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Apple Pay set to launch on Monday October 20

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by on October 16, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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At its iPad conference today, Apple announced that its new NFC-based mobile payment service, Apple Pay, would roll out on Monday, October 20. Apple says over 500 banks will support the service, and showed off dozens of retailers who’ve signed up as well, with more coming by the end of the year. Apple first introduced Apple Pay during its iPhone and Apple Watch event a little over a month ago. Supporting Mastercard, Visa, and American Express cards, the company hopes to make in-store cashless transactions easier and more secure. The process generates a one-time payment number, and the merchant never sees your…

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Mozilla’s Firefox Hello feature lets you make video calls from the browser without plugins

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by on October 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Mozilla has added a new feature to the most recent beta build of its Firefox browser that allows users to make video calls across the web without the need for any sort of additional software or plugin. Released today, the Hello Firefox feature has been built in partnership with operator Telefonica (a strong supporter of Firefox OS’s mobile aspirations so far) and uses the WebRTC expertise acquired with Telefonica’s purchase of TokBox in late 2012. “Firefox Hello makes it easy to communicate with friends and family who might not have the same video chat service, software or hardware as you….

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Stuff-tracking Tiles will keep you from losing your fancy Blunt Umbrella

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by on October 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Umbrella’s disappear. So you buy a cheap umbrella, but as soon as the wind picks up it’s inside-out and now you’re drenched. Blunt and Tile have teamed up for a quality umbrella that you can find when left behind or accidentally taken by a co-worker or stranger. Starting today you can pre-order the Blunt + Tile umbrellas with the same abilities as the stand-alone Tile to help you track the umbrella when it’s misplaced. The Blunt umbrellas are able to handle wind gust up to 70MPH. There are two umbrellas available: the portable Blunt Metro X_S + Tile that folds up and…

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Compass Monitor helps investors track the health of their portfolio startups

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by on October 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Compass, the company that crowdsources data on startups’ growth, has today launched a new product aimed at helping investors, accelerators, incubators and consultants better track the health of companies they work with. Compass Monitor‘s launch coincides with the announcement of a new $2 million round of funding from ex-Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, NEA, Profounders and Crosslink. The new product allows users to track data about an entire portfolio of startups in real-time. Data from portfolio companies’ accounts on platforms like PayPal, Stripe, Xero, Google Analytics and Mailchimp can be fed in and compared against benchmarks set by Compass’ database…

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IFTTT adds new Twitter recipes to help you further automate your social life

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by on October 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Automation, IFTTT, Product Updates

IFTTT, a platform that can automate a wide range of actions across a huge number of services and devices, announced some new ‘recipes’ for Twitter today, thereby allowing you to keep track of content and users across the social network with even less effort. Among the new recipes is an option to search for new tweets containing a specific hashtag and return all the results to a spreadsheet or Slack, and you can also now do things like get a notification whenever a specific user tweets, or when a specific person mentions you. Also new here are the options to blink your Philips…

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