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HTC’s decline continues after the launch of the flagship One (M8), with revenue down 27% YoY

Jun03
by on June 3, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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HTC has posted its monthly revenues for May 2014, revealing that the introduction of its new flagship smartphone wasn’t enough to help it stave off a steep decline in comparison to the same period last year. While the release helped with a brief uptick in sales – April’s revenues were up nearly 13 percent YoY (year-on-year) and more than 36 percent MoM (month-on-month) – it seems that it, nor the subsequent announcement of the HTC One Mini 2, could prevent HTC’s financial performance declining by 27.37 percent YoY in May, a MoM decline of just over 5 percent. While the One Mini 2 (nor the dual-SIM, plastic version known…

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Internetopia: New crowdsourced drawing spotlights a teeming universe of human psychodrama

Jun03
by on June 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Internetopia, a massive, crowdsourced Web drawing by artist Benjamin Redford, started out as an experiment to envision what physical streets and avenues of cyberspace might look like. It ended up as something way more complicated: an interior snapshot of its participants’ collective imagination. Some 220 people heeded Redford’s Kickstarter call to share their thoughts by reserving a cube of space on a communal drawing and telling the artist what they wanted him to draw. Each cube cost $1. People could reserve as many cubes as they wanted. No drawing request was rejected. Internetopia reached its $2,000 goal in under 24 hours — as the tally rose an astonishing…

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Internetopia: New crowdsourced drawing spotlights a teeming universe of human psychodrama

Jun03
by on June 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Internetopia, a massive, crowdsourced Web drawing by artist Benjamin Redford, started out as an experiment to envision what physical streets and avenues of cyberspace might look like. It ended up as something way more complicated: an interior snapshot of its participants’ collective imagination. Some 220 people heeded Redford’s Kickstarter call to share their thoughts by reserving a cube of space on a communal drawing and telling the artist what they wanted him to draw. Each cube cost $1. People could reserve as many cubes as they wanted. No drawing request was rejected. Internetopia reached its $2,000 goal in under 24 hours — as the tally rose an astonishing…

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12 reasons why 19th century photography was superior to smartphones

Jun03
by on June 3, 2014 at 11:15 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Daryl Lang is the Managing Editor for the Shutterstock Blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. What an age we live in! It boggles the mind to imagine what our ancestors would have made of the marvelous technology we enjoy every day. Progress is a tremendous force for good. And yet, photography has changed irreversibly. Gone are the days of hefty wooden cameras, painfully long exposures, and noxious darkroom chemicals. Now that so many people carry around devices that can take thousands of pictures and transmit them anywhere instantly, has the medium lost its significance? Was…

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Airbnb eyes China growth with a deal that reaches out to Chinese tourists

Jun03
by on June 3, 2014 at 10:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

Airbnb'S Value Estimated At $10 Billion After New Round Of Investments
There are already listings on Airbnb for properties in Chinese cities, but the site doesn’t have an official presence in China. This means that there haven’t been any marketing efforts, people on the ground to speak with regulators, or a stringent quality check of the places that are posted up on Airbnb. That marketing bit is going to change for sure. Airbnb quietly inked a partnership with Alibaba-backed outbound travel site Qyer late last week, and the cooperation initiatives outlined include online and offline activities, joint marketing efforts, and exhibitions to promote tourism destinations. Airbnb’s head of global operations, Varsha…

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