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Entertainment
 Disney invests in virtual reality with a startup called Jaunt
 The Walt Disney Company is among the lead investors in virtual-reality startup. It´s the latest evidence that Hollywood wants in on VR before the technology is widely available. Silicon Valley-based Jaunt has developed an end-to-end cinematic virtual-reality content-creation platform that includes a custom camera capable of shooting high-end, professional-quality 360-degree footage, software for stitching the footage together, a distribution system, and a Los Angeles VR production studio. 
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R&D lab
 Apple to open research and development centre near Cambridge University
 The Californian-based iPhone giant is close to open offices and an R&D centre in Cambridge. Apple´s new offices have room for 40 employees, although the initial number on staff could number around 20. 
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R&D lab
 Apple to open research and development centre near Cambridge University
 The Californian-based iPhone giant is close to open offices and an R&D centre in Cambridge. Apple´s new offices have room for 40 employees, although the initial number on staff could number around 20. 
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Over 140 pieces going up for auction
 The biggest collection of Madonna items to come to auction
 A British hedge fund company is about to cash-in this week on a surprisingly secure investment - Madonna. The organisation bought more than 140 Madonna items, mostly costumes and jewellery she wore during her movie and singing career.

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When cancer meets fashion
 A designer creates a fashion collection on how prostate cancer spreads in the body
 A Manchester-based scientist has teamed up with a Pennsylvanian fashion designer to create a dress showing how prostate cancer spreads in the body. The science-inspired dress received the name Transmutation 
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iWatch
 Two dozen apps will be available in the new Apple Watch
 In a demo of Apple Watch on Tuesday, Kevin Lynch, an Apple vice president who worked on the device´s software and user interface, showed two dozen third-party app icons and a few screenshots of apps. However, Lynch and CEO Tim Cook, stopped short of saying just how many apps Apple Watch will have when it goes on sale in early 2015, at a starting price 270 euros (249 dolars) 
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278 stores
 Primark sales boost and overtake fast fashion competitors
 Retail expert and lecturer at the University of Ulster´s Business School, Donald McFetridge, said that Primark is one of the few retailers still consistently reporting excellent trading statistics. 
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Apple iOS lost one point of share
 Android has 85% of the global smartphone market share
 According to the latest research from our WSS (Smarpthones) service, global smartphone shipments reached 295 million units in the second quarter of 2014. The Android operating system captured a new record of 85 percent global marketshare, mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows Phone. 
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Up to 240% growth in 2013
 Tuenti grows as a Virtual Mobile Network Operator
 Tuenti revenues in 2013 reached 17 million euros. Most of their income came from their new business unit as a Virtual Mobile Network Operator which last year grew up to 240%. 
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To improve peoples lives in cities
 Spanish companies create new mobile applications that simplify urban life
 Spain is becoming the Silicon Valley of smart cities. Companies involved in building these cities of the future are putting in place initiatives and developing new mobile applications that simplify urban life. 
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Active cellular devices will increase 3-4 times
 The total number of mobile subscriptions will exceed the world´s population
 The number of mobile lines willovertake the world population in 2015, with forecasts to end-2019 with 7.600 million broadband subscriptions and an explosion of traffic data due to consumption especially video and television from phones and tablets. 
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Laser technology which makes vintage jeans
 20% of jeans are finished with Spanish technology
 20% of the 6 billion pairs of jeans that are made in the world every year are finished with Spanish technology. The company responsible for this feat is Jeanologia. 
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Bike Intermodal
 The most compact folding bike ever
 Bike Intermodal, an EU-funded research project, has designed the bike to solve the challenge of mixed-mode or "intermodal" transport, where travellers need to incorporate several different forms of transport on their route.

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Telco 2.0
 Spanish social network Tuenti turns into a mobile virtual network operator
 Tuenti, the mostly Latin-country-oriented mobile social network has been gradually iterating on its product to free voice calling service for its iPhone app. The move follows a similar update for its Android app. 
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Global mobile transactions
 Facebook wants to become a payment plataform
 Facebook is preparing to join the mobile-payments sector with electronic-money services on the social network, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing several people involved in the process. 
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Media Mosaic infographic
 7 social media trends in 2014
 The infographic developed by Media Mosaic titled ´Social Media Trends Shaping 2014´ has been created with the big idea of enlightening business owners on strategies to optimize their profiles on social media platform. 
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Fashion Revolution Day says enough is enough.
 Fashion Revolution Day calls for ethical and sustainable fashion
 Fashion Revolution Day is a worldwide movement demanding fair treatment of workers in the garment industry. Industry leaders, factory workers, producers, campaigners, academics, press, consumers, cotton farmers will get together to commemorate the first anniversary of the collapse, remember the victims of Rana Plaza and change our fashion future. 
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Yves Saint Laurent will be in cinemas on 21 March
 Yves Saint Laurent film a biography of a man and a fashion designer
 Yves Saint Laurent the film is focussed on Yves Saint Laurent the man primarily, and Yves Saint Laurent the fashion house a close second. The film provides viewers with a glimpse into the young designer´s ingenuity and creativity, recreating a moment where Saint Laurent modestly – but expertly – shows Dior how to tighten the waist of a dress without taking it in.

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Wearable technology
 Google launches smart watches and wearables
 Google on Wednesday unveiled a new platform for wearable smart devices adapted from its Android operating system for smartphones and tablet PCs. 
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Moschino & McDonald´s
 Moschino´s collection accused of mocking minimum wage earners
 Presented on February 20th in Milan, Mr Scott´s fall/winter 2014 collection for Moschino payed homage to 90s American brand iconography: Cheetos, Hershey´s, Froot Loops, SpongeBob SquarePants, and McDonald´s. McDonald´s employees. c 
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Spray-on Fabric
 Engineers of fashion develop new materials
 Today, designers, research scientists and Spanish companies to produce fabrics made from carbon nanotubes, synthetic spider silk threads or even out of a spray. These new materials allow add to the aesthetics thermal, electronic, environmental and biomedical properties and cause a new textile and social revolution. 
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Shot & Shop
 A Spanish fashion app locates fashion taking pictures
 A Spanish start-up has developed an ´app´ that uses a vision technology and allows from a picture of a garment to search for the specific or similar product that matches with the product of the picture. 
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Models wore outfits from Stella McCartney
 Harrods holds fashion runway show 30,000 feet in the air
 Luxury department store Harrods has teamed up with British Airways to elevate the fashion experience this season. Models walked between the aisles on British Airways´ new A380 flight between the two cities. 
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Should toy companies start making plus-sized Barbie dolls?
 Social networking campaign questions dolls healthy image
 A mocked-up image of a plus-size Barbie beside a traditional Barbie has sparked a debate about the doll´s impact on female body image.

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To cut cost and waste
 Mobile phone manufacturers will be obliged to provide a common battery charger.
 The common charger is part of a provisional deal on radio equipment rules struck by MEPs and the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Ministers 
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