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WSJ: Microsoft acquires 6Wunderkinder, the company behind popular to-do list app Wunderlist

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by on June 1, 2015 at 6:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Wunderlist may now be a Microsoft property. Microsoft has reportedly agreed to purchase 6Wunderkinder, the company responsible for Wunderlist. The Wall Street Journal — citing people familiar with the deal — say the final purchase price was between $100 and $200 million. Wunderlist is a popular cross-platform to-do list app which syncs across devices. The service dovetails nicely with Microsoft’s ambitions of being a services provider for mobile enterprise. It’s not clear how Microsoft plans to situate Wunderlist in with its other suite of products, but there could be a re-branding effort. After purchasing Acompli, Microsoft rebranded it as Outlook for Mobile.…

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Twitter launches Official Partners Program to help brands manage social engagement

Jun01
by on June 1, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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You may see more curated tweets soon, as Twitter has launched a program to encourage more businesses to use the platform to reach customers. The Official Partner Program from Twitter is a new initiative to bring together partners form Twitter’s Certified Program and its Marketing Platform Partner program who “have been recognized by Twitter because of their high-quality products or expert-level services and proven success on Twitter.” Twitter is partnering with IBM for the launch of its new Official Partners Program, where IBM will assist customers in using Twitter data to make decisions about their social marketing efforts. Official Partners…

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Google is hiding Google+ profile links throughout its pages

Jun01
by on June 1, 2015 at 5:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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If you’ve been on any of Google’s Web services today, you may have missed a small but important change – they no longer directly link to your Google+ profile. Previously your name would be displayed with a ‘+’ preceding it, and clicking on it would lead to your Google+ profile. That’s no longer the case; it’s now just your name in plain old non-clickable form. This applied to every Google property we tried, including Search, Gmail and even Google Plus itself. And as VentureBeat noticed, account profiles are no longer prominently listed at the top of search results. That’s not…

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6 steps to getting free press for your startup

Jun01
by on June 1, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, free pr, how to get press for your startup, how to talk to journalist, Insider

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Every week I get at least two emails from startups asking me to help them “build buzz” around their product or service. Most of them want PR help but since it’s so prohibitively expensive to hire a PR firm startups are really struggling in this space. They want and need PR buzz but can’t afford expensive agencies. What to do? For the past eight years I’ve been doing my own PR without hiring anybody else to help me and it has worked beautifully for me. I have given a lot of talks on the topic, written guest articles about the general…

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Lego launches its Minecraft competitor

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by on June 1, 2015 at 5:06 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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A few days ago, we reported on Lego possibly launching its own Minecraft competitor, but it’s now confirmed: Lego Worlds launched on Steam today (in beta). Here’s the description from the game page on Steam: In a galaxy of procedural worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks, will you… EXPLORE environments filled with adventure, then alter them? DISCOVER secrets and treasures, then play with them? CREATE your own models, then make a world your own? Yep, sounds like Minecraft to me. As you might expect, however, Lego’s game allows you to create worlds based on some real-world Lego kits, as well…

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