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YouLike Is A Dating Site That Thinks The Key To Finding Love Is Hate

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As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR Ok, admittedly, the headline is a slight misrepresentation. However, in the best online dating tradition, not only did it hopefully catch your attention but it has more than a grain of truth, too. YouLike, a startup backed by the founders of Turkish eBay clone GittiGidiyor (which in 2011 was acquired by the online auction giant for $217 million), describes itself as an interest-based social network and dating site that takes into account…

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Bloom.fm Is A Mobile-First Music Streaming Service That’s Playing To A Different Tune

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As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR The news that Google has launched its own all-you-can-eat music steaming service, catchily named ‘Google Play Music All Access‘, didn’t come as a surprise. There had been rumours that the search giant was planning to create a Spotify/Rdio/Deezer competitor for some time. Why has it done so? Apparently it had to. Music is at the centre of the mobile computing experience, which is where Google wants to remain. And yet —…

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Google’s Field Trip app granting free admission to 13 museums

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos While Mountain View’s Field Trip app may find attractions off the beaten path, footing the bill for excursions has been up to users. Now, however, the Niantic Labs-made application is handing out freebies for an unspecified limited time, allowing those who wield it to waltz into 13 museums for free. Folks near the establishments will receive Free Entry cards in the “nearby” tab, which will let them pass turnstiles without forking over…

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How Google Took Street View For A Dive

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS Google’s underwater Street View launched last September, but Google’sOcean program actually began six years ago, when one of the founders of Keyhole (which, after being acquired by Google, later became Google Earth), was inspired to also look into mapping the ocean. For several years now Google has been mapping the oceans, but bringing Street View underwater is still very challenging. “Our goal is to really make all of our maps data more…

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Pinterest lets users send pins directly to friends, receive instant feedback

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Despite being one of the hotter social networks, Pinterest hasn’t been on the cutting edge of sharing: members wanting to send their pins through official channels have had to use old-fashioned email. The service is catching up to the modern era in style, however, with a new option to send pins directly to friends through Pinterest’s mobile and web apps. While email is still hanging around, both ends now just have…

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PayPal’s Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN PayPal today announced Cash for Registers to encourage merchants to switch to PayPal-powered point-of-sale solutions. The program is part of the payment giant’s bid to be the kingpin among local merchants looking for lower-cost ways of accepting credit card payments. The announcement comes on the same day that Square launched Stand to complement its Square register product on iPad tablets and Groupon expanded and rebranded its mobile point-of-sale solution asBreadcrumb. In exchange for local…

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Redesigned Google Maps hands-on: vector-based, more personal and coming soon to mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Darren Murph According to Bernhard Seefeld, product management director at Google Maps, “this is the most significant overhaul of Maps since it launched in 2005.” We sat down with both Seefeld as well as Jonah Jones — lead designer of Google Maps — following a marathon keynote to kick off Google I/O. Their slice of the event centered around the desktop refresh of Google Maps, but there’s actually a lot more to be excited about…

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BlackBerry To Launch BBM On Android And iOS This Summer

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS Today at BlackBerry Live, CEO Thorsten Heins announced BBM will soon be available on Android and iOS. The messaging app will launch globally this summer. This is a huge move for BlackBerry as it brings BB10′s strongest feature to literally hundreds of millions of potential users. “It is a state of confidence,” Heins explained. “The BB10 platform is so strong and the response has been so good that the…

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Dots

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS I’m addicted to Dots. It’s betaworks‘ new game. 389. That’s my high score. No power-ups. I’m pretty proud of it. The game consumes my time. I no longer browse reddit during my “private times”; I play Dots. Dots is simple. It’s elegant. The game has restored my faith in mobile game development. But more importantly, it’s fucking addicting. I can’t put it down. Dots a simple game: just connect adjoining dots…

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Helplessness, despair, and Street View come together in ‘GeoGuessr’ Google Maps game

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Google Maps is usually for helping you navigate, but a new game based on Street View is about being almost hopelessly lost. GeoGuessr drops you at a random Street View location across the earth, leaving you to move around the map as much as you’d like before ultimately taking a guess at where you’re actually standing. Though you’ll occasionally get lucky and start off right in front of a hotel billboard…

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