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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
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Travis Wright
medium.com - It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, this allowed …
The New Rules of Buying a New TV
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GolfSigma
www.gq.com - Buying a television can be even more confusing than deciphering your cable bill. So here’s how to demystify the tech, decode the abbreviations, and make sure you walk away with the best set your mone…
Amazon has a secret health care team called 1492 focused on medical records, virtual doc visits
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Michael Tchong
www.cnbc.com - Amazon has started a secret skunkworks lab dedicated to opportunities in health care, including new areas such as electronic medical records and telemedicine. Amazon has dubbed this stealth team 1492…
5 Tips for Conducting a Great Marketing Automation Campaign
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Douglas Idugboe
www.smedio.com - You’ve probably heard of the term “marketing automation”. But end of the day… you have no clue what this term means. I’m not blaming you, it’s cool. Here’s a simple and description definition from Ma…
Car Wash Hack Can Strike Vehicle, Trap Passengers, Douse Them With Water
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Brent
motherboard.vice.com - The security problems found in internet-enabled medical equipment and cars in recent years have raised a lot of awareness about the public safety risks of connected devices. But it's not just life-sa…
How Much Does a Data Breach Cost a Business?
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Egnyte
www.egnyte.com - Another month goes by and another big brand is left red-faced at the center of a major hacking scandal. In the last two years, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Adult Friend Finder¹ have all been hit hard by majo…
Goodbye Adobe Flash, hello open web technology
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Lee Munson
hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - After 20 years, the time has finally come to say goodbye to Adobe Flash, the company announced on Tuesday. Flash made it easier for Internet users to run multiple applications and play games online, …
How Attackers Use Machine Learning to Predict BEC Success
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Lee Munson
www.darkreading.com - BLACK HAT USA - Las Vegas - Researchers from Symantec demonstrated how threat actors can employ machine learning models to drive the success rate of business email compromise (BEC) attacks. BEC scams…
Police Officer Lassos And Wrassles An Alligator Like A Total Boss All To Save The Gator's Life
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Cass Anderson
brobible.com - A police officer in Boynton Beach, Florida is being heralded as a hero after using a lasso to contain an alligator before wrestling the gator into submission. The office did so in order to relocate t…
Kaspersky Launches Free Antivirus - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - It’s not available in the US yet, but Kaspersky Labs this week announced a free version of its flagship antivirus solution. “We’ve been working on this release for a good year-and-a-half, with pilot …
New LinkedIn tool tells businesses about who’s visiting their websites
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - LinkedIn is giving businesses a new way to see what kinds of audiences they’re attracting with their marketing efforts. The Website Demographics tool allows businesses to break down their website vis…
HTC teases a standalone Vive VR headset for China
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techcrunch.com - Today at ChinaJoy, HTC announced that it is working on a standalone headset for Chinese markets built on its own Viveport content platform. The headset appears to be cosmetically identical to the one…
The IPO market in 2017? Underwhelming so far, underscores a new survey
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techcrunch.com - The IPO market isn’t looking much more vibrant than last year, underscores a new survey. That could be discouraging for those who hoped a blah year would lead to a booming one. In fact, unless the fa…
Ebay to launch visual search tools for finding products using photos from your phone or web
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techcrunch.com - Ebay this morning announced its plans to introduce new image search capabilities that will allow the company to better compete with the likes of Pinterest, Google and Amazon, all of which already sup…
Logitech Circle2 is a great surveillance system, but for a price
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Accessible home monitoring should be more than just being able to buy a security camera. It’s means having a packaged software experience, where you should be able to link cameras together over a sec…
Nintendo’s earnings buoyed by strong Switch console and game sales
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techcrunch.com - Nintendo is selling its new Switch console as fast as it can make them, with 1.97 million sold during the quarter ended in June, which the company just reported. The total Switch sales to date now st…
Bullish: Increasing access to technology for blind people
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techcrunch.com - Technology can be central to the lives of the 285 million people in the world who are blind or visually impaired, as long as they know how to use it. That’s where Erin Lauridsen, access technology di…
CEO controversy mars Arduino’s open future
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Things in the normally placid world of open source hardware are heating up as major figures in the Maker movement have begun speaking out against the current managing director of Arduino AG, Frederic…
Facebook’s CSO: the security industry needs to change
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techcrunch.com - Every summer, suited and/or black-clad security geeks flock en masse to the sun-drenched surreality of Las Vegas for “Hacker Summer Camp”: a full week of various security and hacker conferences, the …
Waze finally arrives on Android Auto
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techcrunch.com - After a beta that kicked off earlier in 2017, crowdsourced navigation app Waze is coming to Android Auto. The Google-owned Waze seemed like a shoe-in for gaining app support for Android’s native in-c…
Medium acquires Talkshow Industries, with CEO Michael Sippey becoming Medium’s head of product
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techcrunch.com - Medium has a new head of product, while the startup behind the defunct texting app Talkshow appears to be done for good. Talkshow Industries was led by Michael Sippey, who’d spent two years as vice p…
Judge rules Anthony Levandowski can be called to testify in Uber/Waymo trial
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techcrunch.com - In the latest hearing to define the scope of the upcoming trial between self-driving technology rivals Waymo and Uber, District Judge William Alsup said Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer at the …
August Home raises another $25 million as it expands service partnerships for its smart locks
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techcrunch.com - When August Home raised its last big round nearly two and half years ago, the smart lock maker was targeting retail expansion. That’s still part of the plan for the company’s new $25 million Series C…
Open Letter: Seriously, Roomba, now you're spying on us? | ZDNet
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Om Malik
www.zdnet.com - The following is an open letter to iRobot CEO Colin Angle. His company makes the very popular Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. On Monday, ZDNet's Jake Smith wrote about iRobot's intention to sell mappi…
Microsoft expands bug bounty program to cover any Windows flaw
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Microsoft today announced a new bug bounty scheme that would see anyone finding a security flaw in Windows eligible for a payout of up to $15,000. The company has been running bug bounty schemes, whe…
Moto Z2 Force hands-on—Motorola bets the farm on Moto Mods, loses
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Moto Z2 Force. This one is the white-and-gold color combo. That thinness means there's no room for a headphone jack. The front of the phone has some MASSIVE bezels, and they don't house much. Thi…
Net neutrality faceoff: Congress summons ISPs and websites to hearing
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The biggest websites and the biggest Internet service providers are being summoned to Congress to testify about net neutrality. US Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Co…
Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission was sued today by a group that says the commission failed to comply with a public records request for communications about net neutrality between FCC officials a…
Verizon’s throttling of video should be investigated by FCC, petition says
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission should investigate whether Verizon Wireless violated net neutrality rules by throttling video applications on its mobile network, advocacy group Free Press says.…
iPhone-maker Foxconn to build flat-screen display factory in Wisconsin
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Foxconn, one of the electronics manufacturers that makes Apple's iPhones, is set to reveal plans to build a factory in Wisconsin to product flat-screen displays. Foxconn has been in talks with state …
Uber’s ex-CEO may defend Levandowski against Waymo’s theft allegations
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—At a court hearing on Wednesday, US District Judge William Alsup questioned whether Waymo can really show the harm from Uber's alleged trade secret theft. Waymo has been ordered to subm…
How Twitter Drove Me to Delete Snapchat from my iPhone’s Home Screen
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Joel Comm
technmarketing.com - It happened. After months of gradually lowering my activity on Snapchat and paying close attention to the amount of Snap spam I get on a daily basis, I finally deleted the app from my iPhone’s home s…
Why the IoT Threatens Your WordPress Site (and How to Fix It) — SitePoint
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Webdesigner Depot
www.sitepoint.com - This article was sponsored by Incapsula. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly a fact of life for any busine…
10 Plugins for Customizing the WordPress Admin
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Webdesigner Depot
speckyboy.com - The WordPress administration area (aka the Dashboard) can be customized in a number of ways. Menu items can be added, hidden or rearranged. Access to settings can be set for specific user roles. Cust…
60 Ways to Boost Your Website's Traffic in 60 Minutes a Day
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Douglas Idugboe
www.sarkemedia.com - Want more traffic to your website? Excellent, this is just the post for you. Whether it’s a high traffic blog or an eCommerce website, we need to remember that traffic isn’t created equally, that som…
Why I Write Using a Plain Text Editor · The Sales Blog
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Douglas Idugboe
thesalesblog.com - I wrote my first book, The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need, using a text editor called Ulysses. I wrote my second book, The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales using th…
Periscope: How Your Business Can Benefit From Live Video
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Reg Saddler
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to use it to connect with and grow your audience? To discover how to use Periscope for your business, I interview Kim Garst. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show fr…
Google launches its own AI Studio to foster machine intelligence startups
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Reg Saddler
techcrunch.com - A new week brings a fresh Google initiative targeting AI startups. We started the month with the announcement of Gradient Ventures, Google’s on-balance sheet AI investment vehicle. Two days later we …
Galaxy J7 (2017) devices brings Dual Messenger feature - Android Community
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Most people probably use one or two messaging apps. Some would have more than three, especially if they belong to a lot of groups or communities. Then there are those that have more than one account …
ThingThing takes over development of virtual keyboard Fleksy - Android Community
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - If a once thriving app suddenly starts releasing updates, you can safely assume that something is up. And when half your team but not the product itself is acquired by another company, then expect a …
Nexus 6P bootloop fix seems to be working on affected Nexus 5X phones as well - Android Community
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - A few days back, an XDA member put out a “fix” for Nexus 6P units that were experiencing bootlooping issues and unable to get into their phones. In truth, the fix disabled the four larger cores of th…
How Google is trying to fix Android's emoji problem
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TweetSmarter
mashable.com - No, it's not those weird blobs (RIP), but something that's been nearly as tricky to fix. Because of Android handset makers' inconsistent updates, not only do many Android users not get new software u…
How to use a password manager (and why you really should)
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TweetSmarter
www.theverge.com - If for some cruel reason I was forced to rewrite that mid-‘90s viral essay / hit single “Wear Sunscreen,” I would replace the titular advice with a simple plea: use a password manager. Like sunscreen…
How do I clear my web browser's cache, cookies, and history?
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Greg Wilson
kb.iu.edu - Clearing your web browser's cache, cookies, and history may remove data such as the following: While you should clear your web browser's cache, cookies, and history periodically in order to prevent o…
Voice is an important new channel for brands to measure, but not in a silo
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - Despite all the advancements we’ve seen in computing, the way consumers interact with their devices and the internet has remained somewhat static. The keyboard gave way to touchscreens, but we’ve con…
Mekiwi : Easy-To-Use StartUp to Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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-up …
EzyOnlineBookings.com: An Online Booking System that Allows Businesses to Take Appointment Bookings Right on their Existing Website - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online booking system that allows businesses to take appointment bookings right on their existing website. According to Mr. ‘Gol'; EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online booki…
Talk.io A New Way To Meet People - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Tomasz Dominiak'; Project Manager / CEO of Talk.io in Warsaw. Talk.io (http://www.talk.io) is a new product designed for anyone who wants to break free from …
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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Debbas
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. “BlackBox-…
Ostrato cloudSM™ : Cloud Based Services and Applications - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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 I…
Scoopinion.com: A Web-Based Application that Turns Your Browser into a Learning Magazine - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Scoopinion builds your personal magazine by matching what people like you have read well and you haven’t. It’s an effortless way to make the news good for yourself and the community. As per Mr. Koshi…
D-Tangle : New Innovative Gadget Using Set of Earbuds - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Christina Nicholson”, Executive Director of the Nicosia- Cyprus based start-up “D-Tangle” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that…
Wob.io: An Online Jukebox that was Designed with the Express Aim of Being Simple and Easy to Use - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Wobio provides free music streaming, special tailored online radio per user, and lets you connect with artists and friends. According to Mr. Alp; Wobio provides free music streaming, special tailored…
Needls : Get Notified of Leads in Real Time - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Justin Hartzman”, Founder and CEO – of the Toronto – Canada based start-up “Needls.” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1- What is it exactly that you …
Microsoft Announces Its Own Schedule for Killing Flash - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - In the wake of Adobe’s announcement about the end of life of Flash, Microsoft this week announced its own schedule for removing Flash from its own products. “Adobe announced that Flash will no longer…
Review: Amplifi HD Mesh Wi-Fi System - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - When it comes to wired Internet, it either works or it doesn’t. There really isn’t much in between when it comes to a connection tethered by the cat-5 gods but Wi-Fi is a completely different story. …
Insiders Can Now Skip Ahead and Test the Next Windows 10 Version - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft this week announced that Insiders can now choose to “skip ahead” to testing the next version of Windows 10 after the Fall Creators Update. Annoyingly, this announcement was made via the Fee…
Hands-On with Windows 10's New "Continue From Your Phone" Feature - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Today’s Windows 10 Insider Preview build includes our first peek at the PC/smartphone integration functionality Microsoft showed off months ago at Build. It’s a small step forward. A few weeks back, …
USB-C is About to Get Twice as Fast - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - The USB 3.0 Promoters Group this week announced a new USB-C specification that doubles the performance of existing cables. Well. Sort of. As you may know, when it comes to USB in general, and with US…
Why Brands Like L'Oréal and Acura Are Betting Big on Augmented Reality
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Two weeks ago, Acura set up a racetrack in El Toro, Calif., around a former Marine base and asked four influencers to drive a car as quickly and safely as possible down the course. The catch? All of …
How To Get Funds For Your Mobile App Development Project
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.dumblittleman.com - One major reason why some people cannot turn their great ideas into reality in the app industry is the lack of funds. Hiring a mobile app developer, testing iterations, and deploying a mobile app is …
Don’t Let Your Business Fail Because You Forgot SEO
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.shoemoney.com - You probably think you can just put up a website and you’ll have customers wander in. If you build it they will come, right? Besides, it’s how we’ve done business for years. Build a storefront and ho…
It’s LinkedIn’s Turn to Enable Brands to Track Users on Other Websites
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - LinkedIn Wednesday announced the launch of LinkedIn Website Demographics, a new tool that enables brands to tap into data from the professional network to see who has been visiting their websites. Li…
Google has explained how you can remove your AMP content from Google search
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searchengineland.com - Google has finally added a help document in their developer section explaining how publishers and webmasters can remove AMP content from showing up in search results. Of course, Google doesn’t want y…
LCG's Trading App – Can This App Help You Become A Trading Mogul? [Review]
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www.bitrebels.com - A lot of people these days look to the financial trading markets as a way to try and make some income on top of their normal jobs, to leverage their savings, or simply as a fun hobby. There are a lot…
Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter backers get their reward and it's...laughably bad
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James Hickey
mashable.com - Roughly a year after Might No. 9's release and four years after it was funded on Kickstarter, some Kickstarter backers are finally receiving their backer rewards in...some kind of form, anyway. The g…
Trump to Announce Foxconn Plant Opening in Wisconsin - Breitbart
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Glen Woodfin
www.breitbart.com - The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer was one of the first companies to announce a plan to invest billions to create jobs in America following the Trump’s election. The company said it planned to…
WATCH: Pres. Trump, Gov. Walker announce Foxconn bringing historic job opportunities to Wisconsin
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Glen Woodfin
therightscoop.com - Gov. Scott Walker today announced on his Twitter that Foxconn, the tech company that Apple uses to build the iPhone, is building a plant in Wisconsin which will bring up to 13,000 jobs to the state: …
How to Track Dark Social Traffic in Google Analytics
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Themelis Cuiper
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are links to your content shared via private messages on social media? Wondering how to identify and measure that traffic? Dark social traffic comes from sources such as Facebook Messenger, Twitter D…
How to keep track of your entire business with one smart dashboard
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SingingSteve
www.lilachbullock.com - As much as I love tools and apps, the truth is it’s frustrating and time-consuming to have to use so many tools. And as a business owner, you need a plethora of different tools, from accounting to sa…
TapMedia Twitter account goes rogue as former employee calls out CEO for sexism
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Themelis Cuiper
mashable.com - Hell hath no fury like a former social media manager scorned. TapMedia learned that the hard way after a former social media manager took the reigns to the company's Twitter account and blasted the c…
Gamified Training in the Corporate Workplace
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - The corporate workplace is a harsh place. Well, harsh as in very few employees wake up every morning excited to go to work. More often than not, employees simply attempt to survive through the dreadf…
How to impress everyone by just driving around
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Hmmm….what does driving a lot have anything to do with being knowledgeable or being a good leader? Isn’t driving just a waste of time? Upon retrospection, a majority of my knowledge and education act…
Going Shopping For A New Laptop? Check These Tips Out First!
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Rolf Joho
laptopsandnotebook.com - Laptops have come a long way in a very advanced technology. It is fun to shop for a laptop, but you should also approach the purchase seriously. You may not know what to do if it has been some time s…
Beginner's Guide to Gamification (11 of 90): Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback (II) - Yu-kai Chou: Gamification & Behavioral Design
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Check out all the videos for the Beginner’s Guide to Gamification Last episode, people wanted me to talk more about the core drive. Other social games like Draw Something (at least in the early scaff…
Getting Maximum Mobile Marketing Impact With Minimum Effort
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Rolf Joho
marketingpromotion.biz - There are so many factors to consider when starting a mobile marketing strategy for your business that you might not know where to start. This article’s tips will take some of the guesswork out of th…
Kindle Voyage E-reader, 6″ High-Resolution Display (300 ppi) with Adaptive Built-in Light, PagePress Sensors, Wi-Fi – Includes Special Offers
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Rolf Joho
popularchristmas.com - Kindle Voyage E-reader, 6" High-Resolution Display (300 ppi) with Adaptive Built-in Light, Wi-Fi Kindle Voyage, 6" High-Resolution Display (300 ppi) with Adaptive Built-in Light, PagePress Senso… Kin…
Report: Apple Inc. Buys Equipment to Develop OLED Displays
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Future Lighting
host.madison.com - Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been using organic light-emitting diode-based displays in some of its products for a while now. The company's Apple Watch wearable devices, for example, sport OLED displays, …
Home Automation: Evolution of a Term
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Tamara Dull
hackaday.com - Home automation: for me the term recalls rich dudes in the ’80s who could turn off their garage lights with remote-control pads. The stereotype for that era was the more buttons your system had—even …
KL AV for Free. Secure the Whole World Will Be.
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0utKast
eugene.kaspersky.com - I’ve some fantastic, earth-shattering-saving news: we’re announcing the global launch of Kaspersky Free, which, as you may have guessed by the title, is completely free-of-charge! Oh my giveaway! We’…
