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Restaurant guide Zomato boosts global plans with its first-ever acquisition, in talks for two more

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by on July 1, 2014 at 5:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India, Insider, zomato

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India-headquartered restaurant guide Zomato announced today that it has made its first-ever global acquisition after purchasing New Zealand’s restaurant discovery service MenuMania for an undisclosed amount. MenuMania will be integrated into Zomato over the coming weeks, with Zomato CEO and founder Deepinder Goyal saying that the combined product will be the “largest resource of restaurant information in New Zealand.” Founded in 2008, Zomato is already India’s largest food and nightlife guide, but it has embarked on an ambitious global rollout throughout 2013 which has seen it enter London and other UK cities, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia via the Philippines and subsequently Indonesia, and of course also…

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New Photoshop extension cures the multiple open document blues

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by on July 1, 2014 at 2:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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While the ability to open and switch between multiple documents in Photoshop can be a major lifesaver, sometimes it’s too much of a good thing. If you keep many images open at the same time, it gets increasingly difficult to identify, much less locate them, in the toolbar. When there’s an overflow, certain images get hidden from view. Doco, a new Photoshop extension from Creative Do, aims to solve the problem by installing a discrete Documents panel into the program. By letting you view and perform some editing functions with thumbnails of your open images, you can accomplish tasks such as copying layers between…

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Hootsuite plans to integrate messaging apps as it makes a big push into Asia

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by on July 1, 2014 at 2:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, hootsuite, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Social media management dashboard Hootsuite is fresh from its rebranding that ushered in a new logo and name stylization, but 2014 has been more than just that for the company in Asia-Pacific. Ken Mandel, Hootsuite’s APAC managing director, told TNW in a recent interview that the company has started intensifying its efforts in the region, while a spokesperson revealed that Hootsuite has plans to “aggressively” ramp up its presence there. Mandel joined Hootsuite late last year, around November, and the company has been in set-up mode, hiring people and getting started. He said that the company just hit the ground running at the end…

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