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Spotter promises to only show you news from industries, people and companies you really care about

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by on May 12, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Apps that help you keep up to date with the news are hardly a rarity. Alongside all the news organizations’ own native offerings, there are all sorts of aggregators and human-curated services promising to deliver content straight to your phone. The problem with that is that there really are loads, and few manage to personalize the experience enough to make it a genuinely streamlined experience. Spotter, however, claims to be the one to fill that gap. Created by two ex-Googlers who left their jobs to work full-time on Spotter in January, the app uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automatically identify people and companies mentioned in…

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Apple’s push into China is crushing Samsung

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by on May 12, 2015 at 8:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Over the last few months Apple has heavily invested in China and it’s starting to hurt Samsung. Those efforts are paying off, with China passing the US to become the biggest iPhone market in April this year. IDC’s latest study on the Chinese market shows another interesting change last quarter: Apple’s sizable push into the country caused Samsung’s device shipments to collapse. In Q1 2015, Apple saw a unit shipment growth of 62 percent off the back of strong iPhone 6 sales, while Samsung’s growth actually shrank, slashed by 53 percent compared with 2014. Other handset builders, like Xiaomi and Huawei, saw growth…

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Why Europe needs more tech leaders

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by on May 12, 2015 at 7:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, BlaBlaCar

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The US is home to the world’s leading tech companies, with Silicon Valley serving as an unchallenged startup hub. The confluence of a large pool of capital, world-class talent, vibrant support infrastructure and a risk-loving culture has bred a self-fulfilling cycle of innovation and entrepreneurship. As Valley startups grow, they have immediate access to the world’s largest consumer market, connected by a single language and culture. This allows them to scale up fast and attain critical mass before needing to export their model to other countries. What is stopping the same thing from happening in Europe? Isn’t Europe a big enough ocean…

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