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GroupMe

By Sarah Hall | Published: March 12, 2012
Just before Microsoft acquired Skype last year as reported in this blog, Skype acquired a company called GroupMe which was to remain stand alone. GroupMe was created in 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon as a free group messaging service in line with Skype’s mission statement to ’be the fabric of real-time communication on the web’ and [...]
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Create Your Own Magazine

By Sarah Hall | Published: January 17, 2011
A new iPad app, Newsmix, has been launched that can create a digital magazine based on you and your friends’ social network content. The content can be composed from RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook which Newsmix categorises and places into magazine format. The app, created by Sobees can also display news in a timeline format in Facebook and Twitter. Whilst very similar [...]
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Apple to Launch News Corp. App

By Sarah Hall | Published: January 16, 2011
News Corp. have developed a daily newspaper App for iPads to be launched in February (the original release date was this week but has been delayed – again). Users will have a new edition sent in the mornings for 99 cents a week with multimedia aspects. The app will also be one of the first to automatically bill [...]
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JFK Library Now Online

By Sarah Hall | Published: January 13, 2011
With more and more resources and information being uploaded and coded for the web, one of the latest contributors has been the JFK library. In a painstaking and lengthy process, archives of papers, film and photographs of Kennedy’s historic time in the White House are digitalised for online access. Previously these items were only accessible in the Kennedy [...]
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Some helpful lessons from Skype’s co-founder Niklas Zennstrom

By Sarah Hall | Published: November 7, 2010
Niklas Zennstrom is representing British digital entrepreneurs in a field of American giants such as Google and Facebook. Have a read of some of his handy life/business lessons: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/what-ive-learned-by-skypes-niklas-zennstrom/
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