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iPhone users, rejoice: In iOS 7, Newsstand can finally be hidden (but not deleted)
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 23:40
At stake is whether the phone is yours, or Apple's. Whether your experience of your Apple technology is of core importance to Apple, or whether the company's desire to control the user interface and push its own products...
Steve Case' $20M investment in Lolly Wolly Doodle proves the value of social commerce
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 23:09
"Most of what happens in social commerce is that the larger companies are looking at social opportunities thru the prism of the past," Steve Case explains. "They have the view that it's ancillary, a curiosity, an extra."
OkCupid and Tinder make a hot date to swap UX (exclusive)
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 22:20
In the digital dating world, one of the hottest new entrants is Tinder. And fellow dating app OKCupid developed a little crush.
FBARs Must Be Filed And Received By June 30
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 21:14Alex Atala, The World's Most Influential Chef, Shares 8 Simple Rules For Success
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 21:00Information Overload: The Big Challenge (And Opportunity) For Digital Health
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 20:47Google + Facebook = 70% of all mobile ad revenues worldwide
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 20:45
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now By itself, Google accounts for 56 percent of all global mobile ad revenues. Social giant Facebook takes a much smaller chunk, 13 percent. But together, they own the l...
Small And Growing Businesses Are A Key To Our Job Problems
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 20:37The Third Plaza: Puerto Rico Creates a New Place for Itself in the Americas
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 20:34Rio Tinto Looks To Sell Aussie Copper Assets To Shore Up Balance Sheet
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 20:01
Rio Tinto is looking to receive final bids for its Northparkes copper mine in Australia by the end of this month, according to people familiar with the process. None of them have consented to appear on record though, cit...
Nintendo marketing exec Scott Moffit on staying relevant in this console generation (interview)
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 20:00
Nintendo's top sales man in the U.S. says that software will sell the Wii U.
AT&T Spends To Gain New Subscribers As LTE Network Plays Catch Up
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 19:57PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 19:54
One website benefiting from the panic over government surveillance is private search engine DuckDuckGo, which is seeing record interest.
Harley-Davidson Is Ready To Ride To $60
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 19:51
The shares of Harley-Davidson have seen a correction after they almost touched $60 following the impressive first quarter results. Some of the recent pullback can be attributed to investors concerns about the Federal Res...
Twitter's new #FollowMe tool creates an instant Twitter highlight reel for you
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 19:27
Twitter and Vizify have teamed up to create a highlight reel of your best tweets, photos, and most engaging moments on Twitter, automagically.
Thumbtack Raises $12.5M To Target Fragmented Local Services Market
Forbes - 13 Jun 2013 19:21You can now access your official Twitter engagement statistics (but don't bother)
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 19:04
Sometimes there is a reason companies do things under the radar.
Thumbtack raises $12.5M to be the 'Amazon of local services'
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 19:00
Thumbtack has raised $12.5 million to grow its marketplace of local services. The startup wants to make hiring a professional as easy as online shopping by providing a comprehensive directory, estimated costs and ratings...
UX clinic: HotelTonight excels in its error messaging
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 18:06
Guest Post With the limited screen sizes and the sometimes flaky connections of smartphones, designing for mobile requires extra attention to detail. And HotelTonight is a great example of how to do one detail -- error m...
Supreme court: no, you may not copyright human genes
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 18:06
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that companies may not patent human genes. At least, not ones they haven't made themselves.
'Caliente' startup GoodData raises $22M from Latin America's largest enterprise company
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 18:03
Big data company GoodData has raised $22 million from Latin America's largest enterprise software company TOTVS and entered into an exclusive partnership.
The wearable computing era isn't on the horizon -- it's already here, says Flurry
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2013 18:00
We're so tied to our mobile gadgets today that we might as well call them wearable.