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Tech Titans Raise Their Guard, Pushing Back Against News Media
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Franco Gonzalez
nytimes.com - SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley’s stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response in the tech community has been: More power to him....
Twitter lists and Roundteam explained
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Jonathan Gunson
effrosyniwrites.com - Twitter lists are also an excellent tool for reciprocating to supportive tweeps by retweeting them manually or automatically via Roundteam. So, let’s begin with Roundteam. It’s FREE and very easy t...
4 Things You Need to Stop If You Want To Be Productive on Social Media
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Franco Gonzalez
jeffbullas.com - Because you KNOW that you need to be present on social media in order to do so. The only problem is that whenever you log on to your social media accounts… When you wake up a lot of time has passed...
Microsoft CEO Nadella: 'Bots are the new apps'
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usatoday.com - Developers gathered at the Microsoft BUILD developers conference in San Francisco to hear about the latest and greatest from Microsoft. Theresa Chong for USA TODAY. Theresa Chong for USA TODAY SAN ...
A Quick and Thorough Guide to WordPress Maintenance Mode
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Chuck Hahn
premium.wpmudev.org - Whether you’re performing simple plugin updates or making full-scale site modifications, maintenance mode is a handy tool to have in your developer’s toolkit. But when should you use it? Are there ...
Exploring Divi 2.4: A FREE Library Pack Built With Divi’s New Advanced Design Settings
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Chuck Hahn
elegantthemes.com - Posted on June 19, 2015 by Kenny Sing in Resources | 119 comments Two days ago we introduced Divi 2.4, the biggest upgrade in Divi history and a giant leap forward for our most popular WordPress th...
Facebook's head of product design on why websites may be a dying business
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - It feels like we were facing the end of print only years ago, but the time may be ripe to begin lamenting the end of the website. After the dominance of URLs, we're entering the platform era where ...
10 Random Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do On LinkedIn
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - Do you sometimes wonder just how many unaccepted (but not rejected) LinkedIn connection requests you have floating out there? Or perhaps you wish that you could remove yourself from that annoying g...
Asus Zenbo is an E.T.-like home robot with a touchscreen face
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - Writing about tech is often straightforward. But finding words for Asus' Zenbo home robot, announced just before the start of the Computex trade show in Taipei, is a tougher task. The multi-faceted...
Asus ZenBook 3 will make your current laptop look fat
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - When Apple launched the 12-inch MacBook in 2015, it instantly became a benchmark for ultra-light computers, surpassed in portability by only a few models. The thinking behind Asus' new ultraportab...
Smart Responsive Design Patterns, Or When Off-Canvas Isn't Good Enough – Smashing Magazine
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Courtney Robertson
smashingmagazine.com - Design patterns often have a bad reputation. They are often considered to be quick, lazy, off-the-shelf solutions that are applied blindly without consideration of the context of a problem. Solutio...
6 Tips for Better Facebook Live Broadcasts : Social Media Examiner
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D. Ross Curington
socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how to get the most out of your Facebook Live broadcast? With Facebook Live, you can show your expertise in real time, take people behind the scenes, and much more. In this article, you’l...
How Innovation Fuels Content Marketing
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Reg Saddler
inc.com - Years ago, marketing leaders might have heard of a new platform or tactic--social media, for example--that could enhance their brands or strengthen their marketing efforts and given it a try. Being...
Iran forces messaging apps to move data to Iranian servers
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techcrunch.com - Companies behind popular messaging apps have a year to move all the data they have on Iranian users onto servers in Iran, according to Reuters. This raises concerns about privacy. The Iranian gover...
Diane Greene wants to put the enterprise front and center of Google Cloud strategy
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techcrunch.com - When Google bought bebop Technologies last fall for $348 million, it got more than a stealthy startup. It also landed Diane Greene as executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise — and that ...
Facebook set to foster popularity of branded content
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Jared Feldman is the founder and CEO of Canvs, a platform that measures and interprets emotions. Branded content was already becoming more attractive to many marketers and publishers trying to navi...
French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France
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techcrunch.com - Google was caught by surprise. Last week, nearly 100 employees of France’s equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des Finances) raided Google’s office in Paris for a tax non-compliance investiga...
VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - VetTech is a nonprofit founded last year with the goal of helping military veterans network with the technology industry. Over the 12 months they have worked towards this goal by hosting multiple “...
GT Sport: This is not the racing game you’ve been waiting for
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - As far as understanding developer Polyphony Digital's ambitions for Gran Turismo and its PlayStation 4 outing GT Sport goes, there's only one thing you need to know: players will be able to earn a ...
Top 10: Instagram Tips & Tricks - Socially Powered
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Joel Comm
sociallypowered.com - Did you know more than 80 million images are uploaded to Instagram every day? It’s a global application with some interesting demographic opportunities. Plus, it can be one of the more entertaining...
Phonebloks creator says Google can do better with Project Ara
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We might have to jog your memory back to when the Phonebloks video went viral on social media, inspiring a lot of people to push for a future-proof modular smartphone. The idea behind Phonebloks is...
How to Set Up Parental Controls on Android
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androidcommunity.com - Android tablets are useful not only for work and studies. Parents and children alike find such mobile devices serve many different purposes may it be for communication, media playback, entertainmen...
HTC One M9+ Prime Camera Edition now official, probably first out in India
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androidcommunity.com - In one of the weirder moves in the already uncommon strategies of the HTC smartphone brand, they launched a rehash of their 2015 flagship in Europe early this month called the HTC One M9 Prime Came...
SpareFoot.com: The World's Largest Marketplace for Self-Storage - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solution for locating storage facilities, comparing prices, and booking storage units online. According to Mr. ‘Betts'; Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solut...
Thurrott Daily: May 30 - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - It’s day off here in the U.S.—Memorial Day—but I’m keeping an eye on the web while I rebuild my NUC yet again. —Paul Microsoft answers OneNote complaints on Reddit Thanks to Chad S. for the tip. A ...
5 Ways To Change The Design Of A WordPress Theme
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Gerald Weber
wpkube.com - When you find a WordPress theme that’s perfect for your website, with a design you.. mostly love, it might be time to take matters into your hands. But if you’re not confident enough to change the ...
3 Reasons the Apple-Buying-Netflix Rumor Never Dies | Fox Business
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Jefferson Faudan
fool.com - Shares ofNetflixhave been rolling lately. Netflix stock has moved higher for six consecutive trading days, soaring 15% in total. There are a couple of reasons for the recent bullishness. Netflix an...
The real value of engaging your audience in content marketing - Biznology
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Chris Abraham
biznology.com - Consumers crave authenticity. This has been the case to some extent for as long as there has been marketing. (Think of your cool friends who knew all the big bands before they were big – and who im...
Mobile First: The Smart Person's Approach to Mobile-Ready Content Creation
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Chris Abraham
business.com - Fact: Great content is an integral part of any 21st-century marketing strategy. Fact: Leading content marketers generate almost eight times more traffic than their competitors Fact: Content marketi...
FIR #37: Must we now pitch news to Snapchat? - FIR Podcast Network
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firpodcastnetwork.com - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:46:05 — 43.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Today’s panel features Serena Ehrlich, director of social and evolving media at Busines...
How machine learning can impact subscription service offerings - Advertising - BizReport
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Gregg Luhring
bizreport.com - Kristina: Why should subscription-based software companies care about machine learning? Matt Fleckenstein, SVP Products and Marketing, Amplero: Today's connected customers demand that companies pro...
More 'Dead Sea scrolls' could be found as Israel begins excavation programme
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Joe Francis
christiantoday.com - A full-scale programme of excavations in the Judaean Desert caves is needed to prevent artefacts like the Dead Sea Scrolls being lost to looters, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA)...
How App Marketing Campaigns Can Help Marketers Win More Users-Examples And Tips! - App Virality
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Tyson Quick
appvirality.com - There are numerous apps that we encounter every day. In most scenarios, they tend to help us in simplifying tasks and snipping a step or two. But how do apps help marketers? As marketers, we’ve kno...
The Strategy Dashboard for Gamification Design
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book.) At this point, we have a built a st...
How happy chatbots could become our new best friends - BBC News
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LeVar Thomas
bbc.co.uk - How do we stop intelligent machines from taking over the world and enslaving us all? That's the radical suggestion of Patrick Levy Rosenthal, founder and chief executive of Emoshape, a tech firm th...
7 Email Marketing Best Practices
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Jeff Knize
smallbusinesspr.com - The content of your email message is important, but your design is the first element that recipients will see. If you want readers to see your message instead of clicking to the next email, it’s es...
Charm For iPhone Gives You Incredible Control Over Your Twitter Experience
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Jason Cramer
lifehacker.com.au - iOS: Twitter is a great feed, but saving interesting tweets for later, making playlists of songs you find and collecting interesting or on-topic tweets into lists is difficult, and deserves more th...
The Apple Watch is being shunned by Apple's most important community
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Marcus Mavakala
businessinsider.com - Apple developers aren't very interested in writing apps for the Watch these days, says Tim Anglade, an app developer and VP for mobile database Realm. About 100,000 app developers use Realm's datab...
MacBook Pro 2016 release date at WWDC 2016: thinner, lighter laptops with OLED keyboard display
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Future Lighting
ecumenicalnews.com - Apple is expected to unveil the new MacBook Pro laptops during the Worldwide Developers Conference this June. The MacBook Pro (2016) will reportedly come in two variants — a 13-inch model and a 15-...
Twitter hack could humiliate you | Komando.com
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Jason Cramer
komando.com - According to a recent Symantec official blog post, more than 2,500 Twitter accounts have been hacked and taken over to send out tweets that contain sexually suggestive photos with links to adult si...
Vengeance LED | PC Perspective
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Future Lighting
pcper.com - As the specifications are sparse as of yet, we will let Corsair tell you about their products in their own words. Start off looking at this fancy setup and carry on through new fans, DIMMs and SFF...
Will OLEDs Improve TV Profit Margins? | EE Times
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Future Lighting
eetimes.com - Display Week speakers debate where the TV and car display industries are headed. If anything emerged from last week’s Display Week (May 22–27), it was clear that although viewers prefer bright colo...
