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Google Adds Notification Center And Rich Notifications To Chrome Beta 28, Will Work Even When The Browser Is Closed -

This isn't exactly the launch of Google Now for the desktop, which many of us have been patiently waiting for, but Google today announced that it is bringing a richer notifications experience to Chrome, starting with the latest beta.
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Doctors 3D-Print An Emergency Airway Tube To Save A Child's Life -

Score one for technology: Doctors 3D-printed an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old baby boy's life.
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Imonomy Raises $400K Seed For Its Visual Semantic Software That Adds Relevant Photos To Publishers' Websites, Monetised With Ads -

Imonomy, an Israeli startup which makes software that analyses webpages and automatically inserts relevant, copyright-free images to accompany the content, has closed a $400,000 seed round from a group of angel investors.
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MyShoebox Gets Social With Collaborative Galleries And A Dedicated iPad App With Version 2.0 -

Toronto-based startup MyShoebox is facing a time in which photo sharing announcements are thick and deep; Google unveiled its updated Google+ photos experience last week at I/O, and this week we seen pretty big announcements from Yahoo! around Flickr.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

Google App Engine Drops Some High Replication Datastore Prices By Up To 25% -

At Google I/O last week, Google announced that its Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD) - its schemaless object data storage service - currently processes over 4.
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Lyft Lifts $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Gives 30,000 Rides A Week A Year After Launch -

It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that we first wrote about Lyft, and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader Uber in San Francisco.
TechCrunch  3 hours ago:

Evernote Adds Reminders To Help Users With To-Do's, Tasks & Projects -

For those who use Evernote as a to-do list application, the service just became more useful today with the launch of a much-requested feature: reminders.
TechCrunch  4 hours ago:

TaskRabbit Debuts Tools For Hiring Ongoing Temp Work As It Hones Focus On Business Users -

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that has made a name for itself by helping people connect with odd jobs, is now a place where you can find a real job too.
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Pinterest API Documentation Briefly Reappears On New Developer Site -

Remember how over a year ago, everyone was all excited about the forthcoming Pinterest API? CEO Ben Silbermann even teased its release in a March 2012 email to Pinterest users detailing a Terms of Service change.
TechCrunch  6 hours ago:

Facebook Home Hits The Rocks In Europe, With UK And France Launch Of HTC First Delayed Indefinitely -

More signs today the HTC First might also be the last smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed: UK carrier EE confirmed today that the first Facebook Home phone won't be launching in the UK soon as planned, as Facebook has decided to concentrate its efforts on making improvements to the Home software before looking to add international markets.