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70 Million People Used This Startup's Software Last Month, But You've Never Heard Of It
Unless you're plugged into the Danish startup scene, you've probably never heard of Issuu. What is weird about that: 70 million people used Issuu's software last month. Issuu is a YouTube-for-Magazines.
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10 Startups Making Travel More Affordable
Ask any seasoned traveler about the merits of globetrotting and you’re likely to hear a litany of enthusiastic responses: personal growth, cultural exploration, catharsis. These 10 startups can help turn your travel dreams into realities.
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Forget Big Data: The future is Small Data, and Facebook just bought it
This morning, Onavo, an Israeli start-up, announced it was being acquired by Facebook. Onavo’s flagship product is a data compressor. When you browse a web page or use an app on your phone, Onavo routes the traffic through its servers, where it compresses and optimizes the data before sending it on to the phone. Call it “small data.” The result is you see exactly the same web page but less data comes out of your plan.
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Next Year, Your Smartphone Might Actually Charge Itself Using Solar Power
Tired of budgeting how much time you spend using your smartphone? Wouldn’t it be great if smartphones could just simply recharge themselves?
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How Deep Links Could Revolutionize Mobile Advertising
One of the clunkier aspects of the mobile experience is the lack of a seamless transition from app to app. For instance, when LinkedIn sends you an email about a new connection, the accompanying link sends you to LinkedIn's homepage rather than its app. If you're a retailer advertising on mobile, those who click through will either go to your homepage or to the front door of your app, rather than to a page where they can buy a product.
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A plan to turn every lightbulb into an ultra-fast alternative to Wi-Fi
Current wireless networks have a problem: The more popular they become, the slower they are. Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have just become the latest to demonstrate a technology that transmits data as light instead of radio waves, which gets around the congestion issue and could be ten times faster than traditional Wi-Fi.
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Loop: The Future Of Mobile Payments Or A Temporary Fix?
Loop is a new mobile payments startup making some fairly big claims. The company says it has invented a technology that lets you pay with your phone at nearly any point-of-sale across the U.S., without requiring merchants to upgrade their hardware. Nor do you have to own a particular device, like those NFC-based smartphones required for mobile payment services like Google Wallet or Isis.
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Mark Zuckerberg Makes First Known Investment in Startup
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making his first known investment in a startup, a firm called Panorama Education that uses data analysis to attempt to improve education.
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Can E-Books Save The Neighborhood Bookstore?
A startup called Zola Books has paired with the popular novelist Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, to try to save brick-and-mortar shops.
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Need a Job? Service Helps You Find One via Text
While the web makes it easier for professionals to find jobs, technology has left behind millions of hourly workers who don't have regular access to the Internet. A Seattle startup called Jobaline wants to change that by tapping into one of the most basic communication technologies out there: texting. This allows hourly employees, who made up about 59% of the U.S. workforce in 2012, to easily access the online employment service without the need of a computer or smartphone.
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Is Snapchat Really Worth $3.5 Billion?
Snapchat may soon be part of the billion-dollar company club, three times over. AllThingsD reports that Snapchat is looking to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of up to $3.5 billion, just a few months after raising a $60 million round at an $800 million valuation.
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Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry
According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten. And many see this wasted food as a business opportunity — from startups like Food Cowboy and CropMobster to the former president of Trader Joe's, who is opening up a market. But although food waste is an obvious problem, it's a complicated one to solve, whether you're targeting farmers, retailers or consumers.
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4 Myths About User Experience — And How to Bust Them
While the concept of user experience and the term UX have become seemingly ubiquitous in the workplace, most non-UX people still have the wrong idea about what it is. Here are four common UX myths and how we can bust them
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Hyperloop Startup Lands Major Partners and Unveils Official Name
The idea for the hyperloop has been floating around since 2012, back when Telsa and SpaceX founder Elon Musk first came up with the next-gen transportation concept. Now the group that announced its intentions to develop the idea back in September has stepped forward with an official name: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.
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Lavabit creator launches Kickstarter campaign for dark mail open-source project for encrypted email
Lavabit creator Ladar Levison has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the dark mail encrypted email initiative he’s working on in partnership with Silent Circle. The project is looking to raise $196,608 to take the Lavabit source code and turn it into a free and open-source project with the new dark mail protocol. Dark mail is intended to provide a next-generation form of email with end-to-end encryption.
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Montreal's reelyActive wins global startup competition, named ‘world's best startup.’
Canada's reelyActive was named 'World's Best Technology Startup' tonight at the grand final competition of Startup World, an initiative to promote startups and entrepreneurship globally.
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Wallet hack: can Coin replace your credit cards?
San Francisco startup Coin today announced its first product — a credit card-sized device that digitally stores up to eight credit, debit, gift, or membership cards, and lets you switch between them by pressing a circular button on its surface. You can then swipe the Coin in any conventional reader or ATM machine as if it were the original card itself.
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Travelers Rent Their Cars Out At Airports, In A New Business Model
A service lets travelers leave their car at the airport — and rent it out while they're away.
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8 Tech Companies That Turned Down Huge Buyouts
This week Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel, 23, and Bobby Murphy, 25, made headlines by rejecting a reported $3 billion offer from Facebook. Will they regret it?
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Touch Board: Interactivity Everywhere
Now anyone can transform touch into sound (and so much more!) with the Touch Board, an easy-to-use Arduino-compatible device.
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