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Google and LG agree to share patents for the next decade

Nov05
by on November 5, 2014 at 4:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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LG has just announced that it is entering a global patent license agreement with Google, allowing the two tech heavyweights to share existing patents, as well as those filed over the next 10 years. The agreement isn’t much of a surprise, given that the two companies have been partnering for a while: LG manufactured the last two Android flagship devices, the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, and also joined Google’s Open Automotive Alliance earlier this year to boost innovation in automobile technology. The short press release doesn’t mention exactly which areas of business these patents will address, but they could…

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7 trends fueling a blue ocean opportunity for SaaS companies in Asia

Nov04
by on November 4, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Asia, Entrepreneur

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Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based startup building messaging for work. What do you get when you combine Asia’s fast-growing economies and the latest trends in enterprise software? A rare blue ocean opportunity. A population of over 3.5 billion people, unprecedented growth in GDP, and a huge SME sector, mixed with lightweight freemium SaaS adoption models is fueling a new market that’s hard to miss. But unlike the more developed US where enterprise IT has attracted a record $5.4 billion of capital in the first 6 months of 2014, Asia-based VCs have been slow to jump on…

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SoundCloud is launching its subscription music service with Warner Music Group in 2015

Nov04
by on November 4, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today SoundCloud announced that the Warner Music Group is the first partner for its upcoming subscription service. The service is due to launch in the first half of 2015 and will be supported through the ‘On SoundCloud‘ ad program, which was first introduced in August to help artists make some money from their creations. As part of the deal with WMG, artists are given control over the availability of their content, and can make money from remixes and mash-ups of their music made by the site’s users. This, of course, in addition to additional revenue every time a song is played. It’s a major move…

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Why I think about ‘Star Wars’ whenever I make a PowerPoint

Nov04
by on November 4, 2014 at 7:20 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Seth Dotterer is the VP of Marketing at Conductor. Whenever I create a PowerPoint, I think about Star Wars. I’m a geek who grew up on the George Lucas trilogy, so yes, there’s probably some procrastination going on there. But thinking about Star Wars is an incredibly productive way for me to create a PowerPoint presentation. In fact, I learned most of what I needed to know about creating a compelling slideshow thanks to this beloved sci-fi. All good PowerPoints tell a story This is hardly an original observation. These days, the business world is overrun with people who use “storyteller” as…

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Facebook sees a 24% increase in government data requests since second half of 2013

Nov04
by on November 4, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook today released its third Government Requests Report, meant to provide greater transparency on the amount of data authorities try to source from the company. In the report, Facebook notes 24 percent increase in the number of requests since the second semester of 2014 – 34,946 total around the world . Additionally, there was a 19 percent increase in the amount of data held back due to local laws. The company says it’s worked hard to fight against requests that don’t provide adequate reasoning for their necessity. In June, the company fought back against a broad search warrant issued by a New York…

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