Friday, November 24, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

Smartphone Penetration's Increasing Fastest Among Older Americans - Marketing Charts

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www.marketingcharts.com - More than 8 in 10 US adults (82%) own or have ready access to a smartphone this year, up from 70% a couple of years ago, reports Deloitte in the US edition of its Mobile Consumer Survey [pdf]. While …

How to Start a Blog

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pegfitzpatrick.com - Do you want to start a blog but you don’t know where or how to get started? I was in that same place a few years ago and I’m going to share the step-by-way for you to start a blog in less than an hou…

Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth Just Broke $100 Billion

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www.bloomberg.com - Jeff Bezos is the world’s newest $100 billion mogul. The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s fortune is up $2.4 billion to $100.3 billion, as the online retailer’s shares jumped more than 2 percent on optimism…

Watch every panel from Startup Battlefield Australia 2017

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techcrunch.com - On November 16, TechCrunch and Elevacao hosted Startup Battlefield Australia in Sydney. The Startup Battlefield pitch-off competition featured startups from all over Australia and New Zealand. Top-no…

Black Friday deals net $640M in sales so far, mobile 60% of all traffic

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techcrunch.com - With Thanksgiving hitting a record $2.87 billion in online sales in the U.S., Black Friday is shaping up to be an even bigger haul for online retailers. Figures from Adobe — which analyses 80 percent…

Uber data breach includes UK users — but it’s still not clear how many

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techcrunch.com - The UK’s digital minister has said the October 2016 data breach that Uber disclosed this week does affect UK users — though it’s still unclear how many are impacted at this stage. Making a statement …

Google Will Now Reveal Salary Numbers Along with Your Job Search Results

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www.inc.com - Searching for a new job--or trying to decide if you should stay at your current one--can be incredibly time-consuming and more than a little stressful. Once you finally update your resume, you'll pro…

AT&T and Comcast win lawsuit they filed to stall Google Fiber in Nashville

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arstechnica.com - AT&T and Comcast have convinced a federal judge to nullify an ordinance that was designed to bring more broadband competition to Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Metro Council last year passed a "…

Mug shots: How Ars Technica editors prefer to stay caffeinated

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arstechnica.com - No matter whether an office exists as brick-and-mortar or Orbiting, focuses on manufacturing, development, or journalist'ing, they all share one thing in common. It's not too many sweets for holiday …

MightyDeals - Amazing Daily Deals for Web Professionals

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www.mightydeals.com - This year we're bringing you a mixture of several super fantastic Black Friday deals. We've made a special arrangement to bring back some of your favorite deals, with most being at an even bigger dis…

Developing a VR game in just two weeks

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www.blog.google - Without Blocks, how might this process have been different? After all is said and done, I still had to take the geometry from Blocks and bring it into a 3D program for unwrapping and lightmap baking.…

6 Ways to Improve Your B2B Content Strategy

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www.socialmediatoday.com - A B2B content strategy is the key to your lead generation system. Content is made to attract, acquire, engage a clearly defined customer audience - and then drive profitable customer action. In order…

PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated]

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Reg Saddler





arstechnica.com - Intel has issued a security alert that management firmware on a number of recent PC, server, and Internet-of-Things processor platforms are vulnerable to remote attack. Using the vulnerabilities, the…

YouTube cracking down on harmful and unsafe content for kids

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androidcommunity.com - Not everything that is seemingly for kids, meaning animated content or videos featuring kids, are actually safe for kids themselves. And even if you restrict their viewing by blocking certain categor…

Watch how fast OnePlus 5T’s Dash Charge tech can be

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androidcommunity.com - We love it when brands boast about how great or fast their devices are. They seem to be really proud of their products and that they are the very best. Such is the case with OnePlus showing off the n…

Android Wear 2.6 update should make life easier for your smartwatch

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androidcommunity.com - Version 2.6 of the Android Wear platform isn’t something that will bring many major changes to your smartwatch but when you put the little things together, the update will make your life easier. The …

Black Friday 2017: Best Fujifilm camera deals - Amateur Photographer

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www.amateurphotographer.co.uk - The X-T2 is among the Black Friday Fujifilm camera deals As the annual shopping extravaganza Black Friday 2017 approaches, AP will be bringing you all the best UK Fujifilm camera deals. Fuji is a bra…

Major Technology Company Translates Customer Satisfaction to Customer Loyalty — and Better Business

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www.loyalty360.org - Challenge: The company develops embedded and mobile software and operating systems that are used in hundreds of millions of devices worldwide: from smart phones and pacemakers to TV set-top boxes and…

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…

Customer Feedback Primary Driver of Choice Privileges Loyalty Program

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www.loyalty360.org - Listening to customers and garnering invaluable feedback can, ultimately, help brands shape successful loyalty programs. Enter Choice Hotels International and its Choice Privileges loyalty program. L…

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Who Has the Greatest Tech of All?

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www.loyalty360.org - As someone who once planned to build a career focused on lotions, potions and color, then discovered her career in technology, I find myself particularly intrigued when the cosmetic world incorporate…

Microsoft's New Game Bar Design for Redstone 4 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - I hope it works well, and ideally better than before. The previous one worked ok but sometimes was slow to come up, like with just the right amount of delay sometimes that i'd wonder whether it got t…

11-24-2017 - [X&Y] Clearing Up Any "Leftover" Confusion

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archive.aweber.com - CLEARING UP ANY "LEFTOVER" CONFUSION The Friday after Thanksgiving usually means two things: shopping and leftovers. Since neither of those ideas typically sound all that exciting to most of us as g…

Brain.fm Lifetime Access for $37 Today - Steve Pavlina

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www.stevepavlina.com - As someone shared on yesterday’s coaching call in Conscious Growth Club, AppSumo.com is offering a Black Friday special on a lifetime subscription to brain.fm today, so it’s $37 instead of $149. I’m …

SEO basics: What is Googlebot? • Yoast

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yoast.com - All those terms mean the same thing: it’s a bot that crawls the web. Googlebot crawls web pages via links. It finds and reads new and updated content and suggests what should be added to the index. T…

For Entrepreneurs, One Really Can Be the Loneliest Number

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www.entrepreneur.com - For many budding entrepreneurs, bootstrapping can be a great (if not the only) option for getting started. Bootstrapping helps entrepreneurs retain full control, promotes financial accountability and…

This App Tells You How Hating The Same Thing is The New Romance

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www.lifehack.org - Let’s be honest for a sec, today’s dating world is tricky. Often, “what do you like to xxx” is the common question we ask when it boils down to the first few dates. I am sure you’ve heard your fair s…

Coming to terms with fake reviews

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searchengineland.com - Consumers overwhelmingly expect the reviews they peruse on Amazon, Yelp, Google and other review sites to be trustworthy, neutral and objective. But this reasonable expectation is frequently thwarted…

Black Friday Smartphone Shoppers Reach Record Numbers

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www.newsmax.com - Shoppers looking for Thanksgiving and Black Friday deals ventured no further than their couches, reportedly setting record high numbers for smartphone transactions. According to Adobe Analystics, alm…

Bokhari: Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the Real Threat to 'Net Neutrality' - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - First, a note to the latter: the web is already subject to the tyranny of big corporations. Their names are Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Apple, and Amazon. Together, they have monopolized the …

Governments Investigating Google for Allegedly Collecting Location Data of Users Without Their Knowledge - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - “Regulators in South Korea summoned Google representatives this week to question them about a report that claimed the company was collecting data from Android devices even when location services were…

"Why Did My SEO Ranking Drop?" How to Find and Fix Falling Blog Posts Before It's Too Late

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blog.hubspot.com - That, my friends, is what I would call a definite downward trend -- and for a post that, at its high point, received 10,000 views per month. Maybe it looks familiar. And maybe it doesn't, but it look…

The Ultimate Gift Guide for a Video Lover

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www.huffingtonpost.com - If you’re a business owner like me, you’ve probably heard about video being one the most important tactics in marketing. Why? Because consumers love to watch videos. So, whether you’re in business or…

How to rip and digitize your Blu-ray collection

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www.imore.com - We've already covered how to digitize your DVDs, but their high-def cousins need a little extra help — and often, a lot more time. Here's everything you need to get started, and a few pointers to avo…

The big stores that track your every online move

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www.engadget.com - So before you get all hopped up on eggnog and go hogwild doing your Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping, you might want to find out which sites are seriously spying on you. Using "session replay sc…

Williams-Sonoma is buying a 3-D imaging and augmented reality startup for $112 million

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Michael Tchong





www.recode.net - Williams-Sonoma, the home furnishings company that also owns the West Elm and Pottery Barn retailers, has agreed to acquire the San Jose-based startup Outward for $112 million in cash, the companies …

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