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Frontback revamps its profile pages so you can see everyone’s followers and following lists

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by on March 31, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Frontback is a fantastic iOS app when you want to capture what’s happening on both sides of your iPhone. Sharing photos to social networks such as Twitter and Instagram is a breeze, but as a self-contained community it’s been light on features so far. Today’s update adds a new top-level screen to profile pages, with a circular photo, account handle, full name and biography. It’s not the best use of space, but it maintains the half-and-half design language that makes Frontback unique. You can then swipe to view their uploaded photos, as before. The profile headers also show two tabs…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Mar31
by on March 31, 2014 at 11:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Weekends are better than weekdays. Everyone knows that. Sometimes though, one of the downsides of weekends is that it can be hard to keep up with all the comings and goings in the tech world. Never fear though, that’s why we’re here. So, take a few minutes, make yourself a coffee and point your eyes below for all the best tech news and features from The Next Web and beyond over the last two days. News from The Next Web over the weekend: Coursera Launches Android App Innovative Photo Hardware-app Combos Shake Up Macworld/iWorld ReKoMe for iPhone Will Recognize Pictures…

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Report: Motorola’s share of UK smartphone sales climbs to 6% from ‘almost nothing’ in 6 months

Mar31
by on March 31, 2014 at 10:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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According to data from a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report for the three months to February 2014, Motorola’s budget Moto G device has helped boost the company from “almost nothing” to account for 6 percent of British smartphone sales in just six months. The Moto G was launched in November last year. Dominic Sunnebo, the strategic insight director at Kantar, comments: “It highlights the speed at which a quality budget phone can disrupt a market. The same pattern can be seen in France with Wiko, which has 8.3 percent share, and Xiaomi in China with 18.5 percent.” The report notes that almost half of…

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Catch up on a month of tech news from Eastern Europe: March

Mar31
by on March 31, 2014 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Even if you’ve been watching the tech scene of Eastern Europe closely, there’s still a chance you’ve missed something important as the news from that part of the world is relentless at the moment. Check out the headlines from March to get an impression of what’s been happening; the past month can be characterized by an unusual amount of news stories from Russia, while tech scene in other countries was much less active. If you think I have missed something, or would like to draw my attention to an important story, feel free to ping me in Twitter (@shlema) or…

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Google Campus London says Tech City is still growing, but is it?

Mar31
by on March 31, 2014 at 10:31 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Google, UK

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Google’s Campus events and co-working space in London is celebrating its second anniversary since opening its doors back in 2012. To properly mark the occasion, Google commissioned some research about Campus and the Tech City area of London, finding that Campus membership had swelled considerably – up from around 10,000 members at this time last year to more than 30,000 today. The picture painted by the results of the survey is an overwhelmingly positive one. According to the results, 71 percent of founders expect their turnover to increase in the next year and, on average, startups have secured £75,145 of funding in…

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