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OneLiners.co is like 99designs for company taglines (except it’s free)

May04
by on May 4, 2015 at 3:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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When you spend days and nights working on a startup, it can be hard to condense the core of your product down to a handful of words. For frustrated entrepreneurs and marketers alike, OneLiners.co wants to help you crowdsource catchy taglines. The free Web service lets you check out startups that want the Internet’s hand in coming up with a fresh slogan, or improve upon their current ones. If you’re no wordsmith, you can also browse through the suggestions to upvote or downvote the contributions. If you’re the startup needing help, you can submit an entry with a link to your website and a brief…

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Emojis account for nearly half of the comments and captions on Instagram #RIPtext

May04
by on May 4, 2015 at 12:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

Emojis are fast becoming the new language of the Internet, at least according to a new study that details the widespread use of emojis on Instagram. The research, penned by Thomas Dimson, a software engineer behind Instagram’s Hyperlapse app, states that nearly half of the text on Instagram contain emojis. This includes comments, captions and the recently-introduced emoji-capable hashtags. The trend took a sharp uprise after emoji keyboards were introduced on iOS and Android in 2011 and 2013, respectively. The findings also noted that Finlanders used the most emojis in their Instagram posts, with 63 percent of the text consisting of the cartoony emoticons. Another…

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Now you can buy a pre-owned Tesla Model S from the company’s new online marketplace

May03
by on May 3, 2015 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Want to own a Tesla electric vehicle but can’t afford to buy a brand new one? With Tesla Motors’ new online marketplace for used cars, now you might be able to. The company quietly launched the Tesla Motors Certified Pre-Owned program last week, listing a slew of previously-loved Model S’s for sale. At this time, you can search for pre-owned Tesla vehicles in nine American cities and two states: Atlanta, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Cleveland, Seattle, Washington DC, Florida and Hawaii. In our quick glance, we found a 2014 Model S P85 with 4,166 miles clocked in for $86,000. In comparison, the latest P85 model…

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Report: Facebook to start hosting other sites’ content this month

May03
by on May 3, 2015 at 10:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook may begin hosting content from major publishers across the Web as early as this month, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The initiative, titled “Instant Articles,” aims to help publishers speed up article load time for users accessing content via Facebook’s mobile app. Some of the first publishers to take part in the initial launch include Buzzfeed, The New York Times and National Geographic. Facebook has also devised a revenue model that hopes to attract publishers who are wary of relying too much on the social network to share their content. With Instant Articles, Facebook will reportedly earn nothing from ad sales, and instead…

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