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South Korean electronics giant LG has announced that it will bring Amazon’s video-on-demand service LoveFilm to its LG Smart TV platform, allowing UK television owners to stream thousands of movies and television shows directly without the need for additional hardware.

LoveFilm, which recently saw U.S rival Netflix expand into the UK and Ireland, recently lowered the cost of its streaming service to £4.99

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What is it about entrepreneurs that leaves us so inspired and intrigued? Is it their gargantuan balls of courage? Their robotic work ethic? Or the wake of success they leave in their path that has us feeling slightly jealous and somewhat mystified?

Perhaps it’s because we feel grateful for their product or company and we feel like we owe it to ourselves to learn more about the magician behind the curtain.

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Google has updated its Google Maps Transit website to include National train routes, timetables and directions across England, Scotland and Wales.

In order to roll out the new service, Google has partnered with UK rail travel company Trainline to make over 170,000 routes available to Google Maps users. Google’s map data will now include 2,500 stations, 8,000 bus stops and 250 London Underground routes.

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What do you do if you’re already one of the world’s highest-trafficed English-language news websites and you’re seeking to bring even more readers on board? Look to India, of course.

With around 80m unique visitors, the Daily Mail’s MailOnline is one of the most read news websites in the world, and even though it’s a UK newspaper, it sits just behind the New York Times as the second most popular news site

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New comScore figures about Internet usage in Europe today seem to show an increase in Facebook’s importance for sharing links to news stories amongst its users.

There has been a notable increase in the percentage of visits to the top five newspaper websites in Europe that were preceded by a visit to Facebook. The data, taken from November 2011, shows the biggest such leap for Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper (9%

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