Top Stories of the Day // August 1, 2013

Thursday, August 1, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Aug 1, 2013

Netflix Makes Recommendations More Personalized By Adding Individual User Profiles

Netflix is rolling out its long-anticipated user profiles, allowing multiple members of a household to create personalized accounts and get personalized... read more

Apple Reportedly Ramping Up For New iPad Mini With Retina Display Later This Year

Apple is indeed gearing up to put a Retina display in next version of the iPad mini, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The new version of... read more

NoFlo Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Help Everyone To Understand And Visualize Code

NoFlo, a company that has built an open-source visual programming tool based on "flow-based programming," a concept that came out of IBM in the 1970s, is... read more

The Pinterest Roadmap Revealed

The rise of Pinterest wasn't all cocktails and cupcakes. It conquered huge scaling challenges to become the world's keepsake box. Now as the we ditch the... read more

NSA Responds To New Reports On Top-Secret Spying Program, XKeyscore

The National Security Agency thinks we have been misled by The Guardian's report of a new tool, XKeyscore, that allows agents to read the content of email and... read more

With A Launch Fast Approaching, BlackBerry Pushes Out iOS & Android BBM Beta Invites

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed this past May that BBM would come to iOS and Android "this summer", which of course means that advertised launch window... read more

Shopify Acquires Toronto-Based Design Firm Jet Cooper To Help It Remake Ecommerce

Toronto based startup success story Shopify has acquired Jet Cooper, a design agency founded in 2009, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings together... read more

PC Obsolescence In Action: Users Who Own Smartphones And Tablets Are Dropping Their PC Usage In The UK

As the proliferation of smartphones continues to skyrocket, device owners are more and more eschewing their PCs, opting instead to use their smartphones as... read more

Despite Google's Gains, iPhone Still Edges Out Android Devices In App And Overall Smartphone Usage, Says Forrester

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Social Polling App Loop Debuts On iOS To Help You Crowdsource Everyday Decisions

Loop, the newest entrant in the social polling space, is launching in the App Store today to help people solve life's little dilemmas, such as which movie to... read more

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