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Youtube rival Dailymotion taps Joshfire to let creatives in the US build their own apps

May 16, 2013
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Youtube rival Dailymotion taps Joshfire to let creatives in the US build their own apps

French video streaming giant Dailymotion today announced that it will collaborate with Joshfire, the app creation service, to bring video app-creation capabilities to Dailymotion users in based in the US. The Dailymotion website in the US will now feature a special Joshfire Factory dashboard. The dashboard contains simple, everyman-friendly tools that enable developers and ordinary fans alike…

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ZTE Grand X2 In debuts with a 4.5″ HD display, 8MP camera and 2GHz Intel Atom Z2580 processor

May 15, 2013
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ZTE Grand X2 In debuts with a 4.5″ HD display, 8MP camera and 2GHz Intel Atom Z2580 processor

ZTE has unveiled the Grand X2 In, a new mid-range Andoid smartphone sporting a 4.5-inch HD display (1280×720) and an Intel Atom Z2580 processor clocked at 2Ghz. The device was unveiled at the MedPi conference in Monaco today and comes with an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, contrasted with a 1-megapixel version on the front. ZTE says the…

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British tabloid The Sun readies its paywall for August 1, but can English football clips help it succeed?

May 13, 2013
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British tabloid The Sun readies its paywall for August 1, but can English football clips help it succeed?

The Sun, the UK’s best-selling tabloid newspaper, will be going behind a paywall from August 1 this year for £2 ($3 USD) a week. We first reported this paywall was coming back in March, but now the Guardian has ratified the details via an internal email sent around staff at The Sun newspaper. The new…

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Google targets mobile Web publishers with content recommendation tool based on Google+ activity

May 13, 2013
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Google targets mobile Web publishers with content recommendation tool based on Google+ activity

The Google+ offensive continues today, with the announcement from Google that it’s pulling together parts of its omnipresent search engine with its social network to introduce a new feature that suggests other articles to mobile Web visitors. The feature’s launch is seemingly restricted to Forbes for now, but it’s safe to assume more will be…

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House approves bill to change overtime pay law

May 9, 2013
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House approves bill to change overtime pay law

Buy AP Photo Reprints WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved a measure that would give private sector workers the option of trading overtime pay for extra time off weeks or months later.The bill, approved on a 223-204 vote, would allow employees who work more than 40 hours a week to save up…

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Aareal Bank Group posts a successful start to the 2013 financial year

May 7, 2013
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Aareal Bank Group posts a successful start to the 2013 financial year

Wiesbaden (ots) - - First-quarter consolidated operating profit of EUR 47 million - Strong capitalisation - very solid liquidity situation - Forecasts affirmed for the full year 2013 Aareal Bank Group had a successful start into the 2013 financial year, performing very well in a slightly improved - yet still challenging - market environment. At…

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Facebook now lets developers push targeted ads based on users’ app preferences and purchases

May 3, 2013
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Facebook now lets developers push targeted ads based on users’ app preferences and purchases

Facebook has introduced a new way for developers and marketers to target users with specific adverts based on their existing app purchases and microtransactions. Developers speaking at Mobile DevCon 2013 in London yesterday unveiled a new targeting field buried in the latest SDK for a feature called Custom Audiences, which will result in more relevant…

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Blockbuster finally brings its on-demand movie rental service to iOS

May 2, 2013
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Blockbuster finally brings its on-demand movie rental service to iOS

It was the one glaring omission in its app portfolio, but old school movie rental service Blockbuster has finally launched an iOS app for its online ‘On Demand’ streaming service in the US. Just to recap, Blockbuster has followed a similar path to Kodak in recent years, failing to adapt to the shift in consumer…

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Social networking app Path is spamming users’ contacts with random messages and calls

April 30, 2013
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Social networking app Path is spamming users’ contacts with random messages and calls

Smart journal and social networking app Path is experiencing further technical problems today after a number of users reported how multiple spam messages were being sent out to people in their address books. Digital marketer Stephen Kenwright was woken up at 6am this morning after his father told him that he had received two text messages…

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Samsung begins producing 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM to bring PC-like multimedia speeds to mobile

April 30, 2013
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Samsung begins producing 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM to bring PC-like multimedia speeds to mobile

Samsung, maker of the newly released Galaxy S4 smartphone, has announced that it has begun the production of four gigabit (Gb) low power double data rate 3 (LPDDR3) mobile DRAM, a technology that will bring PC-like multimedia speeds to smartphones and tablets. While that set of descriptive words sounds, and indeed is, very technical, the ground-breaking…

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