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How America’s e-commerce giants compare across the desktop, mobile Web and mobile app arenas

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by on January 14, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Games used to dominate the mobile app market, but as use of smartphones continues to grow and mobile devices are becoming bigger and with larger screens, apps are becoming a key driver for other sectors too. One such, rapidly growing, industy is online retail. We’ve dug into our data to analyze the performance of the top five online retailers in the US, across the Web, mobile Web and Android mobile apps. Rankings and ratings data used in this articles has been collected directly from app stores. Web and mobile Web and app data has been collected from our panel of millions…

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Starlike app reveals your friends’ favorites

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by on January 14, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Tired of your own social feeds? Wondering what your contacts are reading? AOL’s new app, Starlike, pulls all your contacts’ favorited tweets and liked items on Facebook and LinkedIn to give you a whole new stream of content to pore over. Once you’ve signed in with your social account, you’ll get a stream of your contacts’ favorite posts. From there you can fave, like and share them as well as Starlike items to keep in the app to read later. If you don’t like what you see from any user, simply tap their profile picture to mute their faved items.…

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New Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL launching in the US and Europe on February 13

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by on January 14, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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If you’ve been waiting for Nintendo’s revamped handhelds, the New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, here’s some good news – they’re launching in Europe on February 13. The US is getting the Nintendo 3DS XL on the same day but curiously not the smaller model. Meet #New3DS and New 3DS XL, coming to Europe on 13/02! #NintendoDirectEU Trailer: http://t.co/JXTugRceyg pic.twitter.com/pliK05UqGZ — Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 14, 2015 New Nintendo 3DS XL is coming to the U.S. on 2/13 at a suggested retail price of $199.99! #NintendoDirectNA pic.twitter.com/sAjWzoLEoL — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 14, 2015 ➤ Nintendo

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Facebook launches Facebook At Work… but you probably won’t be able to try it yet

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by on January 14, 2015 at 2:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Opening up your social media accounts at work is generally taboo, but it looks like Facebook is fighting back against that notion. The company is launching a new product simply dubbed ‘Work,’ reports TechCrunch, which would allow businesses to make their own self-contained social network among their employees. These are meant to mimic standard Facebook’s appearance and behavior. Users have the option to either create a separate work login, or connect through their existing Facebook accounts. However, there are some important differences for the business-oriented product too: there are no advertisements or data tracking. Additionally, the company believes its ‘Groups’ feature becomes…

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Win an Apple iMac

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by on January 14, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Offers, TNWDeals

Looking for a new computer to grace your desk? You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful option than the Apple iMac. Featuring a slim all-in-one chassis, an LED-backlit IPS display that looks great from any angle, a powerful Intel processor under the hood, and OS X Yosemite to make light work of your computing tasks, the iMac is a functional masterpiece that’ll fit right in at home or your office — and we’re giving one away for free! To win, simply enter our super-easy giveaway! Just visit our offer page and enter your email address and that’s it! You…

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