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Twitter has an official ‘Dronie’ account and its first airborne selfie features Sir Patrick Stewart

Jun16
by on June 16, 2014 at 10:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Bundeswehr Holds Media Day
Cannes Lions, a long-running awards ceremony and convention for people in the “creative communications” industry, kicked off in the South of France over the weekend. Normally, this would be but a footnote in TNW’s list of interests, but our curiosity was piqued when Twitter unveiled its official @dronie account. As the name implies, the company will be sharing selfies throughout the week using the increasingly popular unmanned aerial vehicles. The first is a lightning-quick Vine featuring Joel Lunenfeld, VP of Global Brand Strategy at Twitter, and Sir Patrick Stewart, who really needs no introduction. And with our first official #dronie from…

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Twitter has an official ‘Dronie’ account and its first airborne selfie features Sir Patrick Stewart

Jun16
by on June 16, 2014 at 10:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Bundeswehr Holds Media Day
Cannes Lions, a long-running awards ceremony and convention for people in the “creative communications” industry, kicked off in the South of France over the weekend. Normally, this would be but a footnote in TNW’s list of interests, but our curiosity was piqued when Twitter unveiled its official @dronie account. As the name implies, the company will be sharing selfies throughout the week using the increasingly popular unmanned aerial vehicles. The first is a lightning-quick Vine featuring Joel Lunenfeld, VP of Global Brand Strategy at Twitter, and Sir Patrick Stewart, who really needs no introduction. And with our first official #dronie from…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jun16
by on June 16, 2014 at 10:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

Coffee-6
With Monday fully upon us, the weekend’s fun and frolicking is now just a quickly fading memory, but while you were out there making merry you probably missed all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of tech. Fear not, though. We were paying attention so you didn’t have to. All you need to do is make a coffee and find 10 minutes to catch up on all the news and features you missed from the The Next Web and beyond over the last two days. News from over the weekend at The Next Web Apple Approves First Bitcoin Wallet…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jun16
by on June 16, 2014 at 10:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

Coffee-6
With Monday fully upon us, the weekend’s fun and frolicking is now just a quickly fading memory, but while you were out there making merry you probably missed all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of tech. Fear not, though. We were paying attention so you didn’t have to. All you need to do is make a coffee and find 10 minutes to catch up on all the news and features you missed from the The Next Web and beyond over the last two days. News from over the weekend at The Next Web Apple Approves First Bitcoin Wallet…

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Indian chat app Hike adds private mode and 100MB file sending, as it hits 20m users

Jun16
by on June 16, 2014 at 10:11 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, hike app, India

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We’re all familiar with ephemeral messaging, but how about password-protect chats? That’s a new feature that has been added to Indian chat app Hike, which announced that it has passed 20 million registered users today. In addition to the aforementioned ‘Hidden Mode,’ Hike users can now transfer files of up to 100MB in size across the service — that includes MP3s, PDFs .docxs and more. Locking away conversation might sound appealing to unfaithful partners, but Hike CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal explains many users in India simply crave addition privacy: A major cultural factor in India is that most kids still…

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