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Facebook’s Parse adds support for Apple’s new Swift programming language

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by on June 6, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media

On Monday, Apple released Swift, a new programming language for iOS and OS X. Today, still in the same workweek, Facebook’s Parse has added Swift support. This means developers building with Swift can take advantage of Parse’s features (storing data, managing users, sending push notifications, tracking analytics, and so on) long before Apple starts accepting apps in the fall. To start using the Parse framework in your Swift project follow these steps: Add a new file to your project, an Objective-C .m file. When prompted about creating a bridge header file, approve the request. Remove the unused .m file you…

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Apple’s fresh focus on iMessage is all about protecting the App Store

Jun06
by on June 6, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Apple CEO Tim Cook heralded this year’s WWDC event as the biggest ever, thanks to a slew of announcements and features for developers and consumers. One of the most interesting aspects of the event was the increased focus on iMessage. In response to the growth of messaging apps, iMessage is getting a big revamp in iOS 8. It will feature push-to-talk voice messages, a shortcut for quickly taking selfie images, support for group chats, and location sharing. In addition, all media is set to self-destruct by default unless the user explicitly saves it onto their device. These new features will make iMessage more like an app than just…

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Uber raises $1.2 billion, valuing the 4-year-old company at $17 billion

Jun06
by on June 6, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Uber today announced it has raised a whopping $1.2 billion from “top tier institutional investors, mutual funds, private equity and venture capital partners.” The new funding round values the company at around $17 billion, and Uber expects the total amount raised to be $1.4 billion once a second batch of investors are finalized. Uber’s private car hire service has made quite an impression since it debuted four years ago. The ability to call up a car and pay with a smartphone app was hardly new, but Uber’s broad selection of vehicles, location-tracking features and premium customer experience certainly set it…

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Cold-call networking is hard: Take the #IntroFriday challenge

Jun06
by on June 6, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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DJ Saul is the CMO at iStrategyLabs. Perhaps it’s because I can toss a business card across the table with the accuracy of Peyton Manning that I often get asked to speak about the idea of “networking” or how to become a “superconnector.” That said, the word “networking” often connotes the transactional, disingenuous side of relationship building. At the end of the day, one of the best ways to build and strengthen relationships is to provide selfless value to others. Here’s what not to do, and what you should be doing instead: You are doing it wrong The business card collecting, name-dropping,…

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