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Flush with fresh funding, Product Hunt will soon let you follow other users

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Product Hunt, the community based around finding the best new products, has announced today that it’s rolling out a number of new features as well as having raised $6.1 Million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. The service will soon let its users follow each other and get notifications when someone they respect posts a new product to the site. Additionally, user profiles have been redesigned to include more information and highlight products built by those people. Product Hunt, which launched in late 2013, only recently announced an iOS app as well as its $1 million seed round just last month. The…

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Acorns for Android helps you get rich by investing all your spare change

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Back in August, we brought you news on Acorns, a new iPhone app that wants to help you get rich through micro-investing your spare change. And today, it’s available for Android too. Unfortunately, the app remains a US-only affair. But as with the iPhone incarnation, Acorns for Android connects up with your credit or debit card and links in with any purchase you make. Acorns can ’round up’ to the nearest dollar and invest this for you automatically, or enable you to do it manually.     Let’s say you buy groceries for $12.53, Acorns can make this an even $13,…

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Acorns for Android helps you get rich by investing all your spare change

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Back in August, we brought you news on Acorns, a new iPhone app that wants to help you get rich through micro-investing your spare change. And today, it’s available for Android too. Unfortunately, the app remains a US-only affair. But as with the iPhone incarnation, Acorns for Android connects up with your credit or debit card and links in with any purchase you make. Acorns can ’round up’ to the nearest dollar and invest this for you automatically, or enable you to do it manually.     Let’s say you buy groceries for $12.53, Acorns can make this an even $13,…

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One video. Every original Game Boy start screen.

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

Wave Race. Super Mario Land. Pokemon Blue. James Bond 007. These were the cartridges I had locked in my original Game Boy for years growing up. I can recall the start screen for each of them vividly. But what about every original Game Boy game ever released? That’s an entirely different proposition and one YouTube user NicksplosionFX has fulfilled. Taken from this Wikipedia entry, it features hundreds of classic titles from the ’90s. Just sit back and soak it all in. Those were the days, eh? Read Next: Homestar Runner, the gloriously wacky Web cartoon, is back / 14 Apple devices, one…

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BBC Playlister now lets you add music from TV shows you’re watching on iPlayer

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 11:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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The BBC has upgraded Playlister, its service for bookmarking and exporting tracks broadcast through its daily programming, to include television shows on the desktop version of BBC iPlayer. So whether you’re watching a Genesis documentary or the latest instalment of Strictly Come Dancing, you can hit the Playlister button, identify the track and save it to your collection. As before, you can then review your mixtape on the Playlister site and export it to Spotify, Deezer, YouTube or iTunes. The BBC says over 10 million tracks have been added using Playlister over the last 12 months, which has encouraged the company to expand…

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