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Is Crimea part of Russia? Answers found on Facebook, Vkontakte differ; Wikipedia changes its mind

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Investigations

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This post was originally published on East-West Digital News and has been republished with permission. Three weeks after Russia asserted that Crimea and the city of Sebastopol have become part of its territory, Facebook and Russian-language social network Vkontakte still categorize the inhabitants of these regions as being located in Ukraine. Meanwhile, two other major social networks, Odnoklassniki (Classmates) and Moi Mir (My World), have already classified them as being part of the Russian Federation. Wikipedia, on its side, appears to have changed Crimea’s status several times already, reported Russia Beyond The Headlines. Sparking an editing quarrel that lasted several days, Crimea was…

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Morning for iPhone gives you all the need-to-knows to start your day

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Morning for iOS has proven to be a popular tool for getting all the crucial need-to-knows to start your day, but thus far it has been an iPad-only affair. With the latest update, however, two-man development team Tamper has made it available for iPhone users too. In a nutshell, Morning collates all the information you may need to know each morning, including weather, tasks, traffic (commute time), news, calendar, stocks, countdown timer and, of course, time. Additionally, you can customize the look-and-feel with a range of themes.     Morning is a beautiful app for sure and, as such, it has actually been…

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Taptanium returns with Windy, a relaxing stereoscopic 3D soundscape of wind for iOS

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 11:19 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Who would’ve thought that weather-themed audio apps would prove such a hit? Way back in July last year, we brought you news on Taptanium’s Thunderspace, a stereoscopic 3D soundscape of thundery weather for iOS, from the creators of popular weather app Haze. Similar to Raining.fm, Thunderspace serves up a blustery weather-based audio experience, designed to help you ‘relax’. But Thunderspace really went the extra mile in putting the various soundcapes together – it even introduced ‘real’ wind to the mix too. Now, the Germany-based app development studio has teamed up once more with Emmy-award winning nature sound recording artist Gordon…

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The fastest growing tech companies in Europe? We found them

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 9:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK, Voice

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A month ago we teamed up with global payments technology provider Adyen to launch a new competition in search of Europe’s fastest growing tech startups: The European Tech5. After receiving a ton of submissions and screening more than a hundred companies across seven countries in Europe, the list of the fastest growing young European tech companies is ready. The Tech5 lists are based on actual revenue, traffic and employee data and shows the growth rate between 2011 and 2013. The main entry criteria for the Tech5 was that they must’ve launched in 2009 or later, have more than €500,000 in…

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Zopim’s $30m exit boosts Singapore and highlights opportunities for B2B startups

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 8:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Singapore, zendesk, zopim

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Singapore is celebrating one of its most notable tech exits to date after Zopim, a company that provides live chat support services for websites, was sold to customer service software firm Zendesk in a deal that could be worth as much as $30 million. There have been bigger acquisitions out of Singapore — for example Rakuten’s $200 million deal for Viki last year — but Zopim is different, since it did not raise private venture funding and has been profitable for some time. Build good products Zopim bootstrapped, pivoted to a freemium model and maintained a strong focus on product….

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