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Russia’s Mail.ru Group targets Western gamers with four ‘triple-A’ MMOs for Windows

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Russian giant Mail.ru Group launched My.com as a US-focused subsidiary last year, focused on offering free email and messaging apps subsidized by the revenues from free-to-play mobile games. Now the company is expanding into ‘triple-A’ PC game publishing. My.com is announcing today at GDC that it will launch four free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) games this year for Windows PCs. Armored Warfare is a tank combat game, Skyforge and Evolution are both RPGs, while the first to launch will be World of Speed, a social racing game with team play and auto clubs that players can join. Speaking to us at…

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Pikock: A multi-platform website creation tool for people who can’t code

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Product Launches

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Pikock, a French company founded in 2012, has just launched an all-in-one website creation platform that allows users to build and launch sites that automatically adapt to a range of devices without needing to know any code at all. While drag-and-drop website tools are nothing new, they often take a bit of manual tweaking – or you later find that a subsequent update has broken part of the site, or certain elements don’t play nicely together. Pikock claims, however, that it doesn’t just focus on being easy to use. “Pikock focus on simplicity, but also on reliability,” company co-founder Tsifei Chan told…

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LinkedIn: The evolution of a publishing platform

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, evergreen, Insider, Profiles and Interviews, PSF

For you, I, and probably many others, LinkedIn is a bit of an odd beast. We all no doubt have a profile on the ‘social network for professionals’, but how often we actually log in and check what’s going on is another matter altogether. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn garnered somewhere in the region of $1.5 billion in revenue last year. Today, it claims 277 million members, 3.5 million active company profiles, 24,000 schools, and 300,000 jobs. Its core mission is to “…connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful”. But blink and you might just have missed…

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Qik, the video streaming service acquired by Skype in 2011, is shutting down on April 30

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 11:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, qik, skype

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Qik, the video streaming service bought by Skype for $150 million in January 2011, will close down on April 30 2014. The company was founded in 2006 and had an estimated 5 million users at the time of the acquisition, but a post on the Qik website explains that now — two years later — it has become redundant. Why are you retiring Qik? We are retiring Qik as the Qik video messaging technology has now been incorporated into Skype. Users can now enjoy a great experience on Skype with features such as audio and video calling, instant messaging and video…

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Samsung’s new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch Chromebooks will be available in the UK from May 1

Mar20
by on March 20, 2014 at 10:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates, UK

Samsung has revealed that its new Chromebook 2 devices – complete with faux leather designs – will be available to buy in the UK from the start of May. The black 11.6-inch version of the device will be available to UK buyers from May Day itself, but if you wanted a larger-screened model – or a white 11.6-inch model – you’ll have to wait until they reach retailers on May 12. In the US, the devices cost $319.99 for the smaller model and $399.99 for the 13.3-inch unit. We’ve not had confirmation of the UK-specific pricing as yet, but we’d expect…

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