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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston just shared something Wall Street is really going to like
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businessinsider.com - Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shared an important part about his business that will please a lot of public investors: It's free cash flow positive. Houston said during an interview at the Bloomberg Tech...
The law doesn't matter: Obama's Net Neutrality power grab allowed by courts | RedState
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redstate.com - The FCC had twice before attempted to take over the Internet in the name of "Net Neutrality," attacking the hands-off approach mandated by law under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Under Barack...
Microsoft Gives Office 365 Admin App a UX Refresh
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eweek.com - Microsoft Gives Office 365 Admin App a UX Refresh By Pedro Hernandez | Posted 2016-06-14 Print The updated app features a streamlined interface that scales to fit a variety of screens. Meanwhile,...
A Powerful Yet Tiny Engine Inches Closer to Powering EVs and Drones
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wired.com - A go-kart isn’t the most obvious place to find the engine that could change how cars, drones, and anything else with a motor gets around, but it makes sense when you think about it. Karts are small...
Warning! Is The World Sabotaging Your A/B Tests?
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blog.kameleoon.com - A/B Testing is great, but if we’re being honest, it’s pretty easy to screw up. You have to create a rigorous process, learn how to formulate hypothesis, analyze data, know when it’s safe to stop a ...
The importance of micro-moments: The mobile customer journey
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searchengineland.com - According to eMarketer, global mobile ad spend is expected to double from $100 billion in 2016 to nearly $200 billion in 2019 — accounting for over 70 percent of digital ad spend worldwide. This ex...
User-generated content marketing platform Yotpo picks up $22M Series C
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techcrunch.com - Yotpo, a platform that lets companies solicit content from their users and customers in the form of reviews, Q&As, and photos and videos, for use across various marketing channels, has picked up $2...
Crunchyroll-owner Ellation announces Vrv, a multi-channel, streaming video service
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techcrunch.com - Digital media company Ellation is announcing a big push into streaming video with Vrv, which will offer a variety of channels aimed at gamers and other geeks. Ellation is best known as the parent c...
Facebook’s New Ad Products for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
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adweek.com - Facebook Tuesday introduced three advertising products aimed at retailers with brick-and-mortar stores: store locator, store visits and the offline conversions application-programming interface. St...
Businesses can now tell if a Facebook ad led you to shop at their stores
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mashable.com - Facebook's advertisers now have a better understanding of how much of your mall shopping might have been inspired by their ads. The social network just rolled out a new feature that lets advertiser...
These Bluetooth wristbands let you enjoy VR while staying safe in the real world
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mashable.com - Despite the fascinating experiences offered by virtual reality, it can also be nerve-wracking — especially when you're worried about crashing into real-world objects while twirling around in a virt...
Why Apple isn't talking about Virtual Reality just yet
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mashable.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone who was at Apple's 2016 World Wide Developers Conference keynote will tell you it was jam-packed with software platform information. But it was also notable for what it didn'...
This sleek leather wallet has a hidden iPhone charger
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mashable.com - I live in a constant state of fear that my iPhone will run out of juice. I keep charging cables all over my house, I always scan cafes and airport lounges for available power outlets, and I almost ...
Twitter now lets you retweet yourself
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telegraph.co.uk - Twitter has often been criticised as a haven for oversharing narcissists: now its vainest users have one more way to love themselves. The social network switched on the ability for users to retweet...
4 Insider Tips for Getting Facebook Ads to Work for You
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business.com - Facebook Ads are some of the web’s most versatile marketing tools, offering an unparalleled array of targeting options and tools. But just because these options are easy to select doesn’t mean that...
Photographers rejoice! iOS 10 lets you snap RAW images
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cultofmac.com - Pictures snapped from an iPhone are about to take a huge step closer to pro status this year and you won’t even need to buy the iPhone 7 Plus’ rumored dual lens to get them. For the first time ever...
The abilities and limitations of SiriKit, Siri’s olive branch to other apps
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arstechnica.com - Apple's "intelligent personal assistant" came before Google Now and Cortana and Alexa, but all of those assistants have caught up to and lapped Siri in one important way: they let third-party appli...
Apple Pay introduces website payments but punts on peer-to-peer money transfer
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arstechnica.com - In the keynote presentation of this week's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple announced that it would allow website developers to add an Apple Pay button to the checkou...
Samsung sales for Galaxy S7, S7 edge to reach 25 million by June
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androidcommunity.com - It really was a good move for Samsung to release their new flagship devices earlier than their tradition as that may have played a big part in the continued success of their Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7...
The Warcraft fan’s dilemma: A movie, but it’s based on the 1994 DOS game?!
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arstechnica.com - "Blizzard should make a movie" has been a wish for just about every fan that has seen one of the company's gorgeous CG cinematics. And this weekend, these gamers sort of got their wish when the War...
13 other unlucky numbers
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holykaw.alltop.com - If you dread Friday the 13th, we’re about to make you a lot more paranoid. In Western cultures, superstition against the number thirteen still looms large, but other cultures have their own version...
What Apple’s differential privacy means for your data and the future of machine learning
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techcrunch.com - Apple is stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts in a bid to keep pace with rivals who have been driving full-throttle down a machine learning-powered AI superhighway, thanks to their liber...
Apple’s iOS 10 finally, truly begins the mobile messaging war
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techcrunch.com - John Koetsier has built technology, written about it at VentureBeat, and researched it while spearheading a research venture. He now studies mobile as TUNE’s mobile economist. Yesterday will be rem...
Apple will require HTTPS connections for iOS apps by the end of 2016
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techcrunch.com - During a security presentation at Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference, the company revealed the deadline for all apps in its App Store to switch on an important security feature called App Tra...
Minecraft takes a big step towards becoming a fully cross-platform game
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techcrunch.com - Minecraft, one of the most playable games of all time, is about to become all the more collaborative after it took a major step towards becoming a fully cross-platform title. Mojang, the company be...
Game Review: Ninja Dude Vs Zombies
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techcrunch.com - Ninja Dude vs Zombies is an endless tap’n’slash arcade. You are a brave ninja who is trapped on a tower surrounded by hordes of bloody zombies. So of course, as with all things zombie related, the ...
Facebook content and brand strategies that win in a silent autoplay world
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techcrunch.com - A new study reports the slightly astonishing statistic that fully 85 percent of Facebook videos are played with the audio turned off. The business of Facebook native video is relatively new, with t...
Apple iOS 10 “Memories” turns old photos into editable mini-movies
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techcrunch.com - Apple is taking on TimeHop, Facebook On This Day and Google Photos Assistant all at once with its new iOS 10 feature Memories that’s a tab inside Photos. Using local, on-device facial recognition a...
At an investor panel, disagreement underscores broader uncertainty
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techcrunch.com - During an investor panel at the Bloomberg Technology conference in San Francisco today, one thing was fairly apparent: the panelists, which included partner Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital; Aspect ...
Impact Radius acquires ad fraud prevention platform Forensiq
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techcrunch.com - Fresh off its $30 million funding round, digital marketing and affiliate solutions platform Impact Radius today announced that it has acquired New York-based Forensiq, a service that helps online a...
The Car Hacker’s Handbook digs into automotive data security
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techcrunch.com - In the coming age of autonomous cars, connected cars, and cars that can communicate with each other, the city’s infrastructure, our phones, and the entire internet of things, data security is going...
Facebook taps GPS, Square to track your in-store visits and purchases
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techcrunch.com - Facebook has found the Holy Grail of advertising in a set of new partnerships with point-of-sale systems like Square and Marketo that will prove who bought what after seeing Facebook’s ads. Even if...
A First Look At Apple's Big iMessage Update
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buzzfeed.com - Apple’s iMessage instant messenger service hasn’t seen a significant update in years, though with an average of 28,000 messages delivered per second it is the company’s most-used software by far. T...
Supreme Court, get ready: ISPs won’t give up net neutrality fight
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arstechnica.com - Today's court decision upholding net neutrality rules is a huge legal milestone for the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to more strictly regulate Internet service providers. But as you ...
Review: Hands-on mandatory, but Ars lets Volvo’s XC90 drive itself in traffic
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arstechnica.com - The XC90 is a vehicle packed with clever technology. Much of this technology has to do with Volvo's core focus on safety of course—which now means lots of active semi-autonomous driver assists—but ...
Lax emissions standards in EU have regulators scrambling
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arstechnica.com - Politicians and regulators in the European Union are finding many instances of automakers using loopholes to circumvent emissions standards. Although so far only Volkswagen has been found using sof...
RAW shooting, a harsher Gatekeeper, and more obscure macOS and iOS 10 changes
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arstechnica.com - Apple doesn't give developers new toys without imposing plenty of conditions. When Apple announced iOS 10 and macOS Sierra at its WWDC keynote yesterday, it hit most of the high notes. Big user-fac...
The OnePlus 3 brings a Snapdragon 820, 6GB of RAM, and aluminum body for $399
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arstechnica.com - This rear design reminds me of something but I just can't put my finger on it... That home button is a fingerprint sensor. We're guessing there are also buttons to the left and right. This rear des...
How a former lobbyist became the broadband industry’s worst nightmare
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arstechnica.com - When President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in May 2013, there was widespread concern the new chairman would push the interests of telecommunicati...
Critical Adobe Flash bug under active attack currently has no patch
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arstechnica.com - Attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Adobe's widely used Flash Player, and Adobe says it won't have a patch ready until later this week. The active zero-day exploit works against th...
What is Website Caching and Why is it so Important?
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winningwp.com - Website caching is one of the most beneficial technologies available. In short, it makes websites extremely fast, which in turn leads to better SEO scores and increased user satisfaction — not to m...
Facebook Makes Additional Changes to its Controversial 'Real Name Policy'
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fastcompany.com - In the wake of criticism that Facebook's "real name" policy is too restrictive, the social media giant is making some changes to its policy to support users with legitimate reasons to remain anonym...
How This Company Launched a Product on Social Media and Sold Out in 75 Minutes
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inc.com - If you scour the internet, it's pretty hard to find any concrete statistics about how many sales are directly generated by social media each year. I've done a lot of posting and asking around and w...
Snapchat Introduces New Ad Options, Announces Ads API and Partners
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socialmediatoday.com - Despite Snapchat’s huge rise in both popularity and usage, one of the biggest criticisms of the platform has been that it’s yet to come up with a way to generate significant revenue. Sure, kids mig...
6 Tools for Selling Products on Instagram : Social Media Examiner
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socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you want to sell your products using Instagram? Looking for tools to make it easier for customers to buy from you? The right Instagram tools help you maximize your revenue. In this article you’l...
Google launches Springboard, revamps Sites for enterprises
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androidcommunity.com - For companies that use Google enterprises and are largely dependent on other Google services connected to the business, it is important that all the information you would need would easily be acces...
LG G Watch not getting Android Wear 2.0 as well
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androidcommunity.com - Previously, it was the hearts of Moto 360 1st gen owners that got broken. Now it’s the turn of those who have the original LG G Watch to have their dreams dashed. Well, that is if their dreams incl...
Twitter now allows you to quickly block abusive users, Internet trolls
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androidcommunity.com - Just yesterday, Twitter explained account security and gave tips on how to avoid password breaches. The micro blogging site has been receiving numerous updates lately because of some threats to sec...
Dead Hand Drive arcade game will have you dealing with zombies all over town
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androidcommunity.com - Any zombie apocalypse-themed mobile game will always be popular among fans of adventures where the dead rule. Dead Hand Drive is a new arcade fame developed by Steampunk Wizards. The name alone of ...
Vodafone announces Smart Platinum 7 smartphone, 1st VR headset
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androidcommunity.com - UK-based mobile provider Vodafone lets customers choose their own handset when signing up with the carrier. Although they have previously created smartphones as well, they weren’t that well receive...
