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Al Jazeera launches ‘AJ+’ iOS and Android apps for its mobile-first news platform

Sep15
by on September 15, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Al Jazeera, traditionally known for being a television news organization, has today launched its first apps for its mobile-first news platform called AJ+ in a bid to better engage its audiences on a range of different devices. Available today for iOS and Android (provided you’re happy to join the beta program), the platform arranges content into different types of ‘cards’. So, Video cards provides new in video form, naturally, and Art cards use an infographic style to display news updates, for example. The Conversation and Debate cards are home to conversations about broad questions and allow the AJ+ community to have…

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You can now stream Spotify to your Amazon Fire TV and control it via your mobile

Sep15
by on September 15, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile, Product Launches

If you’ve been jonesing for some streaming music on your Amazon Fire TV, your long tunes-free wait is over. Spotify has announced that it has released a streaming-music app for the set-top box. The Fire TV now has the Spotify Connect app that can be controlled with the music service’s iOS and Android mobile apps. But, the app only works with a Spotify premium account. So if you’re jamming for free, you’re going to have to continue enjoying that ad-sponsored music on your computer. ➤ Enjoy millions of songs on your Amazon Fire TV with Spotify Connect

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Chrome for Android has a hidden search feature that suggests answers to questions as you type

Sep15
by on September 15, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Launches

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Hidden inside Google’s Chrome for Android app is an experimental feature that will instantly display suggestions to various queries while you’re typing them into the address bar. To recap, these are the answers that Google would normally display right at the top of its search results. Posing the question “how old is Elon Musk?” will trigger a visual card to be displayed at the top of the page with relevant information. By enabling a specific flag in Chrome for Android (detailed below), these morsels of information will be auto-suggested while you type. So before you’ve even pressed “Go” on your smartphone or…

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Maxthon launches MxNitro for Windows, claims ‘the fastest PC browser’ loads pages 30% faster than Chrome

Sep15
by on September 15, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Maxthon today released a new browser for Windows called MxNitro (short for Maxthon Nitro), which it claims is “the fastest PC browser in the world.” This is made possible with a minimal user interface load, as well as “new patent-pending pre-connection and pre-fetching technology.” The company has also stripped out features from Maxthon that it says hog resources and cause delays in both startup times and page rendering. Under development since March 2014, Maxthon says it has gotten MxNitro to the point that it starts faster, as well as fetches and loads Web pages quicker than any other existing Windows…

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Why every founder should work for someone else in between startups

Sep15
by on September 15, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider, tunein

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Daria Shualy is Don Draper/product marketer at daPulse. All entrepreneurs are serial entrepreneurs. It’s a personality trait, some might even call it a condition. Serial entrepreneurs don’t like to stop. They sell one startup (or more likely shut it down) and shortly after, they’re telling you how they’re “working on something new, it’s still in stealth mode.” I’m no different. But after 14 years of entrepreneurship, seven of them as founder and CEO of e-commerce startups, I’m here to tell you that every entrepreneur should take some time off in between startups to work for someone else’s startup. Sure, moving to the…

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