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Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLsview story

http://techcrunch.com – Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any device. (IT news)

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Founder Stories: Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangersview story

http://techcrunch.com – For this week’s episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse. The interview was taped days before Parse was acquired by Facebook last month. Parse is a cloud app platform that provides a set of SDKs that enable developers to focus on the execution of their application instead of rebuilding backend functionality for every mobile platform. (IT news)

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Enlightenment Developers Go to War Against the Word GIFview story

http://news.softpedia.com – Most Linux users are familiar with the Enlightenment desktop environment, but most people don’t know about the conflict between users who say GIF with a soft “j” and the rest of the world. (IT news)

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Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbinesview story

http://techcrunch.com – After previously investing in the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone’s Businessweek story about Google X, and judging from Stone’s story, the team will join Google X. (IT news)

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Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?view story

http://techcrunch.com – A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking: What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian. I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. (IT news)

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Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Dangerview story

http://techcrunch.com – After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortunately, it may not help shared accounts like big brands and news agencies where multiple people need to be able to log in and out but only one phone number can get the login verification codes. Follow (IT news)

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Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Serviceview story

http://techcrunch.com – We’ve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service. The charts are broken up into a few areas: the familiar genre breakdown, as well as some categories like “Superstars” and “Unearthed” that appear to be built bas (IT news)

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GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platformview story

http://techcrunch.com – GiftCards.com, a Pittsburgh-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Giftly had raised about $2.8 million from investors including Baseline Ventures, SoftTech VC, Floodgate, Thrive Capital, and Techstars’ David Tisch. Giftl (IT news)

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Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloudview story

http://techcrunch.com – Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency. (IT news)

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LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himselfview story

http://techcrunch.com – Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. (IT news)

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Deeplink.me Lets Mobile Users Navigate Through A “Web” Of Appsview story

http://techcrunch.com – Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from Cellogic, called Deeplink.me. (IT news)

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20 most affordable 5 inch phones under Rs 10,000: Part Iview story

http://www.themobileindian.com – 5 inch phones are no longer a premium product; you can buy one for as low as Rs 6,500. Here is the first part of the most affordable 5 inch phones with ratings. (IT news)