December 13, 2017
Mario Bear has come to save 2017
It’s been a long year – it feels like it actually spanned about 50, in fact. But now, at the end, some relief: Mario Bear. Yes, it’s just…
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December 13, 2017
This app will help you figure out if you can fit that Costco-sized paper towel box in your apartment
You’re probably going to get a better deal when you buy consumer products — like paper towels — wholesale, but at the same time you’re also buying a…
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Commerce platform iZettle raises $47M at a $950M valuation
iZettle — the commerce platform based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as well…
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To fix SoundCloud, it must become the anti-Spotify
Startups die by suicide, not competition. It wasn’t that anyone was stealing SoundCloud’s underground rappers, bedroom remixers and garage bands. SoundCloud stumbled because it neglected these hardcore loyalists as…
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Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting tweetstorms
Twitter today is announcing the launch of a new feature that will allow people to more easily post tweetstorms – that is, those series of connected tweets that…
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Facebook opens AR platform and ‘World Effects’ to all developers
Facebook is trying to close the augmented reality gap with Snapchat with the help of an army of third-party developers. Today, eight months after debuting its Augmented Reality…
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Box launches new consulting unit to help customers struggling with digital transformation
Box announced a new consulting organization today called Box Transform. It is designed to help companies understand that transformation requires a new way of working and thinking as…
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Facebook will no longer always divert international advertising revenue to Ireland
Facebook today said it is shifting to a “local selling structure” in countries outside the U.S. That means that rather than directly route its revenue to its international…
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Instagram becomes an interest network with hashtag following
Instagram has always been a social network where you follow friends and creators, but today it’s evolving with a new way to follow hashtags so you see top…
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Nintendo sells 10 million Switch consoles since launch
Nintendo has sold 10 million units of the Switch console since launch, according to the company. The console launched back in March, and is selling at a similar…
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