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Smartphones Are Killing Impulse Purchases At Checkout
Shoppers used to browse magazines or select gum while they were waiting in line to check out at the grocery. Today, they browse their smartphones instead. Half of Americans owning smartphones has...
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Engineers Can Use This New Theory To Build Sprinting Robots
By studying how legged animals, like lizards, move across loose ground, like sand or gravel, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology were able to design a small robot that can run across...
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BII REPORT: The Rise Of The Tablet Consumer
It has long been known that consumers use their tablets to research purchases.But tablets are also used to complete purchases, much more so than smartphones.In a recent report from BI Intelligence, we...
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HubSpot's Awesome Presentation Shows How To Create A 21st Century Culture
The workplace is changing at rapid pace— it's mobile, decentralized, and flexible. "The biggest problem most companies have is that they operate much like a company from 50 years ago — despite the fact...
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Business Insider Is Hiring An Awesome Product Manager
Do you love sharing cool web features with your network and colleagues? Do you collect mobile apps like charms? Do clunky digital experiences drive you nuts? Then we want to hear from you!Business...
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Now Zynga Is Making Its Breakup With Facebook Official (ZNGA, FB)
Zynga is taking the first step in distancing itself from Facebook, the platform on which it first rose to greatness, in an effort to convince investors that it won't always be dependent on the social...
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Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Is Reportedly Pushing For A Cleaner, Flatter...
Apple's iOS could be getting a make over under Jony Ive.Jessica Lessin at the Wall Street Journal reports, "Ive is pushing a more 'flat design' that is starker and simpler." She cites developers who...
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Google Is Quietly Pulling The Plug On Frommer’s Print Travel Guidebooks
Google has ceased production and publication of printed guidebooks bearing the Frommer’s brand name, Skift has learned.The last two Frommer’s books to roll off the presses were guides in the all-color...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Dominates In Consumer Cloud Services (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN)
Here's something that surprised us. Apple dominates in U.S. cloud service usage with iCloud.According to Strategy Analytics, via Engadget, more people say they use iCloud than any other cloud service....
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Samsung Exec Says Google's Ousted Android Chief Was Stubborn (GOOG)
It sounds like Samsung is happy about Google's recent reorg, which put a new executive in charge of the Android mobile operating system that runs many Samsung smartphones and tablets."The Google...
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Nominate The Most Creative People In Mobile Advertising
We want to know, who are the most creative people in mobile advertising?You tell us.Nominees can be people who have created innovative tablet ads, new ways to approach mobile ad display, changed the...
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The U.S. Defense Department Still Loves BlackBerry, It Says
Reports that the DoD is ditching BlackBerry for Apple and buying 650,000 iOS devices just aren't true, the DoD says.If DoD employees want a BlackBerry 10 when the device becomes available, they can...
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A Joke About Dongles Led To Two People Losing Their Jobs And A Huge Mess For...
The world of tech was rattled this week when a quickly-dashed-off tweet alleging crude, sexist jokes resulted in two people losing their jobs.Earlier this week at the PyCon conference (the largest...
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RBC: Apple Will Release A Cheap iPhone With A Plastic Case And Non-Retina...
Apple will release a low-end iPhone this summer, says RBC analyst Amit Daryanani in a note this morning.He believes it comes in June/July timeframe.According to his checks, it will have a 4-inch screen...
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HP Taps Former Top Accountant, Jim Murrin, To Head M&A (HPQ)
In January, HP handed 23-year HP veteran Jim Murrin a big job, Business Insider has learned from an internal email (full text below).The move was not announced publicly. (Murrin hasn't even updated his...
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HTML5 vs. Apps: Where The Debate Stands Now, And Why It Matters
An HTML5 app is housed on the Web and runs inside a mobile browser. Unlike apps built specifically for Apple devices or Google's Android operating system, it does not need to be built from scratch for...
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The New BlackBerry Phone Launches Today In The US: Are You Buying One? (BBRY, T)
After nearly a year of delays, the new BlackBerry Z10 has arrived in the U.S. and is on sale today.AT&T is the first carrier to sell the phone. It costs $199.99 with a two-year contract. T-Mobile...
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A 9 Year Old Just Blew Past Her $829 Kickstarter Goal To Build Her Own Video...
Mackenzie Wilson, age 9, has a score to settle with her older brothers. They didn't think she could build her own video game, so she went ahead and launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $829 to...
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Why Sharing Is The Best Way To Measure A Web Site's Value
This article is sponsored by ShareThis.When advertisers decide where to run campaigns, they may look at web sites that fit a certain demographic or psychographic — 33-year-old men who root for the...
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The 10 Hottest Startups In Australia Right Now
Australia is bustling with hot startups."There are a bunch of companies now that are choosing to stay (in Australia)," Rebekah Campbell, founder and CEO of Australia-based Posse, tells Business...
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