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SumAll adds ‘Auto-thanks’ and ‘Throwback Thursday’ engagement tools for Twitter and Facebook

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, Social Media

SumAll’s data-driven decision making tool for marketers now has two new features designed to increase brand engagement via social channels. The first is ‘Throwback Thursday’, which allows users to automatically republish a post from one year ago on Facebook “in order to maximize popular content”. The second is called ‘Auto-thanks’ and does as its name suggests – sending an auto-thanks message whenever a brand’s followers comment on or Like a post on Facebook, or whenever a tweet is retweeted on Twitter. These can be sent in public or private messages. Both features are live now and accessible through the “list view” tool in…

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Google brings the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 to eight new European countries in the Google Play store

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Launches

Google has given us an avalanche of news to grapple with this week, and with broader availability for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. Quietly, the company started offering its high-value smartphone and tablet in the Google Play store for eight new markets last night: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. That’s almost double the number both devices were offered in before. Europeans now have a fair number of announcements to celebrate. Google Chromecast launched in the UK and nine other European markets today, and both Google…

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Oppo unveils its 5.5-inch Quad HD Find 7 smartphone, touted as able to take 50-megapixel photos

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 11:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, find 7, Gadgets, Product Launches

As announced previously, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo took the wraps off its Find 7 Android smartphone today in Beijing, a power-packed device boasting top-of-the-line specs. The Find 7 boasts a 5.5-inch Quad HD (2560x1440p) display. It is powered by a 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor, comes with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and runs on a 3,000 mAh battery. It is equipped with a 13 megapixel camera which, by taking ten photos at the backend, can produce 50 megapixel photos with its ‘Super Zoom’ feature. It also allows for video recording in full 4k resolution, and 720p 120 frame-per-second slow motion videos. At…

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Payleven set to launch €100 contactless payment-capable Chip & PIN reader for small businesses

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 10:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

Rocket Internet-backed mobile payment processor Payleven has today announced the launch of a new NFC-equipped Chip & PIN card reader which will be available for customers in the second half of this year. Like its previous Chip & PIN card reader, the unit will allow small businesses to accept payments on the go – but unlike the previous iteration, it includes NFC support so that vendors can also accept contactless payments from debit cards or mobile devices. Payleven says hardware that allows vendors to accept contactless payments generally costs between €400 – €700, but that its new NFC-equipped reader will…

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WhatsApp rival WeChat is narrowing the gap as it passes 355 million monthly active users

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 10:17 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates, wechat

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With 450 million active users each month and 1 million new sign-ups per day, WhatsApp is indeed the world’s most popular messaging app. However, figures revealed today show that WeChat is catching up. WeChat’s parent company, Tencent, released its earnings report today revealing that the combined monthly active users of WeChat and Weixin (the version available in China) reached 355 million as of end 2013, an increase of 121 percent year-on-year and up six percent quarter-on-quarter. No doubt WeChat dominates in China, and as Tencent didn’t release a breakdown of the monthly active users according to region, there’s no certainty…

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