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Anonymous Ghost Squad's DDoS Attack Shuts Down KKK Website
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hackread.com - The official website of Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been shut down in a series of powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks just a few hours ago. The group behind ...
Adblock feature automatically tips websites -- but you're cheap, so it won't matter
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thenextweb.com - I’m not talking about you, of course, I’m talking about them — but more on that later. Today, Adblock announced a new feature that allows users to send a few pennies to the websites they visit most...
FRUGAL BUSINESS: 8 Great Tim Cook Business Quotes
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Jason Frovich
myfrugalbusiness.com - Tim Cook had some incredibly large shoes to fill when he took over as Apple's CEO after Steve Jobs' illness and eventual passing in 2011. Cook helped Apple become one of the most valuable companies...
Making Progress on Interoperability in Health IT -
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Joe Lavelle
intrepidnow.com - OUR GUEST Mohan Balachandran, Co-Founder and President of Catalyze, joined the show to talk to us about their mission of making progress on interoperability by providing HIPAA compliant, scalable,...
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 is real and in development at Relic
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Seven years after the release of the classic real-time strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, fans are finally getting a sequel. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III is being developed by ser...
HP announces redesigned portfolio of Windows 10 PCs
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Paul Thurrott
blogs.windows.com - Today HP Inc. unveiled a redesigned Pavilion portfolio of Windows 10 PCs in a bold color palette featuring new convertibles, notebooks and desktops ideal for students and families that will begin r...
WhatsApp is back online in Brazil after 24-hour ban
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James Hickey
mashable.com - Facebook's WhatsApp is back online in Brazil after the service was temporarily banned Monday, following a judge's ruling. Service was restored Tuesday afternoon after another judge in an appeals c...
Shenzhen Valley Ventures has a new incubator for hardware startups
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techcrunch.com - Shenzhen Valley Ventures in Palo Alto, Calif. is launching an incubator for hardware startups in partnership with one of its largest limited partners, Zowee, a factory that works with hardware gian...
The benefits of creating a purpose-driven SEO strategy
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searchengineland.com - With more than 500 Google algorithm updates made on average each year, how can a site owner build an SEO strategy that stands the test of time? Defining your site’s purpose and mapping out the obje...
Learn from top social media marketing experts at SocialPro this June in Seattle
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Brett Prince
searchengineland.com - If you’re looking for advanced social media marketing tactics that the pros are using to drive results, SocialPro is your go-to event. Whether you’re an in-house marketer or work at an agency, you’...
Apple's best hope in India is to sell refurbished iPhones, and it's not looking good
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Apple's iPhone sales might be slowing down in the rest of the world, but they grew by a phenomenal 56% in India last quarter, one of the few bright spots in Apple's otherwise "dismal" earnings. No ...
Chinese court rules Apple has to share the trademark 'iPhone' with a leather goods maker
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mashable.com - Apple now has to share the trademark for the word “iPhone” with a handbag and leather goods maker – at least in China. As reported by Quartz (via the Chinese-based Legal Daily), the Beijing Municip...
Man dressed as Jesus arrested after refusing to leave Apple Store
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Earl Castro
yahoo.com - Even the most hardcore Apple haters out there would have a tough time believing the company would turn away Jesus from one of its stores. And yet, that's sort of what happened at an Apple Store in ...
ZUK Z1 to be marketed as Lenovo Z1 in India
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo is a pretty solid name when it comes to smartphones in the emerging market of India. That is why it is understandable that it will attach its name to new products that will be launching in t...
Twitter video proves more lucrative than Facebook for some publishers - Digiday
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Larry Wentz
digiday.com - There is one area where some top publishers and premium media companies say Twitter is beating Facebook: Video revenue sharing. To be sure, Facebook promises jaw-dropping audiences. But despite Twi...
Ad-block firm teams up with Pirate Bay founder on new micropayments system
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arstechnica.com - The war of words between online publishers and makers of ad-blocking software has heated up in recent years. Now, a maker of popular ad-blocking software has a new project it says will help online ...
Anker Wall Charger advantage now available on Amazon, ready with USB Type-C
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Not much information about the new Anker wall charger but this one boasts of a powerful delivery. It’s a charger alright but you can use it to juice up a maximum of five gadgets. It makes use of a ...
The Ultimate Growth Hacking Sourcebook /// Rocketshp
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Larry Wentz
rocketshp.com - What’s that? “Yet another compendium of Atari-era marketing tactics!” we hear you softly groan to yourself. “Aren’t there enough guides on growth hacking floating about the internet already?”, you ...
Shopify’s online merchants can now offer same-day delivery via Postmates
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techcrunch.com - Postmates to date has scored deals with a number of high-profile retailers and restaurants, including Apple, Walgreens, Starbucks, Chipotle, and 7-Eleven. Today, it’s expanding its reach again via ...
Formlabs acquires Pinshape, an online 3D printing community/marketplace
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techcrunch.com - By the time the Form 1 began shipping to Kickstarter backers, the market was already flooded with countless 3D printers built around the same basic plastic extruding technology. But Formlabs offere...
When innovating stops making sense
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techcrunch.com - John Biggs is the CEO of payments company Freemit and a former TechCrunch writer. If you listened carefully to business news last week you could hear the sound of a giant tree falling in a quiet fo...
We learned from utilities everything we need to know about cloud infrastructure
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techcrunch.com - Chris Stone is the chief products officer of Acquia. Electricity is ambient. It’s all around us. We turn on lights and plug in devices without even thinking about the complex electrical grid that s...
Adding end-to-end encrypted messaging to your app just got a lot easier
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techcrunch.com - Setting up encrypted communication by yourself is hard. If you’ve ever set up PGP for your email or implemented an off-the-record chat in Pidgin, you know that it can be a clunky, burdensome proces...
Brazilian judge blocks WhatsApp for 72 hours, but it still works over VPN, Wi-Fi
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arstechnica.com - A Brazilian judge has ordered (Google Translate) that all mobile phone providers in the country block WhatsApp traffic for 72 hours, beginning yesterday. However, Brazilians are discovering that th...
Amazon Prime Now arrives online with one-hour delivery service
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Amazon launched Prime Now, its super-fast local delivery service, via its mobile app nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and now the company is bringing the service to the web. Amazon's PrimeNow.com is t...
Nintendo stops selling indie game in an attempt to cut off 3DS hackers
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arstechnica.com - Nintendo has taken popular indie gravity-flipping platform game VVVVVV down from the 3DS eShop after hackers revealed the game can be used to help load unsigned code onto the system. On Sunday, a h...
Engaging engineers in the design process
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blog.fullstory.com - Working with engineers is a topic I’ve become rather passionate about, but it’s not something I was thrilled by coming out of design school. When you’re in design school, you’re surrounded by like ...
Microsoft Is Bringing Clip Art Back
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fastcodesign.com - After providing a gross arsenal of bitmap art crimes to design-blind office drones for the better part of two decades, Microsoft officially announced that it was ending support for clip art in 2014...
Oculus will sell its virtual reality headset in Best Buy stores beginning this week
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recode.net - Facebook-owned Oculus wants to take virtual reality mainstream, so it’s bringing its VR headset to the place mainstream shoppers can find it: Retail stores. Oculus announced Monday that it will beg...
Motivate yourself to get up in the morning with The Rock Clock
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve ever dreamed of having action star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wake you up every morning, then this app was created specifically for people like you (no judgement). Yes, the former wrestlin...
Lead heroes and pets into battle with Tome of the Sun, now available for Android
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androidcommunity.com - If you like RPG adventures games, you probably will never run out of things to play on your Android device. The only challenge would be to find the really good ones, but that’s where the app rating...
Beme social video app finally available on Android
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androidcommunity.com - While you’re probably used to taking and sharing videos of “live” experiences on your various social networks, it sometimes feels a bit unnatural for you to be showing your face rather than the vie...
Level up your lifestyle: Blumoo remote, Firefly music receiver [DEALS]
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androidcommunity.com - Our smartphones might be super sophisticated, but not all that we own are equally hi-tech. And those that do exhibit some trace of smartness, like sporting a Bluetooth connection, aren't always tha...
1-800-FLOWERS Leads Customer Engagement Charge with Facebook Messenger Bot
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loyalty360.org - In an innovative move, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is expanding their customer experience presence to Facebook Messenger. On the heels of the social media giant’s announcement at its F8 Developer Conference ...
Dunkin’ Donuts Offers Bonus Points for New Members of Loyalty Program
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loyalty360.org - Building on an already stellar loyalty program, Dunkin’ Donuts is giving new members even more incentive to join in and engage with the brand’s DD Perks Rewards program. From April 14-21, new enr...
Harlequin My Rewards Delivers Tangible Business Results with Receipt-Scanning and Personalized Recommendations
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Loyalty 360
loyaltyexpo.com - How do you build 1:1 relationships with your consumers when you do not have the benefit of direct consumer interaction? How can you tailor personalized offers if you do not have purchase and prefe...
Wells Fargo Listens to Customers and Introduces Credit Card Loyalty Program
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loyalty360.org - Wells Fargo officials listened to their customers in an effort to display flexibility in a new credit card loyalty program. Wells Fargo introduced Go FarTM Rewards, which goes beyond traditional cr...
Spotify Falls Short for Those With Their Own Music Collections - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - While Spotify is arguably the most popular full-featured music subscription service in the world, it lacks one key feature for those with their own music collections: Spotify offers no way to uploa...
AOL Is Launching a 360-Degree Public-Facing Video Studio in Downtown New York
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - In a further sign of its commitment to producing video content, AOL says it's opening a ground-floor, public-facing studio in lower Manhattan. The company's goal is to increase its video content pr...
Touting Distribution and Data, Condé Nast Announces Revamp of Its Digital Video Platform
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - In contrast with Condé Nast Entertainment's flashy NewFronts presentations of years past, the company's fourth go-round, which took place at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday afternoon, was a relat...
McDonald's Turns Placemats Into Little Music Production Stations Connected to Your Phone
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - Wasn't it fun when we were kids to doodle on restaurants' paper placements with crayons? Well, McDonald's has introduced a high-tech, musical version of that sort of play with McTrax—a snazzy place...
Tim Cook Pulls an Osborne - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - And you thought Microsoft was doing everything it could to harm sales of its own smart phones: Apple CEO Tim Cook this week made the coming iPhone 7—which isn’t expected until September—sound so go...
10 Tips to Writing Web Copy that Attracts Visitors and Drives Sales
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Gerald Weber
hostgator.com - A good website should perform critical functions for its company, brand, or entrepreneur. This includes telling potential customers what product or service you are offering, why you are different (...
11 Ways to Drive Growth with 10X Better Marketing Webinars
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Gerald Weber
wordstream.com - Need to grow your business fast? Have you considered webinars as part of your marketing strategy? Marketing webinars are critical for doing lead generation and sales for B2B (business-to-business) ...
Bing app for iOS brings image-based searching to iPhones
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searchengineland.com - Bing has updated its iPhone app to enable image-based search. The feature allows users to take a picture or use an existing image as the basis of a search. While convenient and potentially useful, ...
11 Mind-Blowing Copywriting Hacks To Improve Your Website
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Anita Nelson
jeffbullas.com - Every business, regardless of its size, needs killer copy to power it. From start-ups to global corporations, from customer-facing copy to internal comms, words can dictate the success or failure o...
Apple Loses Trademark Battle, Allowing Chinese Company to Use the 'IPHONE' Name
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Anita Nelson
entrepreneur.com - Join us for a free, live webinar covering social media strategies to increase sales. Tune in 5/17 at 9 a.m. PT. Register Now » Apple has long understood the importance of protecting its intellectua...
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 #...
Google+ Profile and Google Brand Page Marketing
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James Hickey
sd-entrepreneur.com - When Google announced last week that they’ll be starting to roll out Search Plus your World, it became more evident that search is shifting towards a simpler way of retrieving data for their users ...
Meet the Man Applying for Every Patent Imaginable
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Jefferson Faudan
cta.tech - Meet Alexander Reben, the man behind All Prior Art, a project with the goal of stopping patent trolls before they even get started. Patent trolls — also known as patent assertion entities and non-p...
