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Flipboard 2.0: Now With Pinning, People Tagging, Search and Ecommerce | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| If there were two things missing from earlier versions of Flipboard, it was the ability to 1) bookmark content and 2) have conversations about it. Those are two features the Palo Alto, Calif., startup has included in Flipboard 2.0, launching on iPhone and iPad devices Tuesday. "It's the most ambitious thing the company has ever done," Eric Feng, Flipboard's CTO, said of the app update in an interview at Mashable's offices last week.
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Facebook Partners With Goldbely to Gift Your Favorite Foods | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:49 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook Gifts are about to get more delicious. Food-delivery startup Goldbely announced a partnership with Facebook Tuesday, which will bring some of the nation’s best food to Facebook. The Y Combinator-backed startup has searched the globe looking for the best eats, and has made some available on its site for anyone to order and have delivered to their doorstep.
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7 Amazing Startups to Watch | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:41 PM | Emily Price |
| Startup incubator Y Combinator has funded more than 500 startups, including big names such as Reddit, Socialcam, and Airbnb. The incubator brings in a new class of startups twice a year. Those startups relocate to Silicon Valley for three months, get curtain-ready, and then demonstrate their startups at a Demo Day in front of investors.
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Viddy Co-Founder Says He Isn't Worried About Vine | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:36 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Ever since Twitter released Vine in late January, there has been plenty of speculation about whether it would hurt the many other social video sharing apps on the market. Perhaps no company seemed to be more directly in Vine's line of fire than Viddy.
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Did Marissa Mayer Spend $30 Million on 3 Employees and a License? | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:23 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It was a deal made for raising eyebrows and sparking headlines. Yahoo announced Monday it had bought Summly, a news app startup founded by a 17-year-old developer in London, Nick D'Aloisio. The price tag wasn't officially announced, but estimates put it in the region of $30 million — 90% of it in cash. But the tech world is starting to question exactly what Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer got for that payday.
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Designer Creates a New Shade of Black for All | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:16 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Coca-Cola has its shade of red and Tiffany's has its signature blue. But a design student wants to create a custom color everyone can use: the new black.
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Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:07 PM | Lauren Drell |
| You may think you know yourself like the back of your hand, but unless you've been DNA tested, there's probably a lot you don't know about yourself. Within each of the 50 trillion cells in your body rests the microscopic DNA that programs your entire being — your hair color, your height, your freckles (or lack thereof), your likelihood of developing cancer and whether or not you can taste cilantro.
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Don't Call Africa's Tech Hub 'Silicon Savannah' | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:09 AM | Monty Munford |
| People have dubbed it "Nairobbery" for a reason. Crime is still a crushing reality in Kenya's capital of Nairobi. Yet life in the city is changing for its 3 million inhabitants. While the city is still dangerous for those who behave naively or who display conspicuous wealth by wearing expensive watches, crime rates are going down in Nairobi, and in the country as a whole.
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