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Twitter snaps up CardSpring, a platform for helping developers connect apps with consumers’ credit cards

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2014 at 8:26 pm

Twitter today announced it has acquired payments infrastructure company CardSpring. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Currently there is no indication Twitter will be shutting down operations before folding them in. CardSpring says it will continue to grow its platform and work with its publisher, financial, and retail partners “to create new, innovative commerce experiences for consumers.” CardSpring wants to build a payment platform that enables digital publishers and retailers to create the next generation of commerce for hundreds of millions of offline shoppers: We see the intersection of payments and digital media as an opportunity to revolutionize…

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└ Tags: syndicated, twitter

The psychology of side projects: How creative hobbies improve our performance at everything

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2014 at 7:54 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. At any given time, I have a side project running. It’s often a new blog or a Tumblr or a book or a newsletter. Sometimes I try to design WordPress themes. Other times I try photography. This ethos of new projects and new improvements runs throughout our Buffer team. We love to find ways to grow, excel, and improve through side projects and hobbies. I have yet to create the next Uber or Gmail—million-dollar and million-user enterprises that began as side projects. The good news: You don’t have to create a million-dollar company to…

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└ Tags: syndicated

Valve announces The International Dota 2 Championships will be broadcast on ESPN

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2014 at 7:37 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Valve today announced a big milestone in the gaming world: The International Dota 2 Championships will be broadcast on ESPN. An exclusive show previewing the final match will be presented on ESPN2 while the tournament will be available live on ESPN3. The content will also be accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. ESPN viewers will have access to all the matches, along with related interviews and analysis happening over the course of the four-day event. The preview…

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└ Tags: media, syndicated

Blippar demos augmented reality gaming on Google Glass

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2014 at 6:48 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

Augmented reality company Blippar is on a mission to be the bridge between the physical and digital worlds. Today, the company took another step on that mission as it company showed off an early build of its augmented reality games running on Google Glass for the first time. When Glass was first introduced, Google spent a lot of time talking about the convenience of its capabilities. Make a call. Take a picture. It’s simple. While that’s unarguably true, what most people really want when they use Glass for the first time is the experience promised by the science fiction movies of their youth, they want interaction with the…

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└ Tags: news, syndicated

21 of the best B2B growth tactics to test

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2014 at 6:18 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Roundups

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. As you are all probably tired of hearing by now, growth hacking is not simply a series of tricks or tactics, but a mindset to do what it takes to grow a company. It is data-driven and dovetails quite a bit with online marketing. Each of the 21 B2B growth hacks listed here is an article in itself, but I’m going to keep it brief. Many B2C growth hacks can be creatively tweaked to be valuable as B2B growth hacks….