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Google Docs now lets you crop, rotate, and add borders to images

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by on May 5, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider

Google today updated Google Docs with some basic image-editing tools. You can now crop, rotate, and add borders to images in a document without leaving Google Docs. For those with a sharp memory, yes, this is the same feature set that first rolled out to Google Slides in late March. Now only Google Sheets is missing the functionality, although it’s probably the least likely service of the trio to need it. ➤ Add borders and crop images in Google Docs & Slides (Google Drive Help) See also – Google launches add-on stores for Google Docs and Sheets and Google Apps…

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Why entrepreneurs should focus on building just one product

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by on May 5, 2014 at 5:07 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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JT Marino and Daehee Park are the founders of Tuft & Needle, an e-commerce mattress startup cutting out the industry gimmicks and markups. As a startup, every day is a battle against distractions—meaningless or nice-to-have ideas from customers, team members and advisors—that may throw you off course. Even more valuable than cash on hand is time. Diverting your focus can doom your startup to mediocrity or stall it midair as your competitors sail right by you. Time is precious In the beginning, it’s important to identify the problem and to build the solution as quickly as possible. It’s natural to focus…

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Google Play Music arrives in Canada, free 60-day trial available today only

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by on May 5, 2014 at 4:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Canada, Google

Google today finally launched Google Play Music in Canada, two-and-a-half years after first debuting the service back in November 2011. Canadians can finally listen to custom radio without rules (over 20 million songs), store 20,000 songs for free online, and listen to them alongside the All Access catalogue on any Android device or on the Web. The service has a launch price of $7.99 CAD per month, with the first 30 days free. Regular pricing for those who sign up after June 30 will be $9.99 CAD per month with the first 30 days free. Alternatively, Google is offering a…

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Automattic nabs a whopping $160m to help WordPress ‘win’ the competitive blogging market

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by on May 5, 2014 at 4:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Wowzers. WordPress developer Automattic has announced a staggering $160 million funding round. Founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg made the reveal in a blog post earlier today, adding that the Series C round was led by Deven Parekh of Insight Ventures. It also included other old and new investors too. For such a wildly popular blogging service and platform, perhaps the most remarkable facet of this news is that it represents the company’s first outside capital since its $29.5 million Series B round back in 2008 – and $18.5 million of that was immediately dished out to early shareholders in…

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Five months after acquisition, Square open-sources Viewfinder server, Android and iOS apps

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by on May 5, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Square today announced it is open-sourcing everything behind the photo-sharing tool Viewfinder on GitHub. All 250,000 lines of code have been released, covering Viewfinder server, as well as its Android and iOS apps. Square engineer Peter Mattis explains, the open-sourcing move is a last hurrah: We’re releasing this code in the hopes that it can be of utility to others, either as an archaeological resource or as the basis for other exciting efforts. Our days are now filled with other priorities, so we won’t be able to provide support or bug fixes for this code. And while the code is…

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