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Report: Tweets will return to Google searches later this year

Feb05
by on February 5, 2015 at 2:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

A report from Bloomberg Business today says that Twitter has reached a deal with Google to add tweets back into Google’s search results this year. According to the report, Google previously had to crawl Twitter’s site for tweets, but now the company will provide the data directly to the search engine. As part of the new arrangement, tweets will appear in search results as soon as they’re posted. Twitter showed data in Google search results between 2009 and 2011, but it fell apart when the deal expired. It’s expected that Twitter will announce the news during its earnings call tomorrow. We’ve contacted Twitter…

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Netflix launching in Japan this fall

Feb05
by on February 5, 2015 at 1:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Get ready Japan, you’re about to spend your weekends binge watching TV shows. Netflix announced today that it will arriving in Japan this fall. In a post about the upcoming launch, the company shared some of its programming plans. At launch, in addition to a strong selection of Japanese TV series and films, the premium and unique Netflix offering will include such original series as Marco Polo, the dramatic thriller Sense8, Marvel’s Daredevil, and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Virunga. The company also announced that it will be opening an office in Tokyo to better work with device manufacturers and Japanese…

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13 cool things you might not know you can do with Slack

Feb05
by on February 5, 2015 at 12:50 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Slack is one of the best business tools out there and it’s experiencing explosive growth beyond expectations. If you’re one of the companies that’s jumped on the Slack bandwagon there’s a bunch of fun and useful stuff it can do you might not know about. Here’s our top thirteen handy lesser-known features in Slack. Custom Emoji While unicode doesn’t provide a burrito emoji, you can add your own. In fact, anyone on your Slack team can add custom emoji (unless your admins disable it – sorry if the fun police go that far) by heading to this URL. All you need to set up your own custom…

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Google buys augmented reality app maker Launchpad Toys

Feb04
by on February 4, 2015 at 9:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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While Google Glass might be in some sort of post-Explorer limbo, the company is dabbling in the world of augmented reality. Today, Launchpad Toys announced that it was being acquired by the search giant. The company posted the news to its site: We’re proud to announce that our little toy company is pairing up with a great big team of tinkerers to empower GAJILLIONS of playful storytellers around the world. Launchpad Toys is joining Google to create even more amazing creativity tools for kids. Today, we’ve made our digital toys and tools free to creative kids everywhere. Tomorrow… well, we…

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