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GrabTaxi seeks to dominate Asia with a local approach unlike Uber

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by on May 29, 2014 at 5:35 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Profiles and Interviews

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GrabTaxi is often compared to popular car-for-hire service Uber. However, one key difference is that Uber was born in the US and in turn adopts a very Western approach, whereas GrabTaxi faces a whole different set of problems in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia where it currently operates in. GrabTaxi is essentially a taxi-booking app which works with the existing taxi ecosystem in Malaysia (where it’s known as MyTeksi), the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Recently it stepped even further into Uber territory by launching a “limo service” known as GrabCar. The service first arrived in Malaysia and rapidly expanded to…

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The importance of being on time (and why we often run late)

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by on May 29, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Gadi Shamia is the co-founder and CEO of Magneto, a smart system that fixes your calendar. In my first startup, TopManage (now SAP Business One) I spent the first couple of years as the chief salesperson. It is something that many founders experience (selling to customers or pitching to investors) and it meant four to five out-of-office meetings a day. Each meeting could lead to thousands of dollars in immediate revenue that was crucial to us back then. My day was a constant balance between cramming as many meetings into a day and not being late to any of them. Why?…

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Google can now shame US ISPs with its YouTube Video Quality Report, more countries to follow

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by on May 29, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

There are now fewer places for US internet service providers (ISPs) to hide. From today, Google is expanding its Video Quality Report beyond Canada, kicking off with its southerly neighbor. The report shows you the YouTube video quality your ISP is able to stream. And if that little twirly ‘buffer’ wheel is a regular feature of your YouTube viewing, well, the report tells you why that might be and how you can improve it. It also displays the video quality of other ISPs in your area, showing which are HD Verified (at least 720p resolution),  standard definition (360p resolution), or…

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Firefox Nightly gets WebRTC communications service powered by TokBox’s OpenTok video and voice platform

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by on May 29, 2014 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Mozilla today announced a new WebRTC communications feature has landed in Firefox Nightly. The company has partnered with TokBox, which not only helped with development of the project but is responsible for the OpenTok video and voice platform that powers the new service. Details are still scarce as Mozilla is calling this an experimental feature. The company is promising, however, that the goal is to “connect everyone with a WebRTC-enabled browser” without any additional plugins or downloads. Here is Mozilla’s pitch: If you have a browser, a camera and a mic, you’ll be able to make audio and video calls…

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5 great front-end developer tools you should try

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by on May 29, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Lists

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Arnaud Breton is a full-stack developer at mention with a specific focus on the front-end side and user experience. This post originally appeared on the mention blog. Over the last few years, we’ve seen tremendous growth in an entirely new generation of Web applications. These apps have become much richer, leading to a huge increase in complexity on the front-end side. Frameworks like Backbone (the one we use at mention),

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