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The Trump campaign is scrambling to distance itself from Cambridge Analytica amid Assange-Hillary Clinton email flap
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www.businessinsider.com - Key members of President Donald Trump's campaign team scrambled Wednesday to distance themselves from the data mining and analysis company Cambridge Analytica, whose CEO reportedly reached out to Wik…
Unresponsive reps, mysterious data: Agencies' biggest gripes about Facebook - Digiday
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digiday.com - A head of operations for a West Coast-based agency recently scheduled an internal training with a Facebook representative so her team of eight could learn best practices on the platform. But the Face…
Dell web address grabbed by third party
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www.bbc.co.uk - A web address used by recovery software on Dell PCs was taken over by a third-party after a contractor apparently failed to renew it. Dell's software checks in with the domain periodically, so whoeve…
Wink Lookout added to home safety ecosystem at no extra cost - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - We’ve been saying the past few weeks that the smart home game is slowly taking off. With all the smart devices being introduced left and right, we don’t doubt this new industry will someday be satura…
Uber will now let you add multiple stops to your route
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techcrunch.com - Uber today is adding a new feature that will solve a challenge almost every rider, at some point, has faced: the difficulty with picking up friends along the route to your destination. That’s because…
Apple, Salesforce and PayPal join LGBT cause in Supreme Court wedding cake case
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techcrunch.com - A handful of tech companies have signed onto a friend of the court brief in the case of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple. So far the list includes Apple, Ye…
Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia for some reason
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techcrunch.com - Saudi Arabia has bestowed a non-human woman with citizenship, making it the first country to make a robot a citizen, at least as far as we know. Why it did so isn’t immediately evident, but the irony…
Google responds to Pixel 2 XL display complaints, promises fix for “clicking” noise on the Pixel 2
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techcrunch.com - Shortly after Google’s new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL began shipping, some users noted that the devices seemed to have some… quirks. Onscreen colors on the XL seemed faded, some users reported. When swit…
eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos from your phone or web
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techcrunch.com - eBay today is launching two new visual search tools that will allow online shoppers to use photos they snap, have saved on their phone, or even those they find while browsing the web or other social …
It’s time for the internet to block fake emails
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techcrunch.com - Jason Pressman is a managing director at Shasta Ventures and a former vice president of Walmart.com. One of the biggest upsides of the internet is that people from all over the world now have access …
Think F.A.S.T. is a VR app designed to help diagnose stroke symptoms
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techcrunch.com - It’s not often that the phrase “but cadavers are expensive” comes up in a product briefing. But in all of the possible contexts that one might utter that particular string of words, a demo of a surgi…
FCC won’t vote on Net Neutrality in November
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techcrunch.com - Contrary to recent rumors, the FCC will not be voting this November on the adoption of the “Restoring Internet Freedom” rule that would roll back 2015’s Net Neutrality rules. In a blog post, Chairman…
Noon Home brings connected home smarts to light switches
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techcrunch.com - Smart light bulbs have been one of the cornerstones of the connected home space from the beginning. Philips has a pretty strong grip on the market with its Hue line, but everyone from the 116-year-ol…
Instagram’s “Superzoom” auto-records dramatic close-up videos
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techcrunch.com - Instagram’s newest feature lets you make your own “Dramatic Chipmunk” video by shooting a stuttered zoom-in with cinematic sound effects with a single tap. Superzoom is coming to Instagram Stories on…
LG’s mobile business can’t stop losing money
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techcrunch.com - Korea electronics giant LG continues to show the world that making a profit, or even breaking even, from selling smartphones is no easy thing. LG Mobile has posted just one quarter of profitability o…
Ajit Pai submits plan to allow more media consolidation
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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on ending a rule that prevents joint ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same geographical market. The change is part of…
Apple will invest $1 billion in TV, but don’t expect Game of Thrones
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arstechnica.com - According to Bloomberg, Apple is taking a markedly different path with its streaming TV series than the likes of HBO Now or Showtime. The sources for the report—which include Hollywood producers and …
AMD’s Ryzen CPU with Vega graphics threatens to blow Kaby Lake out of the water
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arstechnica.com - AMD announced today its first two processors to combine its new Zen CPU architecture with its Vega graphics. The new chips, aimed at lightweight mobile systems, go head to head with Intel's U-series …
Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti takes fight to AMD RX Vega 56 for $450
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arstechnica.com - Following weeks of leaks and rumours Nvidia has made the GTX 1070 Ti graphics card official. A Founders Edition version launches on November 2 for £419/$449/€469, with partner cards from the likes of…
7 Free Tools For Testing Responsive Layouts | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Every modern website needs a responsive design. This does require more effort but the end result is worthwhile. I actually recommend testing your ideas with responsive design tools to see how your si…
Microservices are hard — an invaluable guide to microservices.
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hackernoon.com - Microservices are very idealistic and you hear a relatively small number of large companies preaching the benefits. I feel as if a large number of smaller companies mistakingly take this information …
FYI: iOS apps can turn on your camera any time without warning
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www.theregister.co.uk - A top iOS security researcher has uncovered yet another privacy loophole in Apple's mobile firmware. Felix Krause, founder of Fastlane.Tools, said the way Apple's software handles camera access and r…
A Year Ago This Guy Was A Janitor. Now He’s Coding For A Hot Startup | Fast Company
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www.fastcompany.com - Anthony Pegues sat at a white table inside one of tech school General Assembly’s Manhattan classrooms, hunched over his silver laptop. He was still grappling with the previous night’s homework in the…
Content Creation Hacks: How to Quickly Produce Valuable Content : Social Media Examiner
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Looking for an easier way to make your content work for you? Discover easy ways to create and repurpose your content, courtesy of Nick Westergaard. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand …
AT&T intros new Nighthawk mobile hotspot - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - While OEMs are busy unleashing their latest smartphones, mobile carriers are also busy trying to improve their services. We regularly hear about new plans being offered, each one described to be bett…
AT&T may be launching a DirecTV OTT set-top box soon - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - A lot of people don’t subscribe anymore to cable television or satellite-based TV subscriptions for a number of reasons. This includes having the ability to watch on-demand and finding it more reliab…
Fujifilm's Instax Share SP-3 prints square format pics from your phone - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - A few years back, you would think it’s kind of weird to print a picture in a square format. But ever since the popularity of Instagram and other photo-sharing apps, the 1:1 aspect ratio has been appe…
How to Write Campaign Updates Your Backers Will Love (With Templates) - Indiegogo Education Center
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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - Did you know that campaigners who post regular updates raise 286% more funding than those that don’t? The people that are funding your campaign want to track production and see how their perks are be…
Create a Facebook Timeline Cover With Your Instagram Photos
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www.valuewalk.com - If you are an Instagram user and have captured some beautiful shots, then you can set those photos as your Facebook Timeline Cover with the help of a web app named as InstaCover. This app lets you cr…
4 Tips to Drive Store Traffic with Mobile Coupons this Holiday Season
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www.loyalty360.org - The holiday season is the biggest time of the year for retailers and can account for as much as 30% or more of a retailer’s annual sales, according to the National Retail Federation. It’s the perfect…
Challenging Times Bring Mobile-First Customer Engagement Into Sharp Focus at The Finish Line
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www.loyalty360.org - At The Finish Line, its fiscal second-quarter results reflected a challenging time for the company and the industry. Consolidated net sales decreased 3.3 percent year-over-year while comparable store…
AppAppeal.com: Finding Web Apps Made Easy! - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - AppAppeal reviews and compares web applications to help people find the best web app for their needs. Our quality reviews are comprehensive, objective, and created by professional writers. We do not …
Fitnescity : Allows Users To Connect With Personal Trainers - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Leila Zemrani”, Founder and CEO of the New York – US based start-up “Fitnescity” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do …
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. “BlackBox-…
betternet :Provides Parents With Information About Their Kids' Online Behavior - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Colton Shields”, Co-Founder of the Provo – USA based start-up “bettrnet” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha…
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 …
Codility.com: An Automated Tool for Assessment of Programming Skills - Start-Ups.Co
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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…
SmartUse: Mobile Application To Handle Construction Projects - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Ms. ‘Lucie Perrier'; Marketing Director of the New York-based start-up “SmartUse”. Below, is the full interview that we have condu…
AMD Ryzen Threadripper: Back to my Roots - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Back in the late 90s, I built my first PC. The chip that I bought after cutting grass and doing various chores around the neighborhood was an AMD K6-2 450mhz processor. That chip and subsequent PC (s…
Walmart not ready to add employee Macs to reduce costs
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Paul Thurrott
www.cnet.com - So, Walmart doesn't actually have plans to cut costs by offering its employees Macs. Walmart has long trumpeted the cost savings it offers customers, but despite reports to the contrary, it has no im…
Pocket for Android Picks Up Continuous Read Aloud Capabilities - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Pocket is my preferred and recommended “read it later” app, and its excellent read-aloud functionality has been updated on Android to support continuous reading. Which means that the app can now cont…
Keds Found Its Sweet Spot by Partnering With Female Entrepreneurs
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www.adweek.com - Keds wants consumers to know it’s more than just a shoe company–a 101-year-old one at that. Of course the brand makes shoes that have been around for over a century, but it also puts high priority on…
BMW Is Seeking a New Creative Agency for Its Nearly $300 Million U.S. Account
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www.adweek.com - Luxury auto brand BMW has launched a full U.S. creative review. A company spokesperson confirmed the procurement-driven review, which comes as incumbent KBS’s current contract is ending. The agency d…
Would You Want To Shop At Your Own Online Store? | Bit Rebels
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www.bitrebels.com - Admit it: you’re attached to your online store. And, you should be. It’s only natural to take pride in your accomplishments and stand behind your choices. In most cases, this is a great quality. But …
Pros and Cons of the iPhone X – Is This the Best Phone for You?
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www.wonderoftech.com - Tomorrow morning Apple begins taking pre-orders for the iPhone X. This phone is a new and cutting-edge model designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, originally launched in 2007. The…
NotPetya Ransomware Hackers 'Took Down Ukraine Power Grid'
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www.forbes.com - The NotPetya ransomware running on a PC. Thousands of Windows computers were targeted in the latest malware outbreak. Ukraine has placed the blame for last week's ransomware outbreak on Russia. The a…
Google's mobile-first index has rolled out for some sites & will be implemented very slowly
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searchengineland.com - The mobile-first index has started to slowly roll out, at least for a “few sites,” Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes told an audience last night at the SMX East conference in New York City.…
Russian journalists’ union blasts Twitter move on RT, Sputnik as crackdown on free speech
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tass.com - MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The Russian Union of Journalists has blasted the decision by Twitter to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today television and the Sputnik news agenc…
Twitter to RT, Sputnik: Pound sand. RT to Twitter: You pitched us, remember? - Hot Air
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hotair.com - An act of courage, or of CYA? Twitter founder Jack Dorsey got huzzahs on his platform today when he announced that Russian state-owned media outlets would no longer be allowed to advertise on Twitter…
'Rife With Rumors and Conspiracies': Feds Releasing Some JFK Assassination Records Tonight — Deep State Blocks Redacted Files
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www.thegatewaypundit.com - As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the U.S. Government delayed the release of the long awaited ‘JFK Assassination’ files as CIA officials have yet to identify which documents President Trump …
Irrelevance, Excruciating Painful Decline & Death - CXO Transform
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cxo-transform.com - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos constantly reminds his people of the biggest enemy being irrelevance, then excruciating, painful decline and death. So when the CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing, disrupti…
The Dark Web Goes Mobile—and More Untrackable
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www.infosecurity-magazine.com - The recent crackdown on popular dark web markets AlphaBay and Hansa is driving cyber-criminals to migrate to messaging apps to carry out their nefarious business. An IntSights Cyber Intelligence thre…
3 YouTube Terms of Service Marketers and Creators Need to Know : Social Media Examiner
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are you in compliance with copyright laws and YouTube’s Terms of Service? In this article, you’ll discover three ways to keep your YouTube channel and video content legal. 3 YouTube Terms of Service …
What is a Good Conversion Rate and 5 Ways You Can Get There
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instapage.com - The answer to your question “What’s a good conversion rate?” is simpler than you think. Unfortunately, you’re not going to like it. Ready? A higher one. A good conversion rate is one that’s higher th…
6 Common Blogging Mistakes Even The Most Experienced Bloggers Keep Doing
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barnimages.com - Blogging can be a fascinating internet experience that offers subscribers unlimited access to random educational, economic, health, political and entertaining information. By feeding users with consi…
Check Out These Fantastic Iphone Tricks That Are Really Simple
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iphonefindmyphone.com - It is easy to combine your entire roster of social media accounts to your iphone. Many people still haven’t figured out how to use this. This article contains many useful tips on how to use social ne…
Proven Tips For Being Successful With Mobile Marketing
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Rolf Joho
internetmarketinginfos.com - There are so many choices when starting a mobile marketing plan that it’s hard to know where to begin. The following tips will help you become smarter at using mobile technologies as a potent marketi…
Top 10 Trends For Digital Transformation In 2018
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www.forbes.com - Even though we haven’t quite hit the final quarter of 2017, you could say it’s been an eventful year in digital transformation. Just as I predicted last year at this time, user experience (UX), big d…
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