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Amazon’s Appstore For Android Turns One: 31K Apps, Millions Sold
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This morning, Amazon announced its mobile app marketplace, the Amazon Appstore for Android, is celebrating its first birthday today with a week-long sale on some of its most popular apps. The company also took the time to share some figures about the Appstore’s growth over the past year, including the...
Does social media affect how you spend money? You betcha.
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This series is brought to you by TurboTax Federal Free Edition. - The Internet is such a wonderful thing, isn’t it? I mean, it’s brought us together today to talk about things like how social media affect your spending habits. That has to count for something, right? The question...
Amazon Appstore for Android celebrates a year of life, deals for a week
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Whatever Google can do, Amazon can do... too? Sure seems it, as the latter is celebrating a rather momentous occasion by giving back to the people that have brought it this far: you (and you, and you!). The Amazon Appstore for Android has officially been alive and kicking for...
5 Lessons From My Mom That Led To My Startup's $100 Million Exit
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Last week, Wiley Cerilli sold his two-year-old startup, SinglePlatform, for $100 million. He'd like to thank his mother for his success as an entrepreneur. 1. Magic Johnson once said, “Its not whether you can become successful, its how many people can you help become successful.”: I love this quote, but for my...
Beercamp: A pop-up book styled site that pushes CSS 3D to its limits
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Beercamp, a yearly event for designers and developers, has become quite the playground for front-end experimentation. For 2012, Tom Giannattasio of nclud led the creation of a site that pushes SVG and CSS 3D transforms to the limits, and in all honestly, it’s one of the first successful commercial applications of 3D transforms I’ve seen. Note,...
FarFaria Brings A Hulu For Kids’ Stories To The iPad
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“Grumpy Cat! Grumpy Cat! More Grumpy Cat, please!” – That’s basically my two-year-old’s review of FarFaria, a new subscription-based children’s storybook app for the iPad. (To translate: she loves it, and especially that story about the grumpy cat.) The app, to be clear, doesn’t just offer the one story –...
Miffy joins digital age with iPad app
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Author Dick Bruna, 84, cautious about 'too much interactivity' with his multi-million selling children's booksHer distinctive silhouette is recognised around the world. The classic children's books about her have sold tens of millions of copies and in Holland she has her own museum. But as Miffy the rabbit joins the...
The Lorax celebrates biggest box-office debut of 2012
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The Dr Seuss adaptation stuns everybody with the sheer scale of its opening-weekend box-office domination, beating Project X into a distant secondThe biggest animation opening weekend in the history of Universal Pictures owes much to Chris Meledandri, head of the studio-owned Illumination Entertainment. Illumination is shaping up to be every...
Oceanhouse Media talks Dr. Seuss, book-apps and mobile edutainment
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But president Michel Kripalani is keen to avoid 'predatory' in-app purchase modelsThere are tens of thousands of smartphone and tablet apps for kids available on the various app stores, but how many are making much money for their creators? The jury is still out on whether many of the startups...
Apps Rush: Dr. Seuss, Weather Flow, Discovr People, Fitbit, Beatstream, Blurtt and more
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What's new on the app stores on Thursday 22 March 2012A selection of 12 new apps for you today. Note, Angry Birds Space isn't included, as I've covered this separately.Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #2Oceanhouse Media has released its second iOS compilation of Dr. Seuss book-apps. Pay £7.99, and you...
If You're Obsessed With Travel, You Must Try This New iPhone App
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Oh, the places you'll go! If Dr. Seuss made an app, it would probably be something like Everplaces. With this app, you can bookmark places you have been or want to visit, and make notes on what you remember about the location. Everplaces is useful for those who like...
One year later, Amazon’s Android Appstore boasts 31K apps and millions sold
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Amazon is celebrating the first anniversary of its Android Appstore launch by putting a bunch of its most popular titles on sale. The company revealed that it now sports 31,000 apps on the store, up from 4,000 at launch, and that customers have purchased millions of apps. Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t...
How Facebook Sees The Entire History Of Media, Privacy And Censorship—From 1440 To Today
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Who: Paul Adams, Facebook's global brand experience manager. What: He gave a presentation at the Signal conference in San Francisco last week titled "Why marketers misunderstand Facebook." Skip directly to Facebook's slides> The gist: Whenever a new mass medium is invented, marketers try to force their old habits into...
Kid’s puzzle and game startup Wonder Forge nails cash
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Wonder Forge, a game and puzzle company led by Cranium’s former product development chief Jacobe Chrisman, announced today that it has raised $1.75 million in new financing. The five-year-old Seattle company markets “brain challenging” games under the brand I Can Do That! Games, including titles from children’s literature such as Dr. Seuss;...
Amazon’s Android app store celebrates one year and 31,000 apps
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Amazon on Thursday announced that its mobile marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, is celebrating its first birthday. The company is kicking of its celebration with a week of deals on some of its most popular apps. “Customers have used the Amazon Appstore to test drive and buy millions of apps...
C&D Squashes Seuss-Style Satire: Where Did The Idea/Expression Dichotomy Go?
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One aspect of fair use that often confuses people is the distinction between parody (which is well-established as fair use in many circumstances) and satire (which is not). The basic distinction is that a parody that makes use of a copyrighted work is doing so to comment on that work,...
Good Deal: 'Plants vs. Zombies' for 99 cents, more Amazon Appstore discounts throughout the week
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The Amazon Appstore is turning one year old this week, and alongside some statistics on how the store has done so far, the company has announced that it is discounting a bunch of apps to celebrate the occasion. The deals start today with Plants vs. Zombies for Android and...
Emerging top paid iOS apps: Fancy Pants, Procreate and Incoboto
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This week saw a lot of well-established apps dominating the iPhone and iPad charts, with relatively few new releases performing strongly. These include Chillingo’s iOS port of popular Flash game Fancy Pants, which performed well on both iPhone and iPad, taking the No. 2 and No. 1 spots in the respective charts....
TastemakerX: Whistling Past the Startup Music Graveyard by Sidestepping the RIAA
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TastemakerX has opened its “I HEARD IT FIRST!” music app to the public today. Tastemaker taps into hipsters’ and record nerds’ desires to be the first one to discover a new band and evangelize it to their friends. For such hipsters and nerds (read: My husband), the app is...
Emerging free iOS apps: Plumber Crack, Camera Awesome, Smithsonian Channel
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The top free apps cover a diverse array of subject matter this week, ranging from the continuing popularity of Pictionary-styled draw-and-guess game Draw Something to the fruit-splattering mayhem of Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage. Games make up the bulk of the most-downloaded apps on both iPhone and iPad this week, but...
What I learned today on Twitter (but mostly in the last 3 minutes)
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All the interesting tweeters were at TED this week watching the not-just-the Blue Man group perform lewd acts, so we were left with the bird droppings. But we picked over them, digested them and processed them ourselves before sharing them with you, our enlightened readers. Remember truth can sometimes take...
Onswipe’s Jason Baptiste on being a CEO: “I am a 2012 equivalent of Dr. Seuss”
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Coming to SuperConf in Miami Beach is like coming home for Jason Baptiste of Onswipe, a company that TNW’s Coutney Boyd Myers called “the future of publishing“. He’s a Florida native, who moved with his team to New York City in order to be part of the illustrious TechStars program....
Greenwash and hamming it up – Mazda makes a mess of CX-5 advert | Ed Gillespie
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Mazda adopts a Dr Seuss story, the Lorax, to sell its new compact SUV, but there's no disguising how ordinary the car isIn 15 years of working in sustainability I have seen some pretty amazing examples of feckless corporate greenwash – from Tesco's "Fights for Lights" to the "clean coal"...
Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi
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My historic moment on the underground is marred by a message that was obviously not all it seemed✒Thanks to modern technology they have installed Wi-Fi in some of the bigger London tube stations. It's a great idea; you can spend hours browsing the Guardian website, or porn, while waiting for...
2-Year-Old Finds iPad Easy to Use [VIDEO]
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For once, the Internet provides a measure of cuteness that does not involve cats (or turtles) — this time it’s an adorable 2-year old who takes to the iPad like a fish to water. It’s no wonder app makers are scrambling to get apps like Dr. Seuss onto the...
Dr. Seuss Comes to the iPad
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Today’s kids are so lucky; not only do they get to enjoy the Dr. Seuss app for the iPhone, they also get to experience the Seussical one on the iPad!Oceanhouse Media, the people that make the Dr. Seuss apps for the iPhone, have released updates for the three most...
Dr. Seuss iPhone Apps Go on Sale For His 106th Birthday
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Yes, it’s true, the author and illustrator of such children’s classics as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! would have celebrated his 106th birthday today. In honor of the Seussical one, all of...
Gink: The Next Great Social Network? [PARODY]
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Sketch troupe Derrick Comedy has tackled social networking as the topic of their latest video on CollegeHumor by creating the next next-generation social network: Gink. What is Gink? Well, it’s simple, really: “Gink is a fun made-up word, combining the words gibble and spink, both of which are also...
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