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Qwiki Relaunches as iPhone App That Combines Your Photos and Video Into a Movie

Qwiki Relaunches as iPhone App That Combines Your Photos and Video Into a Movie

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Qwiki, formally a sort of video Wikipedia, has relaunched as an iPhone app that combines photos and videos from events you’ve captured into brief shareable movies

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Microsoft Attacks Google With New ‘Scroogled’ Ad [Video]

Microsoft Attacks Google With New ‘Scroogled’ Ad [Video]

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Microsoft is attacking Google and Gmail in a new ‘Scroogled’ ad

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Mailbox App Arrives for the iPhone

Mailbox App Arrives for the iPhone

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Orchestra has released its Mailbox app inspired by Sparrow and Clear for the iPhone

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H.264 Support Now Enabled By Default in Firefox Nightlies for Windows

H.264 Support Now Enabled By Default in Firefox Nightlies for Windows

Hunter February 7, 2013 0

H.264, AAC, and MP3 support is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightlies for Windows 7 and later

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Stanford Student Startup Accelerator StartX Raises Another $400,000, Bringing Total Funding To About $1.5 Million

Stanford Student Startup Accelerator StartX Raises Another $400,000, Bringing Total Funding To About $1.5 Million

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StartX, which is a startup accelerator for Stanford students, has raised another round of funding, adding $400,000 to its coffers since last December. That money comes from new investors that include Cisco, Founders Fund,

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Amazon To Set Up Secondhand Ebook Marketplace

Amazon To Set Up Secondhand Ebook Marketplace

Hunter February 7, 2013 0

Amazon wants to sell your used ebooks. It recently won a patent to allow people to hock off their read ebooks on its marketplace. Of course, ebooks don’t suffer from wear and tear, but

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Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo Moved Into The Top 5 Global Smartphone Vendors In Q4, Says Canalys

Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo Moved Into The Top 5 Global Smartphone Vendors In Q4, Says Canalys

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Canalys just published its final mobile phone shipment estimates, which show that although Samsung is still on top of the global smart phone market, three Chinese manufacturers-Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo-all climbed into the top

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CoverHound Lands $4.5M From RRE, Bullpen & Blumberg To Become The Kayak Of Online Insurance

CoverHound Lands $4.5M From RRE, Bullpen & Blumberg To Become The Kayak Of Online Insurance

Hunter February 7, 2013 0

Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don’t happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your

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Alchemy API Raises $2 Million For Neural Net Analysis Tech, On Par With IBM Watson, Google

Alchemy API Raises $2 Million For Neural Net Analysis Tech, On Par With IBM Watson, Google

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Alchemy API has raised $2 million to extend the capabilities of its deep learning technology that applies artificial intelligence to read and understand web pages, text documents, emails, tweets, and other forms of content. Access Venture

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Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford’s Student Startup Accelerator

Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford’s Student Startup Accelerator

Hunter February 7, 2013 0

Stanford’s student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which just raised another $400,000,

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