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Designers: Get 91% off a PixelKit lifetime subscription

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

Add some flair to your next site or app design with high quality graphic assets from Pixelkit. Get your hands on beautiful buttons, screen layouts, icons and infographic elements and more, with lifetime access for just $39 through our exclusive deal. Whether you’re working on WordPress, web design, or mobile design, this collection has plenty to satisfy you: PixelKit includes 27 comprehensive design kits, including 15 UI kits with more than 1,500 elements, seven icon sets with over 3,000 icons, a comprehensive infographic kit and more. In addition to this extensive collection already available, when you sign up you’ll also…

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This Indian bank now lets customers transfer money via Twitter

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates

Indian bank ICICI has announced that its customers based in India can now send money to other people via Twitter. The move makes it the first bank in the country to allow transfers via Twitter, and alongside sending money, also lets customers to check their account balance or view the last three transactions on their account. It also allows users to replenish credit on a pre-pay mobile account. Any ICICI Bank customer (with a Twitter account and registered mobile number) can use the service and the recipient doesn’t need to be an ICICI customer, the company said. While it’s the first bank…

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Satellite company Inmarsat begins opening its technology to developers

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 11:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

Satellite technology company Inmarsat is looking to fundamentally change the way in which it ushers in new technological developments by opening up its platform to developers and startups. The new strategy is being announced at the company’s first developer conference, which is taking place in London this week. Over the course of the three days, software and hardware developers will get an oversight of Inmarsat’s work in the maritime, enterprise, aviation and government sectors, as well as learning more about becoming a registered developer. More importantly, the shift will allow for a greater diversity of devices and services for the industries by…

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Why BlaBlaCar isn’t scared of Uber’s problems in India

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 11:06 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, BlaBlaCar, India, Insider, Profiles and Interviews, ridesharing, uber

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When BlaBlaCar announced last week that it was launching its ridesharing platform in India, commentators immediately leapt on the question of safety. Would the latest company trying to disrupt transportation on the continent find itself dealing with the same horrific issues as Uber? Naturally, that was the first question I put to BlaBlaCar’s COO and co-founder Nicolas Brusson when I sat down with him at the DLD Conference in Munich. He says the big difference between Uber and BlaBlaCar is choice and community: “There are two issues: culture – will people use it – and safety. On the safety issue,…

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Nintendo is pulling the plug on Club Nintendo rewards, but promises a new loyalty program

Jan20
by on January 20, 2015 at 10:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Nintendo has today announced that it will be discontinuing its Club Nintendo loyalty program beginning April 1 and will complete the process at the end of September 2015. By April 20, users will be unable to register digital products downloaded from Nintendo’s eShop. If you do decide to go ahead and purchase anyway, they’ll no longer appear in ‘My Registered Games & Systems’. By the end point in September, all the features of the platform and Stars will be removed, and users will be unable to access accounts or redeem Stars against items in the catalog. Nintendo has, however, promised…

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