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Upvoted Weekly is Reddit’s new community-driven newsletter

Considering how Reddit is a community-driven website, it makes sense that its first weekly newsletter is community-driven as well. Known as Upvoted Weekly, Reddit's new opt-in newsletter will feature some...

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Twitter is testing a way to pin apps to your profile

In an effort to boost profitability and remain relevant, Twitter has been pumping out new features like crazy these past few months. Hardly a day goes by where we don't...

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Apple Maps now includes reviews from Booking.com and TripAdvisor

Competing with Google Maps requires more than just being able to give people accurate directions, you need to pack in as many helpful features as you can while still keeping...

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Enterprise may be the key to the success of Google Glass

Google Glass. What started out as an interesting idea that had a lot of potential ended up as more of a joke than anything, which is why Google decided to...

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Dubai: A startup hub hidden in the sand

When people think about startup hubs, they probably think about the well-established American giants, their rising European counterparts, or the burgeoning tech centers of Asia, not some sandy city in...

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Google just joined the coalition that’s calling for surveillance reform

Ever since the full extent of government surveillance in the United States was revealed, millions of people and thousands of companies and organizations have called on Congress implement mass surveillance...

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Google Fiber is coming to Salt Lake City

The Google Fiber expansion continues to bring affordable, ultra-fast Internet to cities that I don't live in. The latest such not-a-city-that-I-live-in is Salt Lake City. Considering that Google's gigabit Internet...

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The NFL is about to have its first-ever Internet exclusive game

The NFL has had a long and incredibly profitable (mutually so) relationship with television but it looks like even that won't stop the NFL from embracing modern entertainment. Embrace may not...

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Google helps developers with location trackers with Place API

Android has officially received support for Google's Place API which allows developers to equip their apps with better location pickers which enables users to to specify their location using actual...

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Vine now loads faster and has offline playback

Good news Vine users, starting today for iOS versions of the app and soon to come for Android versions, videos will now play much faster, consume less bandwidth, and will...

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