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Starbucks and Postmates team up for new on-demand delivery service

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by on March 18, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Postmates announced today that they are teaming up with Starbucks for a new on-demand delivery service. You will soon be able to order food and beverages through the Starbucks app and have them delivered straight to you by Postmates. The delivery service will be kicking off in Seattle in the second half of 2015. Bastian Lehmann, Co-Founder of Postmates, told TNW: We’re very excited about this opportunity. Postmates is extremely proud of it’s unique customer-first approach. And we’re also a company that took logistical risks to enable delivery from any place – not just a handful of places with which we were able to secure…

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The SKEYE Nano Drone is back in stock! 41% off at TNW Deals

Mar18
by on March 18, 2015 at 4:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Offers, TNWDeals

The SKEYE Nano Drone is perfect for pocket-sized fun anytime, anywhere! This tiny flying machine is easy to control and perform stunts with, for a barrel of fun that you can take with you wherever you go. Last month this deal sold out within a matter of days, but now it’s back and available for US and International shipping! The SKEYE Nano Drone features a 6-axis flight control system with three modes, for everyone from beginners to advanced pilots to experts, so you can execute simple maneuvers right out of the box and master complex ones like figures 8s and…

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How messaging apps are eating your keyboard

Mar18
by on March 18, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Investigations, Mobile, sensors, trends

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Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based startup building messaging for work. Typing: the final frontier. These are the voyages of mobile’s killer app, messaging. Its mission: to explore strange new ways of communicating, to seek out new workflows, and to boldly cannibalize one of the oldest input methods known to man, the keyboard. Besides being subject of a high-stake platform war involving all major tech behemoths, messaging apps – used by billions every day and still growing in popularity – are gradually taking center stage in the accelerating shift away from typing. But before diving into how…

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Get on a conference call in seconds by copying in this email address

Mar18
by on March 18, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Setting up conference calls can be a pain, but with this new service, it doesn’t have to be. All you need to do to set up your next meeting is copy in this email address: talk@anymeeting.com. Anymeeting, the company behind the new service, launched it today to help reduce the friction to actually getting on a call. Once you copy in the email address, all attendees get a reply from Anymeeting with the conference call details. The service doesn’t require an account to get on a conference call and the only limitation is you can’t have more than 200 attendees. This makes it…

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Sony launches PlayStation Vue streaming live TV service in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia

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by on March 18, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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The TV world is evolving at an alarming rate. What began with Netflix streaming videos to your home has become an all-out war between companies and networks ready to stream content into your home while cable and satellite providers try to reverse plateauing and declining user numbers. Now Sony is ready with its own streaming TV service, PlayStaion Vue. Launching today in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, PlayStation Vue brings the typical cable TV channel bundles to the PS3 and PS4. Unlike Sling TV and other streaming video offerings, PlayStation Vue is a live TV service with cloud-based DVR and the…

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