Archive | March 28th, 2012

Dating App Yoke Hooks You Up Based On Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, And Facebook Data

Posted on 28 March 2012

Finally, a dating site where you can find someone to actually date, not just sleep with.

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New Government ePayment Regulation Costs Small Business $10 Billion

Posted on 28 March 2012

Editor’s note: Steven Aldrich is CEO of Outright , an online accounting application that serves more than 150,000 small businesses, including many eBay, Amazon, and Etsy merchants. Follow him on Twitter @spaldrich . The small business economy is suffering considerable harm from new regulations being enforced by the IRS this year

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Hitting 20M App Downloads, Azumio Releases Sleep Time To Measure Your Zs (From Your iPhone)

Posted on 28 March 2012

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Azumio isn’t exactly a household name when it comes to mobile apps, so one might be surprised to learn that, collectively, their apps have pulled in over 20 million downloads. That’s because Azumio is plugging away at building a suite of biofeedback apps that measure your heart rate, stress, and sleep

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Kindle Fire Update Brings Sharing, Book Extras, Print Replica Textbooks To The Masses

Posted on 28 March 2012

Hey there, Kindle Fire owners — Amazon’s rolling out a brand new software update for you, and it packs quite a few worthwhile (and arguably overdue) tweaks for your budget-conscious tablet. Take sharing, for example. Oddly absent from the Kindle Fire at launch was the ability to share interesting snippets of text like its e-ink brethren, but that functionality has been added, along with the ability to tap into Amazon’s people-powered Shelfari service for what the company calls Book Extras — extra related information pertaining to the book a reader is poring through.

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Facebook gives permalinks to individual comments, hides potential spam

Posted on 28 March 2012

Facebook now assigns permanent links to all comments on the site and hides spam comments rather than just marking them with a darker background. The company announced the improvements in a post on its Facebook + Journalists page. With the addition of permalinks, users can share a direct link to any comment

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Have Money, Will Explore: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Aims To Recover Lost Apollo 11 Engines

Posted on 28 March 2012

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a knack for using his considerable net worth in interesting ways — 10,000 Year Clock anyone? — but for space buffs like me, one venture in particular takes the cake. In a new post on the Bezos Expeditions website, he announced that he and his team of savvy undersea explorers have located the Rocketdyne F-1 engines that helped propel the crew of Apollo 11 on their historic voyage to the moon in 1969.

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House Shoots Down Legislation That Would Have Stopped Employers From Demanding Your Facebook Password

Posted on 28 March 2012

Well, that didn’t take long. A proposed Facebook user protection amendment introduced yesterday in the U.S

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Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Prices IPO At $13 Per Share

Posted on 28 March 2012

After setting a price range yesterday, mobile ad network Millennial Media has priced its IPO of 10.2 million shares of common stock at $13 per share. This is the high end of the range that Millennial reported yesterday, and values the company at $973.5 million. Millennial’s shares will list on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow morning under the symbol “MM.” Millennial says that a total of 9.2 million shares are being offered by the company, and a total of 1 million shares are being offered by selling stockholders

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YouTube Is Looking For The Next Vlogging Star

Posted on 28 March 2012

YouTube is announcing a new program to nurture the next generation of video bloggers. The Next Vlogger initiative is part of YouTube Next Creator — where, as the name implies, the site tries to find and mentor future YouTube stars.

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New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Spruce Media, W3i, OfferPop and more

Posted on 28 March 2012

The  Inside Network Job Board  is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.

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