Daily Archives: August 15, 2012

TV Star And Beloved Health Guru Dr. Oz Will Speak At IGNITION

August 15, 2012
TV Star And Beloved Health Guru Dr. Oz Will Speak At IGNITION

  Get market insight on digital business models at “IGNITION: Future Of Digital,” Nov.27-28, 2012, in New York. Hear from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, New York Times, American Express, Pepsi, and more. Reserve your ticket now. See Also How Will You Get Your Lady Gaga? These Execs Will Tell Us At IGNITION Check Out These...

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Groupon Has Cozy Deals With Its Chairman’s Marketing, Logistics and Law Firms (GRPN)

August 15, 2012
Groupon Has Cozy Deals With Its Chairman’s Marketing, Logistics and Law Firms (GRPN)

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Groupon’s founder and executive chairman, Eric Lefkofsky. See Also Here’s The Evidence That Progressive Is About To Kill Off Flo Facebook Wants To Put More Ads In Your News Feed Here’s How Much Money The World’s Biggest Brands Spent Designing Their Logos Groupon’s founder and executive chairman, Eric Lefkofsky,...

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The Invisible Bike Helmet: An Airbag On The Go

August 15, 2012
The Invisible Bike Helmet: An Airbag On The Go

People die trying to look cool. Vanity is the sad reason why people don’t wear bike helmets. So two Swedish women set out to invent “the invisible bicycle helmet”, They’ve succeeded, and the end product isn’t a made of clear plexiglass and there’s no lightbending-stealth technology. In fact it’s not really a helmet at...

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AT&T to Spend Tens of Millions to Promote Safe Texting

August 15, 2012
AT&T to Spend Tens of Millions to Promote Safe Texting

Texting while driving contributes to nearly 100,000 crashes causing injury or death per year. Loathe to be held responsible for such a grim statistic, ATT has announced a campaign to stop texting while driving as well as an app to help curb the practice. ATT announced a new public awareness effort today as part of...

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Target, Walmart and Co.: why leave mobile payments to others?

August 15, 2012
Target, Walmart and Co.: why leave mobile payments to others?

Some of the biggest retailers have had enough of payment companies hitting them up with their own ideas of how they should implement mobile payments. Target, Walmart Best Buy, 7-Eleven and about a dozen others on Wednesday announced they have banded together to form a joint venture called the Merchant Customer Exchange, which will eventually...

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Sam Schillace founded Writely, sold it to Google for Docs and is now Box’s VP of Engineering

August 15, 2012
Sam Schillace founded Writely, sold it to Google for Docs and is now Box’s VP of Engineering

Sam Schillace, the founder of Writely, which he later sold to Google to become the foundation of Google Docs, has joined Box.net as its VP of Engineering, announced Box CEO Aaron Levie. Schillace’s LinkedIn profile indicates that he is leaving his position on the Investment Team at Google Ventures and expanding his role from...

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From The Disrupt Battlefield To Cloud Storage Phenomenon With $7M+ In Funding, Bitcasa Tells All

August 15, 2012
From The Disrupt Battlefield To Cloud Storage Phenomenon With $7M+ In Funding, Bitcasa Tells All

If you don’t know about TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bitcasa, you probably should. These are the same folks that blow Dropbox and SkyDrive out of the water, offering users not just a few gigabytes of cloud storage, but infinite storage for your PC or mobile device. After launching on the Disrupt stage in San Francisco last year,...

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Kippt Lets You Build An Automated Archive for Links You Like

August 15, 2012
Kippt Lets You Build An Automated Archive for Links You Like

On Wednesday, the personal link library Kippt rolled out its own syncing services. You can now connect your accounts from Twitter, GitHub, Pocket, and Readability to automatically save the links you like to your Kippt lists with no extra work, and more services are on the way. This kind of integration is just what...

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Exclusive: China’s online Olympics audience breaks records

August 15, 2012
Exclusive: China’s online Olympics audience breaks records

The U.S. Olympic athletes may have won the most gold medals in London, but China is once again clocking the biggest online audience worldwide for an event like this one. 485 million users followed CNTV’s coverage of the games via PCs, mobile and connected devices, according to data the broadcaster shared exclusively with GigaOm....

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Snapjoy launches new importing tool: Now’s the time to call it your favorite photo service

August 15, 2012
Snapjoy launches new importing tool: Now’s the time to call it your favorite photo service

I’ve made it pretty clear in my reporting that I’m an absolute freak when it comes to taking and sharing photos. I literally have over 15,000 photos hosted online, and can’t wait to notch another five figures. TNW told you about a service called Snapjoy that was building something quite amazing to store and...

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