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How Rocket Internet’s Dafiti is helping to shape the future of e-commerce in Latin America

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by on August 15, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Latin America, Profiles and Interviews

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Fashion e-commerce portal Dafiti is undoubtedly one of Latin America’s most interesting companies to watch. Take a close look at it, and you’ll see so many of the trends that have shaped e-commerce in the region. On one hand, you have MBA-equipped, foreign-born founders keen to bring known models to Latin American buyers, with a tremendous amount of funding to support their plans. On the other, a diverse group of countries whose reality made more than one Internet company stumble. How does Dafiti plan to make the most of this context? We asked this question and many others to Malte Huffmann, managing director and co-founder of…

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Barnes & Noble teases Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet ahead of New York launch event

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by on August 15, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

What better way to tease a new device than to have seemingly random people declare their unequivocal appreciation for it? Amazon took this approach for a Fire Phone teaser earlier this year and today, Barnes & Noble is doing the same for its upcoming tablet. Barnes & Noble hides the display from our prying eyes, but in truth we already know what to expect. In June, the firm announced a partnership with Samsung that would result in a co-branded slate: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. Given the tablet in today’s teaser sports a Samsung logo, and the final frame reveals…

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5 contemporary illustrators pay homage to art nouveau

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by on August 15, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Lindsay Comstock is a New York-based writer, photographer and editor. Her work has appeared in American Photo, PDN and Rangefinder. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission.  Over a two-decade period between 1890 and 1910, Art Nouveau style spanned various mediums, referencing art as a way of life. It’s a movement classified by an affinity for florals and curvier lines than the Art Deco movement that followed. From borders and signs with the stylized ornamentation of the time to feminine turn-of-the-century portraits, we’ve rounded up the work of five artists who are…

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Apple begins storing user data on Chinese servers for the first time

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by on August 15, 2014 at 12:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

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Apple is now using servers on Chinese soil to house data belonging to users of China Telecom, ending its policy of storing the information in the US. The company confirmed the change to the Wall Street Journal, explaining that it comes after 15 months of testing. It isn’t clear exactly why Apple is moving to local servers, but it is likely to mean better quality of service for China Telecom customer who store music, photos and documents on its iCloud service. China has been cracking down on a range of US tech firms of late. There are ongoing antitrust investigations with Microsoft and Qualcomm, while it previously…

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A couple of quirky bugs…

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by on August 15, 2014 at 11:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Found a couple of funny bugs today that I thought I’d share.

First, this one:
 
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Weird: Partially italicizing right-aligned text screws with the display of trailing spaces. But it doesn’t do the same to left-aligned text with leading spaces:
 
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And then there’s this one, where you start with a file that you’ve suppressed gridlines on:
 
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…and then you add a New Window…which allows you to look at a different parts of the same file on dual monitors – or even the same monitor if it’s suitably wide, by clicking on this:
 
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(Aside: I never rated this feature as being particularly useful until I got a second monitor and then recently rediscovered it. Now I’m starting to think is indispensable, as I no longer have to scroll around half as much as I do when getting to grips with how spreadsheets are laid out, or when putting in new formulas that point from one region of a workbook to a completely different region of the same workbook. I’m sure Dick has been using it for years to avoid rodenting.)
 

But when you compare the new window (which Excel temporarily renamed SomeFileName:2) to the old (which Excel temporarily renamed SomeFileName:1), there’s a couple of subtle differences:
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So it respects my wishes to not show the Formula bar, but ignores my wish to not display gridlines and headings. And if I close the original window – the one called SomeFileName:1 – then those settings I didn’t want from SomeFileName:2 are now in the file SomeFileName. Bummer.

So make sure that’s the one you close when you’re done. Otherwise your file now has gridlines and/or headings when you didn’t want it to.

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