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Tech5: Fairphone named Europe’s fastest-growing startup of 2015

Apr24
by on April 24, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Next Conference, tnweurope

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Huge congratulations to Amsterdam-based social enterprise Fairphone, which has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Tech5 competition at TNW Conference Europe, crowning it as Europe’s fastest-growing startup of 2015. Today’s Tech5 presentation was the conclusion of a series of events run by Adyen and The Next Web across the continent, discovering each nation’s fastest growing tech startup. Fairphone came out top based on its revenue growth between 2012 and 2014. The company – which also won Dutch event – was joined in the final by PackLink (Spain), Uplike (France), Blacklane (Germany), YPlan (the UK), Freespee (Sweden) and Festicket from…

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The Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger is dead

Apr24
by on April 24, 2015 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Comcast has just announced that its planned merger with Time Warner Cable has been canceled. Here's Comcast CEO Brian Roberts statement on the end of Time Warner Cable deal: pic.twitter.com/FmpQXAbdlX — Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) April 24, 2015 The move follows reports from Bloomberg and others yesterday that Comcast was pulling out. US regulators had begun to voice opposition to the deal over the past few days, which would have brought the United States’ biggest cable companies together. Meanwhile, a Fortune report yesterday claimed that Comcast has recently been in talks to acquire The Verge’s publisher Vox Media as it reassesses its…

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The NEXT Next Web: Try our big redesign right now

Apr24
by on April 24, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Voice

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A big redesign is coming to the The Next Web and we want you to give it a serious roadtest, so we’re opening it up in beta from today. We’ll be sharing more details about the different elements of the design in a series of posts soon, but for now we want you to explore our new homepage, with its ‘shelves’ of content, the new layout of our article pages (with a range of new ones coming soon!) – and our new ‘canvas’ ad format. To access the new site, you simply need to go to beta.thenextweb.com. Remember, it’s in beta…

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The NEXT Next Web: Try our big redesign right now

Apr24
by on April 24, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Voice

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A big redesign is coming to the The Next Web and we want you to give it a serious roadtest, so we’re opening it up in beta from today. We’ll be sharing more details about the different elements of the design in a series of posts soon, but for now we want you to explore our new homepage, with its ‘shelves’ of content, the new layout of our article pages (with a range of new ones coming soon!) – and our new ‘canvas’ ad format. To access the new site, you simply need to go to beta.thenextweb.com. Remember, it’s in beta…

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There’s an Android peeing on Apple on Google Maps and we can’t figure out why

Apr24
by on April 24, 2015 at 11:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

There’s something weird going on over on Google Maps today. A user on Hacker News spotted what appears to be the Android logo peeing on Apple in satellite view. At these co-ordinates in Pakistan the odd image appears, depicting the famous picture of an Android logo relieving itself on Apple’s logo. It could be Google’s idea of an Easter egg, but it’s most likely to have been sneakily added in by a user, like Edward Snowden’s den that appeared in the White House a few weeks back. The image doesn’t appear on the satellite view of the area, so it’s a change that was only made…

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