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Don’t Panic! Today’s Google Doodle Honors Douglas Adams’ 61st Birthday

March 11, 2013

Google has put together a fitting tribute for what would have been sci-fi writer and humorist Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday. The interactive Google Doodle features an assortment of fun references from Adams’ novel Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy including the Arthur’s towel, moody old Marvin, and a nice cuppa. It’s also cute to note that…

Chatting Is Great, But GroupMe’s Mobile Apps Now Let Users Split Payments Too

March 7, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

While the folks at GroupMe have spent some time exploring the world outside group messaging, they certainly haven’t given up on refining the formula that made them so appealing in the first place. Earlier today, GroupMe pushed out a pair of considerable updates that add some curious (and tremendously thoughtful) features to the company’s iOS…

Locu Partners With Automattic To Bring Its Menus To WordPress.com’s Restaurant Sites

March 7, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

Automattic’s WordPress.com recently added a restaurant vertical to make it easier for restaurant owners to manage their sites and avoid the pitfalls of Flash-based homepages that auto-play annoying music and don’t work on mobile. Today, those sites get even better, thanks to a new integration between Locu and Automattic that makes it easy for restaurateurs…

EQuala Launches On iOS And Android To Bring More Context And Control To Social Music Discovery

March 7, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

Over the last decade, the rise of mobile technology and the maturation of the Web as distribution and consumption channels has had a devastating effect on the music industry, among others. Yet, on the bright side, more recently these technologies have produced a litany of new ways to discover great music, empowering both fans and…

Box adds file previews and other platform-specific features to its Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps

March 6, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

Box adds file previews and other platform-specific features to its Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps

Box announced today that it has released more mobile features for its both Windows mobile platforms, highlighting its faith in the platform in the long-term. The company said that since it launched Box for Windows 8, it has been downloaded more than 500,000 times and continues to see interest and adoption of its apps. With…

Thanks to Congress, next week is ‘Cybersecurity Week.’ Come and get your 1995 on

April 16, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Thanks to Congress, next week is ‘Cybersecurity Week.’ Come and get your 1995 on

We are not going to re-litigate the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in this post. If you an overview of what it contains, head here. If you want TNW’s take on what it may accomplish, and how you should feel about it, head here. We’ve already walked that road. Fresh news is out, however,…

London Real-time hack event ends with exhausted and innovative winners

April 15, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

On Friday we reported the start of the Real-time London event taking place at White Bear Yard. The event saw GoSquared provide participants with APIs from Amazon Web Services, Geckoboard, RabbitMQ, Twilio and Pusher to make something cool in just one weekend. This evening that drew to a close with creative, but exhausted competitors gathered to show off what they made…

Skyscanner’s flight search app flies past 7m downloads in one year

April 13, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Skyscanner, the flight and travel website, is undermining competitors with its well-designed mobile app, proving that the mobile audience should be a focus for growth. Skyscanner has seen seven million downloads since it launched its first app for iOS last year and business is growing steadily for the Scottish company. Late last year the company…

Google brings DoubleClick Ad Exchange to China, despite its core business continuing to slump there

April 11, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Google’s search business may be sinking in China but the Mountain View-based giant has buoyantly introduced its DoubleClick Ad Exchange in China, as it looks to boost its business in the country. DoubleClick itself has been active in China for some time but the launch adds the real-time ‘Ad Exchange’ marketplace, which will help large…

Instagram wrote its own push notification server for Android, and it’s open-sourcing it

April 5, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

On Tuesday, Instagram released its photo sharing client on Android. It racked up a million downloads in a day and we found it to compare well to its iOS counterpart. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger has now posted an explanation of how it kept up with those million new users in the first day. One of…

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Posts Tagged ‘ real ’

Don’t Panic! Today’s Google Doodle Honors Douglas Adams’ 61st Birthday

Thanks to Congress, next week is ‘Cybersecurity Week.’ Come and get your 1995 on

London Real-time hack event ends with exhausted and innovative winners

Skyscanner’s flight search app flies past 7m downloads in one year

Google brings DoubleClick Ad Exchange to China, despite its core business continuing to slump there

Instagram wrote its own push notification server for Android, and it’s open-sourcing it

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