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Collegefe Launches With Service To Connect Students And Employers, Offers What They Can’t Get At LinkedIn

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Collegefeed launched today, offering a social platform for students to connect with each other and employers long before the career fairs and short interviews begin. The service is designed for college kids who do not have the experience yet to have any meaningful use of LinkedIn and need to connect in different ways than people already in the workforce. The platform offers a Facebook-like news feed where students can access…

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Netflix Gets Social In The U.S. Thanks To Facebook Partnership, After Over A Year Of Lobbying And Lawmaking

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Netflix today introduced Facebook integration for U.S. users, allowing subscribers who opt in to see what their friends have been watching and what they like best when logged into the service. The integration also allows users to post films or TV shows to their Facebook wall, as well as comment on their viewing activity. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings explained to Bloomberg that social is the key to helping the service…

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YouTube To Launch Music Subscriptions

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As reported on TechCrunch. by VICTORIA HO YouTube plans to launch a music subscription service later this year, to allow people to listen to tracks online, and to possibly cut out the ads that precede each video for subscribers, according to Fortune. The largest storehouse of streaming video, YouTube relies on selling banner ads on the site and running short clips before each video, giving a cut back to record companies. YouTube has released a statement that…

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If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MICHAEL ARRINGTON Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoughts here. Bilton’s theory is that Facebook wants to incent people to pay to promote their content, so they show unpaid content to far fewer people. Hunter Walk has other theories (and correctly…

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After Its Porn Problem, Twitter-Owned Vine Adds 17+ Age Rating To Video Sharing App

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Vine, the Twitter-owned video sharing iOS app which lets users knit together snippets of video to create six second loops, has had its user age rating increased to 17+. The increase was bundled in a v1.0.5 app update which requires users to confirm they are “at least 17 years old” before the download begins, and warns of “frequent/intense sexual content or nudity”, among other warnings of “infrequent” drugs, alcohol, tobacco, horror/fear…

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Yandex launches Wonder, a voice-controlled social search app for the US market Mobile

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AS reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert Yandex, the Russian search giant, has just launched its first product for the US market: a voice-controlled social search app called Wonder. Available on iOS, the app pulls data from your Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Twitter accounts to answer questions like “What music do my friends listen to?” Essentially, it’s a mobile version of Facebook’s new Graph Search, which also uses data from your social network contacts to answer questions. Wonder uses…

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With Customers Like LinkedIn On Board, Bugsnag Launches To Bring Realtime Bug Tracking To Your Web & Mobile Apps

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered in working with mobile developers: The need for better crash detection. In an attempt to bring some continuity to the fragmented set of point solutions developers use to monitor and capture errors in their…

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Google+ iOS app now available in 48 more countries and territories Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee If Google+ wants any chance of beating the social media juggernaut that is Facebook— especially after the latter’s latest efforts in the search arena — it needs to reach a far wider audience than it does now. The Mountain View company has just made a small but significant step in that direction with the availability of its G+ iOS app to 48 more countries and territories, according to a G+ post by engineer Frank Petterson. The countries…

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Facebook Rolls Out VoIP Calling To U.S. iOS Messenger Users

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Facebook originally started testing a new free (minus and data usage fees you incur from your carrier) calling feature for users of its Facebook Messenger app for iPhone in Canada early this year, and now the service is available to U.S. users as well. The free call button app now shows up in the app for U.S. users, in any conversation where both parties are using the Facebook Messenger app. This is…

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Facebook’s Future Depends On Opening The Data Center

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Facebook is a data company. Today’s news about its new search features proves it. So did last week’s news about the company testing what it can charge people to send Mark Zuckerberg a message. And tomorrow at Open Compute Project’s Open Compute Summit, Facebook will again show why becoming the world’s largest data broker depends on the success of its massive data-center buildout. The Open Compute Summit is Facebook’s creation, really. The company open-sourced its…

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