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Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance

Screenshot 2014-07-14 15.41.40 There’s surely no shortage of dating apps out there, but for those of us who wish to arm ourselves with every weapon in the potential arsenal, might I introduce Floret. Floret is a new dating app that focuses on a common problem known as the Stable Marriage Problem, which essentially means that elements in a group are matched based on preferences, without any two elements in the… Read More

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Microsoft Presses Ahead With Its Cloud Strategy

Screen Shot 2014-07-14 at 9.34.32 AM This morning at its Windows Partner Conference, Microsoft made a lengthy pitch to its assembled clients that the cloud isn’t the future, but rather the present. The company presented its cloud products and services as a way for partner companies to generate more revenue and land more customers. Microsoft, however, wasn’t overly boastful during its speech — instead, the… Read More

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Timberman Is The New Flappy Bird

Timberman Gamers looking for a new way to spend time waiting in line or on a commute should go check out Timberman, the latest indie game to take the App Store by storm. According to App Annie data, the game has made its way to the top 5 apps overall in more than 20 countries and is the most-downloaded game in eight countries as of yesterday. Read More

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Google Brings Ingress Location-Based Game To iPhone And iPad

ingress-ipad Google has brought its Ingress game to iOS, with a launch of the app for iPhone and iPad released late yesterday. The app has been available for two years now, and has managed to accumulate over four million downloads on Android. Google’s Niantic Labs is likely hoping to be able to boost usage by expanding its offering to the iOS cloud, because even the Google crowd can’t deny… Read More

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LinkedIn Acquires Newsle To Deliver More Relevant News About Your Connections

Screen Shot 2014-07-14 at 9.28.50 AM LinkedIn announced today that it has acquired Newsle, the machine-learning startup founded to help users pare down the ample noise coming across social networks and give them relevant info about their most important contacts. The terms of the acquisition were not announced, but LinkedIn says that Newsle will continue to operate as a standalone product for the time being, while both teams work… Read More

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Google’s Leaked Play Store Redesign Foregrounds Media And Summaries

nexusae0_wm_11 Google has a new look for all of Android coming with Android L, the final public release of which should arrive sometime this fall. The latest version sports something called ‘Material Design,’ a new set of principles for user interface creation that’s meant to make software better for touchscreens and high density displays. The Play Store wasn’t updated in the… Read More

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Apple Asserts Its Commitment To Privacy In Response To Report By China’s CCTV

apple-store-china Apple has published a statement via its Chinese website as a follow-up to a report on the state-run CCTV last week that claimed its devices could present a state security risk according to researchers. The statement, available in both Chinese and English, details Apple’s efforts to ensure customer privacy is protected, and reiterates that Apple does not store or track user locations… Read More

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Screenshot Claims To Show Off The Coming Windows 8.1 Start Menu

thing Mostly lost in the noise surrounding the World Cup final, a screenshot floated around the Microsoft-watching community. The image picked up attention because it contains what some claim is an image of the soon-to-return Start Menu in Windows 8.1. Microsoft promised that the user interface element would come back in a keynote this April. In the ensuing few months there hasn’t been much… Read More

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With Publicize, Former Tech Blogger Conrad Egusa Offers A More Affordable Approach To Startup PR

Publicize's Eddie Arrieta And Conrad Egusa We’ve written about several attempts to rethink PR for startups, including PressFriendly (which offers customers a virtual “pitch builder”) and AirPR (which created a marketplace connecting startups and PR). A new firm called Publicize may not embrace a self-serve, tech-centric model quite as a fully, but it does have a pretty appealing price tag — its standard price… Read More

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Winners Of The Techcrunch London Meetup: GiftGaming, Rook And Keekla

photo (35) The Techcrunch London Summer Meetup rolled into town this week as part of our Summer Tour to promote TechCrunch Disrupt in London on October 20-21. We had a bunch of brand new startups apply.
The pitch-off was judged by TechCrunch writers Ingrid Lunden and Natasha Lomas and myself, with Andy Chung of AngelList and James Governor of Shoreditch Works, our hosts. We were kindly supported by… Read More

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