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It’s all good for Spotify

, 25. November 2011

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Spotify, which launched in the US in July of this year, has now hit the target of 2.5 million premium subscribers. It is considered as the direct result of its US launch. At first, the European based music service faced a great list of issues created by the US music industry. It took Spotify around [...]

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Virgin’s Richard Branson invests in Square

, 8. November 2011

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The increasingly popular San Francisco based mobile payment start-up, Square has just announced an incredibly well known, and very wealthy backer. He’s called, Richard Branson – you’ve probably heard of him. Branson has gone at it himself. He’s not working with any other investors, he’s invested alone, “multimillions” – which, even if only 2 million [...]

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Instagram could be heading for video, Android not happening soon

, 6. November 2011

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Since the iOS5 Beta we’ve seen an increase of photography based Apps. This, obviously a result of the camera improvement on the iPhone 4S, and general software changes to the iPhone 4. Instagram is one of the most, if not the most popular photo-sharing App around. It’s only been recently that celebrities have finally found [...]

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Unthink, The Social Network Meant To Dethrone Facebook

, 27. October 2011

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Meant to be a challenge in the face of giant Facebook, a new social network has been recently unveiled. Not performing at its full potential yet, since the press release announced a beta version, but Unthink claims to be the next big thing. The focus of attention for the Unthink team seems to be the [...]

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Pen.io lets you publish Free webpages in seconds

, 27. October 2011

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Pen.io is another amazing, fast and quickest online content creation platform, which lets you create and publish webpage in just seconds. Literally seconds! Launched by three guys in San Francisco as another start up, this new FREE service has already got attention of many in tech industry. Reportedly, 300,000 visitors are already surfing the site [...]

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Twitter video host, Twitvid raises $6.5M in Series B funding

, 2. October 2011

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Twitvid, the Twitter video host has raised $6.5 million in a Series B funding led by Azure Capital Partners, existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson also aided the series of funding. The money, according to a press release will be spent on hiring addition people and to build its infrastructure. Since Twitter rose to what it [...]

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Facebook Paying Users To Watch Adverts

, 8. May 2011

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Facebook will now reward users with Facebook Credits when they watch certain ads. These Credits can be redeemed to purchase goods on Facebook Deals, the company’s daily deals service. This added credit bonus however, is not huge. The average ad will reward one credit, which is equivalent to 10 cents. The ads are most likely to appear in games from lead publishers; CrowdStar, [...]

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SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo, The Online Form Builder

, 25. April 2011

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Survey company SurveyMonkey is acquiring Wufoo, a service that allows users to build online forms. The exact information of the deal has not been revealed, but TechCrunch says $35 million is the estimated price-point. Wufoo and its team members are going to be relocating to Palo Alto and become a part of the SurveyMonkey organization. “Wufoo is the market leader in [...]

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