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Voice brings customizable online polls to publishers

Oct24
by on October 24, 2014 at 2:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Launching in early 2013, we called Poutch a Quora for polls, as not only did it let you ask the community a question with multiple choice answers, but it also let you search the site for questions asked in the past. Since then, Poutsch has arrived for iPhone and eventually rebranded as Voice (easier to pronounce). Today, the company has announced a brand new polling tool specifically for publishers. With Voice for Publishers, anyone who runs or operates a website can garner opinions with quick and easy embeddable polls. The embed styles can be customized to suit a site’s look-and-feel…

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Voice brings customizable online polls to publishers

Oct24
by on October 24, 2014 at 2:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

IMG_20141024_134642
Launching in early 2013, we called Poutch a Quora for polls, as not only did it let you ask the community a question with multiple choice answers, but it also let you search the site for questions asked in the past. Since then, Poutsch has arrived for iPhone and eventually rebranded as Voice (easier to pronounce). Today, the company has announced a brand new polling tool specifically for publishers. With Voice for Publishers, anyone who runs or operates a website can garner opinions with quick and easy embeddable polls. The embed styles can be customized to suit a site’s look-and-feel…

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Deezer acquires talk radio and podcasts app Stitcher

Oct24
by on October 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Streaming music service Deezer has acquired Stitcher, an app for listening to talk radio and podcasts. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the company plans to continue to support Stitcher’s apps. Sometimes referred to as “Pandora for podcasts,” Stitcher combines programs together to make custom stations. Deezer will lean on Stitcher, an Apple CarPlay and Android Auto partner, to enter the in-vehicle space. Deezer boasts 16 million active users and 5 million paid subscribers around the world. The company has largely focused on markets outside the US, but it recently arrived Stateside through partnerships with Sonos and Bose. ➤ Stitcher [iOS,…

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Deezer acquires talk radio and podcasts app Stitcher

Oct24
by on October 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Streaming music service Deezer has acquired Stitcher, an app for listening to talk radio and podcasts. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the company plans to continue to support Stitcher’s apps. Sometimes referred to as “Pandora for podcasts,” Stitcher combines programs together to make custom stations. Deezer will lean on Stitcher, an Apple CarPlay and Android Auto partner, to enter the in-vehicle space. Deezer boasts 16 million active users and 5 million paid subscribers around the world. The company has largely focused on markets outside the US, but it recently arrived Stateside through partnerships with Sonos and Bose. ➤ Stitcher [iOS,…

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Bitcasa pulls the plug on infinite storage and gives users 3 weeks to migrate files to new system

Oct24
by on October 24, 2014 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Bitcasa is a cloud storage startup that promised to bring infinite storage to your desktop, finally arriving out of beta in February last year. Now, however, Bitcasa has announced that it will no longer be offering infinite storage. The reason? Lack of demand, it seems. The company blog posts says: “While our Infinite offering was one of our early value propositions, we have since found that only a small percentage of people use it (only 0.5 percent of our accounts require more than 1TB, and less than 0.1 percent require more than 10TB).” So low demand and a “growing number…

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