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With $6.65m in its pocket, Nitrous.IO is set to help more developers save time and effort

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, coding, Insider, Programming

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Nitrous.IO, a 500 Startups-backed backend development platform, is setting out on a mission to save software developers time by cutting out the repetitive parts of creating development environments and automating them. To this extent, Nitrous.IO announced that it has closed a $6.65 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and with investors including 500 Startups, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and Golden Gate Ventures. The company lets developers who build Web applications using Ruby, Node.js, Python, and Go programming languages take advantage of its platform to create a testing environment. Nitrous.IO co-founder Arun Thampi explains that building an environment takes time —…

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Firefox 28 arrives with VP9 video decoding, Web notifications on OS X, HTML5 video and audio volume controls

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Mobile

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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include VP9 video decoding, Web notifications on OS X, and volume controls for HTML5 video and audio. Firefox 28 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. On all platforms, Firefox has gained VP9 video decoding. For those who don’t know, VP9 is the successor to VP8, both of which fall under Google’s WebM project of freeing Web codecs from royalty constraints. Desktop While this…

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Visual translator app Waygo adds Japanese to its slate

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, japanese, Product Updates

Waygo, a mobile app that instantly translates Chinese characters into English just by hovering a smartphone camera over them, has now added Japanese to its slate. This should prove useful for those who travel to Japan but get utterly lost when trying to decipher menus or instructions on vending machines for example. The Waygo app, currently only available for iOS devices, now translates Japanese characters into English text without requiring a data connection. All you have to do is simply hover over the characters. Ryan Rogowski, the CEO and co-founder of Waygo, says that the company is focusing on Asian markets…

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Why people unsubscribe from mailing lists (and how to win them back)

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, mailchimp, Social Media

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Running a newsletter can be difficult. You put so much energy into getting people to sign up that a couple of unsubscribers may just ruin your day. Clearly, there’s a reason people unsubscribed from your newsletter: Maybe they don’t think you’re creating great enough free content, or are fed up with your shameless self promotion. Maybe you’re just sending too much? Fear not, it’s almost hardly the case. Sometimes people they just want to clear their inbox. Ask yourself the questions below and see if they may be the reason people unsubscribe from your perfectly good newsletters. If so, we’ll…

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Sky is bringing a new ‘buy and keep’ movie service to the UK and Ireland

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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On the same day that BSkyB rolled out a brand new Sky+ EPG homepage to help push its on-demand content, Andrew Griffith, Chief Financial Officer & MD, Commercial Businesses at Sky, has let-slip on a brand new ‘buy to keep’ service that’s set to launch shortly. Griffith made the reveal on stage at the Guardian Changing Media Summit in London earlier today, and although details around the new service are scant, we do know that it will be arriving “in the coming weeks”, and will complement its existing transactional Sky Store rental service. “Having millions of our customer homes connected,…

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