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Kitchen appliances are exploding with technology. Refrigerators now have apps and Wi-Fi to help you plan your meals, coordinate your family’s calendar and even print coupons
But if access to apps on your fridge isn’t your thing, perhaps a nice, hot cup of tea is? GE has developed the first refrigerator that can dispense filtered hot water right from the door
Michael Mattingly, GE’s product manager for the new Café French door refrigerator tells Mashable that GE wants to make your fridge door “the one-stop shop for cold and hot water needs…

Facebook has started to expand its Gifts product beyond the U.S., according to users in the U.K., India and Canada who say they got access to the service this weekend. However, it seems that international users can only send gifts to their friends who live in the U.S.
Facebook launched Gifts in September 2012 as a way for users to buy physical and digital gifts for their friends via desktop or mobile…

Well, it looks like the carpooling race in Europe continues. BlaBlaCar, the European carpooling marketplace and competitor to Carpooling.com, has announced that it’s reached the milestone of 3 million members, almost double from this time last year. It’s also expanding to Germany, giving testimony to being a truly pan-European player…

Facebook today announced some changes to make it easier for developers to add Open Graph actions to their apps, including making it possible for apps to publish common actions without any configuration.
Facebook made it so that actions such as read, watch, listen and run — known as “common” or “built-in” actions — can be implemented directly using code it provides…

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Michael Arrington Responds to Allegations (SocialTimes)
In a deliberately vague statement, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has effectively denied allegations that he physically abused his ex-girlfriend. The former lawyer did not mention the accusers or the accusations by name in the response he posted on his personal blog, but the news headlines in the past week have centered on a Facebook status update written by RTist…

Search for the term “Community Manager” on any online job board, and you’ll likely find tens of thousands of positions that need to be filled. But if you’re the one doing the hiring, how can you make sure you find a community manager worth his or her salt? Is there a standard set of must-have skills for every prospective employee who wants to manage your social media presence?
We asked Marjorie R…

It’s fair to say that the crazy competition of the mobile gaming market can make a chief executive panic. Huge brands like Disney are invading the market. Mobile messaging services are creating kings in the Asian gaming market. The odds of getting your game discovered in the app stores are getting worse as more titles flood the market, and it isn’t easy to predict what will make gamers go nuts…

This is a guest post by Mario Zelaya, Managing Director at Majestic Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer specializing in apps and promotions for web and mobile.
Campaigns launched on Facebook tend to include a few core elements:

Sponsored stories or ads
Engagement with fans
A social application that drives/propels that experience
Out of home integration (TV, radio, print, etc…

Internet radio service provider Pandora today announced that it has hit a significant milestone, signing up over 200 million users in the United States to date.
Notably, half of those – or 100 million registered users for those equally bad at math as myself – were added in less than two years, while the company’s been around for almost eight years now…

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died yesterday, and her death, much like her life, proved to be a deeply divisive affair.
Indeed, while her passing triggered a huge reaction of 900 posts per minute in the first three hours of the news breaking, some 43 percent of these mentions were negative, with less than one in five people (19 percent) displaying any kind of positive sentiment…