There's an interesting problem with being a Web designer, and I've heard it from a number of them. Oh sure, you design great sites all day long, but showing them...

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Google partnered with Citi, MasterCard, Sprint and First Data to try to enable its Google Wallet to replace the need for plastic credit cards. Google Wallet gets its own funds, however, from the good ol' plastic card accounts. There is one little catch, however.


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Last week at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference, I had the opportunity to interview Facebook's VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer. It was a great talk: I asked him about his favorite features on Google+ (he said something about loving competition), and there was even a brief mutual death glare.

A few minutes after the interview, I chatted backstage with Schroepfer and Facebook VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage and asked about their impending f8 developer conference.

Schrage's eyes grew [...]

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Bloomberg launched a new free app today. While the Wall Street Journal's WSJ Live app released last week is a video app for the iPad, Bloomberg's app choose to focus on the smaller iPhone and is audio-only.


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SHAPE Services, makers of the popular, cross-platform IM+ mobile instant messaging applications, is today launching its first video chatting app: IM+ Video. The new app, available here on iTunes, lets you video and voice call with your Facebook friends - and not just those using IM+.

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twitter_goes_public.png Twitter has brought microblogging to the mainstream, and to think it was only launched 5 years ago.  July 15, 2006 was when Twitter opened to the public. Remember all those funny looks the early adopters were given, when they talked about 'tweets' and their 'tweeps.'  Fast forward 5 years, this free microblogging service is mainstream with every major celebrity, brand [...]

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