Google Play services need constant location info Google, it seems, is very, very interested in knowing where you are at all times. Users have reported battery life issues with the latest Android build, with many pointing the finger at Google Play – Google’s app store – and its persistent, almost obsessive need to check where you are.

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Delete Google Maps? Go Ahead, says Google, We’ll Still Track You

Alexa ‘s digital marketing tools help you engineer growth and drive success Countries Topsites Ranking Alexa.com (A Company of Amazon) Make better decisions. Prove your results. Increase your website traffic.

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Codecademy is an education company.

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Learn to Code Interactively, For Free

Malaysian digital media company SAYS has made the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces alongside Zappos, AIESEC International and WD-40. The only other Malaysian company to have made it to the list is Mindvalley.

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Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Good morning! Here’s the news of the day: Facebook will launch a mobile ad network at its developers conference F8, which happens at the end of the month.  Jack Dorsey’s hyped payments startup Square has talked to Google about a possible sale as its losses are growing.  Google made a high-profile hire for Calico, it’s anti-aging/anti-death health startup. It hired Cynthia Kenyon, a high-profile biochemist and biophysicist at the University of California.

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Scott Barbour / Getty Tinder is a year-old mobile dating app that was recently valued by investors at $500 million . It works a lot like Hot or Not, allowing users to quickly judge each others’ looks based on profile pictures

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How To Use Tinder, A Socially Acceptable Way To Call Someone Ugly Or Attractive That’s Worth $500 Million

Android From wild pranks on April Fools Day to hidden tricks in its search engine , the Google team loves creating surprises for users.  Here’s how to find Google’s Easter eggs, for the three latest versions of its Android operating system

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Google recently granted a rare tour of its closely guarded Google X labs, the place where Google invents all sorts of fantastic new technology like Glass , self-driving cars , Internet-enabled contact lenses for diabetics – even a space elevator and a hoverboard. The tour was given to the editors at Fast Company .

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AP Google+ boss Vic Gundotra Google+ is often the butt of many jokes in the tech world.  Google’s attempt at recreating a social network to rival Facebook or Twitter has largely failed to go mainstream. (Google would argue otherwise, pointing to engagement stats like shared news stories, YouTube comments, and the like.) But buried beneath Google’s Facebook clone is one of the most useful tools on the Web

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Flickr/Heisenberg Media When a startup gets handed that first big check, how much of that can they dedicate to their own livelihoods? To read the tech media, you’d think they’re all millionaires and billionaires. But they’re not.

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This Is How Much Startup Founders Pay Themselves (And It’s Less Than You Think)