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New Findings Portend Shift in Future Television Habits as TV Goes Cross-Platform
Horowitz Associates’ Multiplatform Content & Services 2011 study finds that over half (54%) of broadband Internet users watch TV content streamed or on an alternative platform weekly. Non-traditional viewing now accounts for 10.8 hours a month, or 7% of total viewing time, with 149.4 hours still dedicated to traditional TV.
Compared to the average broadband Internet user, 18-34 year-olds spend…
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National Geographic Magazine Marks the World’s 7 Billionth Person with New App for iPad
To coincide with the arrival of the world’s 7 billionth person, National Geographic magazine has collected all of its related population coverage across 2011 in an app for iPad, that is now available on the App Store through December 31. The app, “7 Billion: How your world will change,” explores the challenges — and potential solutions —…
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IdeaCrossing Launches Workspaces
IdeaCrossing (www.ideacrossing.org), the free online community that helps entrepreneurs connect with regional and national mentors, experts, service providers, investors and other resources, announces the launch of Workspaces. The new feature provides entrepreneurs with private online collaboration areas to help them develop and grow their businesses.
Workspaces give entrepreneurs a virtual meeting place to collaborate with their advisors and…
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Pixelmator 2.0 Launches on Mac App Store
The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 2.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Pixelmator 2.0 features new drawing and retouching tools, Content-Aware Fill, a Healing Tool, a Smudge Tool, and more. Designed from the ground up for OS X Lion, Pixelmator 2.0 now supports Full…
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Oce Arizona 360 XT Printer Wins SGIA Product of the Year Award
The Oce Arizona® 360 XT printer was given the Product of the Year Award in the Flatbed Rigid White Ink UV (<$200K MSRP) category, continuing a tradition of being honored with this award every year since the Oce Arizona Series product line has been shipping.
The Product of the Year Awards compare output from competing devices using a common test…
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The Echo Nest Adds Real-World Music Preference Data to the Million Song Dataset
The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter music apps across the web and devices, announces a major addition to the Million Song Dataset, which is a free resource of music data for the commercial and academic sectors released in conjunction with Columbia University and partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
The Million Song Dataset now includes fully…
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Zendesk Wins “Best in Cloud” Award from Leading German IT Publication
San Francisco-based Zendesk, the proven cloud-based help desk software provider, recently competed at the “Best in Cloud” conference, and today announced it has won the “Best in Cloud” award.
The event took place at the Capitol Theatre in Offenbach near Frankfurt, Germany.
The aim of the event, hosted by COMPUTERWOCHE, one of Germany’s leading IT magazines, is to award those…
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Redfin Raises $14.8 Million in Round Led by Globespan Capital Partners
Redfin Corporation, the technology-powered real estate brokerage, today announced that Globespan Capital Partners has led a $14.8 million investment in the company. Previous investors, including Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Greylock Partners, also participated in the financing. Prior to this investment, Redfin had raised nearly $31 million, so the new total is almost $46 million.
Redfin,…
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