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Circa Promises Different, ‘Beautiful’ News Reading ExperienceA new startup backed by the founders of I Can Has Cheezburger and geo-location app service SimpleGeo aims to change the way we read news. Details about Circa — which plans to roll out within the next six months — have been scarce, but former SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan, who left ... Twitter 2012: Bigger and More AdsPeople predicted rioting when Twitter decided to post ads within its feeds. However, those protests never materialized. Instead, Twitter was used to mobilize protests in the streets in Egypt, Yemen and Tunesia. The two instances are related. As Twitter became a globally recognized entity, it also... The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011When sitting down for a job interview at a top U.S. tech company, you’d typically expect the interviewer to hammer you with questions testing your abilities, past history and knowledge of the company. You wouldn’t think it was the time or the place to start exploring solutions to worl... 6 Game-Changing Digital Journalism Events of 2011The year 2011 brought extraordinary progress for online journalism. From breaking news curation to new revenue models, many an organization put its best digital foot forward. Social media became more tightly integrated into reporting and overall strategy, while mobile app creation and content op... Dropbox Tests Automatic Camera UploadsBeta builds of the Dropbox software for Mac, Windows and Linux has added a nifty new feature to the cloud-storage service: Automatic photo uploads. The new feature tries its hand at one of iCloud’s most appealing new features: Photo Stream. With Photo Stream, Apple makes it easy to access p... Google’s Flight Search Sparks Antitrust FearsGoogle began positioning its new flight-finding feature at the top of general search results for airline booking information earlier this month. And its new competitors in the $110 billion online travel industry aren’t happy about the search giant crashing the party, according to a Tuesday... How Much Time Do We Really Spend on Facebook? [VIDEO]One in every seven minutes online and three out of every four minutes on social networking sites are spent on Facebook, according to a comScore report released Tuesday. Twitter is on the rise, the report also said, increasing its user base 59% over the past year. Which social network do ... Google+ Now Up to 62 Million Users, Adding 625,000 a Day [REPORT]Paul Allen, a Google+ watcher whose estimates about the social network’s growth have proved accurate in the past, claims that the site now has 62 million users and is adding 625,000 new users per day. “It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4 signups, celebrity and br... Religious Americans Just as Tech-Savvy as Others [STUDY]There may be preconceptions that faithful Americans skew older in age and are traditionally set in their ways, but according to a new study, religious Americans embrace technology just as much as those who are less religious. A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & ... How 9 Retailers Successfully Leveraged Game MechanicsMacala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at @Ins... |