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Meet 5 companies building keyboards for iOS 8

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by on June 6, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Following all the hullabaloo at WWDC this week, with OS X Yosemite, iCloud Drive, iOS 8, HealthKit, HomeKit, and a brand new programming language unveiled, you could have been excused for glazing over this tantalizing tidbit: third-party keyboards are coming to iOS. Just as potential car-buyers may express more interest in its coffee-cup holder instead of how many miles they’ll get for the gallon, the little matter of Apple’s stock keyboard has been a perennial issue for many over the years. Not that it’s particularly bad per se, it’s just that once you’ve gotten a whiff of the likes of…

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The Future Fifty: A dissection of the United Kingdom’s tech scene

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by on June 6, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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Jay Patani is an analyst at EC1 Capital, a London-based early stage, Web technology focused venture capital company. Email him at jay(at)ec1capital.com. The UK government has been keen to champion the UK as a hub for technology and innovation. Announced in late 2013, the Future Fifty, a selection of the finest 50 tech companies the UK has to offer, is a government initiative to create a “solid pipeline of British tech IPOs”.  Whilst exact details remain unclear, Tech City declared that companies on the program have access to a team of leading investors, accounting firms and business leaders for ongoing advice and support. …

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Monyq wants to bring order to your personal finances using more than just shoeboxes on shelves

Jun06
by on June 6, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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From Mint.com in the US, through to Money Dashboard in the UK, and onto global indie apps such as Dollarbird, there’s no shortage of services designed to help you manage your personal finances. Netherlands-based Monyq, however, is taking a slightly different approach to helping you manage your financial affairs. Following a six-month development phase, Monyq’s lifting the lid on its first product today. Touted as an online repository for all your documents, the archives take the ‘shoeboxes on shelves’ metaphor to literal-levels. Available as a Web and iOS app for now, you can create separate boxes for specific categories for…

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Secret plans to integrate Russian social network VK into its anonymous sharing app

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by on June 6, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Secret, the iOS and Android app that lets you share messages anonymously, is working on an integration with the popular Russian social network VKontakte (VK), The Next Web has learned. The partnership will involve more than simply offering VK as a new option in Secret’s share window, however. We’re told that the company wants to add “a new dimension” to who users interact with and receive messages from. It sounds like Secret wants to pull people’s contacts from VK – not just their address book – and notify them when one of their friends posts a message. Secret branched out…

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How eyetracking can improve your Webpage design

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by on June 6, 2014 at 11:15 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

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Alexander Huls is a freelance writer who has been writing about pop culture for over five years. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, National Post, Film School Rejects, and more. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. You spent hours making your design perfect. The images have been meticulously Photoshopped. The calls-to-action have been revised and refined countless times. You know exactly where you want the user’s eye to land and precisely how you want it to move. And with the emergence of eye-tracking technology, it’s finally possible to…

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