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5 awesome things you can do with Android phones

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Android's customizability and open source nature is its biggest strength. It offers a lot of flexibility to developers and a lot more freedom to create apps that you typically won't find on other platforms. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here are 5 examples of offbeat ways to use an Android device...<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="You don\'t need to set up CCTV cameras if you have a spare Android phone: just install Spy Kit app (by Tattu Mobile) on your device. This free app works like a motion detector spy camera and is easy to set up and use.<br/><br/>Not only is it completely silent, it lets the phone capture photos and videos even when the screen is turned off.<br/><br/>In the settings, you can select triggers and their actions. For instance, you can set it to capture a photo when you press volume up — or start recording video when you press volume down. If motion detection is enabled, it will do this automatically.<br/><br/>Lastly, if the phone has a sim card, you can set up a remote SMS trigger. For instance, send the text \'click\' or \'record\' to the phone from another phone and it will capture a photo or start continuous video recording." msid="46563091" seo="5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-android-phones/Spy-camera" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Spy camera" url="/Spy-camera/itslideshow/46563091.cms">
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You don't need to set up CCTV cameras if you have a spare Android phone: just install Spy Kit app (by Tattu Mobile) on your device. This free app works like a motion detector spy camera and is easy to set up and use.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not only is it completely silent, it lets the phone capture photos and videos even when the screen is turned off.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the settings, you can select triggers and their actions. For instance, you can set it to capture a photo when you press volume up ? or start recording video when you press volume down. If motion detection is enabled, it will do this automatically.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lastly, if the phone has a sim card, you can set up a remote SMS trigger. For instance, send the text 'click' or 'record' to the phone from another phone and it will capture a photo or start continuous video recording.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="If you feel that your significant other is a bit too demanding at times, your Android phone can help! You can literally automate and outsource a little bit of your relationship to it using the Bro App (by developers Factorial Products).<br/><br/>Now, it may be called the Bro App but it works just as well whether you\'re the girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife. The makers call it the relationship wingman and what it does is simple: it texts your partner sweet things based on certain triggers that you set.<br/><br/>You start by telling the app who your partner is from your contact list — then you can choose from the pre-set text messages (but don\'t be lazy and add your own texts — you only do it once!). And finally tell it when to send the texts. It takes care of the rest.<br/><br/>Aah but what if the partner finds out you think? The Bro App is clever — you can tell it the name of your partners Wi-Fi network (so it won\'t text when you\'re within its range). It has a recent contact detector (so if you\'ve recently texted/called your partner it won\'t text soon after that)." msid="46563087" seo="5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-android-phones/Your-wingman" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Your wingman" url="/Your-wingman/itslideshow/46563087.cms">
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2. Your wingman</h2>
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If you feel that your significant other is a bit too demanding at times, your Android phone can help! You can literally automate and outsource a little bit of your relationship to it using the Bro App (by developers Factorial Products).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Now, it may be called the Bro App but it works just as well whether you're the girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife. The makers call it the relationship wingman and what it does is simple: it texts your partner sweet things based on certain triggers that you set.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />You start by telling the app who your partner is from your contact list ? then you can choose from the pre-set text messages (but don't be lazy and add your own texts ? you only do it once!). And finally tell it when to send the texts. It takes care of the rest.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Aah but what if the partner finds out you think? The Bro App is clever ? you can tell it the name of your partners Wi-Fi network (so it won't text when you're within its range). It has a recent contact detector (so if you've recently texted/called your partner it won't text soon after that).<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Like our bodies, our brain ages with time. And just as we exercise to keep physically fit, the brain needs a bit of help to stay on top of things too.<br/><br/>Here\'s where Elevate comes in (by Elevate Labs). It\'s designed with small games and puzzles (over 25 of them) that help improve memory, focus concentration, processing, maths skills, precision, comprehension and so on.<br/><br/>As you start playing, the app adapts to your style and level of skill so that it stays challenging (yet doable). It also keeps track of your progress with a calendar.<br/><br/>The makers say that the games in the app have been designed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive learning. Proof that it works is provided by the million plus users who have collectively rated it 4.4 on 5.<br/><br/>On the off chance that you do get bored with the Elevate games, you can try others like Peak (Peaklabs), Lumosity (Lumos Labs), Kognitivo ( Sergey Cheparev) and NeuroNation." msid="46563084" seo="5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-android-phones/Brain-trainer" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Brain trainer" url="/Brain-trainer/itslideshow/46563084.cms">
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Like our bodies, our brain ages with time. And just as we exercise to keep physically fit, the brain needs a bit of help to stay on top of things too.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here's where Elevate comes in (by Elevate Labs). It's designed with small games and puzzles (over 25 of them) that help improve memory, focus concentration, processing, maths skills, precision, comprehension and so on.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As you start playing, the app adapts to your style and level of skill so that it stays challenging (yet doable). It also keeps track of your progress with a calendar.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The makers say that the games in the app have been designed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive learning. Proof that it works is provided by the million plus users who have collectively rated it 4.4 on 5.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On the off chance that you do get bored with the Elevate games, you can try others like Peak (Peaklabs), Lumosity (Lumos Labs), Kognitivo ( Sergey Cheparev) and NeuroNation.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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4. Charger voltage measurement</h2>
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A free (ad-supported) app called Ampere by developers Braintrapp aims to measure the amount of current that your charger supplies to the phone. All you have to do is start the app and it displays the current on screen.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When not connected to a charger, the app will display the rate of discharge. This changes based on brightness & number of running apps. The aim is to find out which charger works best for your device.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It only works on Android 4.0.3 devices or newer but there is a catch ? not all devices are supported. On the Google Play page for the app, they have a complete list of supported devices. For this reason, on some devices, you may not even find the app when searching in the Play Store.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Your Android phone needs to have MHL (or a separate HDMI out) for this, so that you can connect it to a TV with a cable. Load up some movies on a microSD card and you can use the phone as a complete media player.<br/><br/>To make things look better, you need the appropriate software that will display the movies correctly (with album art, info from IMDB and so on — a process called \'scraping\'). You may have also heard of Kodi (formerly XBMC), which does exactly this on a computer.<br/><br/>Well TV Addons has something called TVMC — it\'s an Android app based on Kodi but has everything pre-configured so that you can get started right away.<br/><br/>It\'s not on the Google Play store, so you\'ll have to get the APK installer file from http:www.tvaddons.ag tvmc-android. Make sure that you have allowed app installs from unknown sources on your Android device first." msid="46563082" seo="5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-android-phones/A-complete-media-player" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A complete media player" url="/A-complete-media-player/itslideshow/46563082.cms">
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5. A complete media player</h2>
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Your Android phone needs to have MHL (or a separate HDMI out) for this, so that you can connect it to a TV with a cable. Load up some movies on a microSD card and you can use the phone as a complete media player.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To make things look better, you need the appropriate software that will display the movies correctly (with album art, info from IMDB and so on ? a process called 'scraping'). You may have also heard of Kodi (formerly XBMC), which does exactly this on a computer.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Well TV Addons has something called TVMC ? it's an Android app based on Kodi but has everything pre-configured so that you can get started right away.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It's not on the Google Play store, so you'll have to get the APK installer file from http:www.tvaddons.ag tvmc-android. Make sure that you have allowed app installs from unknown sources on your Android device first.</div>
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Got diabetes? There's an app for that

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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-46526582,width-300,resizemode-4/Got-diabetes-Theres-an-app-for-that.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Got diabetes? There's an app for that" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-46526582,width-300,resizemode-4/Got-diabetes-Theres-an-app-for-that.jpg" title="Got diabetes? There's an app for that" vspace="0" width="300" /></a><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">U.S. health researchers said on Monday they are targeting millions of smartphone users with Apple Inc's new software tool, hoping to collect an unprecedented amount of data on major diseases by tracking their behaviors via iPhone.</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The ResearchKit software tool, an open source platform, allows researchers to design applications that use built-in sensors on the iPhone along with data from other wearable devices to gather real-time health data. Scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College are among the first to offer apps for diseases like diabetes and heart disease. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">For example, Massachusetts General Hospital's GlucoSuccess app allows diabetics to participate in a research study that gives feedback on how their diet and exercise patterns impact daily glucose readings. It asks volunteers whether they have taken all of their medications or inspected their feet. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"It's very hard in practice for people to carry out all the recommendations and stick with them over time," said Dr. Stanley Shaw, co-director of the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health at Massachusetts General. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Other apps released on Monday involve studies on asthma, breast cancer and Parkinson's disease. For volunteers, the apps are designed to help people with chronic disease follow through with important health behaviors. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">For researchers, the data improves upon the many pages of survey questions study volunteers had to fill out, often based on their recollection of what they ate in the prior week or how many minutes they put in at the gym. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Shaw said the fact that Apple made ResearchKit open source will allow "a whole host of medical researchers" to develop apps for their own research projects. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"We view this as the opening salvo," he said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The MyHeart Counts app will collect data about physical activity and cardiac risk factors for Stanford scientists studying heart disease. It allows users to complete tasks, such as performing a six-minute walk if they are able, and answer surveys from their iPhone, and provide them with an assessment of their heart health and information on how to improve it. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The app can tap into data gathered by other wearable gadgets such as Jawbone or Fitbit, but it can also be used with the iPhone, as long as people remember to keep their phones turned on, said Dr. Euan Ashley, chair of Stanford's biomedical data science initiative. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, sees mobile health playing a major role in the president's $215 million precision medicine initiative. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">He anticipates tech companies will use large patient studies as a "test bed for a lot of the technologies they are developing." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"The Googles and the Apples and the Qualcomms are certainly paying close attention to the potential of this," Collins said in a recent interview with Reuters. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Researchers say ResearchKit simplifies their recruiting work. Volunteers can decide how much data to share directly with the research institutions. "The data does not go to Apple," Ashley said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Dr. Eric Schadt, a genomics professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at New York's Mount Sinai, used the platform to develop an asthma app along with Weill Cornell Medical College and LifeMap Solutions, a subsidiary of BioTime. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The fact that researchers can recruit, consent and enroll participants remotely should produce study sample sizes that are "orders of magnitude" greater than in the past at a fraction of the cost, Schadt said.</span></div>

Got diabetes? There's an app for that

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WhatsApp user base crosses 700 million

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has revealed that the messaging service is being used by 700 million people every month, up from 600 million in August. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Koum also wrote in a Facebook post that users are sending 30 billion messages per day. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The figure makes the messaging app one of the world's largest social networks, bigger than Twitter's 284 million or even the photo-sharing service Instagram, which counted 300 million users last month. Facebook itself, however, is still bigger, and tallies 1.3 billion users signing in every month. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The latest numbers could help Facebook placate investors' fears about its acquisition strategy, despite the $19 billion purchase price being one of the largest deals in the history of Silicon Valley. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Facebook has, however, begun to feel pressure from investors struggling to accept CEO Mark Zuckerberg's view that his growing list of acquired businesses and services won't become meaningful until they hit the 1 billion mark.</span></div>

WhatsApp user base crosses 700 million

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has revealed that the messaging service is being used by 700 million people every month, up from 600 million in Aug...

How Flipkart, Amazon & others tackle delivery woes

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Stung by instances of rogue sellers on their platform shipping dubious products, online marketplaces are putting in place measures to tighten systems and avoid signing up sellers who can tarnish their brand image.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The steps range from physical checks to spending more on analytics to monitor marketplaces. For instance, in the case of Amazon India, internal audits with employees posing as shoppers is a regular feature. While there is no foolproof mechanism to screen the sellers joining a marketplace, each portal has come up with its own mechanism to weed out merchants who don't make the mark.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Though the marketplaces are facilitators, they are required to carry out due-diligence of the merchant ahead of signing them up.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"Legal aspects like entity structure, background checks of the entity or persons in charge of the business and commercial aspects like its key customers, etc have to be considered. This would go a long way in helping e-commerce companies manage their reputation risk as they cannot afford to completely wash their hands of the products sold on their platform," said Sharanya Ranga, partner at law firm Advaya Legal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">While physical checks form one aspect of it, spending on analytics to monitor marketplaces is on the rise. The suspect sellers are not formally informed but are de-promoted from homepage and category lists. In the case of Amazon India, random sampling by mystery shoppers keeps a check on quality of items shipped by sellers who directly pack and ship items.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Where sellers use the company's packing and shipping service, mandatory checks at the fulfilment centres are carried out to prevent shipping of counterfeits and damaged products. "We scrub our platform periodically to test random sample products and take action," said an Amazon India spokesperson. The marketplace has 16,000-plus sellers of which more than 14,000 were added over 2014.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Flipkart uses mystery shoppers and on-ground teams to monitor sellers. "We have a three-tier rating review system for our sellers. Customer rating, returns and seller cancellations are the key factors which determine a seller's rating," said Ankit Nagori, senior vice-president at Flipkart Marketplaces.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It evaluates new sellers on the basis of business registrations, documentation related to PAN, VAT, TIN and TAN numbers, as well as a check to see if they were blacklisted at other online marketplaces.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Multiple cases of counterfeits being sold online spurred eBay to introduce its Verified Rights Owner Program though the company was looking to scale down its Enhanced Member Reporting programme (EMR) dating back to 2008 for reporting counterfeits. "VeRO Program participants have the ability to identify and request removal of allegedly infringing items.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sellers are evaluated using a parameter called as Defect Rate. Sellers having a Defect Rate of more than 5% have certain restrictions. Each merchant can see their defect rates on their individual dashboards," said Girish Huria, official spokesperson at eBay India which currently has 50,000-plus sellers registered with it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"Customer stickiness is essential for the online players to scale up, especially in the absence of a physical element. The online marketplaces are learning as they go-along, adapting various mechanisms — through audit, qualification system for vendors and tracking the merchandise and customer feedback," said Ankur Bisen, senior vice president at Technopak Advisors.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Online sellers evaluate merchants on their marketplace based on various criteria. "There are multiple parameters to evaluate a seller's performance. The rate at which the items are selling, conversion rate for a particular seller (number of actual transactions vis-a-vis product views) and the rate of return are basic criteria.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Also, an internal team monitors a new seller for an evaluation period which varies according to the category of goods," said Janakiram Ganesan, co-founder and chief executive of MineWhat, an analytics firm which provides merchandising solution for online stores such as Myntra and social marketplace GoCoop.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Legal issues when it comes to consumer grievances for online deals, the Consumer Protection Act extends a cover as long as the consumer is willing to fight the complaint in the jurisdiction specified by the online marketplace. "When it comes to consumer disputes on defective product or deficient service, most companies limit the jurisdiction to a specific city where most of their operations are based or where their registered office is situated.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Also, they build in a limitation of liability in their terms and conditions wherein liability is limited to a specific amount or the value of the purchase affected by the consumer on the website. All indirect or consequential damages are expressly excluded," said Ranga of law firm Advaya Legal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">With the success of online commerce resting on building consumer trust and a brand, online marketplaces are catching on to minimising the surprise element.</span></div>

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<br /><div des="There were a bunch of hot new global startups that launched this year. But what\'s going to be huge next year?<br/><br/>Here are the 9 startups that are likely to make it big in 2015. Some are trying to transform messaging, some are attempting to conquer the sharing economy and some are media companies trying to make it big." msid="45703352" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="9 tech startups to watch out for in 2015" url="/9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/itslideshow/45703352.cms">
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There were a bunch of hot new global startups that launched this year. But what's going to be huge next year?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here are the 9 startups that are likely to make it big in 2015. Some are trying to transform messaging, some are attempting to conquer the sharing economy and some are media companies trying to make it big.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Why you should watch: Slack is a communication app that lets workplaces use a group chat room, private messaging features, and file sharing. It\'s completely taken the business world by storm, and is one of the fastest growing enterprise apps of all time. Slack will likely only get bigger next year.<br/><br/>Funding: $180 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, The Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers.<br/><br/>Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, Serguei Mourachov" msid="45703131" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Slack" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Slack" url="/Slack/itslideshow/45703131.cms">
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Why you should watch: Slack is a communication app that lets workplaces use a group chat room, private messaging features, and file sharing. It's completely taken the business world by storm, and is one of the fastest growing enterprise apps of all time. Slack will likely only get bigger next year.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $180 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, The Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, Serguei Mourachov<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Why you should watch: Companies across Silicon Valley are embracing meditation as a way to help employees unlock productivity. Headspace is taking advantage of that trend by offering mobile and web platforms that let you meditate on your own time. Headspace has over a million users in 150 countries.<br/><br/>Funding: $4 million in seed funding, but no investors have been announced.<br/><br/>Founders: Andy Puddicombe, Richard Pierson" msid="45703123" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Headspace" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Headspace" url="/Headspace/itslideshow/45703123.cms">
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Why you should watch: Companies across Silicon Valley are embracing meditation as a way to help employees unlock productivity. Headspace is taking advantage of that trend by offering mobile and web platforms that let you meditate on your own time. Headspace has over a million users in 150 countries.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $4 million in seed funding, but no investors have been announced.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Andy Puddicombe, Richard Pierson<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Why you should watch: Wish is a mobile shopping startup that looks like Pinterest and only shows you the stuff you want to buy. Techcrunch says the startup is in “talks to raise roughly $100 million at a valuation of around $1 billion.“ Wish CEO Peter Szulczewski said “We want to be Google AdWords for the retailer."<br/><br/>Funding: $78.7 million from Founders Fund, Legend Capital, GGV Capital, Jerry Yang, and Jared Leto.<br/><br/>Founders: Peter Szulczewski, Danny Zhang" msid="45703117" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Wish" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Wish" url="/Wish/itslideshow/45703117.cms">
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Why you should watch: Wish is a mobile shopping startup that looks like Pinterest and only shows you the stuff you want to buy. Techcrunch says the startup is in “talks to raise roughly $100 million at a valuation of around $1 billion.“ Wish CEO Peter Szulczewski said “We want to be Google AdWords for the retailer."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $78.7 million from Founders Fund, Legend Capital, GGV Capital, Jerry Yang, and Jared Leto.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Peter Szulczewski, Danny Zhang<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Why you should watch: With Instacart, you can order groceries from your phone or online, and have them delivered to your apartment in less than an hour. Instacart operates in 10 cities right now. Most locations offer food and household essentials from Costco, Harris Teeter, and Whole Foods. In December, Instacart raised a huge $100 million round of funding.<br/><br/>Funding: $154.8 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sam Altman, and Aaron Levie.<br/><br/>Founders: Apoorva Mehta, Max Mullen, Brandon Leonardo" msid="45703112" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Instacart" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Instacart" url="/Instacart/itslideshow/45703112.cms">
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<div des="Why you should watch: Marc Lore, formerly the CEO of Quidsi -- the website behind Diapers.com -- is working on unveiling a new e-commerce website called Jet, which is rumored to be an Amazon-killer. Lore has promised Jet will be a "new kind of e-commerce experience, uniquely grounded in transparency and customer empowerment." Jet hasn\'t officially launched yet, but it has announced it will offer shares of stock to early users.<br/><br/>Funding: $80 million from High Peaks Venture Partners, MentorTech Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, and New Enterprise Associates.<br/><br/>Founders: Marc Lore" msid="45703106" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Jet" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jet" url="/Jet/itslideshow/45703106.cms">
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Why you should watch: Marc Lore, formerly the CEO of Quidsi -- the website behind Diapers.com -- is working on unveiling a new e-commerce website called Jet, which is rumored to be an Amazon-killer. Lore has promised Jet will be a "new kind of e-commerce experience, uniquely grounded in transparency and customer empowerment." Jet hasn't officially launched yet, but it has announced it will offer shares of stock to early users.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $80 million from High Peaks Venture Partners, MentorTech Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, and New Enterprise Associates.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Marc Lore<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Why you should watch: Electric Objects wants to give you a way to display internet art into your home. The company was founded by former Betaworks employee Jake Levine, who helped orchestrate Digg\'s reinvention.Electric Objects secured $1.7 million in seed funding back in April then proceeded to raise an additional $800,000 on Kickstarter this August.<br/><br/>Funding: $1.7 million from Betaworks, First Round, RRE Ventures Nate Westheimer, Matt Witheiler, Rich Greenfield, and Scott Birnbaum.<br/><br/>Founders: Jake Levine" msid="45703104" seo="9-tech-startups-to-watch-out-for-in-2015/Electric-Objects" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Electric Objects" url="/Electric-Objects/itslideshow/45703104.cms">
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Why you should watch: Electric Objects wants to give you a way to display internet art into your home. The company was founded by former Betaworks employee Jake Levine, who helped orchestrate Digg's reinvention.Electric Objects secured $1.7 million in seed funding back in April then proceeded to raise an additional $800,000 on Kickstarter this August.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $1.7 million from Betaworks, First Round, RRE Ventures Nate Westheimer, Matt Witheiler, Rich Greenfield, and Scott Birnbaum.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Jake Levine<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Why you should watch: Bowery allows developers to set up coding environments in 30 seconds flat.Bowery's cloud-based system frees programmers from the painful process of manually installing complicated sets of parameters over and over again before they can begin working.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It also lets developers share their environment with co-workers in real time. One CEO told us Bowery's technology has the power to radically transform how engineers work.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Funding: $1.5 million from Betaworks, Bloomberg Beta, BOLDstart Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Google Ventures, Homebrew, RRE, SV Angel, General Catalyst's Rough Draft Ventures, and First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Founders: Zachary Hamed, David Byrd, Steve Kaliski</div>
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1. Flipkart's Big Billion Day sale</h2>
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In October, Flipkart hosted what it claimed to be its biggest sale offering huge discounts and cash back offers. But India’s leading e-commerce player was not able to handle the load its servers received and crumbled. Some even labeled the sale as ‘Flopkart.’ The company was also accused of manipulating prices and did not honour some purchases, cancelling orders. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Disgruntled consumers took to social networks to express their displeasure about jacked up prices, cancelled orders and the time and number of attempts made to complete orders after adding items to cart. Even consumer goods companies suspended fresh sales after their wares were sold at heavily discounted prices. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Flipkart sent an apology letter to its customers apologising for the glitches and responded to various allegations.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="In November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto appeared to accidentally disclose some confidential corporate strategy plans on Twitter itself. He tweeted what was meant to be a Direct Message sent to a colleague disclosing business plans. <br/><br/>His tweet, which was subsequently deleted, read: "I still think we should need %to buy them. He is on your schedule for 15 or 16 - we %will need to sell him. i have a plan (sic)."  It was speculated that the company Twitter was eyeing was Mic, a news startup." msid="45716698" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Twitter-CFOs-DM-faux-pas" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Twitter CFO’s DM faux pas" url="/Twitter-CFOs-DM-faux-pas/itslideshow/45716698.cms">
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2. Twitter CFO’s DM faux pas</h2>
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In November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto appeared to accidentally disclose some confidential corporate strategy plans on Twitter itself. He tweeted what was meant to be a Direct Message sent to a colleague disclosing business plans. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />His tweet, which was subsequently deleted, read: "I still think we should need %to buy them. He is on your schedule for 15 or 16 - we %will need to sell him. i have a plan (sic)." It was speculated that the company Twitter was eyeing was Mic, a news startup.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Swing Copters was game creator Dong Nguyen\'s return to mobile gaming after the much popular Flappy Bird, a game that he removed from the App Store after receiving unwanted attention from press and paparazzi. This was also the primary reason for the hype surrounding the new game.<br/><br/>While the gameplay of Swing Copters was in many ways similar to Flappy Birds, casual gamers found the game to be exceptionally difficult, draining out the fun element. The game failed to make an impact and at the end of the year you probably don’t even remember it existed." msid="45716697" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Flappy-Birds-successor" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Flappy Bird\'s successor" url="/Flappy-Birds-successor/itslideshow/45716697.cms">
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3. Flappy Bird's successor</h2>
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Swing Copters was game creator Dong Nguyen's return to mobile gaming after the much popular Flappy Bird, a game that he removed from the App Store after receiving unwanted attention from press and paparazzi. This was also the primary reason for the hype surrounding the new game.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />While the gameplay of Swing Copters was in many ways similar to Flappy Birds, casual gamers found the game to be exceptionally difficult, draining out the fun element. The game failed to make an impact and at the end of the year you probably don’t even remember it existed.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Facebook took another stab at ephemeral mobile messaging with its Slingshot app taking on popular players like Snapchat (after a failed attempt at acquiring it).<br/><br/>With the app, Facebook intended to appeal to fans of Snapchat and other messaging apps that allow users to send self-destructing messages. Slingshot works with both Apple and Android devices and a Facebook account wasn’t required to use it. <br/><br/>Although it offered some additional features, Slingshot can be considered a me-too attempt at best. Adopters of Snapchat were skeptical about switching to another service made by Facebook, which is not exactly known for user privacy, and just like its previous attempts (read Poke), this one too failed to gain user mindshare." msid="45716694" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Facebooks-Snapchat-rival" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Facebook\'s Snapchat rival" url="/Facebooks-Snapchat-rival/itslideshow/45716694.cms">
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4. Facebook's Snapchat rival</h2>
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Facebook took another stab at ephemeral mobile messaging with its Slingshot app taking on popular players like Snapchat (after a failed attempt at acquiring it).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With the app, Facebook intended to appeal to fans of Snapchat and other messaging apps that allow users to send self-destructing messages. Slingshot works with both Apple and Android devices and a Facebook account wasn’t required to use it. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Although it offered some additional features, Slingshot can be considered a me-too attempt at best. Adopters of Snapchat were skeptical about switching to another service made by Facebook, which is not exactly known for user privacy, and just like its previous attempts (read Poke), this one too failed to gain user mindshare.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Apple’s iOS 8 was dubbed as one of the biggest updates with several under the hood changes, but just like any other first release, it too had its share of bugs. However, the follow up, iOS 8.01, which was a big fix release, was one of Apple’s biggest goof ups. <br/><br/>A number of users complained that the update rendered their phones unusable as they were unable to make calls, and caused problems with Touch ID, a feature that lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprints.<br/><br/>Apple decided to pull the update and seeded it at a later time, after fixing the issues." msid="45716693" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Apple-iOS-8-01" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Apple iOS 8.01" url="/Apple-iOS-8-01/itslideshow/45716693.cms">
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5. Apple iOS 8.01</h2>
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Apple’s iOS 8 was dubbed as one of the biggest updates with several under the hood changes, but just like any other first release, it too had its share of bugs. However, the follow up, iOS 8.01, which was a big fix release, was one of Apple’s biggest goof ups. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A number of users complained that the update rendered their phones unusable as they were unable to make calls, and caused problems with Touch ID, a feature that lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprints.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Apple decided to pull the update and seeded it at a later time, after fixing the issues.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Android 5.0 Lollipop was perhaps among Google\'s most radical software upgrades that aimed to tweak the performance under the hood, adding new features and overhauling the design language of the user interface. However, as soon as Google started seeding the Android 5.0 Lollipop update to Nexus 5 phones, users started complaining about software bugs, SMS issues, connectivity problems and reduced battery backup on online forums and social networks.<br/><br/>A number of Nexus 5 users in India who have recently updated their phone\'s operating system to Lollipop are also reporting problems ranging from less than optimum battery life, system apps crashing, Wi-Fi connectivity issues and the phone getting heated up." msid="45716691" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Android-Lollipop-on-Nexus-5" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Android Lollipop on Nexus 5" url="/Android-Lollipop-on-Nexus-5/itslideshow/45716691.cms">
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6. Android Lollipop on Nexus 5</h2>
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Android 5.0 Lollipop was perhaps among Google's most radical software upgrades that aimed to tweak the performance under the hood, adding new features and overhauling the design language of the user interface. However, as soon as Google started seeding the Android 5.0 Lollipop update to Nexus 5 phones, users started complaining about software bugs, SMS issues, connectivity problems and reduced battery backup on online forums and social networks.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A number of Nexus 5 users in India who have recently updated their phone's operating system to Lollipop are also reporting problems ranging from less than optimum battery life, system apps crashing, Wi-Fi connectivity issues and the phone getting heated up.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Twitter\'s stock fell about 85% this year ending the year at $35.87. Most analysts feel the reason for this big decline is the social network’s inability to draw new users and monetise the old ones. The lower than expected user growth is discouraging advertisers. Digital marketing agencies also reported decline in user engagement.<br/><br/>However, even Facebook went through a similar situation and it’s likely that the stock could bounce back soon. Recently, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams took a dig at Instagram when the latter announced that its user base was more than Twitter’s. He said that Twitter\'s impact on the world was more significant and that he didn\'t care if \'more people were looking at pretty pictures.\'" msid="45716688" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Twitter-stock" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Twitter stock" url="/Twitter-stock/itslideshow/45716688.cms">
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7. Twitter stock</h2>
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Twitter's stock fell about 85% this year ending the year at $35.87. Most analysts feel the reason for this big decline is the social network’s inability to draw new users and monetise the old ones. The lower than expected user growth is discouraging advertisers. Digital marketing agencies also reported decline in user engagement.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />However, even Facebook went through a similar situation and it’s likely that the stock could bounce back soon. Recently, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams took a dig at Instagram when the latter announced that its user base was more than Twitter’s. He said that Twitter's impact on the world was more significant and that he didn't care if 'more people were looking at pretty pictures.'<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="King Digital, maker of the popular Candy Crush Saga app, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, raising almost $500 million. The IPO valued the company at about $7.6 billion. However, the stock flopped and closed at price  more than 15% lower than its offer price of $22.50 at $19.<br/><br/>It appeared that investors were more cautious after seeing similar stocks such as Zynga, maker of the popular Farmville game. King was a part of many lists that featured the worst IPOs of 2014." msid="45716687" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Candy-Crush-maker-King-Digitals-IPO" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Candy Crush-maker King Digital\'s IPO" url="/Candy-Crush-maker-King-Digitals-IPO/itslideshow/45716687.cms">
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8. Candy Crush-maker King Digital's IPO</h2>
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King Digital, maker of the popular Candy Crush Saga app, went public on the New York Stock Exchange, raising almost $500 million. The IPO valued the company at about $7.6 billion. However, the stock flopped and closed at price more than 15% lower than its offer price of $22.50 at $19.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It appeared that investors were more cautious after seeing similar stocks such as Zynga, maker of the popular Farmville game. King was a part of many lists that featured the worst IPOs of 2014.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="Global e-commerce marketplace eBay disclosed in May that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. <br/><br/>It advised customers to change their passwords at the earliest, saying the passwords were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March. EBay said the hackers got in after obtaining login credentials for "a small number" of employees, allowing them to access eBay\'s corporate network." msid="45716686" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/145-million-eBay-accounts-compromised" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="145 million eBay accounts compromised" url="/145-million-eBay-accounts-compromised/itslideshow/45716686.cms">
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9. 145 million eBay accounts compromised</h2>
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Global e-commerce marketplace eBay disclosed in May that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It advised customers to change their passwords at the earliest, saying the passwords were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March. EBay said the hackers got in after obtaining login credentials for "a small number" of employees, allowing them to access eBay's corporate network.<div class="clrb" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<div des="The year\'s biggest online attack was when Sony Pictures Entertainment’s servers were compromised and the information including emails, employee information and even copies of unreleased films were released by the hacker group \'Guardians of Peace.\'<br/><br/>It’s believed that the hack was due to the planned release of ‘The Interview,’ a film that depicts the travails of two journalists who get enlisted to assassinate North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. The film’s release was initially limited to select theatres and online destinations following threats from hacker groups that reportedly belonged to North Korea." msid="45716685" seo="10-biggest-tech-disappointments-of-2014/Sony-Pictures-hacking" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sony Pictures hacking" url="/Sony-Pictures-hacking/itslideshow/45716685.cms">
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The year's biggest online attack was when Sony Pictures Entertainment’s servers were compromised and the information including emails, employee information and even copies of unreleased films were released by the hacker group 'Guardians of Peace.'<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s believed that the hack was due to the planned release of ‘The Interview,’ a film that depicts the travails of two journalists who get enlisted to assassinate North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. The film’s release was initially limited to select theatres and online destinations following threats from hacker groups that reportedly belonged to North Korea.</div>
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