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Groupon And The Problem With The Daily Deal Religion [Video]

blogger — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:51:42 +0000

With the debut of Groupon personalization , I have little doubt that the daily deal site will double the number of deals (and double its revenue run rate) in just a few months. According to CEO Andrew Mason , the service is churning out 75,000 transactions per day.

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Google Confirms: We’re Not Currently Blocked In China

ACMAir — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:59 +0000

We’ve just received official word from Google confirming that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread . One month ago, Google put up their watered-down engine to avoid being shut down completely in Mainland China.

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Weebly’s ImagePerfect Gives Users Drag-And-Drop Image Editing

admin2 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:17 +0000

Weebly , the startup that lets you build a website with an easy drag-and-drop interface, is looking to help you give your site a little extra flair: they’ve just launched a new image editor called ImagePerfect that allows users to craft nifty custom header images with a few clicks. It may not be a Photoshop killer, but it took Weebly CEO David Rusenko all of one minute to build the Mustang image above (in other words, it’s pretty easy to use).

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Tinychat Boasts 500 Million Minutes Of Usage And 300,000 New Users Per Month

kram412 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:10:24 +0000

Not so tiny after all: Tinychat , a simple text, video and audio communication platform, is growing by leaps and bounds. First launched in February 2009 as a simple way to create Web-based chat rooms, Tinychat today is a full-blown chat system with lots of bells and whistles . And the service is gaining traction, fast.

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eWise Raises $12 Million For Online Payments Technology

ACMAir — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:07:32 +0000

Online payments company eWise has raised $12.1 million in funding led by Balderton Capital with Total Technology Ventures , and Allen & Co. participating in the round. eWise develops an technology, called Secure Vaults Payments, to allow users to automatically deduct a payment from their bank account without disclosing their personal information to online businesses

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Short Notice: PayPal Removes Electronic Withdrawal Option For Indian Users

vertical8 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:20:13 +0000

PayPal , the eBay-owned electronic payments company, continues to run into operational issues in India. Earlier this year, the company had to suspend personal payment transactions from and to India, albeit temporarily , when the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) concluded that PayPal was not in compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements.

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Facebook Closing In On Acquiring Check-In Service Hot Potato

Administrator — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:36:13 +0000

We’re hearing from sources close to the deal that Facebook is in late stage negotiations to buy Hot Potato , the social activity service. The deal is not yet finalized from what we’re hearing, but could be at any moment.

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Android Takes A New Approach To Fighting Piracy With Licensing Service

blogger — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:21:53 +0000

Pirates looking to illegally copy Android applications are about to face a new challenge: today, Google’s Android team announced that it is releasing a new application Licensing Service for Android. The service, which is meant to help developers secure their applications from piracy, forces apps to ping Google’s home server at regular intervals to verify that they were legitimately purchased

Making Calls On Google Voice Just Got Snappier

jos — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:53:53 +0000

Google Voice is great, especially if you’re on a mobile platform that offers a native Voice application (namely Android or BlackBerry). But if you’ve been using the service on a regular basis, you may have run into an odd issue: sometimes when you go to actually call someone there’s a lag, as if the phone isn’t altogether sure what it’s supposed to do when you tap on the ‘Call’ button next to a contact’s name. Today, Google is getting rid of that lag in its native applications

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MixPanel Offers Realtime iPhone Analytics That Probably Won’t Piss Off Apple

A D M I N — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:59:33 +0000

Perhaps you recall back in June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs laid the smack down on mobile analytics firm Flurry . He noted they were “pissing us off” because they were collecting device data about Apple’s products. Specifically, Jobs obviously cared because it uncovered some as-yet-unannounced Apple products.

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