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OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof: OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof. Headquartered in San Diego, LifeProof also makes protective cases

Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After Release: Samsungs Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after

Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?: A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking:What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They

Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It: Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and hes got a patent to prove it.

LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself: Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch

Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Pla(...): Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish

GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform: GiftCards.com, a Pittsburg-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco

Mashable

New 'The Wolverine' Trailer Shows Hero Facing His Mortality: Another full-length trailer for The Wolverine has debuted online, and it shows our surly superhero facing his mortality.Posted to YouTube on Tuesday, the two-and-a-half-minute video features

4 Ways to Find Your Brand’s Voice: Ready to start marketing your new company, product or brand? Before you create a blog, draft content for your brand-spanking-new website or start tweeting, first define

HP Thinks Giant Tablets Are a Good Idea: Windows 8 has officially created a new category: the monster tablet. Last falls Sony Tap 20 could have been dismissed as a one-off aberration, but others

Teen's Invention Could Create 20-Second Phone Charge: Tech manufacturers that boast how fast their devices can juice up might want to listen up: A California teen has developed a super-capacitor that could lead

99.9% Of New Mobile Malware Targets Android Phones: Android, the worlds most popular smartphone operating system, has malware issuesWe knew that already. But a new report suggests these issues are only destined to worsenIn

Vertus Makes Any Speaker Bluetooth Friendly: Syncing audio to a Bluetooth speaker is a common practice these days, but sending it wirelessly to two old-school speakers at the same time is a

NFL Star Meets Quadriplegic Fan After Viral Facebook Campaign: In January, Eran Melnik wrote NFL superstar J.J. Watt a public message on FacebookMelnik explained that hes a nurse for a young man named Itzy Cagen.

Which Video Game Console Do You Want?: Its official: Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, its newest gaming console and entertainment system. While many of the features were met with positive reviews on

Quantum Dot Technology On Its Way to Smartphones, Tablets and TVs: Just when you thought display technology could hardly get any better, along come quantum dots, making screens more colorful while consuming less powerThis is not just

Trunk iPhone Charging Cable Is Flexible Yet Rigid: Trunk is a charging cable equipped with a USB connector on one side and a Lightning connector on the other, and its rigid enough to hold

Watch This Rocket-Powered Bicycle Hit 163 MPH: François Gissy is a French bicyclist, but hes about the furthest thing from your typical fixie-riding hipster. No, this is how Gissy rolls: attaching a rocket

See How Much the Next 'Call of Duty' Graphics Improve: Call of Duty: Ghosts represents a significant graphical upgrade from the previous titles in the series, according to publisher Activision.To prove this, it showed a video

Intellectual Property Commission: Pass CISPA Now: A bipartisan and independent commission studying corporate espionages impact on the American economy recommended passing the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its

Teens Getting Tired of Facebook Drama, Pew Survey Finds: Though Facebook is still the most popular social network among teens, their enthusiasm for Mark Zuckerbergs network is decreasing, according to new findings from the Pew

HP Stock Jumps 13% After Beating Earnings Estimates: Hewlett-Packard posted mixed results in its second quarter, but beat analysts profit estimates, helping to send the stock up more than 13% in after-hours tradingHP reported

Storm-Penetrating Drones Could Fly Into Tornadoes: Engineering students at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have designed three concept drones that could one day help storm trackers and researchers better understand tornadoes.Led by professor

ZZ Ward's App Uses Facebook to Plot When Fans Discovered Her Music: ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans

Jif Peanut Butter Weighs In on GIF Pronunciation Debate: It was only a matter of time.Jif, the popular peanut butter company, has finally weighed in on the debate about how to pronounce GIF:Its pronounced Jif®

14-Year-Old Girl Destroys Van Halen Guitar Solo: Heres a video of Tina, 14, covering Eddie Van Halen‘s “Eruption” guitar solo and absolutely shredding itIf the words “Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ guitar solo” have

Hovertrax is Like a Segway Without Handlebars: Vancouver, Wash.-based company Investist has a new idea for rolling in style. Its called Hovertrax, and its an auto-balancing, electronic transporter with two-wheeled gyro technology —

Read/WriteWeb

LinkedIn's Facelift Continues With New Navigation Bar: Aligning itself aesthetically more along the lines of social networks like Facebook and Google+, LinkedIn has introduced a new navigation bar to its website. The aim is in line with the companys simplification efforts, which so

Don't Look Now, But We Might Be In A Developer Drought: Hey, developers! Do you feel like youre in demand? Apparently you should.HubSpot, a Cambridge-based marketing software-as-a-service venture, has started a new initiative to handsomely compensate anyone who can refer a developer friend. “If you do, and we

Twitter Finally Gets Two-Factor Authentication: In a pure case of closing the barn doors after the horses have come home (and so many corporate Twitter accounts have been hacked), Twitter has announced today the option to implement two-factor authentication. If users

Let's Talk About Why Yahoo Really Bought Tumblr: Native Advertising: If we needed an event to wake people up to the power of native advertising, its surely Yahoos $1.1-billion purchase of Tumblr.Well be talking about this a lot at AdNatively, a one-day conference Im emceeing in

If Google+ Is Good, Why Does Google Force It On Us?: Google really, really wants us to like Google+. Google is embedding Google+ into each of its products, making it increasingly difficult to use its services without embracing the Google+ borg, whether you want to or not.Judging

The Sky Is Falling For Smartphone Maker HTC: Smartphone manufacturer HTC is in disarray. According to a report from The Verge, the company is hemorrhaging executives from its Seattle-based office amid poor sales, internal turmoil and controversy. Within the last several months, HTC has lost its

Why Your App Design Doesn't Have To Be All Thumbs: The debate about app design largely centers around screen size.What if designers worried about digit size instead?Luke Wrobleski, a respected designer who sold a company to Twitter and more recently founded Polar, an app maker, thinks

How Google Is Wooing Developers To Make Apps For Android First: This post is the first in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which well explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face in trying to make money from Android apps.In December 2011, Google chairman Eric

Xbox One: The Most Restrictive Game Console Ever Made: If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.In an event Tuesday morning that felt like a casual bar conversation compared to Sonys brain-exploding extravaganza back in February,

Xbox One Photo Gallery: A Close-Up Look At Microsoft's Shiny, Shiny Future Of Gaming: Today in Redmond, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, its vision for the future of home entertainment. The Xbox One will expand Microsofts Xbox agenda well beyond gaming, blurring the boundaries of gaming and interactive TV further

Xbox One: Microsoft's Giant Bid To Pwn The Living Room: Its not every day one of the big three gaming powerhouses announces a new console. In fact, weve been waiting a solid eight years. In an event on its Redmond, Washington home turf today, Microsoft announced

Sorry, Internet: Tumblr Founder David Karp Is Not A Billionaire: On Monday, Yahoo announced it was buying Tumblr, the blog network, for $1.1 billion. And then the tweets started, with people declaring that Tumblr founder David Karp was now a billionaire.The conflation of Tumblrs purchase price with

Who's Got Big Brands? Tech's Got The Biggest Brands Of Them All: According to the 2013 BrandZ Top 100 report, tech companies hold the top three slots in this years list of top global brands — Apple, Google and IBM leading the pack in that order. Microsoft rolls in

New Opera For Android Makes Switch From Presto To WebKit: Browser maker Opera just released a new version for Android with a slew of new features, an upgraded design and better performance. And, for the first time for Opera, it is not running on its own

Dell Kills Its Public Cloud, Continues To Flail In Post-PC Era: Dell is a computer company desperately in search of a new market as the desktop and laptop PCs dwindles. But the Austin-based company is finding that that an elusive target.Public Cloud? Thats So 2011Yesterday the company

Congress Wants To Take A Tax Bite Out Of Apple: Tim Cook is going to have an interesting day today. The CEO of Apple will be testifying before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which would love to know how Apple has managed to avoid paying

One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy: Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com, which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com, a cloud-based backup company.At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources - lack of funds, lack

Silicon Valley's Perverse Disincentives To Make Money: $1.1 billion. Thats how much your company is worth if its long on users and short on paying customers. Just ask Tumblr. Or Instagram. Each yanked down billion-dollar acquisitions despite making virtually no revenue. Is this a

Google Admits Defeat In Its 7 Year Battle With Amazon And PayPal: Google just announced that is it is shutting down Google Checkout, a Web-based payments system it launched to great expectations seven years ago.It will continue to offer Google Wallet and handle transactions for apps, games, music,

Congress Whacks Apple With The Tax Avoider Stick: An 18-month congressional investigation turned up evidence that Apple is a major-league tax avoider, the New York Times reports — one that allegedly sheltered billions of dollars from taxation by moving the money through a web of

GigaOM

6 things every CIO should know (or at least think about): CIOs may be the kings of the IT heap within their companies but they are also under siege -- new technologies from outside, recalcitrant CEOs, budget-stealing CMOS. Some things to ponder.

Ericsson, Nokia Siemens lay the groundwork for HetNet with new Wi-Fi technology: The heterogenous network will eventually allow our devices to connect to Wi-Fi and cellular networks simultaneously, but first those networks need to coordinate with one another.

If Fisker goes for $20M, that’s an over 99 percent discount from its peak valuation: Is $20 million the final valuation of electric car maker Fisker Automotive? Yikes, thats what a group is reportedly bidding on Fisker for, and which would be less than 1% of its original valuation.

Google plans to bring its own voice search to the iPhone and iPad: Voice search will be available as part of an update to Chrome for iOS in the coming days, Google announced Wednesday. Its yet another part of Googles broader effort to create a layer on top of its chief competitors mobile

Survey: Share your thoughts on Microsoft’s Xbox One: The web is abuzz with talk of Microsofts Xbox One, which was announced on Tuesday. Heres a chance for GigaOM readers to share their own thoughts by taking our survey.

Twitter does the two-step, gets serious on security with new authentication feature: Twitter has finally joined other leading tech companies in offering two factor authentication. The move comes after high profile hacking incidents at the AP and other news outlets.

Jennifer Lopez gets into the mobile dealer biz, founding Viva Movil: Viva Movil launching a line of mobile device stores targeted at Latinos and has tapped Verizon Wireless to be its exclusive partner. The phones and service will be Verizon, but the marketing will be all J-Lo.

TNW

Chinese city Shenzhen puts a stop to taxi-finding smartphone apps, citing lack of standards: Finding a taxi via a smartphone app may be highly convenient, but authorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen

Despite PC slump, Lenovo reports record full-year sales of $34 billion, looks to mobile for growth: As the global PC market continues to spiral downwards, Lenovo, the world’s second-largest PC maker after HP, has reported solid earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March... Keep reading →

Korea-only KakaoHome outpaces Facebook Home with 500,000 downloads in its first 9 days: KakaoHome, the Facebook Home-style Android application from Korea’s top messaging company Kakao, is seeing impressive uptake after passing 500,000 downloads nine

Google reveals Raytown, Missouri as the tenth Kansas City-area expansion in line to get Fiber: Google on Wednesday announced that Raytown, Missouri will receive the company’s Fiber Internet service. Just like for the last

LinkedIn revamps navigation as part of efforts to simplify mobile and desktop experience: Following changes to its homepage design, profile layout, and recently a mobile app revamp, LinkedIn is rolling out another new change

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 passes 10 million channel sales within one month of launch: Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyu told media last week that he expected the company’s new flagship smartphone the Galaxy S4 to pass 10 million channel sales this week, and that has proven to... Keep reading →

Yelp fires back at small business extortion claims, says it’s not, and ‘never has been’, true: Yelp and its review service have once again come

37signals

LINK: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio: Ryan on Jobs-To-Be-Done RadioI talked about software design and seeing through the customer’s eyes for 30 minutes on Jobs-To-Be-Done Radio. In my favorite part we thoroughly debunked personas and talked about how situations, not attributes drive behavior. Hosts Bob and

Don’t have the right gear? Make it.: I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the

Don't have the right gear? Make it.: I’ve been working on some video tests with the iPhone and I needed to mount it on tripod for some steadier shots. Some folks in the office had good things to say about the Glif from Studio Neat, but the

LINK: The 37signals Report Card: The 37signals Report CardWe’ve long believed in the value of transparency at 37signals. It’s why we write about how we work and why we provide real-time information about our customer happiness and uptime. We like being held to a high

VIDEO: “If you wanna meet with me… come…: “If you wanna meet with me… come to the garden… with your shovel… so we can plant some shit.” -Ron Finley

Wanted: 25 special customers.: We’re working on a entirely new product, and I’m looking to meet some potential customers. We can meet in person, over the phone, or via Skype, etc.The tool is for the small business owner who runs a company of between

LINK: The importance of quick and dirty: The importance of quick and dirtyQuick and dirty is a skill. Use it or lose it. My latest article for Inc. Magazine.

Current status: We have a lot of data to parse through at 37signals. Our internal stats application, Dash, does the majority of heavy data lifting for us, including reports, application health, CI builds, and much more. Our Campfire bot named Tally happily

When empathy becomes insulting: Most corporate customer service departments seem to have been reduced to call scripts of apologies with no power whatsoever to actually address the problems they encounter. That’s the conclusion I’m left with after dealing with three business bureaucracies this year:

QUOTE: By showing the shark less, the movie was…: By showing the shark less, the movie was even scarier, and as Steven Spielberg said in the documentary The Universal Story, “By the shark not working, it allowed me to be much more experimental and find a way to make

PHOTO: Recent versions of Google Chrome on OS X…: Recent versions of Google Chrome on OS X mangle native input buttons. I don’t know precisely when it started but no amount of CSS brute-force seems to correct the text alignment. Have you found

PHOTO: There’s a flash flood warning for all…: There’s a flash flood warning for all of Chicago today. Unfortunately there’s water in my basement (like other Chicago home owners)...The flood fixing company U.S. Waterproofing has a cool

LINK: Auditioning your bike bell: Auditioning your bike bellWhen you’re buying a bike bell online, you don’t know what it’s going to sound like. Is it a hearty “RING RING RING”? Or a dainty ”...tiiiiiiing…”? It’s an important consideration!I love that

You play like you practice: Back in high school my track coach would often get on me about my sloppy block practice. He’d say “You aren’t setting up in the blocks properly. You’re rushing it, just going through the motions.” I’d say “Why does it

The only camera you need is an iPhone?: My friend Nick Quaranto is in the market for a new camera. A few days ago we discussed the pros and cons of various cameras (DSLR, mirrorless, iPhone, etc) in our Campfire chatroom. He was overwhelmed by all the options.

Embracing slow time: When you work in a traditional office and have a question, instant gratification is hard to resist. It’s so easy. Just stumble over to a co-worker’s desk, make sure they stop whatever it was they were doing, blather on until

Basecamp Delivered is Headed to Atlanta: Getting support online is great, but wouldn’t it be nice if you had an expert right beside you? A few of us will be in Atlanta and would love to meet you and your team!We’ll be at Roam in Alpharetta

QUOTE: You know, one of the things that really hurt…: You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just

LINK: Shipping a real product: Shipping a real productI’m really in awe of this. There’s no “pledge $10 or more” and get a prize. There’s no stretch goals. It’s real, the entire production process is documented openly, and you can get the final product today

Million Dollar Art: I have always struggled with the dark art of pricing artwork. Weird magic is involved. I have seen an interested buyer lose interest when I quoted a price that was too low. Oops, I mean… All of a sudden the

O'Reilly Radar

Talking about in-memory: I flew to the west coast this week to attend Maker Faire with my computer-programming, ham-radio-building, hardware-curious teenage cousin. I’ve attended twice in New York but this was my first trip to the mothership. Wow. So much cool stuff to

Four short links: 22 May 2013: XBox One Kinect Controller (Guardian) — the new Kinect controller can detect gaze, heartbeat, and the buttons on your shirt.Surveillance and the Internet of Things (Bruce Schneier) — Lots has been written about the “Internet of Things” and how it

Four short links: 21 May 2013: Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active

Four short links: 20 May 2013: Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan

Software and the physical world: In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time around as we were

Three organizations pressing for change in society’s approach to computing: Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing

Four short links: 16 May 2013: Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for

Four short links: 15 May 2013: Facial Recognition in Google Glass (Mashable) — this makes Glass umpty more attractive to me. It was created in a hackathon for doctors to use with patients, but I need it wired into my eyeballs.How to Price Your Hardware Project

Four short links: 14 May 2013: Behind the Banner — visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you. They pass around your data as enthusiastically as a pipe at a Grateful Dead concert, and you’ve

Big data, cool kids: My data’s bigger than yours!The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer

Four short links: 13 May 2013: Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he

Four short links: 10 May 2013: The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative.

Yet another Kickstarter: Otherlabs’ Home Milling Machine: If you have a good memory, you know that I’ve written about 3D printers. Technically, I grew up with the laser printer; my first computer industry job (part-time while getting an English PhD) was with Imagen, a startup that built

Where will software and hardware meet?: I’m a sucker for a good plant tour, and I had a really good one last week when Jim Stogdill and I visited K. Venkatesh Prasad at Ford Motor in Dearborn, Mich. I gave a seminar and we talked at

Four short links: 9 May 2013: On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a

Four short links: 8 May 2013: How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little

Steering the ship that is data science: Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case.It’s

Four Short Links: 7 May 2013: Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit allows your to easily select between several attack modes and is specifically designed to

Another Serving of Data Skepticism: I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another

Four short links: 30 April 2013: China = 41% of World’s Internet Attack Traffic (Bloomberg) — numbers are from Akamai’s research. Verizon Communications said in a separate report that China accounted for 96 percent of all global espionage cases it investigated. One interpretation is that China

Micro Persuasion

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...: No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...: No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...: The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris

Museum of Modern Betas

Reclaim.fm: Reclaim.fmTake back control of everything you create, curate and share on the internet.(↬ wirres) | | |

WIP Videos: Wip VideosA new way to share and review work-in-progress videos(↬ pandodaily) | | |

Unicode Character Table: Unicode Character Table❤ ☀ ★ ☂ ☻ ♞ ☯ ☭ ☢ € → ☎ ❄ ♫ ✂ ▶ ✇ ♎ ⇧ ☮ ♻ ⌘ ⌛ ☘ ✈ ☊ ♔ ♕ ♖ ☦ ✝ ❖ ➎ ♠ ♣

kloudless: kloudlessKloudless offers a simple, secure way to move attachments between your email inbox and other cloud storage services.(↬ techcrunch) | @kloudless | |

ShotClip: ShotClipCreate and share a cool video(↬ wwwhatsnew) | | |

BitTorrent Sync: BitTorrent Sync(in BitTorrent Labs)Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology.(↬ gigaom) | | |

CrowdMed: CrowdMedCrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online.(↬ netzwertig) |

ProgrammableWeb

Today in APIs: The Celery API Provides Pre-Commerce Options, Sprout Social adds Google Plus Pag(...): The Celery API enables Crowdfunding projects to easily pre-sell product in advance of release. Sprout Social makes Google Plus Pages management easier for users. Plus: the Truecaller API is a phone directory via

Metwit Weather API Now Features Push Weather Notifications: Last month, ProgrammableWeb reported that Metwit was releasing a free, short term trial plan of the Metwit Weather API to help developers who have created applications using Yahoo! Weather APIs and have been impacted by

Screenhero Offers Collaborative Screen Sharing via API: Screenhero exists purely to share your computer screen; with anyone, anywhere, anytime. As the Screenhero team describes on their website: its like Google Docs for any application on your computer. Additionally, Screenhero enables developers to

96 Stocks APIs: Bloomberg, NASDAQ and E*TRADE: Our API directory now includes 96 stocks APIs. The newest is the Eurex VALUES API. The most popular, in terms of directory page views, is the Bloomberg API. Below youll find some more stats from

When Text Doesn’t Quite Get The Message Across: SayRoom API: The sharing of thousands of online images is a big part of daily social media interaction. Even with the accompanying comments enhanced by expressive punctuation or clever emoticons, however, nothing beats an actual spoken response

The Truecaller API: Phone Directory via Crowd-source: The 600 million numbers that Truecaller has in its directory have been collected via crowd-sourcing. Truecaller’s users can share their contacts and in return they get access to search in the collaborative database. Thanks to

Today In APIs: Duedil API, Box HIPAA Compliance and 9 New APIs: Duedil API widens its reach with company information from 20 additional countries across Europe. Box Developers can now take advantage of its HIPAA Compliance Plus: Khronos to create Camera Control Open Standard API

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