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Vevo launches a completely redesigned iOS app, emphasizing discovery and playlists

Apr24
by on April 24, 2014 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Last month we were given an early look at music video service Vevo‘s new iOS app, and now it’s gone live with a complete redesign across iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It features a feed-based interface to make it easier to discover new videos, a gesture-based interface and a YouTube-esque mini-player for navigating while you continue to watch videos. There’s greater emphasis on playlist creation and users in the US and Canada get access to Vevo TV, the old-school MTV-style linear approach to watching curated music videos. The new app is live in the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland,…

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Carpooling.com adds Meet Me Now feature to make it easier to catch your ride

Apr23
by on April 23, 2014 at 11:02 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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European ride-sharing service Carpooling.com has today launched new features for its mobile apps designed to make it easier for passengers to meet up with drivers. While Carpooling.com focuses on providing longer inter-city travel (the company says the average journey is 125 miles) it still needs to stay visible, adaptable and where appropriate, competitive with shorter hop ride-sharing services like Wundercar To that end, from today, users of the German version of the app have access to a new feature called Meet Me Now that provides passengers with photos and details of the car and driver, as well as providing the GPS…

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Blurb teams up with Amazon for self-published photo books

Apr23
by on April 23, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Blurb, the indie publishing platform that lets photographers self-publish their books, has joined forces with Amazon, the retail giant, to sell and distribute books produced and designed by Blurb authors. This opens up a great opportunity for photographers to propel their work into the public eye. To facilitate that, Blurb is introducing BookWright, a new design tool that includes, among other things, free ISBN numbers. In contrast, an ISBN number purchased through Bowker, the U.S. ISBN agency, generally costs $125. With this new program, anyone who creates a book using BookWright, Blurb’s Adobe InDesign plug-in, or Amazon distribution can get a free ISBN. BookWright,…

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Uber likely to embrace new payment methods, including cash, to grow in emerging markets

Apr23
by on April 23, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, bangkok, payments, uber

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Uber is now live in 100 cities across the world, but it is likely to embrace new payment methods, including cash, in order to realize its goal of becoming a company that is relevant in emerging markets. Speaking at the company’s launch event in Bangkok, Thailand, earlier this month, Mike Brown – Uber’s regional general manager in Southeast Asia — told The Next Web that he is “100 percent sure” that the taxi-booking firm will grow into an company with services for everyone, which means it’s likely to tweak its current payment model in some places. Right now, Uber relies on customers using credit cards — and…

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Uber likely to embrace new payment methods, including cash, to grow in emerging markets

Apr23
by on April 23, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, payments, uber

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Uber is now live in 100 cities across the world, but it is likely to embrace new payment methods, including cash, in order to realize its goal of becoming a company that is relevant in emerging markets. Speaking at the company’s launch event in Bangkok, Thailand, earlier this month, Mike Brown – Uber’s regional general manager in Southeast Asia — told The Next Web that he is “100 percent sure” that the taxi-booking firm will grow into an company with services for everyone, which means it’s likely to tweak its current payment model in some places. Right now, Uber relies on customers using credit cards — and…

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