August 18, 2015
Opera Max Can Now Compress YouTube And Netflix Videos
Opera Max, Opera’s data-saving proxy for Android, has long allowed you to save some of your previous mobile data by compressing text, video and images when you surf…
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August 17, 2015
The Ticket Fairy Pays You To Bring Friends To Events
If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events…
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800-Pound Publishing Gorilla Facebook Barges Back Into Blogging With “Notes”
Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in…
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P2P Payments App Xendit Launches In Indonesia
Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia. The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll beat companies…
Read articleAugust 14, 2015
Bar Roulette Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
The premise is simple: tap a button, get into an Uber and have no idea where you’re going. Actually, that sounds like a really awful nightmare I had…
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United Airlines Brings Highly Detailed In-Airport Maps To Its iOS App
No matter how advanced phone mapping technologies have become, stepping into an airport takes you back several decades into the era of physical maps. With no other way…
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Niantic Labs, Maker Of Ingress, Spun Out Of Google As Its Own Company
The dust hasn’t completely settled on Google’s Alphabet move and we’re told that the new umbrella company will be nimble. Today, one of the groups inside of the…
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“How Not To PR” By Tinder
Have you heard about the Tinder Meltdown (TM)? Some even called it a “stunt.” In case you haven’t, here’s the quick and dirty: a piece appeared on Vanity…
Read articleAugust 11, 2015
Wearsafe Is A Connected Panic Button For The App Generation
At the Disrupt NY hackathon this year the winning hack was a live-streaming app called Witness whose team’s pitch was a desire to be the panic button for…
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Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network
Facebook’s making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it’s going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that…
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