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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
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www.nytimes.com - Ms. Slaughter told Mr. Lynn that “the time has come for Open Markets and New America to part ways,” according to an email from Ms. Slaughter to Mr. Lynn. The email suggested that the entire Open Mark…
Roadmaps are linear. Software projects aren’t. – Jeff Gothelf – Medium
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medium.com - This post was originally published to my newsletter subscribers (12k of them now). If you’d like to get these in your inbox sign up here. In last month’s newsletter I showed you how to take metrics t…
Ensuring an Open Internet while Fostering Innovation and Investment - AT&T Public Policy
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www.attpublicpolicy.com - Today, AT&T filed reply comments on the FCC’s proposal to restore the longstanding, bipartisan consensus that internet access service is an information service, a status that it enjoyed for all but t…
10 Ways to Boost the Marketing Value of Your Website
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www.gianfagnamarketing.com - Are you getting the results you want from your website? Whether you’re a business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) marketer, a great website is essential for a smart marketing strategy.
Enterprise Insights: How Businesses are Getting Work Done
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Egnyte
www.egnyte.com - Everyone has heard the saying “knowledge is power.” When it comes to knowledge, Egnyte knows content. With over 10 years of experience managing content and creating collaboration solutions, we have c…
Evaluating Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. Financial Force
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TMC
blog.abouttmc.com - Your company loves Salesforce, and you're looking for financial management software to complement this CRM. Normally a good starting point would be Salesforce’s newish ERP complement Financial Force,…
Wall to Wall: Egnyte Tops the Charts from SMB to Enterprise
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Egnyte
www.egnyte.com - Our focus on business has been razor sharp from day one, and today we cemented the title. After a decade of relentless dedication to meeting our customers’ evolving demands, Egnyte has been recognize…
Alexa can now play synchronized music across Echo devices - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - For houses or small offices that have multiple Amazon Echo devices, having the ability to play music synchronized across all of them is probably something users already expect. So yes, now you can ac…
6 Ways to Use Facebook Live Video for Your Business
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Reg Saddler
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are you wondering how your business can use Facebook Live? Looking for examples to help you get started? Using live video will improve your Facebook reach and it can take less time than writing indiv…
For Broadband Connections, How Fast is Fast Enough?
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Reg Saddler
www.wired.com - That question is at the heart of a controversy at the Federal Communications Commission. After a study about connection speeds in the US last year, the FCC decided that too few people had access to h…
Horrifying Blade Runner short film serves as prequel to 2049
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - With Blade Runner 2049 hitting theaters October 6, you might be wondering what's been going on in the 30 years since the last film ended. The original Blade Runner ended ambiguously in 2017 when Deck…
Today is your last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
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techcrunch.com - With more than 20 million comments, the FCC’s inaptly named “Restoring Internet Freedom” proposal to gut net neutrality rules as we know them, is by far the most controversial measure the agency has …
Tech industry and comp-sci majors are highest earners, says LinkedIn job survey
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techcrunch.com - The vast quantities of money raised by startups and the stratospheric share prices of publicly-traded tech giants perhaps speak for themselves, but a survey out today from LinkedIn has provided a few…
The ASUS ROG Zephyrus is a powerful Max Q laptop with one notable flaw
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techcrunch.com - This is the Republic of Gamers Zephyrus by ASUS. Zephyrus for short, it’s a gaming-oriented ultrabook-style laptop with an NVIDIA GTX 1080 graphics card living inside. The twist? The card is slightly…
Uber Movement traffic data finally makes it out of beta
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techcrunch.com - Uber Movement, announced back in January, finally went live today. The service gives anyone access to some of Uber’s internal demand and usage data. The hope is that cities and urban planners can use…
AT&T’s DirecTV Now is testing a cloud DVR with 100 hours of storage
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techcrunch.com - AT&T’s streaming TV service for cord cutters, DirecTV Now, hasn’t yet publicly launched a cloud DVR feature – something all major rivals today offer – but we now know what it has in store in terms of…
Fossil is betting big on fashion-focused Android Wear watches in 2018
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techcrunch.com - Fossil Group is doubling down on its Android Wear smartwatch investment with a range of new wearables, many of which feature full-round AMOLED displays, which offer perfectly circular touchscreen int…
MINI’s Electric Concept still looks like a MINI, but also screams ‘EV’
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techcrunch.com - The MINI Electric Concept is coming to the Frankfurt Motor Show, and its debut appearance will showcase the design changes that MINI has made to signal that this is indeed the first large-scale produ…
Andy Rubin describes the taste of crow after Essential spills customer data
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techcrunch.com - Launching a product and company from scratch is hard, as fresh-faced entrepreneurs and Kickstarter successes often learn to their chagrin. And it turns out even heavy hitters like Andy Rubin and his …
Smart apartment platform Dwelo grabs $4.9M in funding
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techcrunch.com - One of the big issues with the smart home is that so many of the country’s tech lovers aren’t living in homes. Dwelo is designing large-scale smart home solutions built for renters living in apartmen…
Amazon just gave Windows users access to lower-cost EC2 Elastic GPUs
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techcrunch.com - Last year at AWS re:invent, Amazon introduced a way to get just the right amount of GPU power you needed and nothing more. The trouble was that it was only for Linux applications. Windows users were …
Apple to remove home button in upcoming high-end iPhone, report says
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techcrunch.com - The home button is headed to the trash bin if a report by Bloomberg is to be believed. According to the report, Apple is ditching the button to make room for a larger screen in one version of the nex…
Mindshow, a Pixar-esque VR movie creator, launches on HTC Vive
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techcrunch.com - When it comes to virtual reality games and apps, a lot of what’s out there is pretty stale and nothing that another platform couldn’t handle just as well or better. There are apps making use of the u…
Treating coding as the new cursive - Holy Kaw!
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holykaw.alltop.com - Many of us remember spending hours in grade school perfecting our loops and stems to get a good mark in cursive writing, but new times call for new skills, and the skill of the future is coding. Kell…
Uber to stop tracking customers after ride is over
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arstechnica.com - Uber is turning off a surveillance feature that enabled the ride-hailing company to track customers even after their rides had ended. The company last year began tracking customers from the time they…
Google’s ARCore brings augmented reality to millions of Android devices
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arstechnica.com - This gallery contains a bunch of Google-provided gifs of ARCore in action. Just a warning that they're 2-20MB each. ARCore detects a table and allows you to place stuff on it. Fake lion, real dog. No…
What Ford’s pizza delivery experiment says about its autonomy strategy
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arstechnica.com - Ford has teamed up with Domino's Pizza to test automated delivery of pizzas, the Detroit News reports. Customers who participate in the test will get a text message telling them that their pizza is r…
Masterpiece: Street Fighter II
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Street Fighter II was an arcade monster that has stood the test of time. Even today, it's Capcom's golden goose and it's not hard to see why. Even after the unsuccessful clones and the innumerable fo…
465k patients need a firmware update to prevent serious pacemaker hacks
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arstechnica.com - Talk about painful software updates. An estimated 465,000 people in the US are getting notices that they should update the firmware that runs their life-sustaining pacemakers or risk falling victim t…
The Central Habit of Highly Successful People – The Mission – Medium
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medium.com - pull the covers off my leg the same way I do every morning, with one familiar swoop that drags over my bare legs. I stand and move right foot and then left foot — never left foot and then right — tow…
Original iPhone Developer Explains Why You Should Shut Down Your Background Apps
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Joel Comm
www.inc.com - When we were kids, we were all told to put away our toys after we've finished playing with them. It takes time (and a lot of nagging) but eventually the message gets through. We still hear it when we…
How CodeIgniter's Hook System Works
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code.tutsplus.com - As a CodeIgniter developer, sometimes you end up in a situation that requires you to alter the core of the framework or the execution flow to fulfill your custom requirements. Of course, it's never r…
5 Ways the Floating Action Button Boosts UX | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - A Floating Action Button (FAB) is a circled icon floating above the user interface. Its shape, position, and color ensure it stands out from the rest of a UI. FAB was popularized by the release of Go…
Here Are a Bunch of Trump Inner Circle Amazon Wish Lists
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Reg Saddler
www.wired.com - In the ongoing drama that is the Trump presidency, secondary characters constantly float in and out as new storylines and Special Counsel inquiries come to light. It’s easy to lose track. So to help,…
9 Google Analytics Tips to Improve Your Marketing
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Reg Saddler
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are you leveraging the many apps that work with Google Analytics? Integrating data from third-party tools, plugins and platforms with Google Analytics helps you gain insight about your online marketi…
Amazon Prime Video finally available in US Google Play Store - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - If you wanted to watch Amazon Prime Video on your Android mobile device, you could, but you had to take a few extra steps to do so instead of just simply installing the app. That’s because, for some …
Samsung, Wacom working on digital signature solution with the S-Pen - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - Just in case it slipped you, Samsung partnered with Wacom to come up with the S-Pen stylus. The Note series is made more popular not only for its size but mainly for the stylus that allows more funct…
Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ receive latest software update from Verizon - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ may not be totally overshadowed by the Galaxy Note 8 and other premium flagships that will be introduced at the IFA in Berlin but the duo needs to be updated. It’s been …
T-Mobile notifying Note 8 pre-order customers that they're getting ready - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - Will T-Mobile continue with their “tradition” of shipping flagship devices ahead of the actual official launch date? Or are they just letting their customers know that they’re getting ready? It seems…
Control your world from any surface: Knocki wins $100K in Flash Funding from Arrow
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go.indiegogo.com - Knocki is the latest Indiegogo campaign to win flash funding from Arrow, as part of the Arrow Certification Program. It all started at a barbecue back in July of 2014. Long-time friends Jake Bosherni…
Use this Handy Campaign Marketing Workbook to Manage Your Outreach Efforts - Indiegogo Education Center
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Indiegogo
entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - The planning for your crowdfunding campaign is underway. Great work! As you think about building your support base for your project, we know it can be daunting to think about all the people you need …
Customer Loyalty Driven by Three Primary Merchandising Trends
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Loyalty360
www.loyalty360.org - Bill Termini, vice president of sales, Harco Incentives, believes that customer loyalty is driven by three primary merchandising trends. Loyalty360 caught up with Termini to find out more about these…
Understanding Key Drivers of Customer Delight Drives True Brand Loyalty
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www.loyalty360.org - For more than 20 years, West has been leading the way in hosted and cloud-based solutions, with unified communications, safety services, and customer experience management solutions like IVR, cloud c…
Two Steps to See Real Back-To-School Loyalty Results
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Loyalty360
www.loyalty360.org - The back-to-school shopping season has been an extremely important business period for decades in the US. Can you even remember a time when the anticipation of heading back into the classroom didn’t …
Google is testing ads in local business knowledge panels
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Brett Prince
searchengineland.com - Google is testing more ad opportunities in knowledge panels. In this case, it’s testing ads on panels for local businesses. Spotted by Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz, the example below shows an ad from Group…
ParkParrot : Automated System Showing Available Parkings - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Chandler Burke”, Founder of the Chattanooga – USA based start-up “ParkParrot” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and …
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…
Crowdid : E-Commerce Platform Selling Crowdfunded Products - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ed Havens”, Founder (CMO) at the San Francisco – USA based start-up “crowdid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and…
Conversion In A Box : Web Based Niche Marketing Tool - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Mark La Fay'; Founder of the – USA start-up “Conversion In A Box”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. W…
Codility.com: An Automated Tool for Assessment of Programming Skills - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. As per Mrs. Sobantka; Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. Codility is designed for software develop…
So THIS Is What Happens When Your Server Goes Down for a Week
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Pat Flynn
www.smartpassiveincome.com - Pat Flynn March 11, 2013 in All, Let's Optimize Your Work, Pat Flynn's Journey, Productivity, Website Tutorial You own a brick and mortar business in your hometown, and business is good. One morning …
How to Do Successful Product Launches - Steve Pavlina
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.stevepavlina.com - A common problem many readers encounter when trying to build new income streams is how to get attention and drive traffic to their new product or service. You may write and self-publish a new ebook, …
Untangling Facebook Metrics: What Advertisers Need to Know
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Facebook faced a litany of criticism in late 2016 when it was discovered that it had been misreporting completion rates on its video ads for two years—in its favor. The massive social platform had it…
Google Home partnership with Condé Nast's Vogue offers new model for publishers
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchengineland.com - In what is sure to be a model for other publishers, last week Google and Vogue magazine announced a partnership that offers “behind the scenes” audio content from selected Vogue magazine interviews. …
Automation and Employment: The Narrowing Path
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Hasai
www.nationalreview.com - As promised/threatened, more from that fascinating article on Silicon Valley by Joel Kotkin in Newgeography. I don’t agree with everything that he has to say, but this, I think, is close to spot on: …
Data Center Austin Conference: Join IT Influencers - OnRamp
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Themelis Cuiper
www.onr.com - What’s not to like about “extreme networking,” golf, live music, and talkin’ shop about the latest advances in data center technology with your peers? All of this and more will take place at the Data…
How to Improve Your LinkedIn Engagement
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Themelis Cuiper
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how to increase views and shares of your LinkedIn content? In this article, you’ll discover five simple tactics to improve engagement on your LinkedIn posts. How to Improve Your LinkedIn En…
Oops: An Instagram bug let a hacker access phone numbers and email addresses
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Themelis Cuiper
mashable.com - What's shady, possibly wearing a hoodie, and is currently sitting on the stolen personal information of an untold number of high-profile Instagram users? That would be — SURPRISE! — a random hacker. …
6 Lessons From Oracle's Insanely Successful Video Marketing Campaign
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SingingSteve
www.inc.com - Some customers are harder to find than others. There's plenty of consumer-facing video out there these days, but what about the B2B crowd? That's something I've been following quite closely, ever sin…
Terrific Mobile Marketing Tips
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Rolf Joho
internetmarketinginfos.com - Mobile marketing has become an integral part of any business plan, but understanding it and creating the right marketing plan can be tricky. There are such a variety of different mobile marketing pro…
Get Your Internet Business Booming With These Expert Ideas
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Rolf Joho
durac.info - Internet marketing is very important for online business. It has really become necessary to promote your business.This is the time to get involved in this endeavor. The following tips can help you fi…
How Yu-Kai Chou Designed the Gamification system on his blog
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Over the past several months I’ve been playing around with different Gamification widgets and platforms to experiment with a Points, Badges, and Leaderboard (PBL) system for this blog. Now, as I’ve d…
The Baby Steps Of Website Marketing You Need To Know
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Rolf Joho
internetmarketinginfos.com - Do you have ideas swimming in your head about how to run and operate a great idea? When you get an idea, be ready to start up your own business. Use the tips and advice provided below so you’re able …
Facebook and Google dominate the app ecosystem
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Tamara Dull
www.businessinsider.com - This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Facebook and Google are dominating the US mobile app space, owning…
Unlimited Data Plans Comparison: Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint
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Tamara Dull
www.droid-life.com - Verizon’s new unlimited data plans that were introduced last week have replaced the unlimited offering from February that brought Big Red back into the unlimited game and that we thought was a pretty…
IoT Security Vulnerabilities May Drive People Away - RTInsights
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Tamara Dull
www.rtinsights.com - While it’s inevitable that Internet of Things will encompass business and life in general, there needs to be more work in terms of IoT security. The Internet of Things (IoT) generally gets positive p…
Universal Display Surges 13%: Prospects Bright as OLED Goes Mainstream, Says Deutsche
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Future Lighting
www.barrons.com - Shares of organic light-emitting diode technology maker Universal Display (OLED) are up $13.93, or almost 13%, at $125.03, after Deutsche Bank’s Sidney Ho this morning stated coverage of the stock wi…
Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
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Tamara Dull
www.cnbc.com - While there's little Target can do to impede Amazon's dominance in retail, the emergence of other cloud providers at least allows the company to spend its computing and storage dollars elsewhere. Acc…
Opinion: California online privacy legislation threatens tech success
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Tamara Dull
www.mercurynews.com - California is America’s internet success story. The jobs, innovation, and economic success from the tech sector are fueling nearly 130,000 California jobs, and the state’s tech sector makes up more t…
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