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Essential Phone gets a $200 price drop, existing customers get credit
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techcrunch.com - Essential has an offer that’s honestly very hard to refuse: The price of the Essential Phone (PH-1, going by technical model number), is now $200 cheaper, so $499 off-contract and unlocked. That’s an…
Google will reportedly share some revenue with news publishers
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techcrunch.com - Google is reportedly gearing up to share revenue with news publishers, the Financial Times reports. The plan is to combine Google’s treasure trove of personal data with machine learning algorithms to…
The canaries in a coal mine
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techcrunch.com - I’ve seen startups come and go over the years and I was particularly interested to see what happened to August Home today. The company originally tapped Yves Behar to make a better smart lock, one th…
Seth Godin Explains Why You Should Blog Daily
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www.cjchilvers.com - "Other than writing a daily blog (a practice that's free, and priceless), reading more blogs is one of the best ways to become smarter, more effective and more engaged in what's going on. The last gr…
Recommended Marketing Podcasts: Week of October 16th | Convince and Convert: Social Media Consulting and Content Marketing Consulting
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Joel Comm
www.convinceandconvert.com - Podcasts are a great way to educate yourself. Whether you’re on the train, in the car, at your desk, or anywhere in between, this medium is an incredible vehicle for supplementing your industry knowl…
Consumer Reports’ Least Reliable Cars For 2017 Are…
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Reg Saddler
www.carscoops.com - Consumer Reports’ Least Reliable Cars For 2017 Are… The Annual Reliability Survey of Consumer Reports for the year 2017 is out and as with every year, we get a list of winners and losers. For 2017, t…
26 Inspiring Quotes From Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
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Reg Saddler
www.inc.com - You would think that wisdom comes with age and most often it does. But there are a few people who seem to learn faster and know more than the average folks. Some of these people explode on to the sce…
How Microsoft embraced 'messy’ creativity with Windows Ink
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Reg Saddler
www.engadget.com - In particular, Woodman credits Microsoft's close partnership with Wacom, a company best known for its stylus tablets and displays, for the progress with Windows Ink so far. That allowed the two compa…
Amazon Looks to Teenagers In Another Example of Keen Focus on Its Customers
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www.loyalty360.org - Amazon has always been innovative, to say the least, and its latest initiative caters to teenagers. Amazon introduced a convenient way for teenagers 13 through 17 years old to shop on Amazon with the…
Epsilon Receives Esteemed Honor for Customer Loyalty Excellence
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www.loyalty360.org - Epsilon, a global leader in creating connections between people and brands, recently received the prestigious 2017 Partner of the Year award by Citi. The award recognizes Epsilon’s high levels of per…
New Loyalty Program Part of Future Strategic Plans at DSW
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www.loyalty360.org - Officials at DSW, a leading branded footwear and accessories retailer, are excited about plans to spark customer loyalty amid a new brand mission, which is supported by key strategic initiatives focu…
The Struggle to Deliver Effective CX to Drive Customer Loyalty
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www.loyalty360.org - Customer experience is viewed as a significant piece of the overall customer loyalty puzzle. Loyalty marketers understand this point all too well. The challenge, though, can be executing and deliveri…
Enhance Your Mobile Strategy with a Mobile Wallet
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www.loyalty360.org - As much as I hate to admit it, my phone is an extension of myself. It's on me at all times, and gets juggled around while I do my daily activities - commuting, relaxing, working out and of course sh…
7 Ways to Add More Value to Your Loyalty Program
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www.loyalty360.org - To keep customers active in your loyalty program, it’s essential to reward members beyond discounts and demonstrate the value of continuous participation. Research featured in the International Journ…
Tune into Engagement: What if we Designed Loyalty Programs for TV’s Favorite Hotspots?
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www.loyalty360.org - We’ve all been there: Two seasons into a binge watching session and you wonder, “Is the coffee at Central Perk really that good?” Or, “What would it be like to play, ‘Haaave you met Ted?’ with Ted an…
Two Steps to See Real Back-To-School Loyalty Results
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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 …
Data Gran launches AI-powered tool for optimizing Facebook, Instagram (and soon, Google) campaigns
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martechtoday.com - A new campaign testing and optimization tool for Facebook and Instagram advertisers launches today after a two-year development and beta testing period. Support for Google campaigns is in the works. …
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. “Monit…
My Home Needs That : Search Engine Dedicated to Furniture and Homeware - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Adam Pilling”, Foundert at the London – UK based start-up “MyHomeNeedsThat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and w…
Pear-U : Relationship Making Application - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sachet Gagwani”, Founder/CEO of the Ashburn – USA based start-up “Pear-U” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what…
Podcasting and the Stats that Really Matter - The Smart Passive Income Blog
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www.smartpassiveincome.com - When you’re just starting out and your numbers are small, you actually have an advantage over those with larger numbers who can’t possibly take the time to reach out and get to personally know their …
Microsoft Discusses a Years-Long Effort to Set Halo: MCC Right - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Last week, Microsoft revealed that it would enhance the games in Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One X sometime in 2018. But there’s more to this story: Stung by its abysmal launch on the …
Essential Phone Gets a Permanent $200 Price Cut - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Essential announced this weekend that its first smartphone, the PH-1, is getting a permanent $200 price cut. Now, the unlocked device will cost a far more reasonable $499. “One of our driving princip…
What's Apple Up To?
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talkingpointsmemo.com - Apple is in the process of introducing a series of features (or perhaps better to say, restrictions) to its Safari browser, along with the new version of its operating system OSX High Sierra, which p…
'Cyber Hurricane': Millions of Devices Infected in Rapidly Replicating Botnet
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sputniknews.com - In 2016, an Internet of Things (IoT) worm named Mirai infected some 2.5 million gadgets worldwide, building botnets that sent unstoppable floods of junk traffic and took down major internet services …
Download this: Spilly's AR app is like Snapchat filters on steroids
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mashable.com - If you've ever watched a YouTube video and wished that you could be part of it, there's a new augmented reality app that might be able to help. It's called Spilly, and it takes popular videos of cele…
The New IPad Technology – Choosing What Is Right For You
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laptopsandnotebook.com - You may think you have heard a lot about the many great benefits of owning an iPad. If you think the iPad is a tool you’d like to use better, you will find the advice from this article to be useful. …
Wonderful Social Media Marketing Tips For Our Modern World
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Rolf Joho
firstadsense.com - All businesses today need strategies to help find some way to address the online audience about their targeted audiences online. This can be achieve with a variety of more traditional marketing campa…
How to Add a Free SSL Certificate to your WordPress Website
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brightgreenpath.com - Since all WordPress sites include a login page it’s recommended that a SSL certificate be purchased and installed for better security and Google search engine rankings. “Beginning in October 2017, Ch…
Make More Money With Our Web Marketing Tips
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Rolf Joho
duracmarketing.com - Affiliate promotion is an excellent way to enhance profits for many people. By taking time to learn about internet marketing, web marketing can become something you you will profit from as well. The …
Stop Panicking About Poor Apple Inc. iPhone 8 Sales
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host.madison.com - Demand for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 8 series of devices has been poor, according to some reports. For example, the Economic Daily News claims that once the iPhone X is available, Apple plans to …
US energy, nuke and aviation sectors under sustained attack
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Lee Munson
www.theregister.co.uk - The United States' Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert that warns of “advanced persistent threat (APT) actions targeting government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, …
Week in review: Vulnerable encryption, Mac backdoor, Flash Player 0day exploited in the wild - Help Net Security
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Lee Munson
www.helpnetsecurity.com - Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Vulnerability in code library allows attackers to work out private RSA keys Researchers have discovered a security vulner…
New phishing campaign uses 20-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
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Lee Munson
www.theregister.co.uk - The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files. As Internet Storm Center handler Brad Du…
How enterprises are using data to get work done
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betanews.com - A new study by content management and collaboration specialist Egnyte has analyzed 25 Petabytes of customer data and four billion of the activities they performed. This has been used to uncover uniqu…
Prettier + Stylelint: Writing Very Clean CSS (Or, Keeping Clean Code is a Two-Tool Game) | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - It sure is nice having a whole codebase that is perfectly compliant to a set of code style guidelines. All the files use the same indentation, the same quote style, the same spacing and line-break ru…
Customer Retention Marketing: Tools for Building Online Courses for Under $400 - ClearVoice
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www.clearvoice.com - If you’re looking for new ways to boost profits and retain your customers, building a set of e-courses for them is one way to accomplish both goals at once. Customers tend to become more loyal to a p…
How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella got Wall Street to look past its cloud battle with Amazon Web Services
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www.geekwire.com - About a year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella became the third chief executive officer in the company’s history, he outlined in April 2015 what seemed at the time an audacious goal: to achieve $20 b…
AR & AI: The Ecommerce Arms Race - Redstage Worldwide | Tech Blog
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redstage.com - Earlier this month, IKEA emerged as the sleeper champ of retail’s augmented reality arms race. On the AI front, companies like Emarsys and Edgecase released ecommerce products that use advanced machi…
Zens Power Bank is a handy travel charger for Apple Watch
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LeonardoZ
www.cultofmac.com - Update: The Apple Watch Powerbank by Zens is now available at the Watch Store with free shipping! Most external batteries for the Apple Watch are BYOC — Bring Your Own Cable — and have bulky winding …
Microsoft readies new Dynamics 365-branded HCM apps, virtual customer service agents | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Microsoft is expanding its Dynamics 365 ERP/CRM portfolio with more apps in the human capital management (HCM) space. Microsoft introduced its first dedicated HCM application in April, called Dynamic…
Five ways fashion brands are using AI for personalization
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www.clickz.com - Few industries are impervious to the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution. Driven by a host of open source technologies, brands of all stripes are tapping into the potential of both artificial …
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