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Facebook announces new tools to help you sell your stuff in Groups

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Late last year we reported that Facebook was quietly working on tools that make it easier for users in buy and sell groups on the service to list their items for sale. Today, the company has announced that those tools are rolling out for everyone. The new feature adds an option in addition to the ‘post’ button inside groups that allows users to share items directly via a ‘sell’  button. This gives space for a description of what’s for sale, how much it’s selling for and where pick-up or delivery would be. Sellers will also be able to mark their items as ‘available’ or ‘sold’…

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Box brings the cloud to high-security organizations with client-controlled encryption

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Soon after becoming a publicly traded company, cloud storage solution Box is aiming its guns straight at security-conscious organizations. With its newest feature, dubbed Enterprise Key Management (EKM), Box wants to entice more businesses into the cloud by giving them complete control over their storage encryption keys. Cloud storage can be incredibly convenient, facilitating file access from anywhere with an internet connection and making collaboration as simple as a couple of clicks. However, it’s traditionally come with some notable caveats; as storage and encryption is handled by a third party, organizations with high security requirements – financial and legal corporations, government institutions, healthcare…

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ScreenPop lets you send picture messages straight to your friend’s lockscreen

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Social Media

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When our teammate Owen wrote about a new way to add Snapchat friends via QR codes, he woke up the next morning to some 200,000+ friend requests. While it’s unlikely that he’ll receive thousands of messages a day from his new buds, if you’ve amassed a sizeable friends list on any messaging apps, you know the feeling of not being able to get through them all in a timely manner. This causes the message to lose its ‘in the moment’ value overtime. Enters ScreenPop – a new Android app from the team behind lockscreen app Locket. With ScreenPop, users can send picture…

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How to find and attract the best developers globally

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Fingers deep in a keyboard, large headphones on, and a can of energy drink within reach flashes the paradigm of the traditional developer. Perhaps our figment of artificial intelligence is in the middle of a hackathon, maxing out mad coding skills in the programming languages that speak in new volumes to better UX, capabilities and functionality never seen by the likes of everyday Web users before. Now take this base and layer on multiple collegiate degrees or knowledge of the self-taught autodidactic. Imagine a skyscraper office with rows on rows of computer stations or a small shop with a roll-up…

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French ad tech company Appsfire has been acquired by Mobile Network Group

Feb10
by on February 10, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: ads, appsfire, Around the Web, Insider, Mobile, Mobile Network Group

Mobile advertising company Appsfire, which is on a ‘mission to kill the banner ad’, has been acquired by the Mobile Network Group, for an undisclosed amount. TNW named Appsfire our French Startup of the Year in 2013. Its acquirer is a larger French ad tech company. In a blog post, Appsfire says: “Our goal remains the same, our technologies and services remain the same…we’ll just have more resources to what we always wanted.” ➤ New beginnings: Appsfire joins Mobile Network Group [AppsFire]  

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