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Destination Brazil is the Xbox One portal for all things World Cup related, launching June 12

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by on June 2, 2014 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Football fans, or perhaps that should be Xbox One-owning football fans, rejoice! On June 12, the Xbox One’s dashboard will be updated with a new portal called Destination Brazil, which will give access to a new stat-tracking app designed to run in snapped mode alongside live TV coverage of World Cup matches. Announced today on the Xbox blog, the Brazil Now app allows you to receive alerts and score updates for your team, as well as allowing you to check out schedules and watch live games with real-time stats, scores and social activity displayed alongside the action. This info can also be snapped alongside Skype…

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Perfecting the partnership pitch: A step-by-step guide to a great proposal

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by on June 2, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Alex Taub is the co-founder of SocialRank and Ellen DaSilva works in Business Operations at Twitter. Their book “Pitching and Closing” is released on July 25th and covers everything you need to know about business development, partnerships and making deals that matter at startups. The standard business pitch has not changed in decades. The process usually entails face-to-face interaction at one of the companies’ offices. The company that is seeking a partnership will create a pitch deck (that is, a presentation) that contains relevant and concise information about the business. During the presentation, the person making it will be peppered with questions from the listeners, who…

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The New York Times Android app now lets you switch between International and US editions

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by on June 2, 2014 at 3:09 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

The New York Times has updated its Android app for mobile and tablet users with the option to select an international edition of the day’s news. From today, you can freely select between US and International editions to access the latest news from around the world, all of which should be nicely formatted for your mobile or tablet’s screen, the organization said. “The launch of an international edition on the The New York Times App for Android answers the demands of Android users worldwide and further anchors The Times’s commitment as a global news organization,” Denise Warren, executive vice president of Digital Products and Services at The…

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The road to revenue: Can Pocket’s Premium subscription model work?

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by on June 2, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Build a service, grow it, and worry about where the money’s coming from later. That seems to be the general monetization mantra of the internet age, with the likes of Twitter and Facebook initially focusing on building their userbase before they paid too much attention to how they’re going to make cash via advertising. And just last week, Pocket introduced a new Premium subscription to its read-it-later service more than five years after launch, which the company said serves as its “first source of revenue”. But how willing will people be to commit cash on a regular basis to access…

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UK’s National Crime Agency: You have two weeks to protect against GOZeuS and CryptoLocker malware

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by on June 2, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is urging the public to take advantage of a two-week window to protect themselves against the GoZeuS and CryptoLocker malware, which has been holding people’s personal content to ransom and fraudulently transferring cash from online accounts. The organization said that the alert “is part of one of the largest industry and law enforcement collaborations attempted to date” and that  “activity in several countries, led by the FBI in the US, has weakened the global network of infected computers”. What this translates to is more effective malware prevention if action is taken now. The issues potentially…

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