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Shutterstock’s ‘Palette’ tool helps you find stock photos based on color combinations

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by on July 10, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Stock photography platform Shutterstock has introduced a new image-discovery tool called Palette as part of its experimental Labs initiative. Palette is touted as a tool for designers and creatives to identify relevant photos based around curated palettes. You can also customize your own palette by choosing multiple colors and finding images accordingly, and you can of course refine by keywords relevant to the subject matter. It’s a nice touch for sure, as a photo’s general color scheme is a key factor in determining its suitability for use in many online properties, and this adds another key parameter to the search…

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Announcing: TNW Conference will be back in New York on October 1

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by on July 10, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Voice

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Maybe not all of you know it, but The Next Web was founded and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. TNW is a pan-global company with teams working from remote offices all around the world and one big unifier: the Web and our love for it. Our fans and customers are from all around the world as well. The city with the biggest TNW readership is New York – a good reason for us to choose this great city as a home for the second edition of TNW Conference USA on October 1, 2014. We’d love to meet up with Gotham’s finest Web…

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Birchbox brings its grooming subscription service offline with first permanent physical store

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by on July 10, 2014 at 2:25 pm
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In what is seemingly a growing trend among digital companies, US-based e-commerce startup Birchbox has opened its first physical retail space, at 433 West Broadway, Manhattan. We’ve followed the startup since its early days, having originally launched its monthly subscription service of sample-size beauty and grooming products back in 2010. The company revealed its plans to open a physical store earlier this year, so today’s news isn’t actually surprising. In the store, you’ll be able to peruse an assortment of products from 250 brands, and a “dedicated B.Y.O.B (Build Your Own Birchbox)” service, which lets shoppers hand-pick five sample size…

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OpenSignal’s crowdsourced cellular coverage app for iPhone just got way more useful

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by on July 10, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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We’re big fans of OpenSignal, the London-based startup that creates maps of mobile phone network coverage based on information crowdsourced from smartphone users. OpenSignal has emerged as one of the biggest independent sources of data on the speed and coverage of mobile phone carriers around the world. Rather than relying on coverage maps provided by networks themselves, OpenSignal gathers this information directly from users and opens it to anyone, so they can see for themselves which ones offer the best coverage where they are. Up until last April, OpenSignal garnered the chunk of its data from Android users only, but…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella vows to ‘reinvent’ productivity in huge memo sent to employees

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by on July 10, 2014 at 1:26 pm
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Almost six months after he was named as Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella has issued a massive memorandum to employees, as well as making it publicly available. “The day I took on my new role I said that our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation,” he says. “I also said that in order to accelerate our innovation, we must rediscover our soul – our unique core. We must all understand and embrace what only Microsoft can contribute to the world and how we can once again change the world. I consider the job before us to…

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