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Following acquisition by Nokia HERE, Desti to shut down on September 3

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 9:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

When HERE, Nokia’s mapping division, acquired personalized travel planning app Desti in late May, the company said it would shut down the app in about 90 days. True to its word, Desti has notified users that the app will take a long sleep starting on September 3. After that date, you won’t be able to search or access saved trips from within the app. Desti recommends that users share itineraries with themselves and other travel buddies in order to save them. Like Siri and Nuance, Desti emerged as a spin-off of the SRI International research institute. Nokia plans to integrate…

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Following acquisition by Nokia HERE, Desti to shut down on September 3

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 9:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

When HERE, Nokia’s mapping division, acquired personalized travel planning app Desti in late May, the company said it would shut down the app in about 90 days. True to its word, Desti has notified users that the app will take a long sleep starting on September 3. After that date, you won’t be able to search or access saved trips from within the app. Desti recommends that users share itineraries with themselves and other travel buddies in order to save them. Like Siri and Nuance, Desti emerged as a spin-off of the SRI International research institute. Nokia plans to integrate…

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Twitter acquires mobile ad-buying platform TapCommerce to bolster its ad strategy

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 8:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Today Twitter announced that is agreed to acquire mobile-advertising firm TapCommerce. This is the second bit of advertising news from the social network today. The first being it was opening up Mobile App Promotions to all advertisers. In a blog post about the acquisition VP Global Online Sales, Richard Alfonsi wrote: Together with the TapCommerce team, Twitter will be able to offer mobile app marketers more robust capabilities for app re-engagement, tools and managed service solutions for real-time programmatic buying, and better measurement capabilities. The company offers mobile ad buying for multiple exchanges and offers mobile retargeting of users. According to a…

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Twitter acquires mobile ad-buying platform TapCommerce to bolster its ad strategy

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 8:23 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Today Twitter announced that is agreed to acquire mobile-advertising firm TapCommerce. This is the second bit of advertising news from the social network today. The first being it was opening up Mobile App Promotions to all advertisers. In a blog post about the acquisition VP Global Online Sales, Richard Alfonsi wrote: Together with the TapCommerce team, Twitter will be able to offer mobile app marketers more robust capabilities for app re-engagement, tools and managed service solutions for real-time programmatic buying, and better measurement capabilities. The company offers mobile ad buying for multiple exchanges and offers mobile retargeting of users. According to a…

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Learning something new? Remember these 3 simple things

Jun30
by on June 30, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, LifeHacks

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This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I did it. I bought the sewing machine, a dress form, a table—everything. I’m going to teach myself how to sew. The only problem? I have no idea where to start. I’m the person that buys the new thing and immediately dives into the most difficult possible project. This is usually followed by immense frustration and sometime after that—quitting. Well, not this time. This time I’m going to do it right. In order to do that, I wanted to understand a bit more about what I can do to promote the best…

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