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Amazon has filed its first ever lawsuit over fake product reviews

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon has filed a lawsuit against four websites – buyamazonreviews.com, buyazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com – for allegedly selling fake product reviews. When you are buying a product on Amazon, you tend to scroll down and check out the user reviews underneath the listings, so in order for these to be helpful, they need to be real. Luckily, Amazon has said that the fake 4- and 5-star reviews don’t appear to be widespread, so you can trust the majority of what you read. The suit was filed on Wednesday in King County Superior Court, and accuses Jay Gentile of California (operator…

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Watch now: The evolution of online news

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 2:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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What is the future of news – and online news in particular? Jimmy Maymann, the CEO of the Huffington Post, does not believe in paywalls because often the content is not worth paying for. He believes in free access. However, there is a challenge to that – how to make the business profitable? Besides advertisements, Jimmy, coming from video background himself, believes in video. If done right, video is something that matters from monetization perspective. We’ve just added Jimmy Maymann’s talk from the TNW Europe Conference 2013 to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for…

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HBO goes live on Sling TV, making it one of the most accessible premium networks

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 2:10 pm
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Following this week’s announcement that HBO Now has officially launched, Sling TV today confirmed that its customers can now access HBO on the app for an extra $15 a month. The price is the same as HBO Now via Apple TV and iOS devices, or through Optimum/Cablevision. Sling and HBO Now will be your best options for catching this weekend’s anticipated premiere of three HBO hits: “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley.” The launches of HBO Now and HBO on Sling officially make the network one of the most accessible premium channels in the US. In comparison, HBO’s sister network Cinemax, Starz and…

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Twitter now lets you upload slow-mo videos from your iPhone

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, Social Media

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Twitter has just made sharing slow-mo videos from your iPhones a lot easier. Announced in a tweet, Twitter confirmed that you can now upload your 60fps and 120fps videos as normal with your posts, and they will play back at the right speed. Slow-mo tea? My favourite 🙂 pic.twitter.com/zQe4twQRua — Amanda Connolly (@tweets_amanda) April 9, 2015 When the iPhone 5s came out, the 120 fps slow-motion video recording was a great feature, but sharing those videos was tricky. A lot of apps and online services didn’t recognize the videos at their correct speed, and instead played them at full speed.…

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Twitter now lets you upload slow-mo videos from your iPhone

Apr09
by on April 9, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, Social Media

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Twitter has just made sharing slow-mo videos from your iPhones a lot easier. Announced in a tweet, Twitter confirmed that you can now upload your 60fps and 120fps videos as normal with your posts, and they will play back at the right speed. Slow-mo tea? My favourite 🙂 pic.twitter.com/zQe4twQRua — Amanda Connolly (@tweets_amanda) April 9, 2015 When the iPhone 5s came out, the 120 fps slow-motion video recording was a great feature, but sharing those videos was tricky. A lot of apps and online services didn’t recognize the videos at their correct speed, and instead played them at full speed.…

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