Author: Nikita Porwal
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Adobe and Typekit Join Hands to Bring Famous Fonts to the Web
Typography is certainly a late addition to the web world, but the importance is not unknown. Thanks to new standards of typography that a web designer now has lot more options to choose the just right font for his/her websites. Companies like Typekit is extremely loved by the designers for its online font and now…
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Facebook Acquires Chai Labs, Semantic Search Company
Facebook has not been into acquisition as such, but it now started making some smart moves. The social network is said to have acquired Chai Labs, a web publishing semantic search company at an estimated price of $10 million. Allthingsd quoted to many sources but the confirm price of acquisition was unable to retrieve. Possibly…
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Google Soon To Start Google Ideas Think Tank
Beyond doubts Google is a technology company, but the purpose of it is much higher than what is visible. The green energy supporter is now interested in opening a Think Tank on global policies in New York. With the hope to incorporate technology solutions to solve world’s problem, Google is hiring Washington technology insider Jared…
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10 Latest Google Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome has truly come a very long way since its inception. Today Chrome is several times faster, boasts loads of new features and also entering in competition with Firefox when it comes to Extensions. Chrome came up with the idea of extensions in late last year, which was the most wanted feature by users.…
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MySpace to Launch Revamped Homepage on August 16
MySpace is finally putting an end to its long overdue redesign for homepage. After testing a redesigned profile page, it will now roll out a new homepage as well. The new homepage is not only lot cleaner than earlier but also does a great job for developing social network. The Stream, MySpace’s take on the…
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Gmail Gets A New Look, Updated Contacts And More Features
Today Gmail will rolling out an updated design, contact, look and some more interesting features. Among these Contact tool was more criticized and users will be pleased with this revamp. Actually better Contacts has always been the most wanted feature by Gmail users so the team finally got around to starting up the tool more…
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Blogger Ready To Fight Spam On Comments
There are millions of Blogger across the world and the number keeps growing, but an serious issue faced by all is spam. Blogger deals with huge amount of spam messages every day, but not anymore now, bloggers have had to either enable comment moderation or use CAPTCHA. Thankfully, all comments on Blogger will now have…
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UK Broadcaster Five Brings TV Show To Facebook
The well-known UK broadcaster Five will soon bring TV programs to Facebook. The two companies have joined hands to start Five’s TV-on-demand player to the giant social network. The deal explains that in next few weeks Facebook’s 26m UK users will be able to watch Five’s TV content on Facebook that includes Gadget Show, CSI…
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Twitter Hires Veterans From Facebook And Yelp
The super-excellent micro-blogging platform Twitter is making lot of hires to support its advertising model. Adding up this Twitter this week announced that it is making two new hires that should prove essential to its fledgling, ad-based business model — people to sell the ads. According to Advertising Age, Twitter has hired Dan Coughlin, the…
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Netflix Signs Huge Deal With Epix For Movie-Streaming
Netflix – the major US DVD rental and online movie streaming company has signed a deal with premium TV channel Epix to provide broader array of movies for its streaming service. The deal reported to be closed at $1 billion over five years, which will enable Netflix to show Epix’s premium movies on its online…