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Dropbox partners with Adyen to accept Direct Debit payments in Europe

Mar04
by on March 4, 2015 at 3:49 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Dropbox is teaming up with payment platform Adyen to allow users and businesses across 12 European countries to pay for the company’s cloud storage service via Direct Debit. Dropbox says it will add more payment options for its customers in Europe, Latin America and Asia in the coming months. Working with Adyen means Dropbox can support other popular payment options in Europe, such as Giropay, SOFORT, iDEAL and Carte Bleue. The company says it has 120 million users in Europe, where its business is growing faster than in the US. ➤ Dropbox Read next: Dropbox acquires visual collaboration platform Pixelapse

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Sony announces its Morpheus VR headset will ship in 2016

Mar03
by on March 3, 2015 at 11:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Everyone has something they want to shove on your face. Today Sony announced that it has thing it wants to shove on your face–Project Morpheus– will ship in the first part of 2016. The VR (virtual reality) headset was unveiled last year at GDC (Game Developers Conference) and because–as we learned earlier today–it takes Sony a year to do anything, it announced at this year’s GDC that it will be shipping the headset sometime in the first half of 2016. The headset will feature a 1920 x 1080 RGB OLED display with a 120hz refresh rate. The 5.7-inch display also has 100 degree…

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Uber acquires mapping startup deCarta

Mar03
by on March 3, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

While Uber is great at raising money and angering the taxi industry and local governments, it’s not really known for acquisitions. Today that changed. Mashable reports that Uber has acquired mapping startup deCarta for an undisclosed amount of money. The mapping platform features local search, location based features, geocoding and routing. In other words, things that Uber needs for its app for drivers and users. Uber told Mashable that the acquisition will “make the Uber experience even better for our users.” ➤ Uber acquires mapping startup deCarta [Mashable]

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Wacom’s petite Cintiq gets new touch ability

Mar03
by on March 3, 2015 at 10:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

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Wacom has announced a new version of its smallest Cintiq pen tablet, the 13HD, named the 13HD Touch. It adds multitouch support to match its larger Cintiq siblings. The Cintiq 13HD Touch is almost identical to the previous version, but adds finger touch capabilities to the screen, which continues to work with the included 2,048-level pressure sensitive, tilt-recognition pen. With multitouch integration you can use familiar gestures for zooming and also mix pen and finger strokes together. Wacom envisions that artists may zoom with one hand and retouch with the other, for a natural interactive design experience. The tablet is also compatible with…

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