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Culture is everything: How I reclaimed an employee back from Apple

Sep11
by on September 11, 2014 at 5:11 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Jerry Jao is the founder and CEO of Retention Science. The widely accepted “dream job” of many engineers is to work for a Silicon Valley tech giant such as Google, Facebook or Twitter. So I wasn’t surprised when, last summer, our intern Vedant told us that he had received a full time job offer from Apple. I knew that, like many aspiring engineers, it was his “dream job,” but at the same time, I believed that my company, Retention Science, could provide him with a different (but no less valuable) type of opportunity. Before I offered him a job, I…

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Chromebooks can now run some Android apps for the first time, including Evernote and Vine

Sep11
by on September 11, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Product Launches

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We knew that Google planned to add support for running Android apps on Chromebooks since the company announced it back at Google I/O in June, but today we’ve had confirmation that the first Android apps to run on Chrome OS are now available to download. Although jut a few months back the project was described as “in its early days”, it seems Google has got the system working smoothly enough to unleash the first four apps from the App Runtime for Chrome (beta) on the general public. Catchy project name, isn’t it? Among the four are Duolingo‘s language-learning app, Evernote, Vine…

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You can now pay for street-hailed taxis with Hailo’s mobile app

Sep11
by on September 11, 2014 at 4:01 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Updates

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When you next hail a taxi on a street corner, there’s a chance you’ll be able to climb inside and pay for your journey with the Hailo app. Hailo is launching a new service today called ‘Pay with Hailo,’ which means that even when you haven’t booked a taxi with the Hailo app, partnered drivers can accept or offer the app as a way to settle the final cab fare. It’s being launched today in Ireland and the city of Boston, which Hailo says already covers thousands of taxis. In the coming weeks, the company will expand the payment option to…

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OS X users: Get a push notification every time TNW publishes a new story

Sep11
by on September 11, 2014 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Voice

A few days ago we added Safari push notifications for OS X to our site. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it if you don’t use Safari though. You’ll need Safari to activate your notifications but after that you can switch back to any other browser if you prefer. To get notifications activated navigate to http://thenextweb.com/notifications and click the ‘Allow’ button on the browser pop-up. From that moment on, whenever a new post is published you’ll get a discreet banner in the top right of your monitor screen. On the Notifications page you can also fine-tune which notifications you get. The ‘All posts’…

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5 psychological challenges facing wearables, quantified self and behavior change apps

Sep11
by on September 11, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media, tunein

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Max Ogles is the head of marketing for Mobile Coach, a startup that uses text messaging to influence employees with personalized engagement. He also has a forthcoming e-book, “Boost: Create Good Habits Using Psychology and Technology,” that you can receive for free here. Thanks to Apple’s upcoming release of HealthKit, it won’t be long before everyone with an iPhone has access to health and quantified self tools, whether or not they want them. Of course, hundreds of apps have offered similar features and functionality for some time, but with HealthKit as a default in iOS, a large new audience will…

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