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November 5, 2014
Were you one of those kids who never got to play Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 64 because it required that damned expansion pack? Good news! Because…
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This year, SunShot’s Catalyst incubator crowdsourced 130 problem statements involving these soft costs in solar energy by letting the public vote for the issues they deem most important,…
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Google is expanding its Inbox invite program, having issued another collection of invites to existing members already today, with a new ‘Happy Hour’ taking place between 3 p.m.…
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Google has updated Maps to keep with the visual theme introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop, which it calls material design. The new mobile apps now feature bold headers…
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Two creators of Zynga’s social gaming hit FarmVille are launching a new app-marketing product today called Toro. Amitt Mahajan and Joel Poloney were co-founders at MyMiniLife, the Zynga-acquired…
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It may have taken massive hacks of popular platforms like Apple’s iCloud and messaging app Snapchat to generate mainstream awareness around the fact that any content stored online…
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Is it a bird? It is a plane? No it’s a bird-shaped drone called Bionic Bird. This new mechanical bird, due to land this December, will be app…
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While PayPal continues to work out its frenemy relationship with Apple, and figure out how it will chart its life as a company separate from its owner eBay, its…
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It’s all getting harder in the B2B world. That’s the bottom line. A board member of mine recently told me a story about the “good old days” of…
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Fresh from announcing record shipments in the last quarter of business, LG has revealed that it has struck a 10-year global patent agreement with Google. The company says…
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