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Runtastic now invites you to beat your previous times, and shows your runs on Street View too
2014-06-11

Perennially popular GPS fitness-tracking app Runtastic has introduced a handful of interesting new features to its mobile apps. Perhaps (...)

As SwiftKey Prepares An iOS Keyboard, It Makes Android Version Free, Opens Store
2014-06-11

The third-party keyboard maker will sell themes and other customizable content in its own shop.SwiftKey announced Wednesday that its (...)

As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies
2014-06-11

Up to 12,000 black-cab drivers (cabbies) are expected to fill the streets of London today, in protest against technology-enabled services (...)

Google now lets you see exactly what data your Chome apps and extensions are using
2014-06-11

Extensions and apps are probably the most useful part of Google’s Chrome browser, and the company is continuing its efforts to make (...)

Own a Chromebook? Google+ Photos will now backup your snaps from an SD card automatically
2014-06-11

Here’s a neat addition to the Google+ Photos app for Chrome OS: Any new photos stored on an SD card will now be uploaded to your (...)

As SwiftKey readies for iOS, the smart keyboard app goes free on Android and gets premium themes
2014-06-11

SwiftKey may be gearing up to launch its very first system-wide iOS keyboard app, but for now the London-based company is knuckling (...)

Index Ventures raises a 7th early-stage fund, worth $542m
2014-06-10

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ seems to be the mantra at Index Ventures, which has just announced a new €400 million (...)

Halftoning 101: How to halftone images in Photoshop
2014-06-10

Jordan Roland is a staff designer/illustrator for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and (...)

Amobee buys Adconion and Kontera for a combined $359m to boost its digital marketing arsenal
2014-06-10

Digital marketing firm Amobee, which was acquired by Singtel in 2012 for $321 million, announced today that it has purchased two companies (...)

Alibaba buys browser-maker UC Web, claims the deal is China’s largest tech acquisition
2014-06-10

Another big Alibaba deal has just taken place: the e-commerce giant has swallowed up the whole of UC Web. Financial terms are not (...)

Tango brings content channels to its chat app, but isn’t planning payments or commerce yet
2014-06-11

Mobile messaging app Tango is boosting its multimedia presence and potential to make money after it introduced content-rich ‘channels’ (...)

Mozilla is bringing cheap Firefox OS smartphones to India in the ‘next few months’
2014-06-11

Mozilla has revealed that its Firefox OS smartphones are expanding into India, after the company agreed to deals with local OEMs Intex (...)

From cloud gaming to VR, Sony is poised to own the full-stack of the future of entertainment
2014-06-10

Sony’s E3 keynote on Monday came as a flurry of game trailers and reveals, but the company also showed off its strategy for the (...)

Firefox 30 arrives with sidebars button, GStreamer 1.0 support, and quickshare in context menu on Android
2014-06-10

Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 30 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include a button for direct access to (...)

EU will reportedly launch an investigation into Apple’s Irish tax arrangement
2014-06-10

Apple is reportedly again coming under fire in the European Union about how it uses the Irish county of Cork to allegedly avoid (...)

Wimbledon ‘near-live’ highlights will be broadcast globally across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube
2014-06-10

Back in September last year, we brought you news on London-based startup Grabyo launching a video clip-sharing service in cahoots (...)

Google adds Docker image support to App Engine, releases open source container manager and resource usage tools
2014-06-10

At DockerCon 2014 today, Eric Brewer, Google’s VP of Infrastructure, announced the company is adding support for Docker images in (...)

A Thai educational startup wins the race at Echelon 2014 by making it fun for kids to learn
2014-06-10

Making it fun for kids to learn is something that holds a lot of potential for mobile startups, and that direction is now further (...)

Twitter Counter launches new Chrome browser plug-in that recommends how to improve your tweets
2014-06-10

Twitter Counter, a part of The Next Web family of companies, has released a new Chrome browser plug-in which provide users with at-a-glance (...)

Powers, The First TV Show Made Exclusively For PlayStation, Is About Superhero Detectives
2014-06-10

The new series is based on a comic book and graphic novel imprint of the same name.At E3 yesterday, Sony announced a new TV show produced (...)

Medium Relaunches Matter, Devoted To Long-Form Journalism
2014-06-10

An experiment in digital publishing continues to evolve.Medium, the publisher-platform hybrid backed by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams, (...)

Honeywell heats up its connected home efforts with Lyric, an intelligent round thermostat
2014-06-10

Honeywell today announced the launch of a new smart thermostat, the first in a family of connected home products. The $279 Lyric features (...)

BBC gives its child-friendly CBBC iPlayer a serious makeover ahead of CBeebies iPlayer redesign
2014-06-10

The BBC has launched a redesigned version of its CBBC iPlayer for kids programming which keeps the overall design closely in line (...)

Facebook launches Trending World Cup hub for soccer fans to keep in touch with the action in Brazil
2014-06-10

Facebook has launched a hub for football fans to keep in touch with all the news and updates coming out of the World Cup in Brazil. (...)

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