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This Late-Blooming Entrepreneur Set a Record for the World’s Largest Cream Tea Party — Late Blooming Entrepreneurs

Sometimes a chance meeting can spark a business idea. Just ask Jane Malyon. Malyon, who’s British, was enjoying tea one afternoon when she struck up a conversation with a stranger. “I met an old lady who could no longer travel and whose favourite pastime was afternoon tea,” Malyon says in this Business Quarter (BQ) article. […]

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Google’s Project Sunroof Now Tells More Homeowners How Well Solar Would Work On Their Roofs

Google’s Project Sunroof, which started as a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, helps you figure out how well solar panels would work on your roof. The company launched the project in August, but at the time, it only covered homes in Boston and a few select areas in California. Today, Google […]

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#clean energy #Google #Project Sunroof #solar

Skype Now Lets Anyone Join A Chat Even If They Don’t Have An Account

Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a link.

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Google Brings App Engine And Cloud Datastore To Its New East Coast Region

It’s only been two weeks since Google first launched some of its core Cloud Platform services in its South Carolina data center (the ‘us-east1 region’ if you want to be precise). At the time, the two most glaringly missing service in this new East Coast region was Google App Engine. But as the company announced today, App Engine is now available in this region, together with the Cloud Datastore…

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#cloud computing #Google #Google App Engine #google compute engine #platform-as-a-service #web services

LogMeIn Acquires Password Management Software LastPass For $110 Million

With an increasing number of data breaches putting users’ personal information at risk, a company that helps online users better manage their account information with various websites and services, as well as help customers run security checks on their accounts, seems like it would have the potential for serious growth. That’s what remote access software maker LogMeIn […]

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#LastPass #logmein #Passwords #security

Alibaba’s Cloud Unit Opens Its Second U.S. Data Center

AliCloud, the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, said today that it has opened its second data center in the U.S. Like its first stateside data center, the new one is in Silicon Valley, but Alibaba has not disclosed exactly where it is or how large it is. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that this is for security reasons.

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#alibaba #AliCloud #Aliyun

iOS Podcast App Overcast Adds Streaming, Drops Price To Free

Marco Arment just released a major update to its popular podcast app for iOS, Overcast. This update brings many under-the-hood improvements as well as a few new major features. Arment is also switching its pricing model entirely as the app is now completely free with an optional patronage subscription.

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SendGrid Launches Threads, A Triggered Email Service For Marketers

SendGrid CEO Sameer Dohlakia said he thinks of the company’s new product, Threads by SendGrid, as “the anti-spam.” Basically, Threads allows customers to set up automated emails that get sent based on user activity — so you could send an email whenever a customer views a specific web page, uses a specific feature or performs a certain action in your mobile app.

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Burner Gets Business-Ready With Auto-Renewing Lines, Connections To Slack, Dropbox, Evernote & More

Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has been, until now, a fairly utilitarian sort of messaging app. You could create number, call, text and check voicemails, but not much else. Today, that changes with the launch of “Connections” – integrations…

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#Apps #burner #Business #Mobile #Phone

‘Thousands’ complaining about HMRC telephone service

Frustrated callers tweeted HMRC over 11,500 times in the last 12 months to complain about long telephone line queues, according to an analysis of the social media platform by Citizens Advice. While official figures show an average wait of 10 minutes, the charity’s study suggests that many people are waiting much longer – with people […]

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#bookkeeping #buckinghamshire #Citizens Advice #hmrc #Nunn Hayward #payroll #queue #telephone service #VAT)

betaworks Launches Dexter, An Open Platform For Building Integration-Driven Web Apps

betaworks has today launched the latest product out of its Hacker-In-Residence program, meant to help developers and laymen alike develop third-party API integrations into an app that can be distributed and used via a single link. Dexter, as it were, is an open web platform, and offers developers the opportunity to build and share modules […]

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Chancellor’s largest benefit cuts ‘are for those in employment’

Chancellor George Osborne’s biggest tax credits and benefit cuts are aimed at those who already have jobs, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has revealed. Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS, warned that Osborne’s proposed higher minimum wage would not compensate for the planned cuts to tax credits. Johnson said: ‘There’s quite a set of […]

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#benefit #bookkeeping #buckinghamshire #budget #george osborne #ifs #National Living Wage #Nunn Hayward #payroll #VAT)

Twitter Opens Up Its Amplify Video Ad Program

Twitter just announced an expansion of its Amplify ad program that should make it accessible to more publishers and advertisers. Amplify is the company’s two-year-old program for video ads. Initially, it involved a direct and somewhat complicated relationship — the publisher would embed a short video clip in a tweet, then the advertiser would both include a short pre-roll ad in the tweet and pay…

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FSB finds small businesses are split over EU exit

A survey by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has found that UK SMEs are split on the question of whether Britain should exit the European Union, but with a slight majority currently intending to vote to stay in at the forthcoming referendum. The FSB’s study examined responses from 6,263 of its members. It found […]

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#bookkeeping #buckinghamshire #European Union #fsb #Nunn Hayward #payroll #small businesses #VAT)

Apple Removes ‘A Few’ Apps Including Ad Blockers From App Store For Installing Root Certificates

Apple has removed some apps from its App Store for installing a root certificate that would have allowed the developers to view encrypted traffic from their users. The company said in a statement that it was working with the developers to get their apps back on the store. Some ad blockers are among those being removed, largely […]

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Manufacturing output ‘stalls for first time in two years’

Manufacturing output growth stalled in September – the first time it has done so for two and a half years – according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). In the latest CBI Monthly Industrial Trends Survey of 491 manufacturing businesses, 26% reported that output grew in the three months to September, while 25% said […]

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#bookkeeping #buckinghamshire #cbi #economics #industry #manufacturing #Nunn Hayward #payroll #VAT)

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