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Yahoo launches publishing tool Yahoo Recommends with personalized content and native advertising

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid For Yahoo

Yahoo today launched Yahoo Recommends, a publishing tool that offers personalized content recommendations and native advertising. The company believes it can help visitors discover more of a publisher’s content while helping them monetize it as well. Yahoo’s argument for the product is simple: it has been developing its own media solutions for years and so it already has the technology, since it lets digital publishers share content on its own network. The next logical step is to give publishers across the Web the same offering, adding a new revenue stream. Yahoo Recommends adjusts to site layouts across PCs as well…

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Amazon cuts Fire phone price to $0.99 in the US, opens Germany and UK pre-orders; will ship September 30

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Amazon today announced it is cutting the Fire phone’s price in the US to $0.99 with a two-year contract. That’s significant given that one year of Amazon Prime is still included in the package and the $199 launch price just two months ago. At the same time, following the Fire TV last week, Amazon today revealed the Fire phone is also coming to Germany and the UK. The device is available for pre-order now and will start shipping on September 30. The Fire phone is subsidized by carriers in both European countries. In Germany it’s available for €1 at Telefonica…

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Critique vs. criticize: The lost art of candor in the workplace

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 3:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider, tunein

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Gregory Ciotti is Help Scout‘s resident content marketer. He also gets nerdy about behavioral psychology at Sparring Mind. This post originally appeared on the Help Scout blog. How rare it is to find ubiquitous agreement in the world of management on how an organization should be run. But if there’s one truism that has been repeated since time immemorial, it is that great work is contingent on a willingness to be judged. Candor among talented teams is no small feat, but executives across industries will tell you that it is the universal gold standard. Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, called…

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World Startup Events is a guide to key networking and tech events across the globe

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, world startup wiki

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The folks from behind the World Startup Wiki have released a neat new project that shines a light on startup events and networking opportunities worldwide. World Startup Events is a map that features three notable events for a range of cities worldwide —  favorite event of the local community; its unique event; and the recommended event for networking. The data has pulled together using information from Startup Digest and Startup Genome. Visitors to World Startups Event are given links to both services within each country’s entry should they wish to learn more. The map is simple to use. You simply click on a pin to see…

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Flipboard recruits the team behind Ultravisual, an iPhone app for creative inspiration

Sep08
by on September 8, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Flipboard has acquired the team behind Ultravisual, an iPhone app that gives creative types fresh inspiration in a beautiful visual feed. Flipboard didn’t say what Ultravisual’s employees would be working on, but credited their approach to “information design, pixel-perfect engineering and visually stunning interfaces.” The Ultravisual app will be offered for another six months, but under the stewardship of the company’s backer Technicolor. The original team will be around to support its users during the “transition,” but then they’ll be free to work on new or existing projects at Flipboard. “By joining Flipboard we’ll be working to foster new ways…

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