Posts Tagged ‘ countries ’

SlideShare passes 10M presentations after growing by one-third a year after acquisition by LinkedIn

May 9, 2013
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SlideShare passes 10M presentations after growing by one-third a year after acquisition by LinkedIn

SlideShare, a document sharing service, announced today that it has hit a milestone. Now, more than 10 million presentations have been uploaded to the service. This comes as it marks the one-year anniversary when LinkedIn acquired the service for $119 million. Interesting to note, at the time of its acquisition, SlideShare had 7.4 million presentations,…

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Russian e-payment operator Qiwi raises $212 million in NASDAQ IPO

May 6, 2013
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Russian e-payment operator Qiwi raises $212 million in NASDAQ IPO

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on East-West Digital News, a leading English-language resource on Russian digital industries and related venture activity. Completing its initial public ‪offering on the NASDAQ exchange last Friday, Russian digital payment operator Qiwi raised $212 million by selling 12.5 million class B shares at $17 each. Initially, Qiwi had expected to sell…

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Tech firms raise over $32m following China earthquake, with Apple and Samsung leading donation efforts

April 22, 2013
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Tech firms raise over $32m following China earthquake, with Apple and Samsung leading donation efforts

Samsung and Apple are among the tech companies to provide more than RMB 200 million ($32 million) in donations following an earthquake in Sichuan, China, yesterday. The companies have responded to the quake which is estimated to have left more than 200 people dead or missing, 11,800 injured and  upwards of 100,000 homeless. Sina Tech reports [via Google Translate]…

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Boston Marathon terror attack analyzed

April 16, 2013
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Boston Marathon terror attack analyzed

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Cost of Thatcher’s funeral

April 16, 2013
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Cost of Thatcher’s funeral

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Fine art comes to the airport

April 15, 2013
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Fine art comes to the airport

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Pope portrait out of 17,000 condoms

April 15, 2013
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Pope portrait out of 17,000 condoms

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Fancy Hands Now Has An iPhone App, So You Can Book A Personal Assistant Anytime

March 28, 2013
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Sometimes the smallest, most mundane tasks are the things you really dread — and put off for weeks. Like booking an oil change for your car, or finding a nice play for an anniversary date and buying tickets, or finding a good dentist in a new city and scheduling an appointment. It’s stuff that any…

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Springpad debuts embeddable notebooks for brands & publishers, launching with Glamour, TripAdvisor & more

March 27, 2013
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Springpad debuts embeddable notebooks for brands & publishers, launching with Glamour, TripAdvisor & more

Springpad, the popular cross-platform notebook app, has announced a new embeddable notebook feature it hopes will see its service soar with brands and publishers. Just to recap, Springpad first launched back in 2008, and has been building a steady following since then, claiming more than 4 million users. We last caught up with them back…

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Starting April 23, Google will allow trademarks as keywords in AdWords campaigns worldwide

March 22, 2013
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Starting April 23, Google will allow trademarks as keywords in AdWords campaigns worldwide

It’s gone relatively unnoticed, but Google earlier this week announced a fairly important update to its AdWords trademark policy. In a nutshell, Google has revised the policy to lift a restriction on using trademarks as keywords in AdWords campaigns in a range of countries, including China, Australia, Brazil and Hong Kong (full list below). The…

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