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Career and job search platform The Muse launches in London

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, UK

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People often say that finding a new job is a full-time job in itself, but with a wealth of different companies, agencies and platforms already focusing on the recruitment space, and LinkedIn working overtime to retain its crown of the defacto platform for professionals, is there really room for another entrant to the UK market? The Muse hopes so. First launched in the US around three years ago, the company has attracted $2.8 million of investment to date and has been slowly building its brand to become an established career ‘one-stop-shop’ for the millennial generation. “The Muse is aspiring to become the most respected career…

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Snowball for Android consolidates your messaging apps into a single place

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Messaging is everything now. But it’s also everywhere on your phone. Snowball wants to grab all those messages and put them in an easy to launch and read stream. Launched today, the Snowball app for Android grabs messages from Twitter, Slack, Snapchat, Facebook, Line, WeChat, Hangouts and SMS. Because the app’s notification element resides above the app layer, you can access those messages from anywhere in Android. The app puts your messages in a easy to follow stream of conversations. It’s like the “all inboxes” feature in a mail client with each messaging app acting as an email account. The…

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Google pushes Chromebooks for Work with a new $50/year subscription plan for advanced features

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 3:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google is making a big push for the enterprise market today as it announces a slew of features designed to make Chromebooks more appealing for the workplace. With Chromebooks for Work, Google says it’s now placing particular focus on “identity, manageability, virtualization, performance and pricing.” Identity The main selling points include single sign-on, which basically lets you log in using the same credentials and identity-provider that you use elsewhere in the company. Additionally, it’s introducing multiple sign-in to help users switch between personal and work accounts more easily. Google is also making moves to improve certificate management for wireless connections,…

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Facebook, Pinterest and Box create WEST, a mentorship program for women in tech

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Facebook, Pinterest and Box have announced a new initiative called WEST (Women Entering and Staying in Tech) that will provide one-on-one mentorship for women pursuing careers in technology. Over the past few months, a number of large tech companies, including Facebook and Pinterest, have gone public with the diversity figures for their organizations. The common theme is that firms have admitted that they have work to do in improving their ethnicity and gender ratios. WEST will start its pilot program in 2015. Woman working in technical roles at the partner companies will act as mentors to other women who are in…

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Microsoft unveils Xim, a photo-sharing app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 3:17 pm
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Microsoft has released a new photo-sharing app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone called Xim. Unlike Instagram, Flickr and most other apps in this space though, Xim is geared around simultaneous viewing. So the user selects a group of photos and then everyone sees them on their device at once. Swipe, zoom or pan and everyone follows suit. Only the original sharer needs to have Xim installed too. Recipients are selected from the user’s address book, and alerted via their email address or phone number. They’re then prompted to view the collection in a web browser, or the Xim app…

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