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Pixelstick: Light painting evolved to span video and photos

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Profiles and Interviews

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Derick Rhodes is a footage content producer at Shutterstock. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. Duncan Frazier has made impressive stunning timelapse footage, but when he and his business partner Stephen McGuigan (working together as Bitbanger Labs) sent us a link to Pixelstick, we experienced the kind of awe that was formerly reserved for Apple product launches. Pixelstick is a tool that will allow photographers and videographers to bring a totally new dimension to their work, giving them the ability to “paint” virtually anything they can imagine across the span of a timelapse video or…

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Tech5: Meet the fastest growing tech companies in France

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 12:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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All too often, the technology industry is examined from its opposing ends. A spotlight is given to the latest batch of promising startups, as well as powerhouse brands such as Twitter, Facebook and Google. By and large, what happens in between is forgotten about or ignored. The Next Web, in partnership with Adyen, created Tech5 to give growth-stage companies the limelight. To showcase teams in Europe that have not only vision and ideas, but a business that is thriving every day. The competition encompasses seven European countries and last night, the national finalists for France were unveiled at the bustling Numa co-working…

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Trak.io takes its app analytics and CRM platform for startups out of beta

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 11:37 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Trak.io, a platform for tracking user interaction with apps, is shaking off its beta tag today after more than a year of refinement. Targeted at tech startups primarily, Trak.io allows users to track their customers use of their mobile and Web apps in order to find out what works, and what doesn’t – ultimately allowing users to offer a more focused and relevant service by providing feedback on metrics. As well as providing an activity dashboard, the platform also offers activity funnels and individual customer profiles for focused investigation. Although the company has been working on Trak.io for the last…

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Tech news from the Middle East: What you need to know from the past month

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Middle East

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Here’s our roundup of some of the most important or interesting regional entrepreneurial news from the Middle East in March. As always, if you’d like to draw my attention to an important regional story, please contact me on Twitter (@startupegypt) or by e-mail at omar@talkinsense.com. Creative media One of the lesser known entrepreneurial gains of the stalled Arab Spring has been the uprising in creativity in media and the arts.  People are expressing themselves creatively and artistically in ways never seen before, especially in the independent sector.  In fact this creativity burst may currently be the best chance of cementing…

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Watch Flappy Bird being played on a mobile point-of-sale terminal

Apr04
by on April 4, 2014 at 11:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

Flappy Bird may have gone the way of the dodo, for now at least, but that hasn’t stopped the brand from being kept alive in all kinds of convoluted and quirky ways. The latest one? Well, how about a game of Flappy Bird on a mobile point-of-sale (MPOS) terminal? Chippy Pin is the handiwork of data security company MWR Labs, and is designed to demonstrate how an attacker could negotiate their way into a MPOS device. Demoed at the Syscan security conference earlier this week, the serious side showed that it can be infiltrated so the device is switched into…

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