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Watch Apple CEO Tim Cook’s entire WSJD Live interview

Nov11
by on November 11, 2014 at 12:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The Wall Street Journal was able to get the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world to partake in a Q&A. Now you can finally watch the entire interview of Apple CEO Tim Cook from the comfort of your computer. At the WSJD Live conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook talked about the payment skirmish that reared its head after the launch of Apple Pay, the upcoming Apple Watch and Apple’s view on the future of TV. ➤ Tim Cook on Apple Watch, Payments and Getting TV Right [WSJ] Thumbnail image credit: The Wall Street Journal

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in upcoming Oliver Stone film

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 10:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Everybody’s favorite hipster Joseph Gordon-Levitt is officially confirmed to take on the role of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a forthcoming film by Oliver Stone (previously of “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” and “Savages”). The Guardian reports that filming will start in Munich in January. Stone says the screenplay was adapted from two books: “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” by Luke Harding and “Time of the Octopus” by Anatoly Kucherena. This report comes a mere month after the US premiere of CITIZENFOUR, a documentary by Laura Poitras covering the NSA spying scandal. And now,…

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How to get your Product Hunted like a pro

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 9:28 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. This post originally appeared on the Femgineer blog. Back in 2007 I was working on my first startup, Mint.com, and in our efforts to be scrappy, we explored a variety of marketing platforms to acquire our first set of users. A few of the folks on our marketing team mentioned that they wanted to leverage the content from our blog on Digg. Instead of just putting it out there, they took the time to understand how to use Digg effectively, through a combination…

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You can finally edit your Instagram comments and location from within the app

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

How many times have you dropped a comment on an Instagram only to realize it has a typo. Damn autocorrect! Well our long nightmare is finally over. Now you can fix those typos with the latest update for iOS and Android. Today, Instagram announced updates for both iOS and Android that include the ability to edit comments and your photo location. The app also ships with a new Explore icon. Where once was a compass is now a magnifying glass. The actual feature also has a Photos and People tab to help you narrow down who and what you are…

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7 startups to check out from the Upwest Labs accelerator

Nov10
by on November 10, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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UpWest Labs  is a US-based accelerator that brings promising Israeli startups to a four month program in Silicon Valley for a chance to break out big. Here’s a look at what the graduates that made it to California have to offer: Codefresh Codefresh makes it easy for both agile and DevOps teams to do their coding in the cloud using a full development environment – you can work on your projects from any browser or operating system. It even automatically handles frequent time consuming procedures like git flow support to help make your life easier. FirstImpression FirstImpresion makes it easier for advertisements…

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