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Mozilla reports $520M in 2016 revenues, up 24% YoY
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Paul Thurrott
www.techmeme.com - Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: Google's new Play Store policy bans all non-lockscreen Android apps from placing ads on the lockscreen — Ads are just a fact of life in mobile apps. You can't comple…
Mozilla plows its new revenue into making Firefox faster for us all
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Paul Thurrott
www.cnet.com - Well, now we know what paid for all those programmers cranking out the overhauled Firefox Quantum browser: a major infusion of new money. Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open-source web browser, sa…
Mobility 101: What It Really Means and Why It's Important - FitFluential
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Kelly Olexa
fitfluential.com - Mobility: isn’t that just a fancy word for “being flexible”? Well, somewhat. But it’s so much more than that. Flexibility simply refers to the range of motion that a join it capable of. For example, …
What ‘tech world’ did you grow up in?
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GlenHiemstra
www.washingtonpost.com - By Reuben Fischer-Baum Nov. 26, 2017 In the past three decades, the United States has seen staggering technological changes. In 1984, just 8 percent of households had a personal computer, the World W…
Seth's Blog: The most important journeys come without a map
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Mike Young, PhD
sethgodin.typepad.com - That's why we need to care enough to make assertions. We're taught to follow instructions, to avoid significant risk and to be good at compliance. The system prefers it that way, at least when things…
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools
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Lee Munson
www.theregister.co.uk - By mid-2018 Google Chrome will no longer allow outside applications – cough, cough, antivirus packages – to run code within the browser on Windows. This is according to a post today on the Chromium b…
Raspberry Pi on PC/104
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Embedded Computing
www.embedded-computing.com - The Pi/104 was originally designed when I was working as an IIoT developer. I worked for a startup and a common sales pitch was "our stack can run on something as small as a Raspberry Pi." No one too…
Flowspace is AWS for warehouses
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Got too much Internet traffic? Get servers on-demand from Amazon Web Services. Got too many pallets of physical goods? Well now you can get on-demand warehousing from Flowspace. The startup aims to b…
Alibaba is buying Israeli startup Visualead’s tech to establish a Tel Aviv R&D center
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Alibaba announced a massive $15 billion research ‘DAMO Academy’ project focused on R&D last month, and it is laying the groundwork for an office in Tel Aviv through a deal to acquire technology and t…
Twitter changes reason for not removing anti-Muslim videos retweeted by Trump
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Twitter is standing by its earlier decision to keep up a series of graphic anti-Muslim videos retweeted by President Trump earlier this week — though it’s attempting to reframe its reason for doing s…
Mapbox acquires augmented reality activity tracking app Fitness AR
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Mapbox has acquired activity tracking app Fitness AR, which allows users to view runs, hikes or cycling routes from Strava superimposed on a 3D map of the terrain. The announcement was made in a Medi…
Create the unholy DIY union of Alexa and Furby this weekend
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - As we approach the End Times there will be great signs and portents. They say the dead will rise and walk the earth. Great fire will come from the sky and burn the wicked and the good alike. A Furby …
Celebrate 50 years of Apollo with us as our new series blasts off
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - For a few brief years between 1968 and 1972, humans left the Earth and visited the Moon. The flights took the combined efforts of nearly half a million people working across the world and cost about …
Windows 10 now on 600 million machines, not all of them PCs
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Everywhere Windows 10 can be. And on the server, too, though there it gets a different branding. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told shareholders that Windows 10 has now passed 600 million monthly activ…
AT&T says it never blocked apps, fails to mention how it blocked FaceTime
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - AT&T's push to end net neutrality rules continued yesterday in a blog post that says the company has never blocked third-party applications and that it won't do so even after the rules are gone. Just…
Transform Like Steve Jobs into the Apple of Your Niche with This Secret Sauce
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Larry Wentz
medium.com - “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs “1984” is a legendary Apple commercial that ran during the 1…
11 great landing page designs
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Webdesigner Depot
www.creativebloq.com - The right landing page design can make or break a website – as this is the first thing your visitors will see, if you get it wrong, most people won't hang about. Landing page designs should clearly c…
20 Amazing Writing Tools That Will Rock Your Content Marketing
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Reg Saddler
www.jeffbullas.com - If you’re a blogger, writer or content marketer… New technology and on-the-go expectations from your audience have led to a growing need to ‘systemize’ your life and increase your efficiency. The fie…
As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here's what went wrong
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Reg Saddler
www.theregister.co.uk - Code dive Apple has emitted an emergency software patch to address the trivial to exploit vulnerability in macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.1, that allowed miscreants to log into Macs as administrato…
Closing Apps To Save iPhone Battery Life Is A Myth
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Reg Saddler
www.newsy.com - There's a common mistake being made each day by a lot of iOS users. And not knowing the truth could be ruining your iPhone's battery life. As an Android convert, I’ve always been under the impression…
Dubai rolls out autonomous police cars to go alongside its robot police officers
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Reg Saddler
www.fanaticalfuturist.com - Matthew Griffin, Futurist and Founder of the 311 Institute is described as “The Adviser behind the Advisers.” Among other things Matthew keeps busy helping the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer…
Latest Galaxy Note 8 update adds better Live Focus controls
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - A new update is available for the new Note 8. In this last month of the year, expect several rollouts of software updates for most devices released this year. Samsung has been slow these days in rele…
Essential Camera updated with reduced compression, portrait mode
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Hot on the heels of Andy Rubin taking a leave of absence, Essential has just rolled out an important software update. The premium phone is ready for Android Oreo albeit beta only. Before this, an upd…
Google won’t allow non-lockscreen apps to have lockscreen ads
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Dealing with ads, especially with free apps, is already par for the course for Android users. But what’s even more annoying us when they show up in places where they shouldn’t be, like locked screens…
Samsung files patent for device with 180-degree curved screen
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We’re about to start our countdown not just for Christmas and the New Year but for the day when Samsung will show off the new Galaxy S9. We’re expecting it will be teased during the International CES…
How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Site
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Greg Wilson
nopassiveincome.com - We all know about the big players in the social media world – but Pinterest may not be on everyone’s radar. Well, if I told you that it dishes out more referral traffic than LinkedIn, Twitter and You…
Customer Loyalty Starts With Simple Promise at Advantage Rent A Car
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www.loyalty360.org - In the recently released Temkin Loyalty Index 2017, Advantage Rent A Car earned the highest TLi (Temkin Loyalty Index) in a study that examined the loyalty of 10,000 U.S. consumers to 329 companies a…
Major Update to Windows Phone Internals Tool Unlocks All Lumia Phones - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - After nearly two years of reverse engineering work, Windows Phone hacker René (“Heathcliff74”) announced a major update to his Windows Phone Internals tool. This new update (2.2) adds a bunch of new …
Why So Many CMOs Are Leaving Major Brands for Ad-Tech Companies
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Earlier this year former Mondelez International CMO Dana Anderson made a major announcement that many weren’t expecting. In April, the marketing chief for the consumer packaged good giant announced s…
Man Meets Machine in 72andSunny's Bold Debut Campaign for Infiniti
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - When does the line between car and driver begin to blur? That’s the question posed by a flashy new campaign introducing the Infiniti QX50 model with a “Study of Power” spot that represents a new appr…
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API That Marketers Lean on for Research
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Facebook has long held a tight grip on what data advertisers can and cannot access. Now, it’s pulling some of the reigns away from social media vendors as it shutters its Audience Insight API. This w…
Online Marketing Tips for Home Business Owners | Website Designs Content Marketing
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Raymond Philippe
website-designs.com - As a home based business owner you have to market your business continuously if you ever hope to succeed. “Always be marketing” is a common saying and this applies especially to home based business o…
Merkle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales from Google paid search up by double digits YoY
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searchengineland.com - By most accounts, this year’s Black Friday to Cyber Monday stretch was another record-setter for e-commerce sales. The search team at Merkle shared with us some early top-line stats on how a sample o…
Designing a Page's Content Flow to Maximize SEO Opportunity - Whiteboard Friday
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moz.com - Controlling and improving the flow of your on-site content can actually help your SEO. What's the best way to capitalize on the opportunity present in your page design? Rand covers the questions you …
Google facing $1 billion in potential liability with UK class action
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchengineland.com - In 2012, Google paid $22.5 million to settle an FTC claim that the company “misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking cookies or serve targeted …
Drop in number of drivers caught breaking phone laws - The i newspaper online iNews
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inews.co.uk - New figures have offered a glimmer that the message on drivers’ illegal phone use might be getting through after tougher punishments were introduced. According to data release by 38 police forces, ar…
Catherine Herridge: The FBI had concluded Michael Flynn was NOT lying to them…
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Glen Woodfin
therightscoop.com - Well here’s a new wrinkle in this saga about Flynn lying to the FBI. According to Catherine Herridge the FBI had concluded that Flynn was not lying to them, but that he was just not remembering thing…
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