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Spotify finally adds the ability to listen to a single track on repeat

Feb 10, 2014

Good news for those who use the desktop version of Spotify. Apparently the social network has paid attention to the pressing...

Klout now teaches you how to become more influential on social networks

Feb 8, 2014

Klout is moving beyond scoring your influence to helping you generate original content. Sanjay Desai, Klout’s Chief Product Officer, told The Next...

Mozilla launches Firefox Accounts, a new cloud sync feature for Firefox

Feb 7, 2014

The Mozilla Foundation has taken a further step into the world of online services with the introduction of Firefox Accounts. "While...

LinkedIn acquires job matching service Bright for $120 million

Feb 6, 2014

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network on the Internet with approximately 277 million members worldwide, today announced it agreed to acquire Bright,...

Pandora announces plans to make it easier for indie artists to submit music

Feb 6, 2014

Pandora, the leading internet radio service, today announced that it has launched an open music submission process designed to make...

Google launches the Google Cast Software Development Kit

Feb 4, 2014

App developers can now push their software onto a TV screen using a software development kit that Google is introducing...

Twitter to start selling user data to the music industry

Feb 3, 2014

For the music business, Twitter holds a vast haystack of data with no easy way to find the most valuable...

Windows 8 and 8.1 exceed 20% adoption on Steam

Feb 2, 2014

According to data from Valve's Steam Hardware and Software Survey for the month ending January 2014, Microsoft's latest operating system usage has...

Windows 8.1 sees slight boost in market share

Feb 1, 2014

The first month of this new year has come to a close and its now time to take a look...

Sony denies rumors of plans to sell overseas Vaio PC business to Lenovo

Feb 1, 2014

Japanese electronics giant and Chinese PC makers Lenovo are in talks about a possible joint venture to take over the...

Microsoft is discontinuing its InfoPath electronic forms product

Feb 1, 2014

As had been rumored for a while, Microsoft is discontinuing its InfoPath electronic forms product. Company officials confirmed the news in a...

Paypal and GoDaddy help hacker steal man’s rare Twitter username

Jan 29, 2014

An app developer who had a rare Twitter username revealed he has been hacked by a person that wanted to own the @N handle at all...