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Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV
blog.hulu.com
Keeping up with the latest episode of Family Guy, MasterChef and New Girl on Hulu Plus just got a little easier. And my living room just got a whole lot happier. Hulu Plus arrives on Apple TV today. To start watching Hulu Plus shows instantly, find “Hulu Plus” on the...
Jumptap: Android, iOS Now 91% Of All Mobile Ad Traffic, Kindle Fire 33% Of All Tablet Use
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The onward march for Android and Apple continues apace, and leaves a big question mark for how other platforms can hope to compete, at least in the U.S. market: New figures out from Jumptap indicate that in the month of January, the two combined made up 91 percent of all...
Twitter's Big Pitch to Big Brands: You Want Space? We Got Space.
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Twitter’s basic ad unit is a Tweet, which is why the company says it is having early success with mobile ads. But advertisers want more than just 140 characters, and Twitter is happy to help them out there, too. That’s the point of the TV ads Twitter bought yesterday —...
How To Identify Your Customers, Make Them Love You, And Keep Them Hooked
www.fastcompany.com
Every company is struggling to nail down their core target group. If only they could define it, life--or at least business--would be a whole lot easier. They could then channel resources and focus energy in the right direction. But a target group consists of many disparate elements. Take, for example,...
The Weather Channel’s Revamped Website Goes Social, Tells You When It Will Rain
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Today, The Weather Channel celebrates its 30th birthday. It will officially feel old at concerts and hot new night clubs. In celebration of that, the company has revamped their website, weather.com, to keep up with the times. Weather is a very information-based vertical — there isn’t a whole lot one...
A Super Social Bowl
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You could have watched the Super Bowl without checking Twitter or Facebook, but you probably snuck at least a few peeks in throughout the game. And a lot of you ended up typing something, too. Bluefin Labs, a “social TV” startup that analyzes commentary during TV broadcasts, says it saw...
Google Nexus 7 tablet revealed: Tegra 3-powered, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, $199
www.extremetech.com
Thanks to some diligent detective work performed by Android Police, we now have (non-official) confirmation that Google is working with Asus to produce a 7-inch tablet called the Nexus 7. Under the hood there’s a quad-core Tegra 3 clocked at 1.3GHz, and a 1280×768 display (213 PPI). The new device...
Watch Out Netflix: Amazon to Stream Everything From Spongebob to Jersey Shore
www.readwriteweb.com
Amazon's on-demand streaming video offering just got a whole lot more attractive. The company announced today that they signed a deal with Viacom, allowing them to offer thousands of new videos from sources like MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, BET and Nickelodeon, among others. In total, Amazon Prime will have over...
Larry Page Spotted Wearing Google Glasses In England!
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There hasn’t been a whole lot of news coming out of the Google Zeitgeist event taking place in a posh hotel on the outskirts of London this week, but Google’s making some other news in England: its CEO Larry Page has been spotted wearing Google Glasses. The pictures of Page...
He Who Controls The Mobile Photos, Controls The Universe
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A funny, and somewhat unexpected thing happened today. Yahoo!, now with Marissa Mayer at the helm, decided that it was time to bring an all new experience to the world when it comes to photo sharing and hosting. It’s a whole lot of new for Flickr’s site and iOS app,...
SocialFlow Increases Social Media Clicks By Up To 60% - At A Cost
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SocialFlow, a service currently being used by the Economist, the New York Public Library, Pepsi and Human Rights Watch to manage social media campaigns, exited its beta and became publicly available Tuesday. In the beta stage, SocialFlow increased clicks per tweet between 40% and 60%, on average. But the service...
BBC's Connected Red Button launches on TiVo, brings true web TV with a single click
www.engadget.com
Much as smart TVs might seem like a recent revolution, audiences in the UK have had access to interactive, multi-window content on their TVs for over 13 years. The difference (and in many ways, the problem) is that this bonus "Red Button" material has been delivered over the old-school...
Swype’s new “living keyboard” doesn’t just predict, it learns
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Swype, the text input interface now common on Android phones, just got a whole lot smarter. New owner Nuance Communications is updating Swype with the same sophisticated contextual language technologies it uses in its speech recognition products. The result is what Nuance is calling a “living keyboard” – one that...
Galaxy Note II makes first FCC appearance, variant lacks US-friendly LTE bands
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Samsung pegged its new Note for an October launch in Europe and Asia, in typical FCC fashion, it's passed through those wireless testing labs ahead of its arrival in stores around the world. For US readers, there's a severe lack of compatible US LTE bands on this Galaxy Note...
Instagram: what is Facebook getting for $1bn?
www.guardian.co.uk
Is the social network just after another chunk of the world's visual memory, asks Guardian head of photography Roger ToothIn my job I guess it's unsurprising that I keep hearing things about photography. "Facts" like half of all pictures ever taken were taken in the past 12 months. Could that...
I’m Back
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Hey! So TechCrunch Disrupt New York is just around the corner on May 19-23. So, what, you say, you don’t work here any more, right? (for the newer TechCrunch readers, I’m the guy who founded the site) Well, yeah, I don’t work here any more because Aol fired me last...
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
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People increasingly have more than one device, and they switch between them many times a day. Nexus—Google’s hardware line for Android devices—gets rid of the hassle. Just sign in with your Google Account and everything is there ready to go, whatever device you’re using: photos, emails, contacts, bookmarks, even your...
iFixit Tears Down The MacBook Pro With Retina Display, Deems It Nearly Impossible To Repair
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The MacBook Pro with Retina Display is an impressive beast with a stunning screen and top-of-the-line computing innards. That said, it’s about as repairable as a used stick of gum per iFixit. The always vigilant DIY repair company just posted its notes after spending sometime completely disassembling the new Apple...
Why I'm Joining The Movement To Stop Answering After-Hours Email
www.readwriteweb.com
As often as email is proclaimed to be dead, and then not, one thing is for sure: knowledge workers - like me, and probably you - still have to deal a whole lot of it. Some employees and their employers are starting to push back against the "always-on" mentality, advocating...
Live With Nokia At MWC
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I’m sitting in the packed press room for the Nokia press conference. Stephen Elop has just come out and right off the bat praised his company’s performance in the last year, a huge one for the company in its turnaround strategy with a new operating system (Microsoft), and a shift...
The mighty Kuratas gets assembled on video
www.engadget.com
It'll cost you $1.35 million to own one, but putting together a Kuratas isn't any easier. The latest video of the monstrous mech shows it being transported and assembled. That means flatbeds, cranes and a whole lot of socket wrenches. Of course, at the end of the day, you've...
Spotify Moves Beyond Facebook With a "Play Button" For the Rest of the Web
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If you’re on Facebook, then you’ve almost certainly seen Spotify, which is why the music service has been able to pick up some 3 million users since it launched in the U.S. last summer. But not everyone is on Facebook (really!), and Spotify would like many more users. This should...
Verizon Teams With Redbox For a Netflix-Style Video Service
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Here’s the Netflix-style video service that Verizon wouldn’t talk about a couple months ago: A joint venture with Redbox that promises “instantly available online and mobile content with immediate access to physical media through rental kiosks.” The two companies put out a press release without a whole lot of detail...
Former Googlers Launch YC-Backed Delupa: A PageRank For Daily Deals
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If you were to stop for a moment and consider what your perfect deals site would be, chances are it doesn’t look a whole lot like any of the big names currently operating in the space. When it comes down to it, we all have our own individual preferences when...
Where Klout Meets Kickstarter, Wahooly Lands Angel Round
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Where Klout Meets Kickstarter: Wahooly Lands Angel Round For Crowdfunding Via Social Proof With the passage of the JOBS Act, crowdfunding is going to get a whole lot more interesting — and a whole lot more crowded. Now that everyone and their mother can invest in startups, hundreds of crowdfunding...
Live from Microsoft's E3 2012 keynote!
www.engadget.com
The first of the big three! This year Microsoft kicks off the keynotes with its pre-show Media Briefing and, while we have some idea of what to expect, we're hoping for a whole lot more. No, this may not be the year that the Xbox 360's proper successor is...
Cadillac focuses on safety with vibrating drivers' seats, other accident avoidance tech (video)
www.engadget.com
To say General Motors' Cadillac division is taking safety seriously on its upcoming 2013 vehicles would be an understatement. The automaker recently announced its high-tech accident avoidance packages dubbed Driver Awareness and Assist, the earlier of which is set to debut this Spring on its new XTS model, moving...
Possible new MacBook Pro specs label surfaces: 2560 x 1600 display, USB 3.0 ports, thin as Air
9to5mac.com
. While we obviously cannot confirm these purported technical specifications for the upcoming MacBook Pro revamp, an anonymously sent MacBook Pro packaging label was sent to us (above) earlier today. The labeling is of the same nature as the 13 inch MacBook Pro label leak from this morning – unconfirmed...
Sell Simp.ly Rebrands As Chirpify; Launches New Twitter Commerce Platform For Brands
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We first covered Sell Simp.ly in November last year, as it looked to capitalize on the increasing interest in social media as not only a place to advertise and build an online presence for brands, but as a platform for conducting social commerce. Most of that interest has surrounded Facebook,...
Spotify app Soundrop relaunches, becomes social music player
gigaom.com
The popular Spotify collaborative listening app Soundrop relaunched with a completely revamped service Thursday, offering Spotify users a much tighter social integration that puts Spotify’s own social integration to shame. But Soundrop 2.0 is more than just bells and whistles: The app’s underlying platform has been rebuilt entirely, foreshadowing much...
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