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Gap, H&M, Sephora and Others Unwrap New Social Gifting Service in the U.S.
More than 25 major retailers, including the Gap, H&M, Sephora and Brooklyn Industries, are working with a Swedish company named Wrapp to roll-out a social gifting service starting today. The...
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Netflix Heads to Scandinavia
Here’s the next stop on Reed Hastings’s world tour: His video service plans to launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland by the end of the year. The move is both expected and a sore spot with some...
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Meet Compuverde, Sweden's Answer to Big-Data Storage Problems
These days, CIOs are buying a few more antacids than they were before, over concerns about data storage. There’s so much more data being generated than at any previous time, for all sorts of reasons:...
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Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
High-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur Max Levchin is launching a new mobile payments startup today called Affirm. It’s the first project emerging from Levchin’s San Francisco tech incubator Hard,...
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Mind-Boggling: The Numbers Behind Ruzzle's Rise (And Fall?)
It may not have a well-known developer or publisher behind it, but Ruzzle has become one of the first big mobile gaming hits of the year. The Boggle-inspired game, available for iOS and Android, is the...
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Swedish File-Sharers Mull VPN (Virtual Pirate Network)
If Sweden’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive was crafted to scare the hell out of the country’s Internet population, it seems to have had the desired affect. Swedish Internet traffic...
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Move Over, Rihanna. Meet PewDiePie, YouTube's Biggest Star.
You probably haven’t heard of PewDiePie. But your kids probably have. The 23-year-old YouTube star is a “gamecaster,” which means he makes videos of himself playing videogames, along with the...
View ArticleDirector Says BlackBerry Can Survive as "Niche" Player
One of the members of BlackBerry Ltd.’s board committee tasked with exploring strategic alternatives said the company can compete as a “niche company” in the smartphone business, but said there are...
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Narrative -- Formerly Known as Memoto -- Launches Life-Logging Camera, Raises...
A little camera that clips onto the wearer’s shirt collar and takes a photo every 30 seconds will start shipping in November, nearly a year after it raised 10 times as much money as it sought on...
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