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15 of the best Android apps from March

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by on March 31, 2014 at 10:24 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, BestAndroidApps, Insider, Roundups

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It has been a good month for Android apps. So let’s take a look back at the pick of the new tools to hit Google Play over the past 31 days. Dollarbird Following its launch for iOS last July, Dollarbird finally brought its awesome personal expenses tracker to Android this month.     Dollarbird is what you get when you cross a smart calendar app with a budgeting app, and helps you track and forecast all your spending. ➤ Dollarbird Tribesports Tribesports for Android is a GPS fitness-tracking app that pretty much replicates its iOS counterpart, and if you’ve used any…

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The Pirate Bay kicks off April Fools’ Day early, announces device to ‘embrace your entire mind’

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by on March 31, 2014 at 10:06 am
Posted In: aprilfool2014, Around the Web, Shareables

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The Pirate Bay is known for causing controversy and disrupting the status quo, so it’s perhaps apt that the file-sharing group kicked off this year’s inevitable deluge of April Fools’ Day stunts with the announcement of “the biggest step in our history.” After years of being driven from domain to domain, and finally into the cloud, TPB is making its final move…. into your mind. In cooperation with russian, israeli and japanese neuro scientists, we are developing a device that will embrace your entire mind. Using laser projections directly onto the retina it’ll no longer be any resolution but 100%. The…

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Rocket Internet-backed Zencap is an online finance marketplace for small firms in Germany

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by on March 31, 2014 at 9:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Germany, Product Launches

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Well-known incubator Rocket Internet has launched a new venture in Germany — Zencap, a digital credit marketplace for small and mid-sized enterprises to get financing without having to go through banks. Zencap essentially forms a bridge between entrepreneurs and private investors, allowing SMEs to apply for financing directly from Zencap. Entrepreneurs can apply for a loan in the range of €10,000 – €150,000, with a term of six to 60 months, after which the startup’s creditworthiness will be checked, and Zencap will propose a non-binding offer based on the firm’s risk class and the loan’s term. Only then will the credit project…

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Line now lets you replace your boring iOS or Android app icons with its cartoon figures

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by on March 31, 2014 at 8:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Japan, messaging

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Messaging app Line wants to take over your phone’s screen. The company has announced a new feature – Line Deco — which lets users of both Android and iOS devices radically change the look of their device and icons. Line Deco essentially replaces default app icons with images of the app’s cartoon characters instead, and provides matching wallpaper options too. Line, which has nearly 400 million registered users, says that there are over 3,000 icon and wallpaper designs — all of which are free until the end of April, to encourage adoption. Line doesn’t actually replace your default icons, instead it…

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