TECHNOLOGY
Smart Tampon? The Internet of Every Single Thing Must Be Stopped
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Om Malik
wsj.com - Let’s play a game. Which of the following is a real smartphone-connected product? A) A bottle that tracks your H2O intake B) A bowl that tracks your dog’s H2O intake C) An umbrella that reminds you...
Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley — /dev/color Blog
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Gina Minks
blog.devcolor.org - Makinde Adeagbo has worked as a software engineer and manager at Pinterest, Dropbox, Bridge International Academies, and Facebook. He is also the founder of /dev/color. A few weeks ago, I answered ...
Twitter Pulls Back from On-Platform Buying – Do Consumers Want to Buy on Social?
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Franco Gonzalez
socialmediatoday.com - According to a new report from BuzzFeed, Twitter has disbanded its 25 member commerce team. The group had primarily been working on Twitter’s ‘Buy Button’, which it was envisioned would eventually ...
AUKEY Quick Charge 3.0 Hub Review : USB-C, multi-charging from a single socket
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Android Community
slashgear.com - Today we're having a look at Qualcomm's own Quick Charge 3.0 as used in two new AUKEY products: the Amp Type-C 5-Port Charging Station and the QC 3.0 Dual-Port Car Charger. If you're in search of a...
Let's Get Real: How to Avoid Buyer's Remorse with Sales Tools
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Egnyte
smartsellingtools.com - This week I interview Suresh Balasubramanian, CEO of LiveHive. Nancy: I ask guests to answer the first question using what I call the “You know how…” format. Tell us, what does your solution do? Su...
Three starts network-level ad blocking trial
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.co.uk - Three, the mobile carrier, has begun warming up for a network-level ad blocking trial. It will become one of the first mobile carriers worldwide—and certainly in the UK—to try blocking ads before t...
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
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Jefferson Faudan
techcrunch.com - Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit’s informal alliance with image sharing community Imgur. That’s where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs a...
Tap Into Your Car's Computer And Unlock Hidden Data With This Adaptor That Transmits Everything To Your Phone
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Cass Anderson
brobible.com - The fact of the matter is the internal computer in your car captures and tracks A LOT more data than you’ll ever have access to without some sort of adaptor like the one below. This smartphone-car ...
Saving Money, Social Media-Style
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stejules
adweek.com - To an amazing extent, social media has disrupted the way we do business in response to changing customer expectations. Offering buying incentives is no exception. We’re still recovering from the re...
Can Xiaomi dominate the drone market?
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - How does Xiaomi do it? Feature-for-feature parity with market leaders, but at a fraction of the cost? The Chinese manufacturer's products are, however, like the worst kind of teases. Showing you al...
The new media startup pitch: Save journalism from Facebook's death grip
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Adam Singolda is nearly an hour into explaining his sometimes frightening pitch to media companies when he decides to go full Game of Thrones. "Winter is coming," Singolda says, referring to the c...
What do Microsoft's latest mobile layoffs mean for the Surface phone?
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - If we needed any more confirmation that Microsoft's Nokia acquisition was a disaster, it came today in the form of another 1,850 layoffs, mostly from legacy operations in Finland. That's in additio...
3 Tips to Make Your Content More SEO Friendly (And More)
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - If you’re a nonprofit, association or a small shop with a website and you create your own content, you're likely also doing your own SEO. Or you should be. SEO is a moving target because search eng...
Google’s Text To Speech update: new languages, text select integration
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - If you use Google’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine a lot, then you’ve probably noticed that there have been a lot of small to major updates these past few months. You got new voices, a more natural sp...
The Buzzfeed Approach to Social Media Strategy
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Larry Wentz
moz.com - I initially started writing a post about how BuzzFeed tailors its content to different social networks. What image sizes do they use? What type of content works on one network but not another? What...
Xiaomi unveils its first drone — and it costs just $450 for a 4K video model
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi officially unveiled its first drone today, ending a week of teasers about it, and the low price of the product might bring some serious competition to the space. Lik...
Spotify seeks more personalized playlists after Discover Weekly finds 40M users
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Apple Music, Tidal and, until recently, Spotify, failed at music discovery because they stuck to a blog-style format. But Spotify has cracked the code with a Facebook News Feed-style personalized, ...
Affectiva raises $14 million to bring apps, robots emotional intelligence
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Affectiva, a startup developing “emotion recognition technology” that can read people’s moods from their facial expressions captured in digital videos, raised $14 million in a Series D round of fun...
UK carrier Three says it will start trialling ad blocking next month with a 24-hour opt-in test
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Back in February, UK mobile carrier Three said that it would start to offer opt-in ad blocking technology from Shine on its network, potentially reaching 30 million customers. Now the company is ge...
SimilarTech tells you what’s powering any website, alerts web companies to new leads
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Over the years, developers have turned to resources like BuiltWith to help them figure out what technology is under the hood powering today’s websites – including things like shopping carts, analyt...
Microsoft tries its hand at a news bot with Rowe
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Like everyone else these days, Microsoft sure loves its bots. Now, the company has rolled out its own news-finding bot called “Rowe,” which lives inside the latest version of Microsoft’s Bing-power...
Demisto emerges from stealth with $6M Series A and smart bot to help automate security ops
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Demisto, a company founded by four security industry pros, emerged from stealth today with a pretty cool bot-driven security platform and $6 million in Series A. The round was led by Accel with par...
Microsoft is laying off 1,850 to “streamline” its smartphone business, takes $950M charge
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Following last week’s news of Microsoft selling off its feature phone business for $350 million, today Microsoft turned its attention to smartphones: the company announced it would lay off 1,850 st...
Google quietly discontinues the Nexus Player
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - The Nexus Player may have been the best TV media player no one ever bought. Google and Asus introduced the Nexus Player back in November 2014. It was one of the first Android TV devices, and a more...
100 Conversion Growth Tips From The CRO Experts
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Larry Wentz
klientboost.com - Once you’ve got a steady stream of visitors gushing over your site, it’s time to turn those raving fans into high-paying customers. Of course, that’s easier said than done. To get the biggest bang ...
Ultimate Universe Bundle: 100+ Breathtaking Design Elements - only $18! - MightyDeals
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Webdesigner Depot
mightydeals.com - Ultimate Universe Bundle: 100+ Breathtaking Design Elements - only $18! Please select... The Universe Bundle- $18 The Universe Bundle New Sets - $9 Please select... The Universe Bundle- $18 The Uni...
Inside Buffer's New Blog Design (And a Behind-The-Scenes Look at Our Content Strategy) - The Buffer Blog
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Webdesigner Depot
blog.bufferapp.com - And now things have changed again. We’ve flipped the switch, and our new design is here. From where it started with Leo over five years ago to where it stands today, the Buffer Social blog has evol...
Blisk: the new browser built just for developers
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Webdesigner Depot
webdesignerdepot.com - Developers have had a hard time trying to home in on a browser that’s completely user-friendly to their needs. Sure, Mozilla has taken strides to gain favor with the developer community. If you’ll ...
How General Motors Drives Success in Social Customer Care
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - There is perhaps no physical possession about which customers are more passionate than their cars. At my first job at The Danbury Mint, I remember customers critiquing every last detail of the prod...
4 Essential Elements of Video Content Marketing Success
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - With video content becoming increasingly popular, it's become the perfect complement to online marketing. Regardless of whether the video is produced simply for fun, to distribute information or it...
Cameras At The Water Cooler: Inside The Company That's Always Watching Employees
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Reg Saddler
fastcompany.com - The very first thing Ryan Smith says to me is, "it’s probably the furthest thing from the big brother app that you could ever think about." He knew where my mind was going. We are talking about an ...
How to Keep Your Social Media Images Looking Fresh (Even if You’re Posting Every Day) - The Buffer Blog
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Reg Saddler
blog.bufferapp.com - Consistently posting high-quality content is the lifeblood of a great social media strategy. But it’s easier said than done. Not only do you have to post consistently to gain traction, the content ...
OnePlus 2 ready for the OxygenOS 3.0.1 Community Build
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Before the OnePlus 3 is formally and virtually announced on June 14, expect OnePlus to release important updates for the older OnePlus models. The OnePlus One, OnePlus 2, and the OnePlus X are due ...
New ads for Moto G4, G4 Plus highlight camera, long battery life
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - The new budget smartphones for Motorola, the Moto G4 and G4 Plus have recently been launched in Brazil and India and will probably soon make its way to other markets as well. They have released two...
New Opera Max Data Boosting app appears at the Google Play Store
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - In a move that may probably cause confusion among Opera users, instead of just updating the existing Opera Max Data saving app, what the developer has done is create a new app listing at the Google...
Google Maps tapping advertisers to enhance local search
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - If you use Google Maps a lot to navigate your way around an unfamiliar area or even a familiar area, would you want ads and posts from businesses around a specific location suddenly popping up on y...
Ultimate Ears releases better Roll 2 Bluetooth speakers
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Portable Bluetooth speakers can be awful if you don’t get the right brand and awesome if you do proper research before spending your hard-earned (we hope) money on it. One of the brands that have b...
OnePlus 3 VR launch will happen on June 14, says a live chat agent
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We're anticipating for the launch of OnePlus 3 and just like last year, OnePlus will be unveiling the new smartphone with a VR launch. That OEM has even started to distribute free headsets. We just...
Twitter says usernames and images will no longer count against 140-character limit
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TweetSmarter
theverge.com - Twitter is expanding the number of things you can post in a 140-character tweet, without expanding the number of characters. Within the next few months, usernames, quoted tweets, photos, and other ...
ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustwort...
Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - Brian Zuercher had a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has be...
Google releases free version of Data Studio custom reporting product
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - Google has released Google Data Studio, a free version of its new reporting and data visualization tool, Google Data Studio 360. The free beta version is not as robust as the paid product, but user...
MarTech Today: AdWords' changes, WP Engine's Page Performance tool & Twitter's limit expansion
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Google announces significant changes to AdWords ...
Mobile design and the art of doing one thing well
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Brett Prince
searchenginewatch.com - It’s best to do one thing really, really well – is one of Google’s “10 things” philosophy, written when the company was in its infancy. This is a great mantra for mobile projects to follow. Where t...
How to Calm Your Content Anxiety in 5 Simple Steps - Copyblogger -
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Stephan Stavrakis
copyblogger.com - It was an early morning of coffee, loud music, and blasting the internet with everything I could muster. I had already published a few articles on my website, skipping the draft process. Then I scr...
Fox’s Sponsored Snapchat Lens Boosted Brand Awareness for Empire by 16 Points
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - In February, Snapchat officially announced that it had been working with WPP-owned Millward Brown for over a year to measure the effectiveness of campaigns for marketers, including brand awareness,...
11 Best Portfolio WordPress Themes for Artists and Photographers
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Gerald Weber
wpkube.com - WordPress is a great portfolio solution for artists, illustrators, photographers, designers and other creative professionals who wish to present their work online in a way that looks great, with mi...
Google Expanded Text Ads: 10 Things You Need To Know
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Gerald Weber
wordstream.com - Expanded Text Ads are coming to Google AdWords. Are you excited? But more importantly, are you ready? Expanded Text Ads were one of several huge AdWords changes Google announced Tuesday – if not th...
Why I Rebranded After 15 Years in Business — Melanie Benson
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Bob Burg
melaniebenson.com - After fifteen years in business I’ve rebranded in a BIG way – not only did I create a new look for my website but I’m also changing my business name too! Why would I invest time and energy into a r...
Amazon refutes complaints it stopped price matching
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Bill Austin
usatoday.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon says it hasn't stopped price matching — because it never had such a policy in the first place. Over the last several days, news stories and online forums reported the retail ...
