Tuesday, May 24, 2016

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

7 apps to help your business grow on Facebook

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mashable.com - With over 1.6 billion monthly active users, there is no doubt that Facebook is the place to be when it comes to looking for platforms to scale your growing business. But how can you leverage this d...

11 Apps + Subscriptions Every Boss Babe Needs

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Ludwik C. Siadlak



socialstudioshop.com - I’ve used Asana from my corporate life, to my blog life. It’s amazing. This free app is a project management tool sent from the gods. It allows you to create groups, teams, projects, you name it. W...

3 Advanced Strategies to Supercharge Your Facebook Ads

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Ludwik C. Siadlak



salesforce.com - As a marketer, you see it and your customers feel it: the ever-present shift from offline to online interactions. Marketing budgets are getting more fragmented and complicated — and that means mark...

19+ Free Tools to Start Your Podcast From Scratch

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Ludwik C. Siadlak



blog.bufferapp.com - That was the headline of a recent Fortune.com article. Author Tom Huddleston, Jr. wondered why Slack, “a hot Silicon Valley company with a fast-growing valuation,” would “make the most of its ever-...

China worried over exodus of Apple production after Cook’s India visit

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Jason Frovich



hindustantimes.com - As Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke of plans to expand manufacturing operations in India, China is apprehensive that it could lead to possible exodus of Apple production chain and loss of tens of thousands...

Your Social-Media Strategy Should Not Be Random. Here Are 5 Steps to Streamline It.

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Jimmy Smith



entrepreneur.com - By now you’ve probably recognized that social media is a valuable -- and necessary -- marketing tool for your business. But if your strategy is best summed up as “throw things at the wall and see w...

5 Steps to Improve Your Customer Service Using Twitter : Social Media Examiner

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Anita Nelson



socialmediaexaminer.com - Do your customers use Twitter to ask questions and request support? Need a better way to manage your Twitter support? By following the steps in this article, you’ll deliver a superior customer serv...

5 Steps to Ensure You're Getting the Most Out of Twitter

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Anita Nelson


socialmediatoday.com - I recently had a few deep conversations about Twitter. Because of what I do for a living, many have shared a range of feelings with me in regards to the platform and people tend to default to sayin...

Two Continents, Two Information Governance Conferences, One Conclusion

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Egnyte



phigsimc.com - Over the last few weeks I attended the AIIM Conference (the theme was Digital Transformation in Action) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and the IRMS Conference (the theme was Information Superheroes...

Exclusive: Ray J reveals why he decided to launch a tech startup

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Dũng Gờ



mashable.com - In recent years, technology isn't what you'd typically think of when the name Ray J comes up. The career of the actor, singer and reality show star is usually linked to the latest social media chat...

Tesla Model-S Driver Filmed Asleep At The Wheel In The Middle Of Heavy Traffic Lets The Autopilot Take Over

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Cass Anderson



brobible.com - If there’s one globally known company that embodies cutting edge technology above the rest it’s most certainly Tesla Motors. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle empire is proof that the future is now, tha...

How to Repurpose Your Blog Content Like a Machine (+ Reader Challenge!) - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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Pat Flynn



smartpassiveincome.com - We put a lot of hard work into the content we publish. It takes planning, loads of time, and sometimes a lot of courage too. Unfortunately, much of that effort is wasted because we often publish ou...

Google AdWords to break up tablet & desktop and enable a mobile base bid

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DotOnline (.ONLINE)



searchengineland.com - Google has announced a significant change that will give advertisers more control over device-level bidding in AdWords. The new came during Google Performance Summit in San Francisco, at which Goog...

Google now handles at least 2 trillion searches per year

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Brett Prince



searchengineland.com - How many searches per year happen on Google? After nearly four years, the company has finally released an updated figure today of “trillions” per year. How many trillions exactly, Google wouldn’t s...

Apple will open Siri to developers and launch Amazon Echo-like smart speaker, report says

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LeVar Thomas



mashable.com - Apple has big plans for Siri that will make the company's famous assistant a lot more useful, according to a new report. The company will soon open up Siri to developers with new software tools tha...

Google announces significant changes to AdWords bidding and text ads

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Brett Prince



marketingland.com - With the news that over half of the trillions of Google searches happen on mobile, Google announced Tuesday that it will soon change the way advertisers set bids for targeting ads by device type in...

ASUS launches new ZenPad 8, ZenPad 10 with MediaTek processors

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - The last Asus tablet released was the ZenPad S 8.0 last year. It was Summer last year but this time, Asus is introducing the new products earlier than usual. The ZenPad line is getting an addition ...

48-volt mild hybrids: A possible cure for diesel emissions cheats?

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Ars Technica



arstechnica.com - It's clear that we need to make our passenger vehicles a lot more efficient if we want to avoid some of the very worst effects of climate change. And it's also becoming increasingly clear that dies...

Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to huge headaches for developers

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Ars Technica



arstechnica.com - Two of the world's biggest software companies face off in court this week for the second time, even though the most important issue of their dispute has already been resolved. The high-profile tria...

Bloomz raises $2.3 million to connect teachers and students’ families

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Education tech startup Bloomz has raised $2.3 million in seed funding for an app that connects teachers and parents, securely. The company’s app features tools that help teachers push updates about...

Wrio’s roomier keyboard app launches on Android, iOS

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - There have been many attempts to update keyboards for the digital era and speed up typing by rethinking the antique Qwerty layout. Problem is you’re going up against muscle memory, and resistance t...

The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital

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techcrunch.com - Tim Merel is the founder and CEO of Eyetouch Reality and Digi-Capital. AR/VR is the new hotness. VCs invested $1.7 billion in the 12 months leading to March 2016, $1.2 billion of that in the first ...

What Silicon Valley can do about cyber threats

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techcrunch.com - Ted Schlein, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focuses on early-stage technology companies in the enterprise software and infrastructure markets, including...

OnePlus gives away 30,000 VR headsets ahead of latest smartphone launch

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techcrunch.com - OnePlus is making another push into VR after it announced plans to run the launch of its next smartphone in virtual reality (again), with a shopping experience to match. The China-based firm jumped...

Other Machine Co. introduces a Pro version of its desktop CNC electronics mill

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Other Machine Co. CEO Danielle Applestone is audibly excited. She has something she really wants to show me during our video chat before she gets down to the proper business of firing up her demo. ...

Student tickets to Disrupt SF 2016 are now available

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techcrunch.com - While it may seem like we just wrapped up in the Big Apple, TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 will be here before you can say “how do you do, fellow kids?” We will once again be giving college students th...

24 more characters, for better and worse

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techcrunch.com - Today Twitter redefined its laws of physics. But while it’s posed as a simplification of the 140 character rule, the change will reshape information density, conversation style, and self-promotion ...

A VHS-era privacy law in the Digital Age

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techcrunch.com - Jeff Kosseff is an assistant professor of cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy. The views expressed are only his, and do not represent the Naval Academy or Department of Navy. As de...

Google makes big changes to its ad products

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Google’s AdWords is getting a makeover. The search giant announced today that they have made several updates to make its advertising tools more suitable for mobile. With an emphasis on location-rel...

Is “MH” Nintendo’s next handheld? There’s reason to doubt it

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Ars Technica



arstechnica.com - A new report out of Japan could be the first indication of a new handheld console in the pipeline for Nintendo, with the codename "MH." But despite some breathless reports on the news, there is rea...

25 Ways to Blow Up Your Pinterest (And One Big Mistake) - Ignite Visibility

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Larry Wentz



ignitevisibility.com - Pinterest isn’t just for moms who share recipes anymore. Nowadays, digital marketers have recognized the value of Pinterest as a medium to increase their online reach. If you haven’t taken Pinteres...

Snapchat and Podcasting Growth: What the Research Reveals : Social Media Examiner

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Reg Saddler



socialmediaexaminer.com - To discover more, I interview Tom Webster from Edison Research about his latest study on Snapchat and podcasting adoption. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from So...

Is An LTE-Connected Apple Watch Coming This Fall? I'm Betting Yes.

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Reg Saddler



fastcompany.com - When Apple announces the Apple Watch 2—presumably this fall—it'll have been more than a year and a half since the original Watch went on sale. If Apple continues to release smartwatches at that tim...

Air Attack 2 brings more top-down airplane shooting action to Android

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androidcommunity.com - Back in 2011, which seems such an eternity ago in the digital/mobile world, there was a top-down shoot’ed up airplane game called Air Attack was one of the earliest Android mobile games that caught...

Motorola files for Moto Z trademark, could be a RAZR–or not

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - Will the next-gen RAZR being teased be part of the new Moto Z line? We're just speculating here because Motorola has reportedly filed for a trademark for the name "MOTO Z". It's a new series and we...

2016 Vizio Smartcast M-Series Displays now up for sale

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - We all know Vizio is always expanding its line of Ultra HD displays. Just last month, the company introduced the M-Series. We had no idea then when the new products would be released but now we've ...

Nexus Player Erased From Google Store

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - If you'd been planning to get your hands on a Nexus Player to stream content to your television, well, you waited just a bit too long. The Google Store has officially stripped the Android-powered b...

Polaroid releases their first Smart TV with 4K Ultra HD LED models

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - Polaroid is a brand associated for those cameras that instantly printed photos for you, until they decided to close up that side of the business and instead focused on producing smartphones and oth...

Motorola working on a modular smartphone, poised to beat the LG G5

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - Motorola may already be free from the claws of the Project Ara but the Lenovo-owned company is believed to be working on a new mobile technology. Motorola is about to "redefine the mobile phone" ac...

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal po...

Data-Driven Marketing Technologies, Strategies, and Challenges

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Travis Wright



brighttalk.com - App Store Optimization isn't just about finding new ways and approach to get users to discover your app. It has evolved to encompass the complete app marketing funnel — including the creatives and ...

Top 10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

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Jonathan Gunson



inc.com - TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you've yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash o...

99 Viral Tweets: The Ultimate Swipe File For Twitter Marketers - Traffic Café

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Jonathan Gunson



trafficcafe.com - My intention is to inspire your own viral Tweets with this collection, so enjoy browsing! There are some extremely viral Tweets here, some of which have been retweeted a huge number of times, and y...

Twitter Finally Breaks Past the 140 Character Barrier - Thurrott.com

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Paul Thurrott



thurrott.com - Twitter announced a pragmatic solution to a pressing issue for the social networking service today: It will no longer count @names, attachments, and other items against the 140 character count. “Ov...

What is Quality Score?

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Stephan Stavrakis



portent.com - Quality score is a metric in Google AdWords, Bing Ads and other platforms that combines historical performance and relevance of your ads, keywords, and landing pages to a user’s search query. Quali...

How HP Turned Unwritten Stories of Illiterate Brazilians Into Books Printed in Real Time

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Stephan Stavrakis



adweek.com - Imagine if there were an easy way for people who can't read and write to share their life experiences with the world. HP and agency AlmapBBDO took a crack at coming up with one, focusing on some of...

First Look: HTC Vive - Thurrott.com

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Paul Thurrott



thurrott.com - Oculus or Vive, Oculus or Vive…Oculus or Vive. I asked myself this question a dozen times and gave up trying to figure out what one to buy. I ended up ordering both to see which would arrive first ...

China's Huawei sues Samsung Electronics claiming mobile patent infringement

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Arnold Aranez



reuters.com - HONG KONG Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] said on Wednesday it has filed lawsuits against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd claiming infringement of smartphone patents, in the first such case by the C...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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James Hickey



sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...

7 Tools Every Digital Entrepreneur Must Use

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Anita Nelson



jeffbullas.com - Being an entrepreneur isn’t all about sitting on a secluded beach somewhere in paradise. If you think that entrepreneurship is about working 2-3 hours a day, then you’re a wrong. An entrepreneur ha...