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Netflix and Orange team up in France for set-top box streaming

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by on October 1, 2014 at 10:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

Orange and Netflix have reached an agreement to add the streaming service to the telco’s set-top boxes in France. Reuters reports that Netflix streaming on Orange boxes will begin in November. Orange CEO, Stephane Richard told French news outlet Le Monde, “Negotiations were tough but have come to a close.” Orange is joining telco, Bouygues offering the video streaming service in France. Orange has over 10 million broadband subscribers in France. That should help jump start Netflix’s entry into that country. Expect some sort of marketing that involves Orange is the New Black. ➤ France’s Orange to market Netflix in November – CEO…

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Google to remove thumbnail and news snippets of German newspapers from search results

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by on October 1, 2014 at 9:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Most publications are excited when they see their articles at the top of Google search results. Germany’s VG Media is not one of those publications. As a result of pressure from publishers, Computer World reports that Google is removing news snippets and image thumbnails from search results of German news sites like bild.de, hoerzu.de and others under the VG Media umbrella. VG Media insists that Google should pay publishers a portion of the ad revenue that Google collects when it republishes portions of a news article. In response Google will only post an article headline and link. ➤ News on News with…

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The enterprise innovation primer: Why and how lean enterprise works

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by on October 1, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Corey Eastman is a Director at Climax Media, a digital technology agency who specialize in building customized platforms for enterprise clients. This post originally appeared on the Climax Media blog. Every large company is investing in innovation. JP Morgan Chase is starting up an innovation lab. Enterprises such as AT&T, Staples, Nordstrom, Verizon, Vodafone, Kraft, Ford and McLaren all have their own labs divisions to contribute to innovation. Innovation often requires new processes and perspectives to challenge the same fundamental problems. Lean enterprise is a systematic, methodical, and replicable method that companies have approached innovation. Essentially, the method is all…

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Camera51 photo app for Android helps you take your best shot

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by on October 1, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Judging from the sheer volume of mobile photo shooting and editing apps for iOS and Android, it’s fair to say that people are obsessed with making their smartphone pictures look better and more interesting. But what if there was a shooting app that specialized in helping you take better photos from the outset? That’s the idea behind Camera51, a free Android app that offers onscreen help with composition. Why composition? Because if your photo does not say anything, or says it poorly, it doesn’t matter if the white balance or exposure or focus is correct. “Today, a normal picture is defined by…

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Twitter invests $10 million in new MIT Laboratory for Social Machines

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by on October 1, 2014 at 7:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

Twitter has announced a new academic partnership with MIT that includes a five-year $10 million commitment to a new Laboratory for Social Machines. The university will also have access, via Twitter’s own Gnip data firm, to all public tweets ever sent. The new lab will focus on building technology in two areas: “grounded semantics and network analysis” and “pattern discovery, data visualization, and mobile app technologies.” Here’s Twitter’s own description of how MIT will use its data: The Laboratory for Social Machines anticipates using Twitter data to investigate the rapidly changing and intersecting worlds of news, government and collective action. The hope…

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