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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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Candy Crush Saga developer King begins trading at $20.50 per share

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Candy Crush Saga developer King Digital Entertainment today became a public company, after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at $20.50 per share. According to the Wall Street Journal, King had originally priced its initial public offering at $22.50 per share, valuing its business at around $7 billion. Much of King’s success can be attributed to Candy Crush Saga, which remains a popular and high grossing game on iOS and Android. Much like fellow developers Rovio and Supercell, it now needs to prove that it can deliver successive games that are just as popular; only once…

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What is 4K video? A guide to the rising industry standard

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web

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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. Most video editors, production companies, and broadcasters around the world have been adjusting to working with the new 4K video format. Here’s some information to help you decide if 4K is right for your projects. What is 4K? 4K refers to displays and videos that offer a horizontal resolution close to 4000 pixels and a vertical resolution close to 2000 pixels (HD, by comparison, is 1920 x 1080). The reason this resolution is described as “close to” these…

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Twitter files for lawsuits in Turkish courts to get ongoing ban of its service lifted

Mar26
by on March 26, 2014 at 1:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter is fighting to have the ban on its social network lifted in Turkey. Today, the company filed petitions for lawsuits in multiple Turkish courts, demanding that the current ban be lifted. “We’ve been engaged in discussion with Turkish authorities to hear their concerns, inform them about how our platform and policies work, and try and bring this situation to a resolution,” Vijaya Gadde, General Counsel for Twitter said. “But still, the millions of people in Turkey who turn to Twitter to make their voices heard are being kept from doing just that.” Twitter said the Turkish government is leaning…

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