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Last.fm will close its subscription-based radio streaming service on April 28

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Last.fm will abandon its subscription radio streaming service on April 28. The company has been slowly withdrawing from this space for some time, killing off its homegrown player last year in most markets and prioritizing its ability to record, or “scrobble” the tracks its users are listening to through other apps. Radio was still available in the US, UK and Germany; free and ad-supported on the Web, or ad-free with a subscription. This feature was also offered in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Brazil, but only for Last.fm subscribers. As of next month though, subscriber radio will no longer…

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Jawbone brings its UP24 activity tracker wristband to 29 new countries across Europe and Asia

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

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Jawbone has announced that its UP24 activity tracker wristband is available to buy in 29 additional countries from today, following a four month period of being US-only. The wristband wirlessly connects to an Android or iOS device via Bluetooth to track and provide continuous feedback designed to help you hit activity goals. As well as providing goals to keep you active, the wristband also tracks sleep – and provides reports on how your sleep and activity levels are related. If you’re really dedicated to the sleep aspect, there’s also a dedicated iOS app called UP Coffee which tracks caffeine intake over time to…

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In pursuit of truth: A brand’s guide to managing misinformation online

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, Social Media

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Patrice Francois is co-founder and associate director at Digimind, one of the fastest growing companies in the field of social media monitoring software. The Internet has rewritten the rules for what can be viewed as fact versus fiction. From fake online reviews to inaccurate media articles, it’s impossible to truly know what online information is real and what is fabricated. The same holds true for the voices of online audiences, whether it’s a tweet, a comment on an article or a blog post. In an attempt to eradicate the mystery, it was recently reported that European scientists are developing a “social…

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Peak: An automated project tracking and team management platform from the creators of Flow

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Managing a team, remote or otherwise, can be a challenge. We should know, it’s no secret that The Next Web staff list spans the world. One of the biggest challenges of working in a team can be keeping track of exactly where each team member is up to with a project. Enter Peak, a team management platform that wants to keep everyone up to date on progress without intruding on the working day. Better still, it’s from the company that brought you the beautiful task management app Flow for iOS and Android. It was also one of our ‘7 early stage…

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Need a business idea? This is where you should be looking

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 2:51 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea Technologies and a mobile strategy advisor. He can be contacted via Twitter @rahulvarshneya. If you’re looking for a startup idea, most entrepreneurs will advise you to look at problems – ones that you can solve creatively and most effectively. A problem so pressing that people would give an arm and a leg to use your solution. While for some it seems rather easy to realize what a problem is – and most often it’s one of their own – for a larger set, getting to a problem worth solving itself is the problem. So what do…

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