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- How to build a globally successful startup from a small country: Lessons from Prezi
- Facebook extends its custom gender options to UK users
- Akamai: Global average web speed up 24% annually to 3.9 Mbps, 20% of connections now above 10 Mbps
- Line extends sales of user-created stickers to the US, UK, Brazil and 6 other countries
- Facebook lifts the lid on its battle against New York court’s ‘unprecedented’ user data request
- Samsung follows Motorola’s lead, lets US customers try its Galaxy devices before buying
- YouTube unveils a new studio app for creators, lets fans contribute funding and subtitles
- Hands on with Project Tango, Google’s wild shot at making devices see the world
- Foursquare will start charging the heaviest users of its places database
- Facebook now lets marketers include up to three products in a single ad
| How to build a globally successful startup from a small country: Lessons from Prezi Posted: 27 Jun 2014 04:16 AM PDT  Building a startup anywhere is hard, but it's especially difficult if you're based in a country that isn't a huge market itself. One company that has managed to make it big despite such a restriction is Prezi, which designs and creates 'zooming' presentation software – a cloud-based presentation and storytelling tool for sharing ideas on a virtual canvas. We sat down with co-founder Adam Somlai-Fischer. Prezi has been used by over 40 million people and 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Prezi was established in Budapest, Hungary in 2009 and the word 'prezi' is the Hungarian short form of 'presentation.' Along with co-founders Peter Arvai and Péter Halácsy,... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Facebook extends its custom gender options to UK users Posted: 27 Jun 2014 03:34 AM PDT Facebook users in the UK can now choose from more than 70 different gender types following an expansion of the extended options outside of the US. The move is being made to "better reflect society", according to The Independent, and in addition to being able to select a gender beyond simply male or female, users can also now specify which pronoun they'd like used when referring to them on the platform. For example, "Wish him a happy birthday!", "Wish her a happy birthday!" or "Wish them a happy birthday!" To tinker with these settings, go to your About page, select 'Edit' next to Gender,... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Akamai: Global average web speed up 24% annually to 3.9 Mbps, 20% of connections now above 10 Mbps Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:45 AM PDT  The global average internet speed is continuing its steady increase, growing 1.8 percent quarter-over-quarter and 24 percent year-on-year to reach 3.9 Mbps, according to Akamai, which today published its quarterly State of the Internet report for Q1 2014. Given the trend, Akamai said it is likely that the global average connection speed will finally hit the 4 Mpbs broadband threshold in the second quarter. South Korea remained on top for its internet speed, which even climbed 8 percent quarter-over-quarter to 23.6 Mbps, placing it a full 9 Mbps ahead of second-ranked Japan, which in turn saw a 12 percent growth rate... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Line extends sales of user-created stickers to the US, UK, Brazil and 6 other countries Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:36 PM PDT After bringing in more than $1.5 million in revenue in its first month, Japan-based chat app Line is extending sales of its user-generated stickers initiative – Creators Market – out of Asia and into the US, UK, Brazil and six other countries. The initiative allows independent artists, or indeed anyone, to create animations for sticker packs which, if approved, are sold across Line's messaging service to its 470 million registered users. Creators keep 50 percent of the proceeds, the rest goes to the app store gatekeepers — Apple or Google — and Line. Sales first began in Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, and the initiative attracted over 100,000 creators and 14,000 sets – now... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Facebook lifts the lid on its battle against New York court’s ‘unprecedented’ user data request Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:52 PM PDT  Facebook has been striving for transparency in its dealings with various law enforcement agencies around the world, particularly with its Government Requests report which was first released in August 2013, but it faces several challenges. To illustrate this (and reassure users of its transparent approach), the company has just revealed details of its fight against a set of sweeping search warrants issued by a court in New York last summer. As reported by Bloomberg, the case concerned an investigation conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney to weed out people suspected of cheating to obtain disability benefits. Facebook's deputy general counsel, Chris... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Samsung follows Motorola’s lead, lets US customers try its Galaxy devices before buying Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:05 PM PDT As competition among smartphone manufacturers heats up, Samsung is now letting interested customers in five US cities try its Galaxy devices for 21 days before deciding whether to make the purchase. The deal is available in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Houston and Dallas currently, and devices on offer include the Galaxy S5 and Note 3, as well as wearables like the Gear 2 and Gear Fit. This comes after Motorola launched its 'Try then Buy' deal earlier this month for its Moto X device. LG has also launched something similar – but targeting developers instead — by letting them borrow its... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| YouTube unveils a new studio app for creators, lets fans contribute funding and subtitles Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:08 PM PDT  YouTube has unveiled a series of new features for its content creators as it seeks to boost their business on the video site, in turn drumming up more engagement and stickiness on the platform. A Creator Studio app is now live for Android and launching on iOS in the "coming weeks" while there will also be a redesign of Creator Studio on desktop. This means that content creators can now finally use the app to see analytics and manage videos on the go. YouTube also teased 60 frames per second support for its videos: "Your video game footage with crazy high... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hands on with Project Tango, Google’s wild shot at making devices see the world Posted: 26 Jun 2014 05:04 PM PDT  Today at Google I/O we spent some time at the Project Tango booth; if you're not familiar with Tango, it's a new technology Google is working on that will allow phones/tablets to give "human-scale" sense of space and motion. Project Tango was born out of ATAP over a year ago with the very first consumer-focused prototype unveiled being an odd-looking phone that featured three cameras. Unfortunately, we discovered today that Google's discontinued the Tango phone, but is back this year with it's new Project Tango tablet instead that's even more refined and has some impressive real-world applications. There's a series of... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Foursquare will start charging the heaviest users of its places database Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:24 PM PDT In order to make money from its giant database of restaurants and other businesses, Foursquare is in negotiations to begin charging its largest clients for access to the information. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the check-in giant is looking for additional revenue streams. Foursquare COO Jeffrey Glueck told the newspaper that of the 63,000 companies that use the database, less than one percent will be charged the new fees that will be agreed on a one-on-one basis. Foursquare already has a similar deal with Microsoft. The software company pays Foursquare to access its database for Bing. Foursquare has 50 million users and nearly... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Facebook now lets marketers include up to three products in a single ad Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:58 PM PDT Facebook today announced new multi-product ads that let businesses include three of their products when placing desktop or mobile ads on the platform. Each product will get its own image, description and target. Here's what the new ad unit looks like on the iPhone: The multi-product option is arriving first in Facebook's ads API, but the company plans to bring it to its other offerings later this year. Facebook also added to its Custom Audiences settings to allow marketers to tailor audiences based on people that had visited certain Web pages and people that hadn't visited in a while. Businesses... This story continues at The Next Web This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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