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Leaked Google Stars video and screenshots show built-in search, filter, folder, security, and sharing features

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by on May 5, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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As we wrote last month, Google is building a favoriting service called Google Stars that will let users save, share, and organize Web content. The company is testing a wide array of features for Stars, as depicted in a video and screenshots leaked out today (previous leaks only included marketing images and mockups). As with the original news, the new details are being revealed courtesy of Google+ user Florian Kiersch. First and foremost, check out the video he filmed showing what testers of the service have access to. As you can see, the main screen shows you all the items…

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Jury finalizes $119.6 million damages award to Apple for Samsung patent infringement

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by on May 5, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Following an initial ruling in the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit, the federal jury has finished its calculations and finalized its $119.6 million damages figure after finding Samsung guilty of infringement. The judgment comes as a mixed result for Apple, which had originally asked for $2.2 billion in damages. Samsung also had a minor win against Apple on a “camera and folder organization” patent, but it received a paltry $158,000 in damages. If you’re interested in an overview on the ongoing legal disagreement between the two companies, you should definitely read Vanity Fair’s piece on “The Great Smartphone War.” Drawing on…

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7 reasons why your startup will fail (and how to soften the blow)

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by on May 5, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Rahul Varshneya is the co-creator of Foster.fm, a platform that helps startups grow their business through social media. If you’re going to start up, you are bound to fail. This is not a primer to make sure you succeed, as there are many factors that can contribute to failure. But these are the biggest reasons why most startups fail. When you start up, ensure that you overcome all of these seven reasons which will increase the chances of success by multifold.  Reason #1: Putting revenues before customers This is the single biggest reason why most startups fail. Entrepreneurs do start up and…

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7 reasons why your startup will fail (and how to soften the blow)

May05
by on May 5, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Rahul Varshneya is the co-creator of Foster.fm, a platform that helps startups grow their business through social media. If you’re going to start up, you are bound to fail. This is not a primer to make sure you succeed, as there are many factors that can contribute to failure. But these are the biggest reasons why most startups fail. When you start up, ensure that you overcome all of these seven reasons which will increase the chances of success by multifold.  Reason #1: Putting revenues before customers This is the single biggest reason why most startups fail. Entrepreneurs do start up and…

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China’s Tencent is embracing ‘connected companies’ as it focuses on online-to-offline services

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by on May 5, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, wechat

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China’s largest Internet firm Tencent wears many hats — other than owning social network QQ and popular messaging service WeChat, it also publishes games and dabbles in e-commerce. At GMIC Beijing today, Tencent’s chief operating officer Mark Ren shed some light on the general focus of the company: it’s essentially a ‘connected company’ that links together not only people, but also people to services and products. To illustrate the concept further, Ren raised the examples of taxi-booking app Didi Dache and ‘China’s Yelp’ Dianping — both of which Tencent has invested in recently. He noted that both these services have helped…

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