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00:00 02.12.2015

CommuniGift Launches With A New Way For Kids To Give To Charity

With the goal of making every kids’ birthday a dream come true, Los Angeles-based CommuniGift has launched a new business to promote charitable giving just in time for the holidays. The company, founded by four undergrads from the University of North Carolina, has identified a novel way of connecting would-be donors with those in need. Their method? The birthday party. Working… Read More... →

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23:51 01.12.2015

Stringr Raises $1.5M To Build A Marketplace For News Footage

News startup Stringr is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in funding. Co-founder and CEO Lindsay Stewart previously worked as a TV news producer for CBS News, Bloomberg and Fox News, and she said the service was “really born out of this newsroom need of getting footage quickly, in a transparent way.” For example, if there’s a big tornado, TV stations are going to… Read More... →

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23:27 01.12.2015

Google criticized for deceptively tracking student Web activity without permission

Google has become the target of a complaint brought forth by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The advocacy group has requested the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the technology company claiming that Google is “collecting and data mining school children’s personal information, including their Internet searches.” The EFF says that it discovered that […]... →

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23:20 01.12.2015

Foursquare says e-shopping drove down in-store foot traffic on Black Friday

The check-in app Foursquare has a unique take on the shopping season, as it can track not only when its users are shopping, but where/how. Perhaps the top line from this year’s Foursquare data is that people are staying at home to shop. Among Foursquare and Swarm (location sharing app) users, retail foot traffic was […]... →

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23:12 01.12.2015

Samsung Launches Web Browser For Gear VR

You’re strapped into a virtual reality delight and you want to Google something. What do you do? Now you can use a web browser built and optimized specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR. The company announced the web browser today, and it’s called simply “Samsung Internet for Gear VR.” Here’s what Samsung VP Chan-Woo Park had to say about the launch: As a… Read More... →

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23:06 01.12.2015

Adobe сфокусировалась на поддержке стандарта HTML5 вместо Flash

Компания Adobe объявила о поддержке открытого стандарта HTML5, конкурента созданной ею Flash, и высказала мнение, что он станет будущим веб-индустрии. При этом Flash, которую Adobe развивала на протяжении почти 20 лет, пока что остаётся стандартом для ряда важных сервисов, считают в компании.... →

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23:01 01.12.2015

Samsung gives you a new way to browse the web — virtual reality

Maybe it’s my game industry roots talking, but when I think of virtual reality, the last thing I imagine is checking updates on Facebook or poking through a Reddit thread. Yet come tomorrow, December 2, Samsung is going to provide proof of this concept with a virtual reality web browser called the Samsung Internet for […]... →

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22:51 01.12.2015

Behind The Prezi Pixels

Interactive presentation startup Prezi has been in quiet mode lately, but invited us behind the scenes to discuss its startup roots in Budapest, Hungary and juggling two offices in completely different time zones. Prezi pulls in clients the likes of Salesforce, Lufthansa, Marriott and IBM to create unique presentations. It has also seen an explosion in growth since hitting the scene in… Read More... →

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22:43 01.12.2015

Key questions to ask your sales organization — and how to get the right answers

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with The TAS Group. There is no deficit in the amount of data available to sales managers to help them do their job. There is, unfortunately, sometimes a deficit of insight into that data. The reasons for this inconvenient truth are multiple: Sales managers are really busy and […]... →

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22:39 01.12.2015

Your PS4 Just Became A Tiny Bit More Powerful

Chances are you haven’t realized it, but your PlayStation 4 got a little bit more powerful. The PlayStation 4 comes with an octa-core CPU. Until now, game developers could leverage 6 of them while the other 2 ran the operating system. But Sony recently unlocked the 7th core for games, or at least part of it. Read More... →

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22:21 01.12.2015

How Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and others make a difference on Giving Tuesday

First we had Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday, and then Cyber Monday. So after a long weekend of spending money on ourselves and loved ones, why not turn that towards those less fortunate? Today is the third annual Giving Tuesday, and tech companies are rallying to help out. Started in 2012, this event — founded by the […]... →

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22:16 01.12.2015

Shyp Now Ships Your Goods Straight From eBay

Just in time for the high holy season of giving and getting packages from far away, on-demand shipping startup Shyp is taking advantage of one of the biggest online outfits in need of delivery for those packages – eBay. Much like when Paypal first offered a third-party payment system for the the e-commerce site, Shyp hopes to be the third-party shipping provider, with a promise… Read More... →

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22:15 01.12.2015

Cyber Monday Beat Forecasts With A Record $3.07 Billion In Sales, 26% From Mobile Devices

Yesterday’s Cyber Monday sales event was already poised to break records with a forecasted $3 billion in sales, making it the largest online sales day in history. It ended up beating those estimates, however, according to the final numbers provided by Adobe’s Digital Index today: the company says that $3.07 billion was spent online yesterday, a 16 percent increase year-over-year,… Read More... →

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22:00 01.12.2015

Humility, Accountability And Creative Thinking Can Fix IT Security

The state of cybersecurity has reached full-blown systemic failure. The narrative goes something like this: Companies are spending massive amounts of money on technologies that don’t seem to be living up to their marketing messages. According to Gartner, $80 billion will be invested in IT security products in 2015 alone. Yet breaches persist. While it’s always easier to point out… Read More... →

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21:52 01.12.2015

Microsoft Tries To Declare A Christmas Truce With Apple

Microsoft has put out a TV commercial for the holidays. In it, some things happen…mostly singing. There are employees, kids and other things going on in a New York City Setting. Apple’s back yard on 5th Ave, to be specific. My colleague Alex and I hopped into Slack, watched it together and shared our thoughts. We think that Microsoft is trying to say that they’re friends, or… Read More... →

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21:45 01.12.2015

Создатели Sketch удалили его из Mac App Store из-за проблем магазина приложений

Компания Bohemian Coding удалила своё популярное приложение для дизайнеров Sketch из Mac App Store, пожаловавшись на большое количество проблем в работе магазина приложений. Об этом создатели сервиса объявили в своём блоге.... →

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21:41 01.12.2015

Meet The Disrupt London 2015 Speakers And Judges

Disrupt London is almost here, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak at what will surely be the best Disrupt Europe yet. The two-day conference kicks off on December 7 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena and wraps the following day with the finals of Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000. Read More... →

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21:24 01.12.2015

If You’ve Named Your Baby After An Instagram Filter, You’re Not Alone

A site that says that they know lots about babies called BabyCenter.com (great name for a baby site) shared their top ten names of 2015 for both male and female little-ins. Some of the names are what you’d expect. I encounter many a Jackson-baby and Mia-baby these days. However, Time points out that some names are trending. Specifically, names of Instagram filters. You know. The thing… Read More... →

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21:16 01.12.2015

Sony’s only hope in mobile requires U.S. penetration

ANALYSIS: To people of a certain age, Sony is a brand that is completely synonymous with consumer electronics. It once had a Midas touch and a brand cachet that was beyond reproach: if you wanted to buy a product that was guaranteed to work well, you went with Sony; everything else was a risk. Sony is […]... →

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21:11 01.12.2015

Microsoft’s Share Your Idea website lets you vote on new HoloLens projects

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new website called Share Your Idea, where people can go to post and vote on brainstorms about what would be cool to see on the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality system. So far the site is desperately in need of contributions, with just 22 submitted so far, including “Virtual […]... →

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