Pinterest Partners With Brands to Add Information to Pins

Pinterest just got an upgrade that could make it easier for users to gather information by navigating in its site. Instead of exclusively linking back to the original source, pins from certain brands will now display information such as recipes, movie reviews and price information.
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Pinterest Launches Pins With More Info And A New Button For Mobile Apps

Pinterest announced two new features today that will help make the Web site more attractive for potential advertisers. The first is pins embedded with additional information about products, recipes and movies. The second is a Pin It button that is now available on nine mobile apps.

Buying Tumblr Will Leave Yahoo With The Same Old Identity Crisis

Yahoo is expected to announce the acquisition of blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion on Monday, with both companies’ boards having agreed to the deal, according to reports in AllThingsD, which first broke the news of sale talks, as well as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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ASUS Transformer Book review: meet ASUS’ first detachable Ultrabook

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Google y la NASA lanzan el Laboratorio de IA de Computación Cuántica

El Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Cuántica usará el ordenador cuántico más avanzado disponible en el mercado, el D-Wave Two.

LG to demo 5-inch unbreakable and flexible plastic OLED panel at SID 2013

LG’s got quite a bit in store for us this week at SID’s annual display exhibition in Vancouver. In addition to that 55-inch curved OLED TV we first heard about last month, the company will be demonstrating a very nifty 5-inch OLED panel. Created for mobile devices, the display is constructed of plastic,

Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement?

The Lagos taxi driver roars across the biggest bridge in Africa at 110 mph. Buffeted by the night wind, it feels as if we’re riding a motorbike.
I am with two South Africans and a guy from Silicon Valley. We’re all swilling from a bottle of so-called whisky, including the man behind the wheel.

The New “Handmade”

Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technology tend to focus on the extreme possibilities

Singer Miguel Jumps on Fans’ Heads in Freak Accident

In an ugly freak accident, singer Miguel landed on the heads of fans while attempting to jump over them during his performance of "Adorn" at the Billboard Music Awards
Twitter users quickly expressed their disbelief Sunday, with some wondering whether the women smacked by Miguel were seriously injured

The 7 Habits of Serious Procrastinators

Procrastination is a serious business. In fact, procrastinators who are accomplished in their craft have a number of tools to help them — seven tools, to be exact, and counting.
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