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FetchMe, the UK’s version of Magic, will let you request anything (legal) via SMS

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, UK

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FetchMe is a new service based in the UK that allows anyone to order pretty much anything simply by sending an SMS. Yes, of course the requests need to be within the bounds of legality, but the company’s founder Rowan Hand says that pretty much anything else is fair game: FetchMe is for people who have a need and want to solve it by sending a text. That’s holiday, food, a massage, or even a cleaner if it’s one of those Sunday mornings when you can’t be bothered. Of course we’ve had orders for prostitutes and drugs, but the majority…

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YouTube comes under fire for sneaking ads onto its Kids app

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 8:10 am
Posted In: advertising, Apps, Around the Web, Google, YouTube Kids

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A number of consumer and child advocacy groups are banding together to ask the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate YouTube’s new Kids app, reports Reuters. The organizations argue that Google’s new app deceptively targets young audiences with advertising mixed in with traditional content. Launched in February, YouTube Kids features branded channels managed by companies like McDonalds and Fisher-Price. It reportedly blends child-friendly programming like cartoons, with ads that feature the same characters — a practice that is banned on US broadcast and cable television by the Federal Communications Commission. The critics also argue that YouTube does not indicate when user-generated…

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