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| Report: Lenovo Wants to Buy NEC's Mobile Unit | | Chinese computer maker Lenovo is in talks to buy NEC's mobile business, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter. Japan's NEC is also talking with potential domestic buyers, the source said. Lenovo is a logical partner to NEC, though, given the two companies have already established a PC-building joint venture in 2011 - Lenovo NEC Holdings.
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| 8 Vendors You Didn't Know Accepted Bitcoins | | The Bitcoin — the first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency — was introduced on the web in 2009, but interest is bubbling up once again. Building on the idea that money is essentially a medium for translating value, the Bitcoin uses cryptography (or encrypting digital information to transmit something securely) for its creation and transactions, rather than a central authority.
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| 10 IFTTT Recipes to Optimize Your Business | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:30 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. IFTTT (an acronym for "If This Then That") can be a powerful addition to your business tool belt — if used correctly. The service links everyday actions you take on the web, in order to ensure you're more organized and time-conscious.
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| Luvocracy: Pinterest for People Who Actually Want to Buy Stuff | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:45 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| People flock to Pinterest to collect and keep track of inspirations, whether they're recipes to cook, destinations to visit or clothes to wear. But there's a promising new social network with a similar model focused less on dreaming and more on shopping. San Francisco-based startup Luvocracy, which launched quietly this fall in beta, is based around the concept that we buy products more when they are recommended by others.
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| Amazon Buys Goodreads to Make Reading Experience More Social | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:40 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Amazon announced Thursday that it will acquire Goodreads, the popular social network for books, for an undisclosed sum. Goodreads launched in 2007 and currently has more than 16 million members. The service lets users share and review books they've read or want to read, as well as to keep track of what their friends are reading.
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| Flipboard: 100,000 User-Generated Magazines in First 24 Hours | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:21 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| On Tuesday, Flipboard released version 2.0 of its iOS app, allowing its more than 50 million registered users to create their own magazines for the first time. In the first 24 hours after launch, more than 100,000 magazines were created, Paul Katz, Flipboard's partner of strategy and development, revealed on stage at a Magazine Publisher Association conference in New York Thursday.
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| Disqus Founder Answers Questions via Live Chat | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:52 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Got a question for Daniel? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. Daniel Ha is the CEO and cofounder of Disqus. Daniel studied computer science engineering at UC Davis and interned at big companies before deciding to drop out of school to pursue the startup world. Disqus is the web's discussion network, reaching over 700 million unique visitors every month and spanning nearly any topic or type of community imaginable.
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| Former BlackBerry Chief Says Board Asked Him to Stay In Charge | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:47 PM | Christina Warren |
| Amidst Thursday's news that BlackBerry sold 1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones last quarter, the company also announced that co-founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has retired from the company's board of directors. Lazaridis and co-CEO Jim Balsillie stepped down from running BlackBerry (then called Research in Motion) last January and Thorsten Heins took their place.
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| Storify Launches VIP Service for Publishers | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:59 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Storify, a platform that lets users aggregate and display photos, tweets and other social content sourced across the web, stepped up its game Thursday by announcing a new premium service for media organizations, enterprise and other power users.
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| Instagram Photos Now Affect Your Klout Score | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:01 PM | Emily Price |
| Now your Instagram photos will play a role in your Klout score. Klout has allowed users to connect their Instagram account to Klout for some time, however, those photos did not play a role in a person’s overall score. Now those photos will influence your score, and your most popular pictures will appear in the Klout Moments section of your Klout profile.
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| Just in Time for April Fool's: Bacon-Flavored Scope Mouthwash | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:16 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's April Fool's time again and for marketers that means one thing: Bacon. The food, which has been fetishized on the Internet like no other, is now finding its way into — of all things — Scope mouthwash. As the video above explains, this was the natural progression of things after bacon bras, carbonated bacon and spreadable bacon.
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| Tumblr Forces Brands to Take a Stand on Marriage Equality | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:53 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Confused about where your favorite brands stand on the marriage equality debate? The Brand Equality Tumblr is here to help. Dozens of bands including Harley-Davidson, Axe and Oreo are featured on the site, which presents logo-based riffs on the red equal sign. Does that mean that they support same-sex marriage? Not necessarily. As the site explains, the brands are assumed to be in favor of the measure.
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| Google Tests Same-Day Delivery Service in San Francisco | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:15 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Look out Amazon: Google is finally getting into the same-day delivery business. Google launched a new service Thursday called Google Shopping Express that will let consumers in the San Francisco area order items online from nine big retailers including Target, Walgreens and Office Depot, and schedule to have them delivered later that same day.
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| BlackBerry Sold 1 Million BlackBerry 10 Smartphones in Q4 | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:53 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| BlackBerry's Q4 and year-end results for fiscal 2013 are in, with the company reporting $2.7 billion in revenue. Income in Q4 was $94 million, a solid increase compared to $14 million in income in the previous quarter. BlackBerry attributes the positive change to the success of BlackBerry 10 — the company shipped 6 million BlackBerry smartphones, 1 million of which were BlackBerry 10 devices.
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