Saturday, April 22, 2017

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

AI is so rampant it's now impacting our sex lives. Here's how to stop it taking control

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www.wired.co.uk - We’ve reached an inflection point with AI. It's in the news we consume and the general cultural conversation, but there are also more tangible markers we can point to. In just two years Amazon’s Ec...

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,...

Big data 2020: the future, growth and challenges of the big data industry

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www.i-scoop.eu - Big data is a misnomer. It reduces the realities of the continuously growing deluge of data to exactly this aspect: the deluge, the chaos and, last but not least, the volume aspect. In other words:...

How This Mexican Immigrant Became an Entrepreneur Right Out of College

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medium.com - “It has a nice design without be stigmatizing and, at the same time, helps them organize much more quickly, reminding them to take their medicine and track compliance.” The Elliegrid pillbox was bo...

AbbeyPost : Brand-New Marketplace and Community - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - AbbeyPost is a brand-new marketplace and community designed exclusively for plus size women’s fashion! Shopping is an inherently social activity, but for over 100 million plus size women in the US,...

A chat with Pluralsight founder Aaron Skonnard on the global move to sharpen tech skills through online training

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techcrunch.com - Utah hasa strong history in the tech industry — Omniture, WordPerfect and Landesk all started there, Pixar co-founder Ed Catmul and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both graduated from the Universit...

Uber and Lyft sued for patent infringement by ‘Hailo,’ but not Daimler’s Hailo

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techcrunch.com - A company called “Hailo Technologies, LLC”, has sued both Uber and Lyft over alleged infringement of U.S. patent5,973,619, which describes an “automated vehicle dispatch and payment honoring system...

Shopify launches a free, in-house-designed card reader

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techcrunch.com - Shopify has designed its own hardware for the first time, building out a design team and coming up with a unique approach to the simple card reader, that most basic tool in the real-world merchant’...

The US game industry is a lot bigger (and less physical) than we thought

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arstechnica.com - Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual "Essential Facts" report suggested that the US game industry generated $16.5 billion in "content" sales annually (excluding hardware and a...

The 2017 New York International Auto Show: best of the rest

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—There has been much to see at this year's New York International Auto Show. Ford had a new hybrid police car. Cadillac brought its new race car—unbeaten in 2017—and a new semi-autonomous s...

15 Essential Free Icon Sets | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - When it comes to web design, and especially UI design, icons play a crucial role. When used properly, icons can enhance almost any website design by adding visual interest and appeal. However, crea...

Meet the workers watching the worst videos on YouTube, just to keep ads off them

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www.wired.com - Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos. They seek out hateful language in video titles.They...

Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ don’t have carrier logos on them - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - No matter how great the design of your smartphone is, sometimes it can get ruined by the tacky carrier logos that they still insist on putting on them. Apple is the only exemption as they have not ...

MicroVentures | Invest in Alchema

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app.microventures.com - Alchema is a smart device and mobile App platform that provides customers with a hassle-free solution for making creative hard ciders, meads, wines, and other alcoholic brews. Its patent-pending te...

Socialmedia Is Not Just Having A FaceBook Account - smqueue

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www.smqueue.com - More and more clients are asking their partners to create integrated campaigns that include social media and digital components in the mix. However, what they often fail to take into consideratio...

The Brutal, Scary Lessons of Yahoo's Demise

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adage.com - Ad Age "Media Guy" columnist Simon Dumenco's media roundup for the morning of Friday, April 21: So today I've got good news (see Nos. 1 and 3, below), possibly good news (Nos. 2 and 7) and bad news...

Forming Holistic Relationships Can Strengthen Customer Engagement Via Rewards Based on Behavior

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loyalty360.org - HARCO Incentives is a multi-generational incentive solutions company that has led the way in the expanding premium and incentive space. Its elite team of motivation, marketing, and logistics expert...

Building a Better B2B & B2G Customer Experiences with Advanced Analytics

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loyaltyexpo.loyalty360.org - Michael Marchand, Executive in Strategy, Innovation, Corporate Development and Operations, Dell EMC Michael loves to build innovative solutions that solve hard problems, create new business models ...

3 Targeting Ideas To Scale Your Facebook Advertising

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www.searchenginepeople.com - In today’s world, there are three basic types of marketers: Those who LOVE Facebook Ads; Those who HATE Facebook Ads; Those who swing between the poles of LOVE and HATE, depending on their Ads resu...

Facebook now lets businesses match user IDs across Messenger and their own apps, sites

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marketingland.com - Boring story made interesting: If you contact a brand though Facebook Messenger and also log in to the brand’s mobile app using your Facebook account, the brand has no idea that you’re the same per...

EQNS : Advanced Education In The Sciences - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ilya Uts”,CEO & Founder of the New York – USA based start-up “EQNS” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what you...

MonitorBacklinks.com: An Easy Backlink Checker Tool that Notifies you via Email or in your Changelog if Someone Removes your Links or Makes them Nofollow - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Monitor Backlinks looks to replace the notepad and spreadsheets that SEOs use to keep track of their backlinks, checking their status regulary and notifies when they get removed or nofollowed. “Mon...

716Labs : Helps App Developers In The Marketng Validation stage - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Scott Falbo”, Co-Founder of the Buffalo – USA based start-up “716Labs” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what ...

Pushstartr : Database Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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

Cibos : Sports Fan Mobile App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rick Gehman'; President of thePennsylvania – USA start-up “Cibos”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1....

ApprovalQ : Email Project Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sharif Aly”,Aly of the California – USA based start-up “ApprovalQ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your...

Ekayan: A web based app for people to find out what their friends think about them, and get recognized for what's admirable about them - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - “Ekayan”facilitates you to anonymously admire your friends, and know what your friends think about you. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Gupta’ regarding his start-up “...

Adlet: Advertising Platform for Bloggers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Ms. “Emma Coles”, CEO of the UK-based start-up “adlet.co” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Adlet is an online advert...

BlackBox-BI: A French Start-Up that Provides Easy to Use Affordable Business Intelligence for Companies of all Sizes - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - BlackBox-BI makes creating business dashboards easy. From data load to dashboard creation, BlackBox-BI focus is to make each step as easy as possible without compromising on functionality. “BlackBo...

Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist”is a social people search eng...

Textr : Group Messaging App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam Getty”,Founder of the Atlanta, Georgia – USA based start-up “Textr” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what...

Xerendi Initiative : Educational Learning For Kids - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Uchenna Ibekwe”, Principa and Founder of the Virginia – United States based startup Xerendi_Initiative” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What...

It's Official: Call of Duty to Return to its World War II Roots - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The rumors are true: Call of Duty will return to its World War II roots with the next installment of this best-selling game series, called Call of Duty: WWII. “This year, Sledgehammer Games joins t...

Samsung Galaxy S8+ Second Impressions: Impressive, Overwhelming - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Even for a seasoned device reviewer such as myself, the Samsung Galaxy S8+ presents such a wide range of unique capabilities that trying to understand it all up front quickly becomes overwhelming. ...

Microsoft to Improve Gmail Support in Mail and Calendar for Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft has announced that the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10 will be updated with enhanced support for Gmail and Google Calendar. “Over the past year we’ve introduced many new features in ...

How to Attract Customers (And Keep Em!) Lessons from Buffer

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www.socialquant.net - Where do I begin? I’ll start by saying that Bufferknows how to attract customers and is a master at keeping them around (I know because I’m one of them). It all starts with the fact that they’re a ...

Ignoring a WhatsApp Scam

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www.nytimes.com - Q. I signed up for WhatsApp out of curiosity last year but never used it. Today I got an email message about someone sending me a WhatsApp voice mail. Is this for real? A. The random note about Wha...

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey resurfaces, refutes Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak comments

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mashable.com - The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, quietly slipped back onto the public stage this week after a tumultuous year that ended with his departure from Facebook in March. First, Luckey appeared on Tw...

Neil Young’s high-quality streaming music service will be called Xstream

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www.theverge.com - Neil Young’s high-fidelity audio project Pono is undergoing a new change. In a post to Pono’s Community site, the singer informed users that after the company shut down its music store last summer,...

Another INSANE airplane video is causing an UPROAR – violence over a baby stroller!

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therightscoop.com - So, late last night a video dropped that everyone is talking about. It’s the aftermath of an altercation where an American Airlines employee allegedly hit a woman’s child with a stroller. You don’t...

Google and Partners Try to Block the March of Ad-Blockers

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www.bloomberg.com - After seven months of work, the biggest digital advertising companies think they have a solution to the existential threat of consumers blocking online ads. Google, the biggest player in this world...

TripIt | A trip to Sacramento, CA in April 2017

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www.tripit.com - Click on Tools - Internet Options. Select the Privacy tab. Click the Advanced button. Check "Override automatic cookie handling." Check "Accept" under "First-party Cookies" and "Third-party Cookies...

The Internet of Things is already here—just not the way you expected

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kernelmag.dailydot.com - The potential retail profit from connected devices—currently priced at a premium because it’s the hot new thing—is nice, but the real payday comes in the form of data. Dropcam gave the world Web-en...

The dangers and challenges of the Internet of Things – crucial points made by Bruce Schneier

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www.techvshuman.com - Bruce Schneier is one of the most brilliant thinkers when it’s about security and technology, in general. His recent piece ‘Click here to kill everyone’ is a must-read for anyone looking at the fut...

The small corner of Reddit where people share their darkest secrets

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mashable.com - r/confession was started eight years ago by an account that’s no longer active. It currently has almost 200,000 subscribers, and a steady stream of new posts are made throughout the day. It’s not t...

How to Use Google’s Disavow Tool Correctly

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neilpatel.com - I’m talking about things that most people don’t think exist. Okay, maybe it’s not that surprising that checks and phones still exist. But for some reason, people think link penalties are outdated t...

Facebook Debuts Augmented Reality Camera: This Week in Social Media : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. Facebook Releases Augment...

Silicon Valley executives are hiring philosophers to teach them to question everything

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qz.com - Silicon Valley is obsessed with happiness. The pursuit of a mythical good life, achievement blending perfectly with fulfillment, has given rise to the quantified self movement, polyphasic sleeping,...

5 customer-centric marketing tips to help build strong customer relationships

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www.articulatemarketing.com - ‘Brands, slogans, products, and media aren’t at the centre; rather they are spokes that help to bridge the gap between the customer and the business.’ So says Daniel Newman. And he’s right; strong ...

How Message Matching and Landing Pages Build Successful Advertising Agencies

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instapage.com - I’ve been a big believer in landing pages before most marketers realized their importance. Early in my digital marketing career, I started working with a paid search advertising client who was send...