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22tracks teams up with Microsoft to redesign its curated music playlist site around touch input

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by on May 22, 2014 at 11:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

22tracks has a simple goal: to help people discover fresh new music through frequently updated genre-based playlists, curated by multiple experts from different cities across the world. Today, the startup has launched a redesigned website in collaboration with Microsoft – well, technically Internet Explorer – that’s focused around touch input. It’s based on HTML5 and features a new music control panel that makes it easier to play, pause and scrub through a track using your finger. If you’re accessing the new fully responsive site from a smartphone, tablet, touchscreen PC or laptop, it should feel closer to a native app now. There’s…

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Pollen launches beta ‘velocity capital’ platform that pays developers after 7 days rather than 60

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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If you’re an app developer, you’ll be aware that not only do major app stores take a sizeable chunk of your revenues, the platforms also take their sweet time paying out the cash you’ve earned – 60 days or more in some cases. However, Pollen wants to change that with its platform for delivering cash advances to developers every seven days. The idea is that with more regular access to money, developers can speed up the growth of their business by reinvesting it in user acquisition campaigns or further development of the product. For the privilege of expedited payment, developers will have…

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BBC Sport app brings live action, highlights and news to Roku streaming devices in the UK

May22
by on May 22, 2014 at 10:17 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches, UK

Do you live in the UK, love sports and own a Roku streaming device? If your answer to all of the above is yes, we have some good news to brighten up your end-of-season blues. The BBC today launched a dedicated BBC Sport app in the Roku Channel Store, giving fans the opportunity to track the latest news and stream the latest matches over the internet. There should be “hundreds of videos” available at launch and it offers a basic menu to help you filter content by sport or region. Given that the FIFA World Cup is just around the…

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India’s Flipkart acquires smaller e-commerce rival Myntra to combat threat of Amazon and eBay

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by on May 22, 2014 at 8:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India

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Flipkart, an online retail company often described as India’s Amazon, announced today that it has acquired fellow e-commerce operator Myntra, which specializes in fashion and casual lifestyle products. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed but Reuters has said the deal is worth about $300 million. The deal is hugely significant, primarily because it combines two rivals into a bigger e-commerce player in India — though Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal noted in a conference call that their operations will remain separate. There will currently be no integration in the backend, though both firms will leverage on each other’s technologies. “This is…

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Vodafone UK strikes deal with Netflix to bring 6 months of free streaming to Red 4G customers

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by on May 22, 2014 at 8:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile, Product Updates, UK

Vodafone UK has signed a deal with Netflix to give its Red 4G customers the option to choose six months of free access to the streaming TV and movie service, rather than a time-limited Sky Sports Mobile TV or Spotify subscription. Announced today and available via Vodafone’s retail channels starting in July, the freebie is only available to 4G customers on a contract costing £26 per month or more – we’re still awaiting clarification if this is open to existing, as well as new customers.  The offer will be available until December this year, Vodafone said. The move is being made to…

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