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Telenav wants to get young people checking in (again) with HopOver, another social location app

Sep22
by on September 22, 2014 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

In what has now been five years writing about apps for a living, I’ve been pitched variations on the ‘see where your friends are on a map and get together with them’ idea countless times. What makes new iOS release HopOver notable isn’t so much the concept, then, it’s the fact that it comes from navigation giant Telenav. Aimed at teens and young adults, the app allows you to share your current location by posting a ‘hop’. Friends can then message you and arrange to meet you, and there are stickers and a tagging feature. It’s all very familiar to be honest, but…

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Handy expands its domestic services platform with acquisition of UK-based Mopp

Sep22
by on September 22, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Following a recent rebrand from Handybook to Handy, the US-based platform for getting help with your household chores has announced that it has acquired UK-based Mopp. The “multi-million pound deal” will see Mopp’s platform rebranded as ‘powered by Handy’ in the UK and will further Handy’s ambitions to control more of the home services market internationally. Right now, it’s a hotly contested space for the company, both at home and abroad, with the likes of Helpling, Homejoy, Hassle and more all operating in a similar space. Mopp founders Pete Dowds and Tom Brooks will stay with the company to help run…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Sep22
by on September 22, 2014 at 9:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Sitting on the edge of the pool sipping your drink, blanking out with a box set of your favorite TV show or keenly avoiding all the chores you’d been saving up all week – there are lots of ways you can spend your weekend. Of course, if you were doing any of those things, chances are you weren’t paying much attention to the best news and features from the world of tech, but don’t worry, that’s why we’re here. So make yourself a coffee, silence your phone and spend 10 minutes or so catching up on everything you missed. We won’t…

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Yahoo has reportedly bought its first startup from India, cloud docs specialist Bookpad

Sep22
by on September 22, 2014 at 6:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, India, yahoo

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India looks like it has netted its third notable startup exit this year, after Yahoo swooped to purchase Bookpad, a one-year-old company that hosts cloud-based documents, according to local media. Economic Times reports that the deal is worth $8.3 million, while Times of India speculates a much higher price of $15 million. The acquisition — which is still to be confirmed by the US internet giant — would represent Yahoo’s first in India. It comes some nine months after Facebook bought its first startup from India — Little Eye Labs — in a deal worth $10 million-$15 million; Google was also active in January, buying…

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