The Next Web’s Weekly Recap

TheNextWeb Nov 20 09

Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap. *** If you have a story we should include in our Weekly Recap please tweet it and include the hashtag #tnwrecap. This week saw the first unveiling of Google’s Chrome OS, some big Microsoft announcements from their developer conference in Los Angeles as well as a bunch of geolocation news as [...] Full story...

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TheNextWeb 5 hours ago:

Amazon starts shipping Kindle Touch worldwide, but excludes bestselling regions -

Amazon has amended listings for its Kindle Touch e-reader, enabling visitors to Amazon.com to ship the keyboardless device to a large number of countries outside of the US.

TheNextWeb 15 hours ago:

With 2M members, Fab tips the awareness scale as direct traffic passes emails -

Fab.com is hot, hot, hot. The daily deals site has seen some amazing growth in the past four months alone, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down at all.

TheNextWeb 16 hours ago:

Another tethering app for iOS, ‘iRandomizer Numbers’, sneaks onto the App Store -

Once every few weeks a new app hits Apple’s app store that has a very hidden, yet very sought after feature, tethering.

TheNextWeb 16 hours ago:

Apple is saying “No” to ARM based MacBooks, focusing on iPads -

Just in case you were wondering if Apple would start making lower-priced MacBook airs and other mobile devices based on the ARM chip set, ala Microsoft, the company has no.

TheNextWeb 16 hours ago:

Facebook gets serious about consumer marketing, reportedly hires former Apple exec -

According to a report by AdAge, Facebook has made a huge hire which will change the way the company markets itself to consumers.

TheNextWeb 17 hours ago:

Apple brings Netflix-like discovery to Apple TV with Genius suggestions for movies and TV shows -

Apple has issued an update to its Apple TV software that ads the Genius feature to its Movie and TV sections, reports Appleinsider.

TheNextWeb 17 hours ago:

WiFi and cellphone service are finally coming to 30 NYC subway stations -

According to Transit Wireless, a company formed to respond to the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s requirement for a shared wireless infrastructure for NY Transit, New Yorkers can now look forward to cellphone service.

TheNextWeb 17 hours ago:

Amazon nabs Windows Phone’s Developer Experience lead for the Kindle team -

Brandon Watson, the leader of the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon.

TheNextWeb 18 hours ago:

ColorHexa is a color encyclopedia, with CSS gradients, blends, schemes and more -

Color, one of the seven elements of art, is one of the most important aspects of any design. Because of this, it’s surprising that there aren’t many tools available when you.

TheNextWeb 2 days ago:

11 February will be a day of protest in Europe against the controversial ACTA treaty -

With calls to fight the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills in the US — which Google, Wikipedia and other technology giants moved to campaign against – proving a success, similar calls are being.

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