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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

Google has gone from a company that approached design through cold, hard data to one that’s employing gorgeous, user-centric interfaces. Design was a big theme at this year’s Google I/O developer conference, with over a dozen sessions exploring design in some fashion. And you can see Google’s new aesthetic focus ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

When people run into major problems with the health industry — trying to get money from insurance companies or to get access to an experimental drug, for example — they’re no longer just turning to lawyers. Increasingly, they’re turning to online petitions. One petition website, Change.org, has already seen over ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

Consumers these days expect their favorite brands to tell a story, and Skyword helps them tell it. Skyword has announced closing $6.7 million in growth financing for its content marketing solutions. This Boston-based startup provides agencies, brands, media, and retail customers with a platform to publish and effectively distribute content. ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

Better watch out, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Hot messaging app MessageMe has just raised $10 million in its first round of funding, the company confirmed today. MessageMe offers iOS and Android apps that send rich messages to friends, family, and groups. The app also lets you share YouTube videos, iTunes ...

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from http://www.damniwish.com 7 hours ago

Seth Godin is a man who defined honest and effective email for all of us. Permission Marketing and Unleashing the Ideavirus are required reading for our team. Here’s a healthy reminder of the biggest ideas in email from two of Seth’s recent blog posts: Is this spam? If you have ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

In 2012, Google made more than $50 billion, almost entirely via plain, boring little text ads. So it’s more than a tad ironic that Google is so incredibly good at old-fashioned video ads. The advertising industry’s top kudos show, the Clio Awards, gave Google the advertiser of the year award ...

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from http://lifehacker.com/ 7 hours ago

Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can do it the right way. Other times, those two things are one and the same. Here are 10 everyday tasks that you can do in 10 seconds or less.Read more...    

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

This is a guest post by Tutorspree CEO Aaron Harris Thanks to technology, we’re watching a revolution happen in education right now. From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), companies are being built ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

Google tricked out its entire I/O conference with hundreds of sensors this week. Today, we got a glimpse at some of the data and the work that went into making it happen. Michael Manoochehri, with Google’s cloud engineering group, explained the project from Google’s perspective: It’s a big experiment designed ...

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Simeon Simeonov is founder of Swoop. The coverage of Google I/O 2013 developer conference has focused on Google’s plans for world domination through an increasingly more interrelated and stickier set of consumer services. What’s gone unnoticed is Google’s radical developer ecosystem management strategy. The company has made a fateful choice ...

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Cynthia Schames was laid off from her job a day before her wedding. She worked in enterprise software sales for 12 years, but ultimately this setback led her to found Abbey Post. Abbey Post is a plus-size fashion marketplace and community. The company just released a totally rebuilt version of ...

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from http://lifehacker.com/ 7 hours ago

Dentists recommend buying a new toothbrush every 3-4 months, but it's hard to remember when it's time to get a new one. One simple way to remember is to just buy a new toothbrush whenever you buy toothpaste.Read more...    

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 7 hours ago

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Google held its annual I/O conference in San Francisco, revealing plans for cross-platform Google Play support, ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 8 hours ago

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Say what you will about Windows Phone, but the platform’s greatest strength has always been Nokia’s Lumia phones. And the latest phone in the series, the Lumia 928, is no different. The Lumia 928 is the first high-end Lumia ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 8 hours ago

Stitcher Radio is rolling out a new feature on its iOS app today that makes it much easier to use the streaming service while driving in a vehicle — which is exactly where radio belongs. Unlike the majority of streaming audio services, Stitcher focuses entirely on radio shows and podcasts. ...

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