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How to maximize Twitter engagement with your TV audience

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by on October 1, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Nick Cicero is the Director of Client Strategy at Expion. This post originally appeared on the Expion blog. It’s that time of year when kids go back to school, football is starting, baseball is ending, Mr. Autumn Man is walking down the street with his coffee, and television’s top shows come back for their big premieres. At this point, it’s pretty well-documented that Twitter has been positioning themselves in the mind of network execs as a platform complimentary to TV, and user numbers seem to support their claims. In fact, 85 percent of users active on Twitter during primetime TV…

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Google announces 10% price cut for all Compute Engine instances, Google Drive has passed 240M active users

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by on October 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google, Insider

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At its Atmosphere Live event today, Google shared some important Google Cloud Platform news. The first comes in the form of a price cut for Google Compute Engine and the second is a milestone for Google Drive. Urs Holzle, Google SVP of Technical Infrastructure, announced a 10 percent price reduction for all Google Compute Engine instances types, across all regions. The new pricing structure, detailed below, is effective immediately: During the company’s Cloud Platform Live in March, executives declared that cloud computing should be priced in accordance with Moore’s Law. Google says it “set a new standard for economics in…

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New York City launches Digital.NYC, a Web portal for the city’s startups and tech scene

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by on October 1, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

At an event today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio launched Digital.NYC, a website designed to be a comprehensive “hub for tech and startups” in the city. Mayor de Blasio called the portal “the ultimate tech matchmaker.” The site includes sections for news, a startup database and map, events, videos, resources, workspace listings and jobs. At launch, the site includes listings for roughly 6,000 startups. The initiative is a collaborative effort between the public and private sectors with support from IBM, Gust and NYEDC. ➤ Digital.NYC Read next: The Next Web is coming to Wall Street

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Amazon reopens AWS pop-up loft in San Francisco to create a community amongst its customers

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by on October 1, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Some of the biggest names in tech use AWS (Amazon Web Services) to power their cloud apps like Netflix, Expedia and Intel. When a bandwidth hungry service like Netflix uses a cloud service, startups tend to take notice. To help those startups better wrap their heads around the AWS service, Amazon has reopened its pop-up loft in San Francisco. This time the loft is sticking around for good. In June the company opened the space in the same spot on 925 Market street in San Francisco and it was a rousing success according to the company. It did so well, the…

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SmartNews, a top news-reading app in Japan, comes to the US

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by on October 1, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Social news-discovery service SmartNews has made its US debut with the release of localized iOS and Android apps. SmartNews first made a name for itself in its home country of Japan, where it has consistently ranked among the top five news apps on Google Play and the App Store. The company boasts over 5 million users there.                  On the surface, SmartNews feels like a pretty standard news app, but most of the innovations are under the hood. The app mines social media in order to track which articles are trending. Syncing your Twitter…

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