Monday, March 27, 2017

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Announcing searchable tech stacks for 200+ Boston startups

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medium.com - I’ve been working on a little project over the past month… a big expansion to Boston Startups Guide, my site dedicated to bringing more attention to Boston startups and the resources & community ar...

Why not ban cars, Amber Rudd? It’d be more effective than banning encryption

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arstechnica.co.uk - The ink has only just dried on the UK's Investigatory Powers Act—the most powerful digital surveillance law in the western world—but home secretary Amber Rudd still isn't satisfied.Now she's declar...

Deciding And Purchasing A DJI Phantom 4 Drone - Travel Explored

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www.travelexplored.com - Being a photographer, I am always keen to look at different ways that I can capture a photo. In recent years one option that has caught my attention is that of aerial photography. Primarily using a...

We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules

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www.eff.org - This is our last chance to save critical online privacy protections. We are one vote away from a world where your ISP can track your every move online and sell that information to the highest bidde...

Man indicted for sending seizure-causing GIF as a ‘deadly weapon’

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - In what’s thought to be the first decision of its kind, a Texas grand jury has decided that a GIF can be a deadly weapon. On Friday, police arrested John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Salisbury, Maryland, ...

BostInno Approved: The Week's Top Tech & Startup Events in Boston

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bostinno.streetwise.co - It’s only been a week into Spring, and Boston has already experienced all four seasons. If you're looking for some stability within this uncertainty, you've come to the right place. As always, here...

6 Tips From Tinder Execs on Finding Enough Success to Be Acquired

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www.entrepreneur.com - Tinder brings people together in the real world when its users express a mutual attraction. But what does the company look for when it swipes right on a startup? Brian Norgard, head of product and ...

Egnyte launches a latency-optimizing desktop client for its file sharing service - SiliconANGLE

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siliconangle.com - The desktop applications that accompany every leading file locker are often perceived as secondary to the core cloud-based platform itself. But where most providers see little more than a frontend,...

31 Money-Saving Design Freebies Websites You Should Know

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barnimages.com - Whether you have a blog, work as a designer of websites or apps, create graphic materials, or just occasionally do anything digital – using design freebies is a clever shortcut that can speed up yo...

Ransomware scammers exploited Safari bug to extort porn-viewing iOS users

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arstechnica.com - Ransomware scammers have been exploiting a flaw in Apple's Mobile Safari browser in a campaign to extort fees from uninformed users. The scammers particularly target those who viewed porn or other ...

Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri are waging war over the hotel room

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techcrunch.com - As the hotel industry wages war against Airbnb, companies making voice-powered assistants are also heading to battle in the hotel room itself. Bloomberg reports that Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri...

Microsoft brings Cortana to the Android lock screen

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techcrunch.com - Following a series of beta trials, Microsoft officially announced this morning that it’s bringing its virtual assistant Cortana to the lock screen of Android devices. Initially, Microsoft had teste...

Uber’s autonomous test cars return to the road in San Francisco today

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techcrunch.com - Uber has confirmed that itssmall fleet of autonomous vehicles in San Francisco will be back on the road today. The company grounded its entire self-driving test fleet in the U.S. on Saturday, follo...

Facebook Messenger now lets you privately share your Live Location for an hour

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techcrunch.com - Facebook Messenger wants to be an offline social gathering tool, not just an online chat app. Today it’s adding a new Live Location feature that lets you share for an hour within a private direct o...

Google is fighting with Symantec over encrypting the internet

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techcrunch.com - Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections,quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and leng...

Facebook hires Apple veteran to lead virtual reality hardware efforts at Oculus

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techcrunch.com - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the company to own the future of virtual reality, and in the short term that means putting a lot of VR headsets on a lot offaces. Even for a company with nearly 2...

Will the Galaxy S8 let Samsung put the Note 7 behind it for good?

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techcrunch.com - This is the Samsung Galaxy S8. Sure, it’s still a couple of weeks until we get the see the thing in person on March 29, but we’ve gotten what appears to be a pretty solid view of the handset from j...

Spotify acquires content recommendation startup MightyTV

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techcrunch.com - Spotify this morning announced it has acquired content recommendation service MightyTV, in an effort to further enhancethe company’s advertising products and its marketing technology platforms. The...

Unhappy Windows 10 upgraders take Microsoft to court for lost data, damaged PCs

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arstechnica.com - Unhappy Windows 10 users in Illinois are taking Microsoft to court, claiming that problems caused by the Windows 10 upgrade show that it was negligently designed, that Microsoft fraudulently failed...

A tour of iOS 10.3: Checking out APFS, the Settings app, and other tweaks

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arstechnica.com - Apple has just released iOS 10.3 to the general public, an update which is likely to be the last major release of iOS 10; at this point in the year, work usually begins in earnest on the next major...

How to Create More Exposure Using LinkedIn : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how your business can get more out of LinkedIn? Want to make sure you’re maximizing your LinkedIn presence? LinkedIn has a number of features that will work together to promote your busin...

‘The Other Room’ VR game launched for Google Daydream - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Google Daydream isn’t as popular yet but we have high hopes for the virtual reality arena. VR may be slowly progressing but it certainly has potential especially now that the tech giant has taken t...

LG K20 V now available from Verizon, ready in stores and online - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We may be hearing more news about and offersrelated to the LG G6 but know that it isn’t the only product being marketed by the other South Korean tech giant. The company also has the recently unvei...

Maru OS finally adds support for another device, Nexus 7 now on beta - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Maru OS is one of those projects that attempt to have your smartphone double as your laptop or desktop as well. We know that this is somewhat of a trend now, with Samsung and some other big brands....

How AI can solve the top 3 pain points in marketing

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www.topbots.com - Did you know there are over 3,874 companies offering marketing technology? That’s how many companies are featured on Scott Brinker’s behemoth 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic, which...

Google’s new version of Hangouts looks a lot like Slack

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www.recode.net - Google’s workplace tools, called G Suite, is splitting its Hangouts app into two parts — Hangouts Meet for video chat, and Hangouts Chat — which looks a lot like Slack. Google announced the news Th...

Here are the Twitter executives you need to know

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www.recode.net - Over the past three years, Twitter hasn’t gone more than a few months at a time without some key executive departing. In that span, it’s had two CEOs, three COOs, and has run through nearly half a ...

Snap’s revenue growth looks like it will come from more ads, not more users

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www.recode.net - Snapchat saw a slowdown in user growth in the back half of 2016, a legitimate concern for those who hope Snap becomes the next Facebook (1.8 billion users) and not the next Twitter (319 million use...

Facebook is testing a feature that asks you to keep watching videos you started but didn’t finish

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www.recode.net - Facebook wants users to finish what they’ve started — at least when it comes to watching videos. The company is testing a new feature that prompts users to “continue watching” videos that they’ve s...

ShopLocket.com: An E-commerce Platform that Lets Anyone Start Selling Professionally Online in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - ShopLocket is the easiest way to sell online. Rather than having to build out a full online storefront or get lost in a marketplace, sellers are able to quickly sell from anywhere that they already...

Mekiwi : Easy-To-Use StartUp to Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Antti Kananen”, CEO of the Finland based start-up “Mekiwi” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-u...

Bitrix24: A United Work Space which Handles the many Aspects of Daily Operations and Tasks that Allows you to Create your Own Social Intranet in Minutes! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Bitrix24 is a comprehensive business collaboration platform. It contains robustly constructed tools like a CRM, calendars, file sharing, tasks, and project groups that are enhanced and unified by a...

Ven.io: A Comprehensive Healthy Lifestyle Solution which Generates a Nutritional Plan that is personalized for You - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Venio provides a comprehensive healthy lifestyle solution, which generates an interactive meal-plan that is personalized around your taste, health goals, and dietary preferences. Below is the full ...

Morces.com: Get More Than Just a Mobile Site! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Morces is an absolute free platform for all users to go mobile in a matter of minutes! In addition to optimizing website for mobile devices, Morces provides comprehensive set of social tool such as...

Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Dominic Smith”, CEO of the Baltimore USA-based start-up “Imboard” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your ...

Point Shout : Mobile App to Listen, Engage and React to Customers' Needs - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ionut Danifeld”, Co-Founder at the Brussels – Belgium based start-up“PointShout” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

Testing the Android O Developer Preview - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Last week, Google announced the Android O Developer Preview, giving us our first peek at the next major release of its dominant mobile platform. This week, I’m going to throw caution to the wind an...

There Are Now 10 Million Windows Insiders - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft today claimed that there are now over 10 million people in the Windows Insider program. That’s a big jump from the previous numbers. As you may recall from my article Next Up for the Wind...

Blast Radius Hires Former DDB San Francisco Lead as Its First Chief Creative Officer in 6 Years

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www.adweek.com - WPP’s “global experience innovation agency” Blast Radius has hired the digital native as its first chief creative officer in more than 6 years. Moving forward, he will lead its largest offices in V...

Seth's Blog: Unselling

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sethgodin.typepad.com - Getting someone to switch to you is totally different from getting someone who's new to the market to start using the solution you offer. Admitting I was wrong, and, in many cases, leaving behind s...

SearchCap: Google image search bug, local insights & post-rank

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. No need to panic: There is a reporting bug in the Google Search Console Search Analyt...

2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Review - 95 Octane

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95octane.com - A few months back, I had the privilege of spending a few days with the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, and had a blast driving the 2-seat drop-topthat I referred to as a “tiny monster.” While the 4C is astou...

How the AirPod Era Could Change Retail Marketing – By Sylvain Bellaïche, CEO of Digital Social Retail

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mobilemarketingandtechnology.com - Apple’s iPhone 7, unveiled in September 2016, included a big surprise: no headphone jack. Rather, iPhone 7 users can wear innovative wireless headphones—called AirPods, which were created by Apple—...

Tesla Is Going Big With the Model 3

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www.bloomberg.com - One year ago this week, Elon Musk took to a stage to unveil his most important vehicle yet: the $35,000Model 3. The electric five-seater accelerates as fast as the the best-selling luxury sport sed...

Toyota and NTT to collaborate on connected car tech, including AI

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techcrunch.com - Toyota and NTT, one of Japan’s largest carriers, are teaming up to work on connected vehicle technology, with an agreement to work together on research and development in this emerging area. The te...

Crunchyroll - Crunchyroll Career Opportunities

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www.crunchyroll.com - Crunchyroll is the largest anime streaming service in the world, and one of the top ten streaming companies in the U.S. At Crunchyroll, anime is our passion. Our service delivers everything anime t...

Inside the Numbers: What We Learned from the Best Marketers Using Instapage

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instapage.com - Today we’re going to do something we’ve never done before. We’re going to give you a peek behind the curtain at what some of the best marketers on the planet are doing to generate more landing page...

The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual: Or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Volume 2

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getyourpilotslicense.org - Inspired Pilot Podcast Ep18: Rick Durden – ATP, CFI, Aviation Lawyer & Author Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Flight Training with the iPad: Tips and how to use...

Confused By Photography? This Article Can Help!

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slr-digitalcamera.com - Do you want to push your photography skills further? Are you interested in increasing your skills even more? If you are ready, then you have come to the right place. The following article provides ...

Want To Succeed In Marketing With Email? Try These Tips!

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internetmarketinginfos.com - It is essential that you make sure the people wants to receive your emails. The quickest way to lose consumers is by giving them emails that they don’t want to receive in the first place. The artic...