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Why are digital music merchants ignoring emerging markets?

Jun12
by on June 12, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Andrea Boetti is a Business Development Manager at Fortumo, helping web and app developers and digital content merchants build out their monetization strategies for emerging markets. Spending on smartphone content is shifting away from Northern and Western markets and heading South and East. Emerging markets will soon exceed the US and Europe in smartphone ownership and as a result, most people looking for entertainment on their mobile devices are also located beyond the mature economies. Yet many of the big digital content distribution platforms like Pandora and Netflix are not available in countries like Brazil, Turkey and India (Spotify just…

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The Vessyl intelligent cup knows what you’re drinking and tracks your hydration

Jun12
by on June 12, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Wearables do a serviceable job keeping track of your steps and calories spent. But, when it comes to calories consumed, that still involves whipping out an app and manually adding your food and beverage intake. While automatic food-tracking might take a while, the Vessyl cup knows exactly what you’re drinking and what it means to your health. The result of a partnership between Mark One and Fuseproject, and designed by Yves Behar, the Vessyl is a smart cup that not only recognizes what you’re drinking — from the brand of cola you’re enjoying to mixed drinks that include alcohol — but knows the…

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Skitch focuses on swiping with iOS app update, and makes it easier to share to Evernote

Jun12
by on June 12, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Evernote-owned image-editing app Skitch has been given a number of handy new features on iOS today. Previously, you had to tap and choose from a list. Now, you can swipe between the Photo, Camera, Map, Web, PDF, Draw, and Settings modes, while you can also start new Skitch markups simply by swiping left or right too. Little animations upon each tab also lets you preview each type.     Other updates include being able to share from Evernote directly to a specific notebook, or procure a share link to distribute directly from your account. Furthermore, PDFs can also now be shared…

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Double Fine brings its $3.3 million Kickstarter game ‘Broken Age’ to the iPad

Jun12
by on June 12, 2014 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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If you own an iPad and love classic point-and-click adventure games, you’ll want to check out Broken Age. This is the passion project from Tim Schafer – formerly of LucasArts – and the rest of his development team at Double Fine Productions. The game was originally pitched on Kickstarter and smashed records with over $3 million in pledges. Broken Age has already been released on Windows, Mac and Linux, but its simple control scheme should be well-suited to the iPad. The slower, reflective mood of the game also lends itself to Apple’s popular tablet – this is a title you…

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Breaking News mobile app now brings you breaking news based on your proximity to the breaking news

Jun12
by on June 12, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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NBC’s Breaking News service has been, well, breaking news via the Web and mobile apps for a while already. But with the latest update for iOS, location is now very much part of the picture. Indeed, you can now set proximity alerts, which are basically localized push notifications based on where you currently are. So it moves with you, rather than remaining static based on a pre-designated ‘home’ location. You’ll be asked to enable it when you launch the latest version of the app, but this can be disabled again within the settings.     In terms of what’s classified as…

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