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Yahoo completely rebuilds Yahoo Finance App for Android

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by on July 30, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Yahoo has completely rebuilt its Yahoo Finance app for Android. The updated app has an updated UI and is rebuilt to focus on your stocks and the news surrounding those stocks. You can now add stocks to a watchlist for real-time quotes and news, get notifications on those stocks and market news, and have access to interactive graphs. The UI also includes three tabs for access to News, Markets, and Home for your stocks watchlist. Yahoo also updated its Yahoo Finance app for iOS with the new Home feature with quick access to your stocks. ➤ Yahoo Finance for iOS…

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Google’s 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8 arrives as a beta channel

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by on July 30, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

After debuting as Dev and Canary channels in June, the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8 has now landed as a beta channel. As noted previously, the 64-bit version of Google’s popular browser should be faster than its 32-bit counterpart, especially in graphics and multimedia content, and also safer because of its ability to leverage new OS features such as High Entropy ASLR on Windows 8. In addition, 64-bit Chrome should feel more stable than the 32-bit version, with fewer crashes during general use. The new 64-bit version of Chrome is still a beta, so a few…

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Wikimedia Foundation now accepting Bitcoin donations

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by on July 30, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The Wikimedia Foundation announced that it will now accept Bitcoin donations. The foundation will use Bitcoin exchange Coinbase to convert the virtual currency to US dollars. The foundation had been asked by its member to accept the crypto-currency and after a careful review of how to legally and technically accept Bitcoin, the foundation will now accept your virtual money donations. For its part, Coinbase announced that it will offer zero processing fees for non-profits. The Wikimedia Foundation is responsible for the enormous online database of mostly true facts, Wikipedia. Founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales, the non-profit is also responsible for Wiktionary,…

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Google Hangouts drops Google+ requirement for Apps customers, integrates with other video call providers

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by on July 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google is pushing Hangouts, its group video call service, into the enterprise space in a big way. Starting today, Google Apps for Business customers no longer need a Google+ account to jump on a call; they can use their existing credentials and instantly join a conversation with up to 14 other people in high-definition. To coincide with the move, Google has shifted Hangouts under the same Terms of Service that cover its other Google Apps for Business products, such as Gmail and Google Drive. As a result, customers can expect 24-hour phone support, 99.9 percent “guaranteed” uptime (although even Google…

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Pinterest acquires and discontinues content organization service Icebergs 

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by on July 30, 2014 at 4:31 pm
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Pinterest has announced the acquisition of Icebergs, a service for organizing visual content in the cloud. As part of the deal, Icebergs will shut down on September 1, 2014. Existing users of Icebergs can export their data to Dropbox or as a .json file ahead of the shutdown. Icebergs founders César Isern and Albert Pereta noted that the service had grown to reach “hundreds of thousands” of creatives over the past year, but now at Pinterest, the team have the opportunity to reach tens of millions of users. The deal is Pinterest’s fifth acquisition, following Punchfork, Livestar, Hackermeter, and Visual Graph….

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