Tuesday, April 18, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

Everette Taylor, app wars, and the truth about growth hacking – VB Engage

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venturebeat.com - In this week’s episode, Stewart and Travis interview the amazing Everette Taylor, a serial entrepreneur who went from being homeless to cofounding GrowthHackers and creating GrowthPup, and who is n...

3 Ways to Localize Your Marketing Strategy Through Video

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www.socialmediatoday.com - Sure, the internet knocked down geographical boundaries, democratizing information and globalizing conversations in the process,but local offerings still matter. In fact, when it comes to effective...

Entrepreneur On Fire | How to CRUSH Kickstarter: $453k in 33 days and the 6th most funded publishing campaign of all time

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www.eofire.com - One day, in January 2015, John and I were walking along Sail Bay in Pacific Beach. We were reflecting on 2014, and sharing our big goals with each other for the year ahead. I was anxious to hear ab...

AMD launches 500-series graphics cards: RX 580 and RX 570 available now

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arstechnica.co.uk - AMD has a new range of graphics cards in the form the RX 580, RX 570, RX 560, and RX 550. All, bar the new RX 550, are slightly tweaked versions of the 400-series that debuted with RX 480 in June a...

NHS finally launches its Digital Apps Library—only one app “approved” so far

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arstechnica.co.uk - The NHS quietly launched its delayed Digital Apps Library last week, four years on from when it first announced a pilot scheme—and 18 months since it mothballed the project after researchers flagge...

Egnyte Enterprise File Sync & Content Collaboration Software Reviews

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www.gartner.com - We use a hybrid setup with Egnyte Storage Sync virtual machines syncing our data between dozens of branch offices and the Egnyte-hosted copy. Overall the solution has been excellent, allowing us to...

Facebook wants you to stare even more at the real world through your phone camera

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arstechnica.com - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his company's annual "F8" conference on Tuesday with a stark mission statement: People don't look at Facebook on their phonesenough, and he has plans to ...

HTC has a strange little bundle deal for its pricey Vive VR headset

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techcrunch.com - Virtual reality really isn’t good enough yet to justify going broke for. Though VR headset prices are steadily coming down, the fact is it’s still not all that accessible for even the most gadget-o...

Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform

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techcrunch.com - More than three years after its acquisition of Oculus, Facebook is a product even more deeply intertwined with people’s online identities. Today, Facebook is reaching an important milestone as it l...

Oracle acquires ad measurement company Moat

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techcrunch.com - Oracle just announced that it has acquired ad measurement company Moat. Founded in 2010, Moat helps advertisers and publishers measure whether people see and interact with online ads. The need to c...

Facebook open sources Caffe2, its flexible deep learning framework of choice

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techcrunch.com - Today Facebook open sourced Caffe2. The deep learning framework follows in the steps of the original Caffe, a project started at the University of California, Berkeley. Caffe2 offers developers gre...

Zuck says copying Snapchat was just step 1 of Facebook’s AR platform

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techcrunch.com - “I guess I’m not that worried about that,” Mark Zuckerberg said in response to criticism about Facebook copying Snapchat. He defended the “misunderstood” strategy as laying groundwork for Facebook’...

Facebook updates Messenger with support for QR codes, food delivery through M and more

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is launching a couple of new features for its Messenger platform today. Among those is an update to its M virtual assistant, which can now help you order food through delivery.com, the lau...

Workplace by Facebook continues to mature

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techcrunch.com - At the F8 conference today, Facebook announced a bunch of updates to its Workplace by Facebook team communications tool, including a slew of new partnerships and new bot integrations, which all sho...

Facebook expands delegated account recovery in a play for the next billion users

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is expanding a new account recovery tool it debuted in Januarythat allows other sites such as GitHub to establish encrypted account recovery tokens that are stored by Facebook. When a user...

How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout

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techcrunch.com - WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default last April for its more than 1billion users. (Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent compan...

UberEATS gets custom suggestions, food filters, and drop-off instructions

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techcrunch.com - Uber’s adding a number of product updates to its UberEATS restaurant delivery product, some of which you may already have seen since they’ve been testing in various markets ahead of this broad laun...

HP’s new x360 laptops miss the point of 4K on the Spectre but get security right with the EliteBook

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techcrunch.com - One x360 laptop is better for work, the other for multimedia. Both are some of the best Windows machines out there, but with a few caveats. HP EliteBooks are often sold in contracts to corporations...

Game over, man! The NES Classic is discontinued planet-wide

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techcrunch.com - Well, it was fun while it lasted. The NES Classic Edition (it went by several names, but you know what I mean) was the must-have item of the holidays and pretty much ever since, owing to short supp...

Pandora Premium opens to all, invites no longer needed

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techcrunch.com - Pandora Premium, the company’s paid, on-demand service and rival to Spotify, is today available to all users. The service was technically launched in March, but required usersrequest an invitation ...

Volkswagen’s I.D. CROZZ electric concept aims for 2020 production

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techcrunch.com - Electric production vehicles may be relatively rare, but electric concepts abound, and most of them are targeting 2020 for a rough production date, as is the Volkswagen I.D. CROZZ, an all-electric ...

SparkLabs will launch its accelerator program in China next month

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techcrunch.com - SparkLabs founded its first accelerator in Seoul four years ago. Now it’s ready to tackle China. The program announced today that SparkLabs will open in Beijing on May 15 before expanding to Shangh...

Students: Get your cheap Disrupt NY tickets now

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techcrunch.com - Are you a student on a limited budget but still want to check out the best startup show in the Big Apple? We’ve got you covered.For a limited time, current undergraduate and graduate students can g...

Google Earth for Chrome & Android gets upgraded with guided tours, more discovery features

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techcrunch.com - As reported earlier this month, Google today has unveiled its new vision for Google Earth, thesoftware that combines satellite imagery, topographic maps and 3D cities, to help you better visualize ...

Streamers flock to YouTube Live, but the money (and crowd) is still at Twitch

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techcrunch.com - YouTube Live is making impressive strides in catching up to incumbent Twitch, but it has a long way to go yet. On the bright side, it doesn’t look like they’ll run out of road: streaming looks to b...

Audi’s latest concept is a new all-electric Tesla Model X competitor

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techcrunch.com - Audi’s newest electric vehicle is a crossover SUV with a 4.5-second 0-60mph time, and an impressive range of around 300 miles when its 95kWh battery is topped up. The Audi e-tron Sportback is set f...

Microsoft continues to experiment with Windows power management

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arstechnica.com - One of the things that Microsoft does with its Insider Preview builds of Windows is run experiments. A couple of experiments that were briefly available during the development of the Creators Updat...

Verizon spends $1B on fiber—but it’s for 5G wireless, not more FiOS

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arstechnica.com - Verizon has struck a deal with Corning to purchase up to 37.2 million miles of optical fiber and related hardwareover the next three years, with Verizon planning to use that fiber to boost capacity...

Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them

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arstechnica.com - Mirai, the botnet that threatened the Internet as we knew it last year with record-setting denial-of-service attacks, is facing an existential threat of its own: A competing botnet known as Hajime ...

Original StarCraft is finally free-as-in-beer after delayed patch

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arstechnica.com - Last month, the game makersat Blizzard announced a remastered, 4K-friendly version of the original StarCraft, set to launch this summer. That announcement also teased a much sooner release of the o...

Dropbox Redesigns its UI for Better UX | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Whenever you’re working with teams as a web designer, chances are that you’re using Google Drive, Evernote, or Dropbox for any collaborations like file and image sharing. Sharing services like thes...

Best WordPress Themes for Weddings, Engagements and Newlyweds (2017)

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winningwp.com - Home / Themes / Best WordPress Themes for Weddings, Engagements and Newlyweds (2017) Tags – engagements, theme collections, wedding receptions, weddings Best WordPress Themes for Weddings, Engageme...

Selling Products Online: The Best Ways to Sell Digital Goods

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ecommerce-platforms.com - After researching for weeks and selecting the top 10 solutions, we've tested them in the last 5 days and here are our findings: We believe that Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) continues to be the best...

How to Stress Test a WordPress Website - WPKube

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www.wpkube.com - One thing they don’t tell you about starting a blog or business site is that someday your website is going to reach its limit. Hosting companies don’t have any interest in informing you about this,...

5 Experts Explain How to Turn Marketing Analytics Into Effective Strategies

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blog.alexa.com - Smart marketers make informed decisions based on data gathered from analytics platforms and processes. Yet far too few marketers have a firm grip on their analytics. A whopping 87% of marketers con...

The Colossal Hand of Hercules, So Where is the Rest of Him?

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www.ancient-origins.net - The Hand of Hercules is the name given to a massive fragment of an ancient statue that was unearthed by archaeologists in Amman, the capital of Jordan. This fragment is believed to have once been a...

M, AI and FB: How Facebook is Going to Become an Even Bigger Part of Your Everyday Life

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www.socialmediatoday.com - Back in August, Facebookintroduced ‘M’, its new personal assistant tool which will live inside Messenger. Like Apple’s ‘Siri’ or Microsoft’s ‘Cortana’, users will be able to ask questions of M and ...

Essential smartphone by Andy Rubin surfaces on GFXBench - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Andy Rubin is expected to make another significant mark in the mobile community. He’s definitely the guy that started Android but he left Google in 2014 to help tech startups and now is ready to in...

Galaxy S8 owners complaining of reddish tint in display panel - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy S8 has only been released to a few users that pre-ordered and is still about to be unleashed in other markets this week, but already it is facing a bit of a backlash. After the w...

YouTube lowers live stream requirement to 1,000 subscribers - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - YouTube has brought live stream to the app since everybody else seems to be doing it. And since it lays claim to the number one video sharing service, it’s only natural that it would let its conten...

Google Earth 8.0 lets you explore the world more - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Apparently, almost all people who have opened Google Earth search for their homes the first time they open the app or the web-based version. But while it is a good starting point, it should also be...

Huawei used different storage versions on the P10 and P10 Plus - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Huawei P10 was launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February. Together with its bigger sibling, the P10 Plus, the duo clearly impressed the many Huawei fans who’ve been waiti...

Xiaomi Mi Box about to receive Android 7.0 Nougat update - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We haven’t really thought about if the Xiaomi Mi Box is updated already but it’s about time this Android TV device gets a taste of the chunky Nougat. You see, people were expecting that it would ru...

Huawei Watch 2 hands-on - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Though a bit late, Google’s release of Android Wear 2.0 opened the floodgates of new smartwatches. Not to be left behind, though perhaps not exactly sure of its path, Huawei quickly followed with i...

Analysis | What you’re really agreeing to when you accept your smart TV’s privacy policy

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www.washingtonpost.com - (Washington Post illustration; iStock) Let's be honest here — most of us don’t read the privacy policies for smart televisions. And even if we try to, it’s often difficult to read them, particularl...

You won't be able to stop looking at the beautiful new Google Earth

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mashable.com - Google unveiled a completely redesigned Google Earth and it does away with the single worst thing about the previous version of the software. Out now for desktop and Android, it no longer requires ...

ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.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...

Ostrato cloudSM™ : Cloud Based Services and Applications - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jay Chapel”, CEO of the USA-based start-up “Ostrato” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Ostrato cloudSM™ empowers...

Lapkin : Biodegradable Laptop Keyboard Cover - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Mihaela Muruianu”, Co-Founder of the London based start-up “Lapkin” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1.What is it exactly that you do and what your...

My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”,Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...