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Use Foursquare Trip Tips to crowd

On Monday, Foursquare launched a feature I’m surprised it took this long for the company to roll out: Trip Tips. The gist of the new feature is easy traveling. Visit this page and sign in to your Foursquare account. Add your travel destination, dates, and any applicable notes. Foursquare then provides you with a link …

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Twitter names its first

Add in another change to Twitter’s executive ranks already this week. On Tuesday, the microblogging site announced that its new chief marketing officer will be Leslie Berland, formerly marketing vice president at American Express. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the new hire via a tweet in which he said that Berland will “join as our CMO to help tell the …

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New MacBooks loom on Apple’s horizon, analyst predicts

Apple may have new MacBooks up its sleeve in the first half of the year. The company is planning to upgrade its MacBook lineup by June, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in an investors note picked up Sunday by AppleInsider. Kuo had no specifics about which components or features will be upgraded, though AppleInsider suggests a bump up to …

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Can Apple escape iPhone fatigue?

iPhones — heck, phones in general — don’t rev you up like they used to, and that’s a problem for Apple. The Cupertino, California-based electronics giant has expanded its horizons over the past few years, entering the wearables market, broadening its phone and tablet lineups, and launching a streaming-music service. But its fortunes are still closely tied to the iPhone, …

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Podcast app finally comes to the new Apple TV

Apple just added your favorite video and audio podcasts to the growing list of what you can watch on Apple TV. It’s only been a month since Apple released TVOS 9.1 for its set-top box, but the company just pushed another incremental update with version 9.1.1. The big news this round is the addition of a new Podcasts app that …

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Patriots fans and the dark side of social media

The ugliness of humanity was on full display in 140 characters after Sunday’s American Football Conference Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. Twitter erupted with personal attacks on Patriots All-Pro placekicker Stephen Gostkowski, who missed a point in the first quarter that not only would’ve tied the game, but possibly was the difference in the …

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