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Google Folds Its Workforce Management Tool “Maps Coordinates” Into Maps Engine Pro
By Frederic Lardinois Last year, Google launched Maps Engine Pro, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to create, manage and share maps to visualize their data. Until now, this offering was purely about map creation, but today, Google is adding Maps Coordinate into the $5 per month and user Maps Pro…
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Hands-On With The Revamped iOS App For We Heart It, The Feel-Good Social Photo Site
By Colleen Taylor We Heart It, the Pinterest-meets-Tumblr social image sharing platform that’s attracted a large and passionate user base among teens and the under-25 set, today rolled out a completely rebuilt and redesigned iOS app. We Heart It president Dave Williams swung by TechCrunch’s San Francisco headquarters to give us a hands-on first look…
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Hitpost Co-founder, Designer Aaron Krane Joins Khosla Ventures As An EIR
By Kim-Mai Cutler Aaron Krane, the designer-founder who started Hitpost, a sports-centric mobile company that Yahoo later acquired, is joining Khosla Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. He’s close with some of Khosla’s recently hired consumer-focused VCs like former Square COO Keith Rabois and Ben Ling, who both have come on in the last two years. Krane…
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Secret Escapes Acquires My City Venue To Add More Events To Luxury Travel Club
By Steve O'Hear Secret Escapes, the UK luxury travel ‘flash sales’ site that offers members heavy discounts on luxury hotels and holidays, has quietly acquired 3 year old My City Venue to bolster the events side of its business. Read More Source: Technology
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Oculus Starts Shipping Its Next-Gen Rift VR Headset, A Bit Later Than Expected
By Greg Kumparak It’s a bit later than they originally hoped, but the second pre-release version of Oculus’ $350 virtual reality headset is finally finding its way onto the delivery trucks. While the company originally intended for the first shipments to start arriving about 2 weeks ago, they opted to hold the first batch of…