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Google’s Upcoming Maps App Includes Smarter Venue Search, Waze-Like Rerouting
Google jabs at Apple, touting the accuracy of its own Maps app at Google I/O today.
Google Chrome: 750 Million Active Users, Synchronized Web and Mobile Browsing
Not surprisingly, users of the Google Chrome Web browser are increasingly coming from mobile devices.
One Robot Per Child? Former Googler, Apple Engineer Tackle Educational Bots.
A Bay Area-based startup is working on $100 robots that will help kids learn to code.
Three Battery-Boosting Cases for iPhone 5
Three iPhones walk into a bar. Which one leaves with the most juice?
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Hotel Tonight Wants You to Snap Photos of Your Hotel Room (Selfies Not Encouraged)
Hotel Tonight, the iOS and Android app for booking last-minute hotel rooms, is adding an Instagram-like photo-sharing service — minus the filters — for hotel guests to snap pictures of their stays. Prior to this, Hotel Tonight only allowed “reviews” of hotels through a ratings system. The company will introduce photo scavenger hunts, assigning users to snap a group of photos from a partner hotel to redeem five dollars off their next HotelTonight booking. The app, which is currently available in North America and Europe, has been downloaded five million times, though the company hasn’t said how many bookings it has done.If You Throw This Fitbit in the Washing Machine, It’s Really Your Fault This Time
Fitbit introduces the Flex wristband, its answer to the Jawbone Up and Nike FuelBand.
Can These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code?
Hopscotch and Kodable aim to teach kids the programming basics.
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Social-Shopping Website OpenSky Relaunches as Full-Fledged Online Marketplace
OpenSky, the two-year-old e-commerce site that took a stab at social shopping by allowing members to follow celebrity and expert curators, has relaunched as a full-fledged marketplace for small businesses. Merchants can open up their own “stores” on the site for free, and can sell to OpenSky’s 2.5 million members, with OpenSky taking a commission on items sold — like Etsy, but with a social twist, more established sellers and a much smaller community of shoppers. Items listed range from cosmetics to clothing to kitchen supplies. OpenSky is based in New York and has raised nearly $50 million in venture capital funding to date.News Byte
Along With Mayer, Jawbone Set to Announce Warner Music’s Wiesenthal Will Join Board
According to sources, Warner Music’s Rob Wiesenthal will join Jawbone’s board of directors, alongside Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Mayer’s appointment was previously reported here by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Wiesenthal, Warner Music Group’s COO, just joined the company in January 2013, following a role as executive vice president at Sony Corporation of America.News Byte