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| Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Mocks iPad's Price in New Ad | | Amazon has launched a new video ad for the Kindle HD 8.9, and it's not beating around the bush this time. The ad is a direct comparison with Apple's iPad, claiming the two devices' screens are virtually identical, while the price for the Kindle is much lower. "This is the iPad with Retina display," says the text of the ad. "And this is the new Kindle Fire HD with an 8.9-inch display (...) You may not be able to tell the difference.
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| Will This E-Commerce Startup Oust Lululemon From the Market? | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:17 PM | PSFK |
| Same quality but cheaper price sounds like a pretty good deal. The problem is, most of the time, it is not feasible. Despite this, Ellie, an online-only women's athletic clothing brand, wants to prove that it can make yoga pants, capris and tops on par with luxury label Lululemon — at half the cost.
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| LinkedIn Stock Jumps 10% After Q4 Revenue Tops $300 Million | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:58 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| LinkedIn proved once again why it is Wall Street's favorite social media stock. The company reported revenue of $304 million for the December quarter, a whopping 81% increase from the same quarter the year before and well ahead of Wall Street's consensus estimate for revenue of $278 million. Much of the revenue growth came from a strong increase in sales of LinkedIn's talent solutions products for recruiters and businesses.
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| Pepsi's Coke Parody Helped It Get More Super Bowl Views Than Coke | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:24 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| A nasty little parody video that Pepsi lobbed at Coke just before the Super Bowl helped it log more Super Bowl video views than its rival. Pepsi tallied up the numbers and found it got more than 500,000 total views than Coke, according Shiv Singh, global head of digital for Pepsi.
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| Twitter Being Used to Cast a Movie | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:22 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's no secret that Twitter's data has been shown to predict box office performance weeks before a movie opening. However, the company's latest venture takes it much further back in the production cycle. Adam Bain, president of global revenue at Twitter, said he was making the rounds in the Hollywood studios recently when a producer gave him a proposal: "One studio chief said 'This is amazing.
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| Google's Ads May Show Racial Bias, Study Says | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:32 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Googling a new acquaintance is second nature, whether it's a date or potential employee. A huge disadvantage, however, is having your name automatically associated with arrest, even if you've never had a record. One study by a Harvard professor says some of Google's ads discriminate, linking "racially associated" names to a possible criminal background.
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| 8 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on Craigslist | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 1:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Craigslist isn't designed for content discovery. Usually we know what we want — a cheap dining room table, a solid internship, a non-sketchy apartment — and we search for it with tunnel vision. SEE ALSO: Red Flags for Job Searching on Craigslist As a result, we can miss a lot that the site offers.
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| Mailbox Email App Finally Released on iPhone (Sort Of) | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 1:00 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Mailbox, the much-hyped email app that has been in limited beta since late last year, finally hit Apple's App Store on Thursday, but don't expect to be able to use it on your iPhone just yet. Rather than let everyone download the app at the same time, the company is taking the unusual step of rolling it out gradually to users on a first-come-first-serve basis.
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| Here Come the Brand Contests on Vine | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:20 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| It didn't take long for brands to start running contests and giveaways on Pinterest, and now they're taking to yet another red-hot social network: Vine, the video app owned by Twitter. From now until Feb. 11, the Cavendish London hotel is asking Vine users to create a romantic Vine and tweet it with the hashtag #ValentineVine to @Cavendish_Hotel. The submission deemed most romantic will win an overnight stay at the hotel on Friday, Feb.
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| The Rise of Moscow's Prosperous Startup Cluster | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:14 AM | Monty Munford |
| Like Yellowstone Park, Macchu Pichu, the Vatican, Timbuktu and the Taj Mahal, Moscow’s Red Square is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Best visited in winter with snow on the ground and a furry hat on the head, the area is guarded by the startling onion dome of St. Basil’s Cathedral. It is an extraordinary place to experience, not only for its stark beauty, but because of its history and the events it has overseen.
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| New York Times Digital Subscription Growth Slows Ad Revenue Decline | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:08 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The New York Times continued to grow its digital subscriber base in the fourth quarter, helping to slow the rate of decline for ad revenue, though it still has a long way to go. The Times reported having 668,000 paid digital subscribers for the International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe and the flagship paper by the end of the December quarter, up from 592,000 at the end of the previous quarter.
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| Airbnb Has Helped 4 Million People Book Rooms | | Thursday, February 07, 2013 9:43 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Airbnb had an incredible growth year in 2012. The company put out some year-end numbers on Thursday, including the fact that 4 million people have now used Airbnb to book rooms, 3 million of whom did so in 2012 alone. Airbnb also revealed that the number of rooms listed on the service more than doubled by the end of 2012, from 120,000 to 300,000.
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