list
2014-04-30

At today’s F8 conference, the focus was on developers. If you’re building for Facebook, today was chock full of news nuggets. (...)

The difference between ‘urgent’ and ‘important’
2014-04-30

This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. Whenever I realize I’ve been running ragged, I know I’ve fallen into a rut (...)

Bloom.fm to shut down after investor pulls funding: ‘This is a poetically crappy turn of events’
2014-04-30

Bloom.fm is shutting down its mobile-focused music streaming service, after its investor “unexpectedly” cut off funding. In a (...)

The Super-Tan World Of 1960s Coney Island
2014-04-30

Photographer Aaron Rose explores the intimacy of public space on a crowded beach.Photographer Aaron Rose spent summers in the early (...)

Mark Your Calendars for the 5th Annual Social Media Day
2014-04-30

Each day, millions of people access a social media platform to connect with friends and family, consume news and upload photos. (...)

The next Facebook F8 will take place on March 25, 2015 at Fort Mason, San Francisco
2014-04-30

Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the next Facebook F8 developer conference will be at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco (...)

Motorola will unveil its next smartphone on May 13
2014-04-30

Motorola will launch its next smartphone at a press conference on May 13 in London. The company, which Google sold to Lenovo for (...)

Google unveils dedicated iOS apps for docs and spreadsheets with offline editing and autosave
2014-04-30

Google today released a new set of productivity apps to help iPhone and iPad users manage their documents on the go. Google Docs (...)

Facebook launches FbStart, a program providing up to $30,000 in free tools and services for app developers
2014-04-30

At its F8 conference today, Facebook announced FbStart, a new program to help app developers. The program provides up to $30,000 in (...)

This is PayPal’s new logo
2014-04-30

PayPal today introduced a slight logo redesign for its online and mobile payments service. In all honesty, it’s not too far removed (...)

Man vs. machine: Which is better at converting sales?
2014-04-30

Ofer Yourvexel is the CEO of WRNTY, developing leading order taking apps and sales management software. Technology replaces people (...)

Hulu preps a free ad-supported service for mobile, as Hulu Plus passes 6 million users
2014-04-30

As digital TV platform Hulu announces that its subscription-based TV service Hulu Plus has now passed the 6-million subscriber mark, (...)

How To Re-Imagine Your Storefront For The Future
2014-04-30

Main street businesses are quickly losing the battle against digital sales--but there may be hope if we reinvent the way we see and (...)

Google Might Be Phasing Out the G+ Login
2014-04-30

Google is reportedly testing a new login across the web that scales back the G+ branding.When Google+ lead Vic Gundotra announced (...)

BT Sport will be free to UK broadband subscribers for a second football season
2014-04-30

Good news for UK football (soccer) fans – BT Sport will remain a free add-on for both new and continuing BT Broadband customers (...)

Heyku’s digital sticky notes app rebranded ‘Ku’, adds option to share to Tumblr and save drafts
2014-04-30

Heyku, the app that allows users to express themselves by posting updates with photos, short lines of text, sounds and doodles, has (...)

Britain’s Mint.com, Money Dashboard, rolls out mobile apps to help you track your finances
2014-04-30

Way back in May 2010, we queried whether Money Dashboard could become the UK’s answer to Mint.com, a question we were still asking (...)

Google stops scanning emails for Education users, and permanently removes ads option too
2014-04-30

Google Apps for Education users will no longer have their emails scanned for use in advertising, according to an announcement from (...)

Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp on Guided Search, Promoted Pins, wearables, and more
2014-04-30

Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp is cool, calm and collected. He talks in a softened tone and all of his responses are carefully considered. (...)

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