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Tech news roundup from Eastern Europe: December

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by on January 5, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Another month, another round-up of the most significant and important stories from the tech scene of Eastern Europe. Although the last month of 2014 was traditionally somewhat quiet, there’s more than enough reads that you definitely shouldn’t miss. If you think that something is missing, or would like to draw our attention to an important story, feel free to ping the author on Twitter (@shlema) or by e-mail at shlema@gmail.com. Startups, funds, accelerators Latvia/Lithuania based startup Sellfy has launched Sellfy Market for selling digital goods Russian fund Altair Capital Management is planning to attract $20 million for new investments Polish startup Omni3D applies 3D printing to…

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Monotype’s Spark technology beautifies digital readouts on consumer products

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

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When we think about typefaces, it’s generally in connection with either printed material or online electronic text. Other low-level text — say the readout on a car dashboard or a washing machine or an insulin pump — is at best a subset of the genre, not really rising to the level of being called type. But of course it is type, and because of its medium it’s critical that it not only be legible but pleasing to the eye. Someone had to think about how to achieve better type rendering on industrial and consumer products to replace those 1980s dot matrix style…

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Google received 345 million ‘pirate’ link removal requests in 2014

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Copyright, Google, piracy

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Copyright owners asked Google to take down more than 345 million links from its search results last year, up from just 62 requests back in 2008, reports TorrentFreak. Google shares weekly reports of all the takedown requests it receives, and those numbers for all of 2014 added up to 345,169,134, which means that the search giant had to process over a million reported links per day. While most of these requests result in the links being taken off Google’s search results, the company sometimes takes ‘no action’ if the links don’t seem to actually infringe any copyrights. File sharing services…

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See Apple’s huge new ‘spaceship’ HQ in a 4K drone flyover

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Campus 2, Insider, spaceship

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We caught up with the construction of Apple’s massive new ‘spaceship’ Campus 2 HQ in a drone video last summer. Now Myithz, another drone owner with a GoPro, has brought us an updated flight. The video, spotted by 9to5Mac, offers detailed views of the construction work, combined with an exhilarating spy movie-style soundtrack. You can also appreciate it in 4K if you’ve got a compatible monitor or Retina iMac to hand. ➤ Apple Campus 2 progress shown off in 4K drone flyover video [9to5Mac] Read next: Spaceships, castles and Steve Jobs’ abandoned mansion: The houses that tech built

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December in Africa: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 11:15 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Generally a quiet month, December saw some serious developments in the African tech space. Aside from the usual developments in e-commerce and mobile money, it is becoming clearer than ever before that venture capital is growing on the continent, which can only be good news for African startups and entrepreneurs. E-commerce companies focus on scale, more developments in mobile African e-commerce platform Jumia expanded into Tanzania, taking the number of African countries in which it is present to nine. The company in November secured US$150 million in funding, and is continuing its rapid expansion across the continent. As noted in…

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