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Here's How Facebook Rewards Celebrities Who Post About the Super Bowl — If you're on Facebook this weekend you may see a bunch of athletes and celebrities talking about the Super Bowl. Some will be doing it because they're just like you. — And some will be doing it because Facebook is offering them incentives to do it.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags in 58% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook led social networks with 5 mentions to Twitter's 4 — New Record For 2014: Hashtags Mentioned In 58% Of Super Bowl Ads … Hashtags were in 58 percent of Super Bowl ads, up from 50% in 2013 and setting a new record.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Releasing Ads Early Pays Off For Super Bowl Advertisers, According To Visible Measures — If you're watching the Super Bowl today, some of those brand new ads may feel awfully familiar — a growing number of them are being released online ahead of time, either in their entirety or as a partial teaser.
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| John Colucci / Engadget: |
Super Bowl 2014 ad roundup: '80s stars raid a RadioShack, Bears dance with Ellen and more — If you were one of those 110 million who tuned into this year's Super Bowl, you probably have some thoughts on those ads — ads that cost a whole load of cash. This year, we had the predictable heart-tug …
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As device makers strive to improve battery and charging tech, Apple tests inductive charging for its watch — Building a Better Battery — SAN FRANCISCO — The next breakthrough smartphone, or maybe the one after that, might not have a traditional battery as its sole source of power.| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Once phones collect health data, API access for authorized third parties will change the game — iOS8, Health Data, and Open Data — News is leaking out of Apple that iOS8's primary feature will be health and fitness data. Rumors are that there will be a new app called Healthbook …
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Thanks:@justinkahnmusic| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Developer Behind “Flappy Bird,” The Impossible Game Blowing Up The App Store, Says He Just Got Lucky — Flappy Bird, a game you can barely play for more than a few seconds without throwing your phone across the room in frustration, is dominating the App Store and Google Play.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xperia Z1 Compact exceeds predecessor with smaller, better display and unmatched battery life — Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review: when smaller is better — For the longest time, the prevailing trend with mobile phones was to take last year's handset and make it smaller.
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
New iPhone app “Secret” lets you share confessions anonymously with your network of friends — With New Anonymous Social App Secret, the Merit Is in the Message — What if you could share anything you wanted to, with little worry of repercussion?
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| Dag Kittlaus / Variety: |
Siri Co-Creator Ponders the Future of the ‘Her’ Operating System — Siri, meet Scarlett. — Hollywood has always shown the way to the future. It's a little known fact that, for decades, the bigscreen inspired many forward-looking technologies long before their day.
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| Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online: |
Forgotify: The Tool for Discovering Spotify's 4 Million Unheard Tracks — The idea first came to Lane Jordan when he heard an odd little fact: Around 20 percent of tracks on Spotify—some four million songs—had been played exactly zero times. — Four million songs! That got Jordan thinking.
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TechCrunch, Electronista, Metro.co.uk, Daily Dot, Washington Post, BetaNews, Network World, Digital Trends, Business Insider, CNET, NBCNews, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Motherboard, Core77, Wired.co.uk and Engadget. Tweets: @theatlantic
| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
AT&T's new family plan: two lines sharing 10GB for $130 a month, $15 per additional line — AT&T Sweetens Offer for Family Plans — AT&T, the second largest American phone carrier, on Saturday said it would offer a cheaper phone plan for families with multiple devices.| Kamau Mbote / CIO East Africa: |
Al Shabaab shuts out central and southern Somalia from internet — Kamau Mbote — Clients at a cyber cafe in Somalia: Reports indicate that Al Shabaab has shut off internet services in central and southern parts of the country. — Telecos operating in Al Shabaab-controlled areas …
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