Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book II by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
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Facebook is reportedly prepping an e-money service, and is close to getting approval in Ireland
Apr14
Facebook wants to be more than a social network — it is planning to facilitate financial services in the form of electronic money and remittances, the Financial Times reports (as spotted first by Benedict Evans). The report cites sources as saying that Facebook is weeks away from getting regulatory approval in Ireland for a service that lets users store money on Facebook and use it to pay others — what’s known as “e-money”. This means that Facebook will be able to issue units of stored monetary value that represent a claim against the company, and the e-money can be used…
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Microsoft rolls out pricing changes to support universal Windows apps
Apr14
on April 14, 2014
at 3:43 am
At its Build Conference earlier this month, Microsoft announced universal Windows apps, which work across PCs, phones, tablets, and eventually the Xbox One. It also revealed plans to let developers sell apps across multiple platforms, extending to in-app purchases too — if you buy something on your phone, you’ll get the same access on your PC. This week Microsoft has started rolling out pricing changes to support universal Windows apps — which means you may be seeing changes in your app prices. Microsoft says it is providing a single set of price tiers across Windows and Windows Phone to simplify app…
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Navigation app Waze hit the headlines over the past week for the $1.15 billion that Google paid to acquire it last year – not to mention hints that the company might not have quite been ready to become a small cog in a big machine. Now several months down the line from the closure of that deal, TNW sat down for a chat with Julie Mossler, senior director of communications at Waze, to catch up with the social navigation company’s progress and talk about the potential future growth – and independence – of the service. Hands-off Billion-dollar deals and the backing of…
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