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WeChat adds looping Vine-style video to iOS upgrade
2014-09-30

WeChat, the free messaging and calling app from Tencent, includes all kinds of animated, flashy, multimedia thingies to accompany (...)

Hands on with the Windows 10 preview build
2014-09-30

At the beginning of today’s Microsoft event Joe Belfiore, Vice President of the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft made certain (...)

Lenka black & white camera app is free for one week — starting now
2014-09-30

Come and get it! Lenka, the new black & white camera app for iOS — regularly available for $2.99 on the App Store — is free (...)

Top 9 struggles new managers face (but you don’t have to)
2014-09-30

Elli Bishop is the community manager for BusinessBee, a place for business owners and executives to discover and compare various (...)

5 fintech startups to watch from Techstars’ Barclays Accelerator
2014-09-30

London is well known for being a global center of business and finance, so it makes some sense that it’s also now home to a flourishing (...)

Darma is a smart cushion for making your smart ass smarter
2014-09-30

Move over wearables, Darma wants “sittables” to be the new trend as it prepares to launch its smart cushion for your office chair. (...)

Google unveils Drive for Education with free, unlimited storage and ‘Classroom’ integration
2014-09-30

Google Apps for Education just got a little bit sweeter: In the coming weeks, new and existing customers will have access to Drive (...)

Why offering employee equity is crucial for your startup
2014-09-30

Andrej Kiska is an associate at Credo Ventures. Dealing almost exclusively with first time startup founders, we tackle the following (...)

Ghost introduces new plans and pricing for its Ghost(Pro) fully-hosted blogging service
2014-09-30

The team behind Ghost, a non-profit and open source blogging platform, is introducing new plans and pricing for its Ghost(Pro) hosting (...)

Get noticed by employers with 98% off a Resumonk lifetime plan
2014-09-30

A professional résumé is key to getting your profile noticed by employers and hiring managers. If you’ve found it hard to land (...)

Nokia’s offline maps for Android: We go hands-on
2014-09-30

Late in August, Samsung unveiled its new Gear S smartwatch, a Tizen-powered timepiece capable of making calls and going online without (...)

September in Africa – All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month
2014-09-30

September in Africa was all about startups, with a host of top events and the launch of new accelerators as well as the usual funding (...)

Watch Gehry, Boiler, Behar, And Others Talk About The Importance Of The Creative Brief In "Briefly"
2014-09-29

The new short doc Briefly explores the critical, evolving role of the creative brief across design and advertising.At its most basic (...)

Twitter publishes the schedule for Flight, its first mobile developer conference
2014-09-29

Twitter Flight, the company’s first ever mobile developer conference, is coming up next month, and now you can check out the schedule (...)

Pay (for) attention! Chartbeat’s new certification may help publishers quit pageview addiction
2014-09-29

Sick of websites desperately trying to make you click on more and more pages? Recent times have seen a drive from some quarters to (...)

Lark relaunches with an iOS 8 app that coaches you to be healthy
2014-09-29

Lark Technologies got its start as a hardware sleep tracker, but it’s taking a software-only approach with the launch of its new (...)

Mention turbo-charges its ‘Google Alerts for the social Web’ as it prepares for US expansion
2014-09-29

It’s been a while since we last caught up with Mention, a Parisian startup that has set out its stall to reinvent Google Alerts (...)

Google unveils new mobile-focused display ad formats, rolling out in the ‘coming months’
2014-09-29

Google is developing a new portfolio of display ad formats and tools for advertisers to use across its Google Display Network, AdMob network (...)

Microsoft will open a flagship store at 677 Fifth Avenue in New York
2014-09-29

Microsoft is opening a new flagship store in New York City. The company has signed a lease for a space at 677 Fifth Avenue and plans (...)

Tesco will close its free, ad-supported Clubcard TV streaming service on October 28
2014-09-29

Tesco will close Clubcard TV, its ad-supported movie and TV streaming service, on October 28. The supermarket quietly announced its (...)

Jawbone’s new UP fitness app for iOS syncs with Apple Health for deeper insights
2014-09-29

As promised, Jawbone has released a new health and fitness-tracking app for iOS 8 that accepts data from a bevy of different devices (...)

Ello experiences first major outage, confusingly can’t decide if maintenance or DDoS attack is to blame
2014-09-28

Social networking site Ello went down hard today. The new service has been available for just over a month, but already it is running (...)

The Rise of Rebittance
: Reinventing money transfers in the Philippines with Bitcoin
2014-09-28

Luis Buenaventura is Head of Product at Satoshi Citadel Industries, a Bitcoin startup operating out of the Philippines. Bitcoin advocates (...)

A day in the life of a social media manager: How to spend your time on social media
2014-09-28

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. You spend part—maybe all—of your day on social media, hopping from network to (...)

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