Tracks finds its niche among iPhone photo apps with printable “live albums”

Last week,Trackslaunched its mobile social storytelling iPhone app atTech CrunchDisrupt. The Tracks iPhone app lets users make “photo stories” with their friends. Users can create Tracks to string together photos from a wedding, a bachelor party, a family vacation, a night out with the girls or a year in New York. Users can invite friends and family via email so they can add photos to the ‘track’ to tell– what Singh refers to as– “a living story” or create a “living album”....

3 min · 635 words · Erica Lynn

Traders dump Zoom for Expedia as Pfizer vaccine teases life after COVID

Traders dump Zoom for Expedia as Pfizer vaccine teases life after COVID Zoom stock fell 21% as Expedia rallied 20% Pfizer’s COVID vaccine tease boosted ‘back-to-normal’ stocks Travel stocks EXPE and BKNG were indeed the NASDAQ 100’s biggest benefactors of Pfizer’s glimpse into a post-COVID world, at least yesterday. In fact, Norwolk-headquartered BKNG gained more dollar value than any other NASDAQ 100 company. Pfizer’s announcement added $11.8 billion to BKNG’s market cap, which now sits close to $87 billion....

2 min · 339 words · Robert Stevens

Trading bots: Is it game over for human financial analysts?

Trading bots: Is it game over for human financial analysts? Conquering cognitive bias: A quantitative approach When evaluating an investment, traders use several strategies to better identify entry and exit opportunities. Among them is qualitative and quantitative analysis. The latter involves statistical modeling on technical aspects such as volatility and historical performance, while the former concerns data analysis pertaining to company management, earnings, competitive advantage, and other such subjective information....

5 min · 875 words · Charles Walker

Traffic to European newspaper sites up 11% in 2011, Facebook growing as a source

Newspaper website traffic is on the rise in Europe, and Facebook’s importance to those sites is growing, according tonew data from comScore. The figures show that in June this year, Facebook accounted for at least 7.4% of traffic to the top five newspaper sites in Europe – almost double what it was a year before. Germany’sBildsaw the biggest increase, with its percentage of traffic from Facebook increasing from 3% in June 2010 to 14% a year later....

2 min · 304 words · Stacey Jimenez

Train with uTalk to learn foreign languages — and hear every nuance with these xFyro noise-cancelling earbuds

TLDR:The Lifetime Language Learning Bundle ft. uTalk and xFyro lets you learn two new languages, all while hearing it in crystal clarity. Sometimes, it’s best to just try and erase every possible reason for procrastinating or not moving forward on a project all in one fell swoop. Like saying to yourself that the reason you haven’t started learning Italian yet is because those headphones you’ve got are really crummy and make listening to online classes difficult....

3 min · 520 words · Patricia Donovan
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