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Apple desperately needs to split official apps from iOS updates

Jul23
by on July 23, 2015 at 2:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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Apple Music, which was released just a few weeks ago, landed to much fanfare from tech journalists. One prominent Apple blogger, Jim Dalrymple, praised the service saying “I’m damned impressed.” Now, Dalrymple gone back on that excitement in a new post trashing the service and labeling it “a nightmare.” A few weeks after launch, critics are starting to agree that Apple Music is a little rough around the edges and needs more work. Here’s the thing: Apple needs to separate its apps — or at least some of them — from requiring entire iOS updates as soon as it can. It’s…

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Bootstrapped entrepreneur? Win a ticket to TNW Conference in New York

Jul23
by on July 23, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events

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What if I told you that you could spend an entire day and night surrounded by 1,500 investors, journalists and early adopters from the New York technology scene? How about I throw in a crash course on 100 of the hottest young startups and two-dozen awesome keynotes? The 3rd edition of The Next Web Conference USA will be held on November 18 in New York, bringing together hundreds of innovative minds in one high powered event. A full-priced ticket to the 1-day conference currently costs $319 (€295), with prices set to rise again in a few days. We don’t normally…

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The Financial Times has been acquired by Nikkei for $1.3 billion in cash

Jul23
by on July 23, 2015 at 2:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Pearson has confirmed that it has sold the Financial Times Group to Nikkei for $1.3 billion in cash. In a press release, Pearson’s CEO John Fallon said “Pearson has been a proud proprietor of the FT for nearly 60 years. But we’ve reached an inflection point in media, driven by the explosive growth of mobile and social.” “In this new environment, the best way to ensure the FT’s journalistic and commercial success is for it to be part of a global, digital news company.” The company said that with the sale it “will now be 100% focused on our global education strategy.” Tsuneo…

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Product Hunt now has a dedicated books section

Jul23
by on July 23, 2015 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Following Product Hunt’s expansion into games, it’s adding yet another vertical: books. The site is today getting a dedicated section for books that shows a feed of new and undiscovered titles,, similar to the other verticals of the site. Books uses a standalone voting system that’s separate from the ‘tech’ board, just like games. As part of the new vertical it’s also launching regular, scheduled “Ask Me Anything” sessions with book authors, starting with Ashlee Vance, the author of a book that details Elon Musk’s life. In keeping with the history of Product Hunt, the new section started out life as an…

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See you Skype: 8 alternatives that are worth the hype

Jul23
by on July 23, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Business Apps, skype

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Skype might be good enough for your Grandma, but can it really be trusted for your business communications? On paper, Skype is now a tempting choice for a company, as well as being the go-to tool for catching up with tech-fearing relatives. It’s recently been made available as a Web service and amalgamated with Microsoft’s other business communication offering, Lync, bringing enterprise security and IT control features with it. But Skype is by no means without its issues (many of which are well documented), such as poor call quality, out-of-control notifications, poor connections, problems with Skype credit, and so on.…

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