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London Startup YPlan Gets $12 Million To Start Telling New Yorkers Where To...
In London, an app that helps people figure out where to go out has invaded 10% of the city's iPhones. Soon, YPlan will be available in the States. General Catalyst, Wellington Partners, Octopus...
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Why Social Media Advertising Is Set To Explode
It's not difficult to understand the lure of social media advertising.Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are daily destinations for millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad products offer...
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The 9 Most Influential Hip Hop Artists In Tech
We've noticed a growing interest in rap music among the tech elite in the last couple of years. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, MC Hammer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and SV Angel partner Ron Conway...
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14 Big Data Startups You're Going To Be Hearing A Lot More About
For all the hype around "big data"—or tech that crunches through massive amounts of emails, tweets, video and other files to find useful information—some startups aren't yet making tons of noise....
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The RNC Hired A Veteran Facebook Engineer As Their Chief Technology Officer
The Republican National Committee has hired a senior engineer at Facebook to take on the role of chief technology officer, Jon Ward of Huffington Post reports.HuffPo has more:Andy Barkett, 32, an...
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Apple Teases A 'Whole New World' Will Be Revealed Next Week (AAPL)
Apple is decorating the Moscone Center in San Francisco as it prepares to host WWDC, its big developer conference. We snapped a few photos.The interior banners are still being put up, but for now,...
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The Most Common Types Of Bad Software Attacking Your Smartphone
Mobile security company, Lookout, released a report today detailing how malicious software threats on mobile devices vary by geographic location.Taken from data gathered from its Lookout Platform, the...
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How Big Data Will Transform The Mobile Ecosystem
The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...
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This Chinese Billionaire Thinks His Company Is The 'Apple Of The East'
Apple now finds itself being challenged in China, the country where most of its devices are assembled, by a billionaire named Lei Jun who is positioning himself as an acolyte of Steve Jobs.He isn't...
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13 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone (AAPL)
The iPhone is a pretty amazing device.Besides making calls and sending texts, it lets us share what we're doing and where we are, read up on the latest news, get recommendations on where to go out to...
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A Google Engineer Is Teaching Hackers How To Break Microsoft's Software
On Sunday, well-known Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy released code that teaches hackers how to crash or gain control over Windows.It's his latest move in a long-running skirmish he's had with...
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No, You Won't Be Able To Charge A Cell Phone In Under 30 Seconds Anytime Soon
It sounds like it's going to be quite a while until we can supercharge our cell phones in under 30 seconds. Last month, we wrote about how 18-year-old Eesha Khare won a $50,000 prize at the Intel...
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These 5 Mobile Video Data Points Will Blow Your Mind
Mobile video has begun to accumulate scale, and has also turned out to be one of the few types of mobile content — along with games — that monetizes reliably and drives premium ad rates. In a recent...
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New Ads For The Samsung Galaxy S4 Are All About Swaddling Flatulent Babies
Breaking from its regular Apple-bashing marketing strategy, Samsung's latest ads for the Galaxy S4 take on a different theme: fatherhood.Agency 72andSunny got into the Father's Day spirit with two...
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Red-Hot Startup Dropcam Will Kill The Old Fashioned Surveillance Camera
In 2009, two software engineers in San Francisco decided to help one of their fathers solve a mystery.Dog droppings kept appearing in his yard, although he owned no animal. Frustrated, the man tried to...
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Girl Breaks Both Feet Jumping Off A Roof And Now Her Mom Wants The Internet...
Nicole Easton was seriously injured recently after she tried to jump from her roof into a swimming pool.Easton watched as her boyfriend successfully jumped into the pool and she reluctantly tried it...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Smartphone Sales Are On The Verge Of Overtaking Feature...
This chart comes from BI Intelligence, a research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here.Smartphones accounted for the 49% of total mobile...
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Startup Sqrrl Has Tech That Lets Your Company Store Super Secret Data
Sqrrl, a Cambridge, Mass.-based big data startup founded last year by six former National Security Agency employees, is building a business around tech that protects the US from terrorist attacks and...
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REPORT: Apple Will Release A New Version Of The MacBook Air Next Week (AAPL)
Apple is going to release a new version of the MacBook Air next week, Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac reports, citing sources.The new MacBook Air will be running on Intel's new "Haswell" chip which delivers...
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BlackBerry Hasn't Given Up Yet (BBRY)
BlackBerry has a new flagship phone in the works called the A10, according to CNET.This is going to be BlackBerry's new super phone, replacing the current Z10 that launched this spring. According to...
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