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Gmail now lets you quickly add photos that you’ve backed up from a smartphone or tablet

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Updates

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If you use Auto Backup to instantly store your smartphone and tablet photos on Google+, you’ll soon be able to add them to new Gmail messages with just a few clicks. Starting today, Google is updating the ‘Insert Photo’ button located on the bottom toolbar of new Gmail messages to include photos that have been backed up from mobile devices. Hit the icon and you’ll be shown the same grid interface found on Google+, with tabs for recent photos and all of your curated photo albums. The option to upload a new photo from your PC or laptop, as well as…

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BTC China preempts China’s crackdown with an ATM app that exchanges cold hard cash for Bitcoins

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 11:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, bitcoin, Product Launches

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BTC China, until recently the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has rolled out an ATM Web app called Picasso that lets you sell Bitcoins in return for cold hard cash — but both parties have to be physically present in order to carry out the exchange. At first glance, this is a highly inconvenient arrangement. A BTC China spokesperson tells TNW that because it isn’t a legal financial institution, it cannot transfer money to bank accounts directly — and in order to circumvent that, the exchange between buyer and seller has to be a physical payment of cash. The move looks likely to be a response to…

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HaxAsia’s accelerator program brings Asian hardware startups to Silicon Valley for crowdfunding

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 10:23 am
Posted In: accelerator, Around the Web, Asia, Hardware, Insider

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As more consumer hardware startups crop up on crowdfunding platforms, an accelerator program HaxAsia has launched in Singapore to give a helping hand to those focusing on Asian markets. Behind the accelerator is a group of investment firms — Ruvento Ventures, IncuVest, DI-Group and SpinUp Partners. Slava Solonitsyn, the managing partner of HaxAsia, says: We’ve seen the explosion of successful crowdfunding launches recently, which brought to the world great products such as the Oculus Rift and Pebble Watch… However, most of the hardware teams launching crowdfunding campaigns often fail to communicate their product ideas well, lack the distribution network and underestimate the manufacturing risks and costs. All…

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Meet Sticons, a hybrid of stickers and emoticons that chat app Line has just introduced on Android

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 7:26 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, messaging app, Product Updates

If stickers and emoticons still aren’t enough for you to express your emotions via chat apps, Japanese messaging service Line has now introduced ‘Sticons’ — a hybrid of stickers and emoticons (the name pretty much says it all). Sticons can be used in text messages just like emoticons, but what’s unique is that when you send them in a standalone message, they morph into large, individual images — just like stickers. Line has rolled out Sticons on Android first, though it says an iPhone update is also coming in the near future. There are over 1,000 different Sticons to choose…

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