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The Choose Your Own Next-Gen Android Giveaway

Feb17
by on February 17, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

Android means business this year, with some seriously powerful devices lined up for 2015. And we’ve got the best of the lot to give away. Enter our sweepstakes for a chance to win your choice of a brand new Samsung Galaxy S6, an LG G Flex 2 or an HTC One M9. It’s so easy to get your hands on these stunners! Simply visit our giveaway page, enter your email address and hit Enter Now. That’s it! You can also improve your chance of winning, by sharing the offer on Twitter for extra entries. The more your followers participate, the…

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Fashion app Mallzee secures Samsung deal after rejecting Dragons Den offer

Feb17
by on February 17, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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Cally Russell walked onto Dragons Den – the UK’s equivalent of Shark Tank – to show off his app Mallzee, hoping to impress the room and secure an investment. But when investor Peter Jones made an offer, Cally turned him down and left empty-handed. Jones said he had a hunch that the app could be the next £100 million business and offered Cally $115,000 (£75,000) for a 20 percent stake. The 27-year-old entrepreneur says turned down the offer because he didn’t want to give away so much equity in his company. Was this confidence well placed? Yes, it seems it was.…

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Win a VIP trip to TNW Conference Europe 2015 in Amsterdam!

Feb17
by on February 17, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Future of Communications, Offers

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The 10th edition of The Next Web Conference will be held on April 23 and 24 in Amsterdam, bringing together hundreds and thousands of innovative minds in one jam-packed event. Our annual meetup will celebrate a decade of inspiration, with confirmed appearances by the industry’s top trailblazers, from Mark Randall, Adobe’s Vice President of Creativity, to Gary Shapiro, the man behind the Consumer Electronics Association. A full-priced ticket to the 2-day TNW Conference Europe 2015 event costs $625 (€545). We don’t normally give away free passes, but with an event this epic, we’re willing to make a little exception. In partnership…

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Microsoft updates iOS Office apps with additional third party storage support

Feb17
by on February 17, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft has been pushing its cloud offerings for Office hard recently. The latest update sees the Office iOS apps getting more integration with third-party clients. Cloud storage providers – including iCloud and Box – will now show up in the Office file picker. That means users can now open and edit files stored there rather than having to download them first. Microsoft recently added Dropbox integration to its Office mobile and Web apps. Adding more cloud providers could give it an edge over Google Docs, which is limited to files stored on Google Drive. The company says support for more…

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CASE Academy’s online CSI course wants to turn kids into forensics experts

Feb17
by on February 17, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, CASE Academy, CSI, Forensics Outreach, Insider, kickstarter

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The ‘C’ in CSI stands for ‘crime’ rather than ‘child’ but if you know kids who are interested in science and might one day fancy a career in forensics, the CASE Academy could be right up their street. Or maybe you just want to take your own Serial podcast addiction to the next level. The online school, which launched a Kickstarter campaign today, is putting together a faculty of teachers with experience at institutions including the US Department of Defense and FBI to teach CSI skills. The CASE Academy will offer six forensics-focused course modules: crime scene investigation; forensic anthropology; forensic…

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