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Microsoft sold 5.8M Lumia smartphones and 30.3M non-Lumia handsets during its last quarter

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by on July 22, 2014 at 8:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile

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Microsoft sold 5.8 million Lumia smartphones and 30.3 million non-Lumia handsets, including Asha and Nokia X devices, during its last quarter. “Low price point devices drove a majority of the Lumia smartphone volumes,” the company added. The figures for the three-month period (ending on June 30) were disclosed in Microsoft’s Q4 2014 earnings report. The firm announced plans to acquire Nokia’s hardware business last September, before closing the deal in April. Last week, Microsoft said it would be cutting up to 18,000 jobs over the next 12 months. The bulk of the layoffs – 12,500 in total – will come from Nokia. The…

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Tinder co-founder’s ‘Next’ iPhone app has you swiping to discover new indie musicians

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by on July 22, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Music discovery is a problem, especially for independent artists that don’t have a massive marketing machine backing them. In many ways, finding an artist that you connect with is a lot like starting a relationship, so it’s only natural that two Tinder veterans would take the same discovery dynamic that has worked for dating and hookups and apply it to musicians and their fans. The resulting iPhone app, which is created by Tinder co-founder Christopher Gulczynski and former VP of design Sarah Mick, is called Next. Musicians use Next to record short videos of their music – anywhere from 10…

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Skype readies a Fire Phone app that uses Dynamic Perspective for its icon and notification badge

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by on July 22, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Skype today confirmed it’s working on a new app for Amazon’s soon to be released Fire Phone. The move isn’t surprising, given cross-platform support is a requirement for all messaging apps, but it’s a notable addition for the smartphone nonetheless. To be clear, this isn’t the Skype for Android app, or the app already available for Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD and HDX tablets. The new Fire Phone app will take advantage of the handset’s unique home screen, with a drop-down widget that shows recent conversations, contacts and notifications. Just swipe horizontally until you see the Skype app in the Carousel,…

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Skype readies a Fire Phone app that uses Dynamic Perspective for its icon and notification badge

Jul22
by on July 22, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Skype today confirmed it’s working on a new app for Amazon’s soon to be released Fire Phone. The move isn’t surprising, given cross-platform support is a requirement for all messaging apps, but it’s a notable addition for the smartphone nonetheless. To be clear, this isn’t the Skype for Android app, or the app already available for Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD and HDX tablets. The new Fire Phone app will take advantage of the handset’s unique home screen, with a drop-down widget that shows recent conversations, contacts and notifications. Just swipe horizontally until you see the Skype app in the Carousel,…

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3 psychological traps that keep your startup in the trough of sorrow

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by on July 22, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. You’re stuck in the trough of sorrow. No matter what you do, nothing in your company is improving. You look around you, and everyone you know is crushing it. Their companies are getting acquired, they’re raising huge funding rounds, and they’re announcing new product features that people love. But not you. You’re stuck in the trough of sorrow, and it feels like you’ll never get out. It’s emotionally trying and tough to handle psychologically, and you’ll want to quit. That’s whyfamed startup investor Paul Graham has said that the number one underlying cause of startup…

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