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China’s Weibo sets IPO range at $17-19 with valuation of over $3.5 billion

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 10:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider

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Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, has released a pricing range for its upcoming IPO that would peg shares between $17-19, valuing the company between $3.5-$3.9 billion, The New York Times reports. Weibo, which was spun off from Sina, is looking to sell 20 million shares in the offering, potentially raising as much as $380 million. The firm also has a separate agreement with Alibaba that will see Sina sell additional shares to the ecommerce leader. In its filing, Weibo notes that it will use $250 million of the raised money to pay off loans from Sina and repurchase shares…

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This is Amazon Dash, a voice-enabled scanner for creating AmazonFresh shopping lists

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Mere days after Amazon launched its Fire TV media streaming set-top box, the retailer is back with another device, this time to draw people into its AmazonFresh grocery service. Called Amazon Dash, it’s essentially a Wi-Fi and voice-enabled barcode scanner. So as your cupboards begin to look a little bare, the idea is that you pick it up and start scanning all the tins, boxes and bottles that you need restocked. They’re automatically added to your Amazon shopping list, so you can then finalize and submit the order online at any time. Now if you’re anything like me, you often throw…

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This robot playing Threes is hypnotic and better than you

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Shareables, Videos

Here’s a little something for your Friday afternoon/evening: A Twitch stream of a robot playing the addicting mobile game Threes set to a Boards of Canada soundtrack. If it wasn’t for those nettlesome deadlines, I could watch this all day. Walt Destler created the AI code, and developer Matthew Wegner created the robot while procrastinating work on Team Colorblind’s upcoming Aztez game. It looks like the Team Colorblind Twitch stream is normally used for streaming game development, so there’s no telling how long this robot will be around. The last round I watched ended up with a score of 71,000,…

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This robot playing Threes is hypnotic and better than you

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 8:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Shareables, Videos

Here’s a little something for your Friday afternoon/evening: A Twitch stream of a robot playing the addicting mobile game Threes set to a Boards of Canada soundtrack. If it wasn’t for those nettlesome deadlines, I could watch this all day. Walt Destler created the AI code, and developer Matthew Wegner created the robot while procrastinating work on Team Colorblind’s upcoming Aztez game. It looks like the Team Colorblind Twitch stream is normally used for streaming game development, so there’s no telling how long this robot will be around. The last round I watched ended up with a score of 71,000,…

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7 essential LinkedIn stats: When to post, what to post and how to improve

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. A quick glance at a chart of the Internet’s fastest-growing social networks reveals what you likely already knew (Instagram is growing like mad) and what might be a surprise: LinkedIn is the third-fastest-growing social network. We at the Buffer blog can vouch for LinkedIn’s growth as our blog has experienced a swell in LinkedIn referral traffic over the past year, up 4,000 percent from last year at this time. Part of that has to do with our emphasis on updates and sharing at LinkedIn, another part has to do with the popularity of LinkedIn contributing…

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