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Uber is now in over 200 cities worldwide

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by on August 28, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

When it’s not using the awkwardly named SLOG initiative to aggressively recruit drivers from Lyft, Uber is expanding into new cities. Today it announced it has drivers in 205 cities around the globe. The taxi-driver-with-an-app service is now available in 24 new cities including Akron, Ohio; Tallahassee, Florida; Wichita, Kansas and Wellington, New Zealand. Uber claims that in the US it now covers 55 percent of the population. ➤ 205/55/24 [Uber] Image credit: AFP/Getty

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User onboarding isn’t just for HR and growth hackers

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by on August 28, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's, tunein

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Paul Jarvis experiments with words and design. His latest book is called The Good Creative: 18 ways to make better art.  Are you aware of the steps it takes for a client to hire you? What’s involved on their end, and on your end? You might be spending a lot of time doing and explaining the same things, over and over again, for each prospective client. I know I was. And I’ve been working with clients for a long time. So I decided to change things up a few months back, and automated more than half of my process to get…

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Bing Maps has been updated with detailed maps of Korea

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by on August 28, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

If you live in Korea or happen to be venturing there in the near future, Bing Maps wants to be your go-to service for maps and navigation. Today, the team announced that a major revamp of its Korean maps experience has finally been completed. Much of this has been deployed slowly over the last 18 months, but today is the culmination of its efforts. So what does that mean? Well, in October 2012, navigating to Seoul revealed a rather sparse-looking area in Bing Maps: Today, there’s a little more detail: The new maps, which include road, hybrid aerial and high…

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Facebook now lets Pages create News Feed ads to promote Events on desktop and mobile

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by on August 28, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Facebook today announced a new ad format for Pages looking to promote their Events on the social network. Previously ads were only shown in the right-hand column on desktop, but now brands can create ads for the desktop and mobile News Feed. Called Event response ads, this new offering is accessible in both the Ad Create tool and Power Editor. Also, unlike most of Facebook’s advertising rollouts, this one is available immediately to all Page owners around the world. Here’s an example of the new event ad: As part of the new ad rollout, Facebook is also now letting Event…

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Evernote for Windows now lets you annotate PDFs

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by on August 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Evernote has announced a host of new features in the latest version of its Windows desktop app for premium and business users. The most notable of these new features is the ability to annotate PDF files with arrows, shapes, stamps and text. This means that when you’re working with a detailed PDF file, you can easily pick out important pieces of information. The company has also redesigned the layout of notebooks in order to make it quicker to find specific items, which it says makes it easier to switch between business and personal accounts. Its Internet Explorer Web Clipper –…

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