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ZIIBRA’s online store promotes a personal link between artists and customers

Feb21
by on February 21, 2015 at 1:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Sometimes it takes all your energy to create a product worth sharing. More often, it’s even harder to get the word out when you’re done. ZIIBRA, an online marketplace based in Seattle, just launched ZIIBRA Shops, new service designed to link up artists and craftsmen with interested buyers and let people discover new creative works. Creations for sale are broken out into six categories: visual, music, food, craft, writing, performance and photo. Clicking the tab for each reveals the work that participating artists are exhibiting on the site. The site recommends new artists and and new products to visitors and each artist has their own tabbed home…

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Airbnb launches new dashboard and updated app for hosts

Feb21
by on February 21, 2015 at 1:07 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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If you’re a busy Airbnb host you probably want to know more about your renting-your-home-to-strangers business. Today Airbnb has updated the tools to give you the insight into how your little piece of the shared economy is going. The redesigned Dashboard will give you your overall outlook for the month and tracks how many guests you have hosted and where they are originally from. Plus all pending requests and inquiries are available directly in the Dashboard. The Dashboard also shows seasonal travel trends and shares information on how many people are looking at your listings. The updated iOS app (the Android app…

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Superfish admits installing root certificate authority to show ads on secure sites

Feb21
by on February 21, 2015 at 12:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Earlier this week it was discovered that many Lenovo PCs released between September 2014 and January 2015 shipped with an adware application called Superfish. This application, while annoying, was almost harmless on its own, except for one big problem: it installed a root certificate authority on the computer allowing the software to man-in-the-middle secure traffic to sites like your bank or Facebook. Why exactly the company would need to do that was perplexing, but we finally got the answer straight from the company behind Superfish. It wanted to show you its visual search ads on any website. The Next Web spoke indirectly to…

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US government urges Lenovo users to remove Superfish, but the software maker denies security risk

Feb20
by on February 20, 2015 at 10:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It’s been a rough few days for Lenovo. Now even the United States government is urging users to remove the Superfish adware. The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning today alerting users that the software causes infected computers to be vulnerable to a type of SSL Spoofing cyberattacks, according to a report by Reuters. In a statement we received from Superfish itself, however, the company claims its software is safe and that the malicious aspect that’s been reported was unintentionally caused by a third party. You can read the statement in full below: There has been significant misinformation circulating about Superfish…

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