StartupBlink maps startups, accelerators and coworking spaces around the globe

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Ever wonder where the next startup boom might happen around the globe? A close look at StartupBlink might be of help. The site features a world map of startups, accelerator programs, coworking spaces and more. While it’s hard to say exactly how many startups there are on Earth, StartupBlink knows where over 67,000 of them are located — along with nearly 100 accelerators and 200 coworking spaces. StartupBlink also maps startup ecosystem influencers (like Mukund Mohan, Ben Horowitz, Steven Sinofsky, Gary Veynerchuk, and even our own Patrick de Laive), freelancers of various disciplines and job openings at startups. The map…



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Under Armour launches Record, another platform for tracking your health and fitness data

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Sports clothing and accessory manufacturer Under Armour today launched its own health and fitness network, which the company says is aimed at getting you – and your friends – fitter. Company CEO Kevin Plank said Under Armour Record (UA Record) is suitable for people of different fitness levels and creates a visual dashboard of all your activity data in one place, thereby making it easier to keep track of your personal fitness goals. Like other competing platforms, UA Record will keep track of your steps, sleep, calories burned, heart rate, weight and more. It’ll also play nicely with “thousands of…



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Google updates Hangouts on iOS with location sharing, status messages and new stickers

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Google has just updated its instant messaging app Hangouts on iOS with a bunch of new features. Version 2.5 brings one-tap location sharing along with suggestions, new sticker packs, status updates like we had back in the good ol’ days of IMing, the ability to search for contacts by phone numbers and access to SMS and voicemail from your Google Voice account. Additionally, voice call performance has been improved and a few bugs have been squashed. This follows the Android app update from last month that introduced a similar feature set. The new features are available on iOS now. ➤…



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Samsung brings its Milk streaming service to Smart TVs, the Web and Virtual Reality

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Samsung wants you to know that it’s Milk streaming service is still around; the company today announced that it’s bringing the service to even more devices. Starting today, Samsung Smart TV’s can download the Milk Music app and will soon be able to get a Milk Video app, alongside a new web interface for the music service. But that isn’t enough for the company; it’s also made Milk Video into a Virtual Reality app that works on the Gear VR. You’ll be able to download the app on a Galaxy Note 4 and watch 360-degree videos with new content delivered…



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Plex begins rolling out new music streaming features to take on iTunes

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Plex has long been a popular media server for folk with lots of videos to stream, especially since it rocked up on Xbox One. Now it’s aiming to improve the way it handles music files too. While Plex is already ready and able to stream music files, new features are rolling out over the next few weeks that will give them the same VIP treatment offered to videos. Plex will now be using Gracenote’s database of more than 200 million tracks to make sure your library features the right metadata. It’s also added a one-click import feature to bring playlists,…



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The product we’ve been secretly working on: TNW Index

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In the past 12 months around 8,000 different tech companies have pitched story ideas, product launches, and their latest hot news to us. I can tell you one thing: That’s a lot of pitches! And as they don’t come in any kind of orderly manner, it can be hard to keep up. Lean startup methods, accelerators, cheap cloud hosting and better open-source coding libraries have made it all easier to start a tech company compared to 10 years ago. All these companies look for media coverage (hence they reach out to us), funding and ways to acquire customers or users.…



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Microsoft launches a Windows Phone app for citizen journalists

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Microsoft has just released a new app that lets Windows Phone users create and publish news stories on the move, reports Neowin. Presently in beta, Social News allows users to create stories with photos and video, spot trending news items, and find current stories around them on a map in the Here and Now section. Users can also follow their contacts and see what they’ve been sharing in the app. Social News’ app description mentions that users can also ‘respond to news requests created by professional media partners, and get a chance to get your articles published by professional media.’…



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BigStash offers 5TB of long-term file storage free for one year following renaming

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Deepfreeze.io, a cloud-storage service that puts your files into ‘deep freeze’ has announced a name change, additional investment and a new free (for one year) 5TB per user limit for new and existing users. In essence, the service allows you to free up other cloud storage services (like Drive or OneDrive etc.) by keeping your infrequently accessed files in a cheaper (but slower to retrieve) service like BigStash. To put that 5TB offer in perspective, that amount of storage with the service would normally cost $500 per year. The lowest tier of 100GB would cost $15 per year. If you…



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Twitter’s new ‘While You Were Away’ recaps have been spotted on users’ timelines

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One of the features Twitter revealed at its November analyst day has started rolling out. ‘While You Were Away’ recaps notable tweets that have been published since you last opened up your timeline. As TechCrunch notes, a number of users have spotted the feature in recent days. OMG, it appears Twitter is testing a Facebook-like algorithm for the Home stream called "While you were away…" http://ift.tt/1B80WFr — Eli (@EliLanger) December 31, 2014 Of course, some of us spend all day glued to Twitter anyway, so maybe we’ll never actually see it (I swear I sleep-tweet sometimes too). Others are hoping…



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10 useful Chrome extensions to try in 2015

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I’m a huge fan of adding functionality to my browser, and we’ve featured some great extensions to supercharge Chrome in the past. Here are a few more that you might not have heard of, but are certainly worth a try. Jot If you’re constantly working in your browser, Jot is the best to-do list you could ask for: just open a new tab and add tasks or even quick notes to refer to later. Large fonts and beautiful background images of landscapes make it easy on the eye too. ➤ Jot DF YouTube Sure there are other extensions for the…



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