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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Yahoo Aviate: The Intelligent Homescreen that Simplifies Your Phone

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Aviate was created to connect you with the information you need at the moment it’s useful. Since joining Yahoo in January, the creators learned a lot from their beta user community about how to deliver a simple, intelligent mobile experience. Today, they're psyched to launch globally as Yahoo Aviate, available for Android phones in English (no invitation needed!).

Yahoo Aviate simplifies everything about your phone. It starts with a clean, new layout and apps automatically organized for you. But it’s not just about making your phone simpler - Aviate also makes your phone smarter by offering intelligent information throughout your day. Whether you’re on the go, at work, at a restaurant or just relaxing at home, Aviate automatically shows you apps and information that are useful to you based on what you’re up to.

For those of you who already know Aviate, check out what’s new:

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LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform, marks its third anniversary on Monday, June 23 2014. It has even more reasons to celebrate as the total number of worldwide downloads for LINE and LINE family apps topped one billion on June 21, 2014.

LINE has been a worldwide phenomenon in the last three years, and its growing user base in the Philippines has helped foster this growth. With this momentum, Filipinos can expect more quirky and colorful features to be released by LINE.

“The development of new and exciting stickers and apps is our way of extending our gratitude to the Filipino LINE community,” said Greg Kim, head of LINE Philippines. “The Philippines continues to present great prospects in terms of growth, as it has an increasing number of smartphone users. And considering LINE’s cross compatibility across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, as well as PC, its market in the country is expected to be even bigger.”

Since its beginning as a free mobile messenger app, launched on June 23, 2011, LINE has been continuously evolving its features by adding free calls and stickers in October of the same year. With further addition of video calls and “LINE Premium Call”, a feature that allows users to make domestic and international phone calls to landlines and mobile phones at affordable rates, LINE demonstrates its ceaseless commitment to providing the best communication experience for all users. As LINE celebrates its third anniversary today, the service has grown to hold over 470 million users worldwide.

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Red Bull Thre3style held its second qualifying round tonight in Urbn Bar & Kitchen located in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila.

Seven of the country’s top DJs: DJ Brandon Jon, DJ FlavaMatikz, DJ Aryan Magat, DJ Mick Martinez, DJ Buzz, DJ SupremeFist and DJ Nix Damn P, all tried to outdo each other with their own electrifying 15 minute sets.

The competition was judged by 2011 Red Bull Thre3style World Champion DJ Hedspin and 2014 Red Bull Thre3style Finals judge DJ Shortkut.

At the end of the night, DJ Aryan Magat, DJ Nix Damn P (Nix Pernia) and DJ SupremeFist (Paul Macapagal) were selected to move onto the Philippine Finals by the international judges with DJ SupremeFist being named the overall winner of the Manila Qualifiers.

The top three finalists from Manila will now battle the top three from the Cebu Qualifier held last June 21 at J. Ave Superclub, who include: DJ Niki Del Rosario, DJ K Groove (Kristian Hernandez), and DJ Carlo Atendido.

As the overall winners of their respective qualifiers, DJ Carlo Atendido and DJ SupremeFist are given the opportunity to pick where in the lineup they will perform during the Philippine Finals taking place this Saturday, June 28 at Republiq Club in Manila.The winner of the Saturday’s Finals will be the first-ever representive from the Philippines at the 2014 Red Bull Thre3style World Finals held in Baku, Azerbaijan later this year.