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Waze CEO confirms Google paid $1.15B for the company, hints that investors forced the deal

Apr06
by on April 6, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

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Google completed its acquisition of Waze last June, but only now has the price tag that it paid for the Israel-headquartered social mapping startup and a hint at why the company sold out been revealed. A blog post on LinkedIn from Noam Bardin, who is CEO and co-founder of Waze, confirms that Google agreed to a $1.15 billion deal to buy the company. That’s notable since it is the first time that a member of either company has confirmed a figure — media estimates had varied from $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion — although it isn’t clear how that broke down over…

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This Kickstarter project aims to fix low sound volume on Microsoft Surface tablets

Apr06
by on April 6, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

If you’re the owner of a Microsoft Surface Tablet and are often pained by poor audio on your device, there’s a new Kickstarter project that may interest you. ‘Ears for the Surface Tablets’ is a campaign seeking $5,500 in funding to produce a set of $10 clip-on, plastic ‘ears’ that it is claimed increase speaker volume on a Surface by 10 decibels — that’s around 20 percent higher than usual. The ears attach to the top corners of a Surface and increase the sound by redirecting the output of the speakers towards the person in front of the device, as the…

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The ideal length for everything on the Internet

Apr06
by on April 6, 2014 at 6:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Investigations, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Every so often when I’m tweeting or emailing, I’ll think: Should I really be writing so much? I tend to get carried away. And for the times that I do, it sure would be nice to know if all this extra typing is hurting or helping my cause. I want to stand out on social media, but I want to do it in the right way. Curious, I dug around and found some answers for the ideal lengths of tweets and titles and everything in between. Many of these could have been answered with…

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Why the best entrepreneurs and creators are humble

Apr06
by on April 6, 2014 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Herbert Lui is the Creative Director of marketing agency Wonder Shuttle. He is the author of a guide to building credibility online. This post originally appeared on the Busy Building Things blog. In an age where social media runs rampant with humblebrags and constant barking, humility grows scarcer every day. While this trend may not appear to have any face value, it holds significant implications for your personal achievements, your team building and relationships, and a more realistic projection of the future. Embracing humility, and being humble, doesn’t mean never talking about your achievements and accomplishments. As 19th century author and preacher Charles Spurgeon…

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