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Meet the photographer whose picture of Jack Dorsey was stolen by ISIS

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by on March 2, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, ISIS, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Abosch, photography, Profiles and Interviews

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We wrote earlier today about ISIS sending death threats to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Now we know where they stole the image in their blog post from. Seems ISIS has illegally used my portrait of @jack. Don't they know about copyright? http://t.co/Ly19DNALKj pic.twitter.com/2rzzDFRthE — kevin abosch (@kevinabosch) March 2, 2015 It’s by Kevin Abosch, one of the world’s most respected visual artists, who took the photo at the DLD Conference in Munich back in 2012, as part of his Faces: Tech series. I got in touch with him to find out his thoughts on seeing his work appropriated by the terror…

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The Apple Watch will launch outside the US in April too

Mar02
by on March 2, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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When Apple first released the iPhone and iPad, their launches were limited to the US before rolling out to other countries over the following months. It appears that won’t be the case with the Apple Watch. While speaking at an Apple Store in Berlin last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees the new wearable will launch in Germany during April, according to 9to5Mac. In January, Tim Cook said the Apple Watch would be shipping in April, but it was unclear which countries would be included in the initial launch. Cook’s statement suggests a wider initial roll-out than we’ve seen before for…

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4 free tricks to find the best business blog topics

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by on March 2, 2015 at 3:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Roundups, Social Media, Tips, tricks

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Yoav Vilner is CEO at Ranky, the startup-marketing team. He’s helping startups grow and then shares his insights regularly at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, TheNextWeb, ReadWrite and VentureBeat. If the engagement in your company’s blog posts resembles a graveyard – you are far, far behind your competition. This assumption has tons of research behind it; did you know that companies with active blogs see 60 percent more online sales, as well as earn 97 percent more natural links from people enjoying the posts? After marketing startups for almost six years, trying about 200 tools and testing results on an infinite amount of…

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Panasonic’s Nubo security camera is a 4G capable challenger to Dropcam

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by on March 2, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, MWC2015, Product Launches

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Panasonic has today launched a new 4G-connected security camera aimed at the consumer market that will go up against rivals like Dropcam when it launches later this year. The device, made in partnership with Vodafone, can sync with smartphones to allow you to keep an eye on your home, office, garden or anywhere else you want to put the camera. Clearly, the key advantage of being 4G-enabled is the potential versatility of use, and the company says the Nubo is suitable for outdoors as well as indoors. Data captured by the device will be streamed to Panasonic’s own cloud storage service…

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The Learn-to-Code bundle: Pay what you want!

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by on March 2, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

Coding is a great hobby to get into because it offers endless possibilities for what you can build, but it can also unlock new avenues in your career. With this bundle, you can get into programming without any prior experience and begin building amazing projects for desktops and the Web like a pro, all at the price you choose. The Learn to Code bundle has a range of courses for beginners who want to create online experiences, with almost 100 total hours of content. Learn to slice Photoshop website mockups and hand-code them into fully functioning sites. Or build your…

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