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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains why the Fire Phone disaster was actually a good thing
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businessinsider.com - Amazon's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, was a major flop that cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. But according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the Fire Phone is a "tiny little blip" com...
More Room to Tweet – Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
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socialmediatoday.com - Back in January, there were various reports that Twitter was working on a plan to expand the tweet length limit, taking it from 140 characters to something more like the (relatively) new DM limit o...
China's tech regulator stressed security in a meeting with Tim Cook
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businessinsider.com - BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of China's industry and technology regulator stressed Chinese users' security in a meeting with Apple Inc's chief executive in Beijing, as the U.S. tech titan stumbles ...
How to Avoid Myopia and Remain Relevant
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inc.com - The mighty pigeon - hailed for its athletic prowess, loved as a family pet, employed as a trustworthy message carrier. For centuries, the pigeon was renowned the world over. It was a high-priced, p...
Live May 19! AMA with Isabelle Guis, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Egnyte, and Behind-The-Scenes Coder
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growthhackers.com - Stoked to see a fellow Supelec alumnus doing an AMA in @Sean 's inspiring GH community. Vive Supelec! :) Hope you read SC Moatti's book "Mobilized" - pretty sure you know SC, too. She did a great j...
Social Media Marketing's Biggest Myth - Jeffbullas's Blog
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Franco Gonzalez
jeffbullas.com - The marketing industry is sometimes its own worst enemy. “Social media marketing” has become a sort of Utopian ideal in the industry. What it hasn’t become is a well-organized, efficient process. T...
Five ‘OK Google’ commands that’ll make your life easier
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slashgear.com - The Android smartphone in your pocket is a powerful tool that, when used correctly, could make your everyday life more organized and less chaotic. Do you take advantage of that potential? If your a...
Chrome is making it easier to pay for stuff with your phone
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mashable.com - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's Chrome browser will soon be better at managing your passwords and payments information on the go. Google introduced two new APIs for the mobile version of its brows...
A Notorious Hacker Just Released a How-To Video Targeting Police
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motherboard.vice.com - The pseudonymous hacker behind the catastrophic breach of notorious police surveillance tool seller Hacking Team is now teaching others how to hack. Phineas Fisher, who also goes by the handles Hac...
Public radio marketplace PRX spins out a new mobile app company, RadioPublic
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techcrunch.com - PRX, the nonprofit organization that operates a marketplace for public radio programming like This American Life, announced today that it’s spinning out a for-profit company, RadioPublic. For publi...
Boosted’s v2 electric skateboards go 12 miles with swappable batteries
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techcrunch.com - The Boosted Board is the best electric skateboard on the market, but its biggest flaw is a troublingly low range of 6 miles per charge. Today, Boosted opened pre-orders of its Gen 2 boards for $999...
Product Hunt is ready to rake in revenue with direct sales
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techcrunch.com - Product Hunt, the popular aggregation site for apps, gadgets, and other products, has figured out a path to revenue for the relatively new platform – let product makers sell their wares right on th...
It’s time to remove “serial entrepreneur” from our vocabulary
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Jefferson Faudan
techcrunch.com - In today’s tech-driven business world, the title “serial entrepreneur” is a coveted badge of honor. A quick look at Google, for example, yields no less than 830,000 mentions — with “how to become a...
Apple will Reportedly Let iPhone Owners Use Touch ID to Unlock Mac's Running OS X 10.12
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Jason Frovich
iphonehacks.com - Apple could be developing a way for iPhone owners to add a bit more security to their Mac, thanks to their iPhone. A report published by MacRumors recently states that in a future update to OS X, w...
Registration
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Chris Abraham
attendee.gotowebinar.com - Unless you’re selling goods or services with a buying cycle of “right now” (like lattes) you need a way to stay in touch with prospects as they move through the buying cycle toward a decision. That...
AT&T Wants to Keep Your Kids Entertained on Long Road Trips With In-Car WiFI Service
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - AT&T today is launching its first ad campaign dedicated to shining a light on its growing WiFi network in connected cars. For an endeavor called "A Whole New Ride," social media and web display ads...
Now you can embed Reddit posts on other websites
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techcrunch.com - Reddit posts are going to get the chance to live beyond Reddit itself, thanks to new embedding capabilities. If you’re an online writer or publisher, that means you can start including live Reddit ...
Google engineer says he’ll push for default end-to-end encryption in Allo
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techcrunch.com - After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the c...
The Withings Go shows promise, but is mostly a non-starter
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techcrunch.com - Drop the price $20 and add a bit more functionality and you’ve got a compelling product on your hands. The way things stand now though, the Withings Go is more of a curiosity than it is compelling ...
Houzz wins “Best App” at the inaugural Google Play Awards
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techcrunch.com - Interior design and decorating resource Houzz is the overall best Android app of the year, according to Google, which this evening announced the results of the first-ever Google Play Awards at its ...
Ambitious new media startup FactorDaily aims to be India’s Wired
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techcrunch.com - It’s been a while since I’ve written about a new media startup raising funding in Asia. There were quite a few last year — including Tech In Asia, Deal Street Asia and E27 — but now we have a story...
UberMedia connects cross-channel ad impressions to actual store visits
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techcrunch.com - Mobile ad company UberMedia is expanding its measurement and attribution business in a big way. You may remember UberMedia as the company that owns social apps like Echofon and UberSocial. While th...
Adobe debuts Spark, a suite of mobile and web tools that lets anyone create visual content
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techcrunch.com - Adobe this morning launched a new suite of apps called Adobe Spark, which allow both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, an...
Google Family Library goes live this summer, will allow families to share Google Play purchases
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techcrunch.com - Apple device owners in the same family can share content like music, videos, e-books and apps through iCloud’s Family Sharing. Now, it appears that Android owners will have a similar option. Just a...
Showpad closes $50M Series C to keep growing its SaaS sales productivity platform
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techcrunch.com - SaaS startup Showpad which has built a platform designed to improve other businesses’ sales productivity has closed a $50 million Series C funding round, led by Insight Venture Partners — with Insi...
Three startups to watch from HAX hardware accelerator, batch VIII
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techcrunch.com - The HAX hardware accelerator held its 8th Demo Day in San Francisco yesterday. While all 15 companies in the latest batch hold promise, and encompass some very wild ambitions, these three stood out...
You Can't Escape Data Surveillance In America
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theatlantic.com - In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors. In the 19th century, credit bureaus pioneered mass-surveillance techniques. Today the ...
Google’s concept Maserati has Android built right into the car
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arstechnica.com - The interface of the main screen. That center portion is basically the Android Auto interface. The interface of the main screen. That center portion is basically the Android Auto interface. Google ...
Foul-mouthed worm takes control of wireless ISPs around the globe
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arstechnica.com - ISPs around the world are being attacked by self-replicating malware that can take complete control of widely used wireless networking equipment, according to reports from customers and a security ...
Android Auto gets Waze, a standalone app, hotword support, and Wi-Fi projection
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arstechnica.com - All the things you would expect are here. The weather, phone calls, and texts. Google Maps doesn't have a special interface; it's just the Google Maps phone app. Google Music does have a special in...
Oracle v. Google draws to a close, jury sent home until next week
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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—Presentation of evidence in the Oracle v. Google trial ended today, and US District Judge William Alsup has sent the jury home for a long weekend. On Monday, the jury will come back t...
Linking Internally and Externally from Your Site - Dangers, Opportunities, Risk and Reward - Whiteboard Friday
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moz.com - Navigating linking practices can be a treacherous process. Sometimes it feels like a penalty is lurking around every corner. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about the ins and outs of linki...
45 Great Websites to Make Some Extra Money — MAQTOOB For Entrepreneurs
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entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com - Whether you’re between jobs, bootstrapping your business, working remotely, freelancing, or even staying home with your baby, there’s almost always a need for some extra cash. Depending on your ski...
Mega Bundle of 185 Ultra-Premium Advertising Mockups - only $27! - MightyDeals
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mightydeals.com - Mega Bundle of 185 Ultra-Premium Advertising Mockups - only $27! Want to see what your designs look like as advertisements in the real world? Sure, you can spend a lot of money on a billboard, news...
5 Ways to Make an Ordinary Idea Extraordinary
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entrepreneur.com - Apply now to be an Enterpreneur360™ company and let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Ideas are a resource in the entrepreneurial world, almost functioning as a kind of currency....
Flash Plus 2 smartphone enters the mid to high-end mobile market
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We have no idea about the fate of the platform Flash but we know some websites and developers that are still using it. When it comes to smartphones, there's also the Flash series that is more known...
Blackberry “Hamburg” specs leaked through GFXBench benchmark test
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androidcommunity.com - We all know that Blackberry still has something up its Android sleeve, after their first smartphone on the platform, the Priv, has met pretty positive reviews, although sales leave much to be desir...
Save 55% on The Complete Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit [DEALS]
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androidcommunity.com - The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive microcomputer that was designed to make computing more accessible. While it’s small, it can still do everything that a larger desktop can do. You can easily attac...
Bank of America’s cardless tech now supports Android Pay
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Android Pay is really going all out this year, adding more supported devices, expanding to other countries like the UK and soon Australia and Singapore, and adding more supported banks as well. At ...
Is someone stealing your Wi-Fi? How to tell, and what you can do about it
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androidauthority.com - Is your Wi-Fi connection sometimes a little sluggish or unresponsive? Perhaps your monthly allowance seems to run out a little too quickly? If that’s the case, then it’s possible that someone might...
22 Things You Owned in the ‘90s That Are Worth a Fortune Today
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mentalfloss.com - The Beanie Baby boom may have been overblown, but that doesn’t mean that hanging onto vintage ‘90s toys was a terrible idea. Depending on what you kept from that era and what condition it's in, you...
How To Post To Facebook And Twitter If Your Internet Goes Down
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blog.digi.me - We’d just like to say that of us here at SocialSafe are hoping that everyone in New York and the other affected areas of the United State manages to stay safe during Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts a...
Rocky Brands goes with Clutch for Unique Loyalty Program Development
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Part of designing a successful loyalty program is knowing the audience. Program features that attract some members may be the same things that drive others away. Rocky Brands, maker of a wide varie...
Mazda Takes New Approach to Customer Loyalty
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Mazda wants to elevate its customer engagement, heighten its customer loyalty, and spark its brand advocacy. As a result, it has taken a new approach to these critical customer engagement pieces. T...
True Religion Apparel Upgrades App to Elevate Customer Engagement
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loyalty360.org - Officials at True Religion Apparel realize how critical effective in-store customer engagement is and they sought to upgrade their Apple Watch Band app. True Religion Apparel partnered with Aptos a...
The Road to Rewards: What Drives Millennial Loyalty?
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Millennial consumers, aged 18-34, are continuously changing the way U.S. retailers think, sell and measure success. Retail competition is tough. Pricing is continually competitive. A whole new and ...
On-the-Go Ordering Initiative Available for Dunkin’ Donuts’ Loyalty Program Members
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Dunkin’ Donuts wants to provide its customers a more seamless experience, marked by innovation, that always leads back to brand loyalty. During the company’s April 28 first-quarter earnings call, C...
Telecommunication Providers Falling Behind in Personalized Customer Experience
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loyalty360.org - Omnichannel technology provider Now Interact recently conducted research into the personalization efforts of telecommunication providers, and the results are less than promising. As customers deman...
Customer Forgiveness Sparked by Positive CX
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - When it comes to customer experience, every brand makes an effort to be absolutely flawless. The truth remains, however, that every brand also falls short of this goal; organizations make mistakes,...
EzyOnlineBookings.com: An Online Booking System that Allows Businesses to Take Appointment Bookings Right on their Existing Website - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online booking system that allows businesses to take appointment bookings right on their existing website. According to Mr. ‘Gol'; EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online boo...
