AdDetector will make sure you never mistake a sponsored story for a real one

#GNN Tech - Sponsored news stories — or what are more politely known as "native ads" are becoming a fixture of the web, yet it isn't always so easy to tell when an article is sponsored. Google engineer Ian Webster is

Amazon Now Piloting CPM Ads With Select Amazon Associates Publishers

#GNN Tech - #Amazon has launched a display ad network, in the form of Amazon CPM ads, to members of its online affiliates program, Amazon Associates. Select members of the program have recently been invited to test the

Secret Update Removes Photo Library Access As It Faces Renewed Claims It Isn’t So Anonymous

#GNN Tech - Secret has a new update out for Android, with an iOS equivalent arriving sometime next week. The app changes include the addition of Flickr image search, which requires the “exchange” of the ability to use

Amazon Reopens Its AWS Loft In San Francisco

#GNN Tech - Earlier this year, #Amazon opened a space for developers in San Francisco to come and talk to AWS engineers, get training, network or simply hang out. This “Pop-up Loft” was open for four weeks in June. To

Lean Hardware Strategy Lets Kickstarter Breakout Nomiku ‘In-Shore’ Manufacturing Back To The U.S.

#GNN Tech - In the 1980s, Silicon Valley’s hardware elite began outsourcing much of the semiconductor and hardware manufacturing work that gave the region its name to Asia. But now that the economics of hardware star

The Bitcoin-Litecoin Decoupling, Redux

#GNN Tech - The price of litecoin and bitcoin, two of the most prominent cryptocurrencies, once saw their prices go up and down in something approaching a consistent ratio. That’s to say that bitcoin was always wort

Investment Banking 2.0 Says “Hello World!?”

#GNN Tech - Editor’s note: Jacob Mullins is the CEO of Exitround, a software-powered M&A marketplace for buyers and sellers of companies. David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech

Y Combinator’s Doblet Plans To Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn’t

#GNN Tech - We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might have the right charger for your phone behind the counter.

This Real-Time Projected CGI Makeup Is Beautiful And Terrifying

#GNN Tech - #CGI has come a long way – from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King’s Landing. Today, we should add this video to the progression. Producer and technical dir

PTI stands disintegrated after civil disobedience call: Shahbaz Sharif

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif Monday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s demand for technocratic government followed by his call for a civil disobedience has create

Azadi March: PTI workers clash over getting chairs at sit-in

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Fighting among Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers broke out at sit-in, being staged by party activists on the call on Imran Khan. Sources said the clash erupted over getting the chairs. The cl

Political parties agree not to dissolve assemblies: Sirajul Haq

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Sirajul Haq Monday said there was a consensus among the political parties that the assemblies should not be dissolved rather protected. Sirajul Haq said his party was making e

Opposition committee fails to contact Imran Khan

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Opposition committee failed to contact Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan for holding a meeting, Geo News reported. Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah a

Qadri refuses to meet dialogue team

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: The first round of dialogues between Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and parliament’s talks committee failed here on late Monday night. PAT chief Tahirul Qadri refused to meet members of the committee

Revolution can’t be delayed, put off: Qadri

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri has said that revolution could not be delayed or put off and asked people to come out from their homes to see the rising of sun new era. Addressing

Govt sets up bodies to hold dialogue with PTI, PAT

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Government on Monday constituted two separate committees to engage Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in dialogue in the backdrop of their ongoing sit-ins in the capit

Tahirul Qadri’s deadline to govt expires

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri’s deadline to the government to pack its bags expired at 12 midnight. He had made a number of demands including resignation of Prime Minister Naw

Resolution moved against civil disobedience in BA

#GNN - #QUETTA: A resolution against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) civil disobedience movement was tabled in the Balochistan Assembly on Monday. According to details, senior provincial minister Nawab Sanaullah Zeh

Imran Khan vows to peacefully lead supporters to red zone Tuesday

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan Monday announced to lead his supporters into the red zone of the capital city to stage a peaceful protest in the ‘fake’ (National) assembly and ‘f

Khursheed rules out damage to system until united

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Leader of opposition in National Assembly and that of Pakistan People’s Party Syed Khrusheed Shah Monday ruled out any possibility of damage to the system if the democratic leaders continued to sta

Outgoing ISAF commander calls on General Sharif

#GNN - #RAWALPINDI: General Joseph Dunford, outgoing Commander International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, at General Headquarters on Monday. According

PTI resigns from NA, 3 provincial assemblies

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: #Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Monday announced to resign from the National and three provincial assemblies. PTI vice president Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while talking to media persons here said: “We

Shaharyar Khan elected chairman PCB

#GNN - LAHORE: Former diplomat Shaharyar Khan was Monday elected Pakistan´s cricket chief for a three-year term, a move aimed at ending a 14-month leadership tussle which has left the governing body in disarray. Khan

Google buys travel guide app startup Jetpac

#GNN  Tech- SAN FRANCISCO: Google confirmed Monday it has bought the startup behind a Jetpac mobile application that creates insightful travel guides by analyzing pictures from social networks such as Instagram.

7 Best Natural Sweeteners

#GNN - 7 Best Natural Sweeteners: Artificial sweeteners may not have any calories, but that's about all they have going for them. Many have a hollow, saccharine taste, and they play havoc with your weight, appetite,