22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service

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It looks like Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, and packaging it in a mobile app for ordinary consumers to use. We’re reaching out to get more details from both companies. For now, Bubbli has been sending out a notice to its users today announcing the deal. The note points out that Bubbli is not popping, so to speak. The tech is getting integrated into Dropbox, and in the meantime the existing Bubbli app will stay alive. Bubbli was founded by two Stanford alums, Ben Newhouse and Terrence McArdle, who have respectively broken ground in imaging technology. McArdle “invented the first seamless digital spherical photo in 1991, three years…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Mobile Fitness Coach App, PumpUp, Launches Out Of Beta After 1M+ Downloads

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Fitness app PumpUp, which offers personalised workouts to act as a virtual personal trainer in your pocket, is launching out of beta today – having racked up more than a million registered users on iOS and Android in less than six months of beta activity. It is not, however, breaking out active users so set your engagement expectations accordingly. The startup, which was founded in May 2012, went through Waterloo, Canada-based incubator, Communitech Hyperdrive, last year.  It’s raised an undisclosed seed round of financing, and a $200,000 Angel round in September 2013, thus far. Investors in the latter round were Relay Ventures, Jim Estill and Angels including Mike Stork, Steve Gilpin and Marc Altshuller. Aside from offering users customised workouts on their phone, tailored to the particular body areas they want to target and fitness kit they have to hand,…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

New Tunepics Social Network Is Like Instagram With A Soundtrack

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If you mashed up Instagram with music tracks, what would you get? A timeline of pictures from friends with evocative soundtracks that stimulate the ears as well as the eyes? Perhaps even tug at the emotions? That, at least, is the hope of Tunepics, a new social network that does just that. With this new iOS app, users can feature a song with every image they share. The tracks are pulled from the Apple store (35 million songs) and are in fact song previews rather than the whole tracks. If users decide they like the song enough to buy it form Apple, Tunepics will get affiliate revenues from those sales. The app is the brainchild of Justin Cooke, founder of innovation agency innovate7 in London, and has been built by…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Flipkart Acquires Myntra, to Invest $100 Million in Fashion Business

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Flipkart, India's largest e-tailer, acquired online fashion portal Myntra on Thursday and said it would invest $100 million (roughly Rs. 584 crores) in the fashion business. "It's a 100 percent acquisition and going forward we have big plans in this segment," said Sachin Bansal, co-founder of Bangalore-based Flipkart. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed but a source in the company said the transaction was valued at close to $300 million (roughly Rs. 1,752.4 crores).
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Zero-day flaw haunts IE 8 for 7 months and counting

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An Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability goes unfixed by Microsoft for more than half a year, reports the Zero Day Initiative. A critical security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 has gone unfixed since October 2013, according to a new report from the Zero-Day Initiative. The report, which was issued because of ZDI's policy to reveal zero-day flaws that go unfixed for more than 180 days, says that the vulnerability allows an attacker to run malicious code in IE 8 when you visit a website designed to infect your computer. Microsoft learned of the zero-day -- the term given to a previously unknown, unpatched flaw -- in October but has been unable to fix it. Whether that's because IE 8 is the last version of the browser to support Windows XP,…
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14May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Twitter adding an option to ‘mute’ people

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Twitter is introducing a way to silence noisy people you follow but aren’t quite ready to unfollow.The option, called “mute,” lets you hide the tweets and activity of selected accounts from your timeline. Muting someone won’t, however, stop the person from being able to interact with your tweets — be it favoriting, replying or retweeting. The fact that they are doing so just won’t show up in your timeline.To mute someone, click on the “more” link on individual tweets, then click “mute @username.” Muting can also be done from someone’s profile page by tapping the gear icon and selecting “mute @username.”This can be a convenient way to temporarily muffle people who, for example, are live tweeting an event or opining on a topic that you don’t much care about. Muting…
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