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BBC Sport mobile app now serves up push notifications for football results and goals

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by on April 14, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

A little more than year after the BBC first launched its dedicated mobile sports app, the broadcaster has finally introduced push notifications for your favorite football (soccer) teams. With the updated Android and iOS apps, you can now be notified when your team kicks off in a game, when a goal is scored, and the half-time/full-time results. It’s compatible with pretty much all the professional football teams in England and Scotland.     Similar functionality is already available in apps like OneFootball, but it’s great to see alerts finally arrive for BBC Sport too. There’s no reason why this functionality can’t…

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SHIFT adds a self-service Twitter tool with tailored audiences to its social marketing platform

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by on April 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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SHIFT, a cloud-based social media marketing service, has officially launched its new self-service tool for advertising on Twitter. The new version offers all the features of Twitter’s ads API while also adding more granular tailored audiences and an easier way for global teams to coordinate their efforts. Previously, SHIFT’s product bundled together Facebook and Twitter advertising into a single tab on its SaaS solution. However, the startup found that its clients wanted to take separate approaches to each network. While advertisers can always head directly to Twitter to set up their ads, SHIFT’s platform offers several advantages. It allows individuals from multiple…

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The Guardian is set to launch a free paper in the US that uses an algorithm to choose content

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

British newspaper The Guardian is set to take its automated content curation experiment started in December in the UK to the US,  as reported by digital media and advertising company DigiDay and confirmed to TNW. Rather than using human editors to select which stories make it into the paper, called #Open001, The Guardian will use its own proprietary algorithm to identify its most popular long reads based on social metrics, likes shares and tweets. The paper will start with a monthly print run of 5,000 issues, which will be distributed for free at media and ad agencies in the US. It’s…

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Thermodo creates a physical thermometer from your smartphone’s headphone jack

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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When a crowdfunding campaign not only meets its funding goal but smashes it to smithereens, you know the idea has struck a chord with consumers. With $336,018 raised of its initial $35,000 goal, it’s clear that the Thermodo has resonated with many across the Web. And one year after we first reported on the thermometer accessory for smartphones, here’s the lowdown on the nifty little contraption that’s shipping now. Thermodo: A thermometer for your smartphone The Thermodo is the handiwork of Robocat, the very same Danish software developer behind popular weather apps Thermo and Haze. So its latest move into…

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EC ‘sweeps’ revealed only 31% of travel booking websites complied with EU rules in 2013, now at 62%

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 11:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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The European Commission (EC) has announced today that around two-thirds of the travel booking websites it checked in 2013 did not comply with European consumer law; a potentially worrying situation with consumers booking more travel online than ever before. During the year, it carried out ‘sweeps’ on 552 websites, and found that 382 of those “did not respect consumer law” based on a number of factors, such as whether information on the key characteristics of the service was easily accessible; whether the price was indicated at an early stage and inclusive of optional supplements; whether the websites provided email addresses for submitting…

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