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Facebook has a ‘rapidly growing’ business in China, despite being banned there for 5 years

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by on May 6, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Facebook has been banned in China since 2009. However, at GMIC Beijing today, Facebook’s vice president Vaughan Smith revealed that the social network has a ‘rapidly growing’ business in the country. Smith said that Facebook is still involved in China by helping Chinese firms reach an audience outside of the country. It also works with developers to provide content on the social network. Smith said: We have a rapidly growing business in China helping people that are exporting — exporters from China reaching customers around the world. We have 1.3 billion people on Facebook and it turns out that marketing…

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How to successfully use email autoresponders without being obnoxious

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by on May 6, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, Insider

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Email autoresponders are one-to-one emails sent to a subscriber on your list that are triggered to add value to the experience a person has with your business online. Autoresponders are triggered by an action taken on your website or by a timer set by your team, whichever best suits the circumstances of the message sent to a user. A happy birthday message, a reminder to return to your shopping cart, an email re-introducing old content to your subscribers, an alert announcing new products to a customer based off of their past shopping habits and similar emails are all common forms…

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Tumblr finally adds blog theme customization to its iOS and Android apps

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by on May 6, 2014 at 2:12 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Tumblr is bringing in-depth blog theme customization to its mobile apps. On iOS and Android, you can now tap on a user’s name and see a mobile-optimized design for their page. Furthermore, you can tap on the profile tab and tinker with the look of your own blog, changing the header image, background and accent colors, fonts and more. The broader page design appears to be set in stone, and tweaking the look on mobile doesn’t affect the theme you’re using on the Web. It can feel quite restrictive, although it’s still far beyond what Facebook, Twitter and other social…

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Bitcasa launches CloudFS platform to make it easier for devs to deploy cloud-based apps

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by on May 6, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Product Updates

Cloud storage company Bitcasa has today launched CloudFS, a dev-focused platform with key APIs for building apps that make use of public cloud storage. The company said the platform would allow developers to “innovate faster, with lower costs” by taking care of any public cloud integration, thereby allowing more time to focus on the core functionality of the app.  The advanced API features include support for handling things like file management and file sharing, media transcoding and “zero-knowledge encryption”. On top of that, there are nine pre-made public cloud storage applications available as part of Bitcasa’s white labelling options, which allow a business to…

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Rhapsody makes its first outside investment as it backs theFuture.fm creator Dubset Media

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by on May 6, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Rhapsody International, the parent company of music services Rhapsody and Napster, today that it is leading the Series B round for Dubset Media, a company focused on technology and distribution solutions for the electronic dance music (EDM) industry. The funding is the first outside investment that Rhapsody has ever made. Dubset Media has three pillars to its business: theFuture.fm, MixSCAN and MixBANK. Through those three products, Dubset works with DJs to catalog their work (MixBANK), track the necessary royalty licenses for tracks they use (MixSCAN), and then distribute them to listeners (theFuture.fm) Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but…

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