Verizon Doubling FiOS Internet Speeds | True&Co Takes $2M Seed Funding From First Round, SoftTech, Others To Shake Up The Bra Industry | ShareMyPlaylists Relaunches Spotify App Based On Hand-Curated Playlists | Netflix agrees to delete former customers' rental history after a year | Popular Photosynth panorama app finally makes it to Windows Phones

Verizon Doubling FiOS Internet Speeds

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Verizon is upping its fastest FiOS download speed from 150Mbps to 300Mbps[...]
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True&Co Takes $2M Seed Funding From First Round, SoftTech, Others To Shake Up The Bra Industry

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The women’s liberation movement once taught ladies to cast off their bras in solidarity and empowerment; now a new startup, founded by two women, is inverting that formula to make sure that when you put it back on, that bra fits like a glove.
True&Co is launching an online bra fitting service and shop that takes a very traditional (and tedious) process — finding bras you like that actually fit well — and makes it quick and kind of fun, and it is doing it with $2 million in seed funding from a great list of investors: First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, Aileen Lee, Softbank Capital and former LinkedIn executive Ellen Levy. (Lee’s investment comes from her new, yet-to[...]
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ShareMyPlaylists Relaunches Spotify App Based On Hand-Curated Playlists

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ShareMyPlaylists was the first site to allow the sharing of Spotify playlists (launched 2009). It’s now relaunched its music discovery Spotify app based its 91,000 hand-curated playlists. The site competes with the record label Spotify apps like Digster (from Universal Music) and Filtr (Sony Music) but its advantage is that it allows music from all labels and allows user generated content – something the labels get nervous about.
The newly designed app has been completely rebuilt based on the service that the website offers with better Spotify integration with recommended playlists, drag and drop, genre browsing, featured playlists and pop up descriptions. Part of the app is now[...]
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Netflix agrees to delete former customers’ rental history after a year

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As a Netflix customer worried about all those rental suggestions you’ve taken up from movie search site BateFlix, you can rest assured that your rental history will remain anonymous even to the company itself — kinda.
Yesterday, new U.S. District Court documents from a Netflix class action lawsuit revealed that the company has agreed to delete movie rental history of its former customers roughly one year after canceling their monthly service. PaidContent points out that the case was originally started nearly a year ago by Netflix and settled in February for $9 million, with $6.75 million going to various privacy organizations. But the company never mentioned the changes in its po[...]
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Popular Photosynth panorama app finally makes it to Windows Phones

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Microsoft’s Photosynth is a hugely popular panorama-stitching photo app. We have no idea what took so long, but it’s now available on Windows Phones.
Photosynth is already the 23rd most popular photo app in the iTunes App Store with around 6 million downloads and a 4.5 star rating.
The app is a slick, smooth panorama stitcher that yields gorgeous results. Microsoft says it’s also the only application on any mobile platform that will let you photograph and stitch 360 degrees horizontally and vertically to make a spherical image of your environment.
Finished panoramas are shareable on Twitter and Facebook right from inside the app itself. You can also choose to make your pics[...]
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