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LetsListen marries music with Google hangouts and invites SoundCloud tracks to the party

LetsListen combines video, social, streaming, and your own music files to launch its social listening application within a music locker.
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Twitter’s war on third party developers continues

Twitter has made a reputation for itself by pocketing the rewards of outside app makers' work. Will developers get tired of this game and stop building for the site?

Facebook face recognition fallout: Should you be worried?

Facebook is once again under fire for its privacy settings, prompting an EU investigation and renewed user concern. But is facial recognition technology where we finally draw the line?
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How CouchSurfing should use that new $15 million

CouchSurfing his outgrown its humble roots to attract some serious money from investors. But what should the free travel site do with the money?

Social chat client ooVoo unveils four-way mobile video chat

As the market keeps experimenting with social video, ooVoo continues to build its social chat app.
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Ridejoy launches iPhone app to help crowdsource the open road

A new iPhone app from Ridejoy wants to put the convenience -- and human connection -- back into road trips.
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Hands on with the Zeen beta: Creation trumps curation here

From the brains behind YouTube comes Zeen, a new publishing platform. Check out our first impressions.

Canon vs. Nikon: There’s an infographic for that

Canon! Nikon! CANON! NIKON! And so it goes. Trouble deciding which camera brand really is the best? Infographic artists lay it out for us.
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Path.to hits new jobs markets this month; first up: Seattle and Portland

Path.to is growing its eHarmony for jobs service, starting with Portland and Seattle, and moving on to other new tech markets.

Spoiler alert! Ways to fix the Olympics’ social media spoiler problem

Olympics coverage is everywhere, and while information at your disposal is generally a good thing, killing the element of surprise is not. Here are a few ways you can alleviate some of the social spoilers.
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Post-earnings call, the debate over Facebook’s mobile ads reaches new heights

The skepticism over Facebook's ability to reach users with mobile ads piques again as the industry weighs in on its future.
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Picnic pivots from ShopMyPins to help tackle Pinterest’s context problem

Picnic is a new toolbar extension that gives Pinterest items a little bit of background.
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SmartAsset can control the confusion of massive money decisions

SmartAsset takes all those confusing spreadsheets filled with financial information and turns it into bite-sized grafs to help you make investments go down more easily.

Mirrorly’s new scanning technology could get you out of the dressing room and into new clothes

Upcoming startup Mirrorly combines Kinect with its new scanning technology to create what's supposedly a highly accurate digital way to try on clothes.
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Highlight issues first big update, adds group messaging and better battery life

SoLoMo standout Highlight issues its latest version after a quiet post-SXSW period.
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First look: the Nikon D800 leaks

Nikon's preparing a new DSLR, the D800, and now images have surfaced showing it off in all its boxy glory.
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A new look at Kickstarter’s hidden failed projects and how to be funding-friendly

Kickstarter has come under fire for allegedly hiding failures to boost its reputation, and while new research shows that unsuccessful projects are certainly hard to find, there's also some new insight on what gets popular ideas funded.
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Developer tested, developer approved: StoryTeller wants to be the CMS platform for the future

Content is everywhere, and new content management system StoryTeller wants you to control it - all of it. As long as it has an API.
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VoiceBunny crowdsources voiceover acting and cuts out middlemen on both sides of the market

New startup VoiceBunny wants to evolve the voiceover acting and hiring system by automating it all with its simple to use platform.
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Twitter overhauls search and discovery with autocomplete, spell correction, and more

Twitter's real time noise will get some much-needed clean up with new additions to search and discovery including autocomplete and spell correction.

Hands-on with the Google+ app for iPhone

Google+ for the iPhone impressions. Like Google+, the app has a simple setup and easily gives you a comfortable mobile experience

They’ll be back… they all come back: GM considers returning to Facebook advertising

After announcing it was done with Facebook ads, General Motors might go back to the social network after all.
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All your contacts are belong to us: What apps are uploading your address book and why

After the Path fallout, are you wondering what other apps you've given your address book over to? Spoiler alert: it's a lot of them.
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Hands on with Chrome for iPhone: It syncs, it’s sleek, it scores

Chrome is now available for iOS, and we go hands-on with Google's browser to see how it takes on Safari.
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Pentax introduces the bright, bold K-01 and its big sensor

This new addition to the next-gen camera segment foregoes traditional styling and ups its sensor size.
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It’s official: Chrome and Google Drive coming to iPhone and iPad

Google's Chrome browser will hit iOS later today, and Google Drive is also making its way to the iPhone and iPad.
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Why you have an @facebook.com email address and how Facebook screwed up the rollout

The introduction to our Facebook email address was just a little too quiet, and that could turn us off to any of its inherent value before we even give it a try.

Lytro heads into production, readies for debut

Innovative camera company Lytro will finally release its much-hyped plenoptic camera in the near future.
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Q&A with Lytro’s beta photographers: This camera is a ‘game changer’

While the project is still hush hush, we were able to get a better idea of Lytro's potential and what professional photographers think of the concept camera.
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Pictures: First look at the Lytro camera

Check out the first official pictures of the new Lytro camera which features revolutionary light-field technology.
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What does Lytro mean for photography?

Lytro has grabbed our undivided attention, but while we click and refocus those gallery pictures in wide-eyed wonder, we have to ask what it will really mean for the digital photography industry.
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Lytro unveils its digital camera

Finally, Lytro is unveiling its mysterious, revolutionary digital camera.
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Inside Lytro: the light field camera gets an FCC tear down

The FCC guts Lytro and finds a surprise in the light field camera.
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‘Socially Devoted’ to you: Socialbakers reveals how committed companies are to social networking

Socialbakers CEO Jan Rezab talks about analyzing businesses social efficacy, the opportunity for a new job market, and Facebook ads.
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Path.to reinvents the job hunt with eHarmony-style matchups between employers and employees

LinkedIn, you've been warned: Path.to is cornering the tech job sector and it's doing it quickly.

Former Twitter team taking the wraps off of Lift, the app that wants you to ‘achieve anything’

Lift will debut its motivational, aspirational app approach to the Quantified Self movement in the near future.
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Radio wars: Can the new Spotify feature challenge Pandora’s legacy?

Spotify's new radio feature will challenge Pandora, but here's a harder look at how the two services stack up.
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These are the third party apps that iOS 6 just put on notice

With each new iOS iteration, a handful of outside developers see Apple recreating their products for native integration. Here are the handful that will see competition from iOS 6, some of which will rise to the occasion.