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Ideal Gifts: The Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker packs a punch

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 1:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gifts2014, Insider

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In the Ideal Gifts series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season. Stripping back, simplifying and cutting down on clutter has been one of my main goals over the past few years. No longer is there a need for shelves upon shelves of CDs, when Spotify can take care of all my music needs. Similarly, while I once explored the best home sound systems to listen to these aforementioned CDs on, it ultimately became too much of a hassle when moving home. Plus, the benefits of the expense would usually be confined to�

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Blablacar sizes up a city-to-city ridesharing empire

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 11:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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A significant trend in all parts of the modern world over the past few years, ‘the sharing economy’ has become a concept that disrupted quite a few major industries, including hospitality, fashion, and transportation. As an example from the latter category, French-born city-to-city ridesharing service Blablacar has been actively expanding lately and raised a massive $100 million funding round in July. This year marked Blablacar’s entrance to the markets of Ukraine and Russia, where the company bought a local competitor Podorozhniki, as well as Turkey where it launched from scratch. As of November, Blablacar employs about 185 people and has more�

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Blablacar sizes up a city-to-city ridesharing empire

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 11:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

Blablacar feat
A significant trend in all parts of the modern world over the past few years, ‘the sharing economy’ has become a concept that disrupted quite a few major industries, including hospitality, fashion, and transportation. As an example from the latter category, French-born city-to-city ridesharing service Blablacar has been actively expanding lately and raised a massive $100 million funding round in July. This year marked Blablacar’s entrance to the markets of Ukraine and Russia, where the company bought a local competitor Podorozhniki, as well as Turkey where it launched from scratch. As of November, Blablacar employs about 185 people and has more�

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Ideal gifts: Chromecast can change your TV viewing habits

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 11:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Arriving in the US back in the summer of 2013, Google finally introduced Chromecast to international waters in March this year, arriving in Canada, the UK and nine other European countries. And for me, it has been something of a revelation in terms of how I watch TV. Chromecast wasn’t the first peripheral to allow you to beam content from your phone to your TV. But at $35, and with a slew of big-brand broadcasters on board across Android and iOS, Google knocked the competition out of the water with an affordable, user-friendly ‘bridge’ between your mobile device and your�

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Nov24
by on November 24, 2014 at 11:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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As Monday morning rolls around once again, it’s easy to get a little dejected at just how quickly the weekend passed you by. Fear not though, the next one isn’t so far away, and while you were out having fun we were paying attention to the latest and greatest in tech news and features. Now all you need to do is put on a pot of coffee, mute your phone for 10 minutes and catch up on everything you missed while you were doing other things. We won’t tell anyone. Bulletins from The Next Web Yahoo Acquires Photo App Developer�

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