Thursday, February 15, 2018

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This Is The Sick Subaru Crosstrek You Want

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www.torquenews.com - According to Subaru, about 33 percent of new 2018 Crosstrek buyers will take their all-wheel-drive vehicle off-road. That’s a huge number compared with most automaker’s SUVs that will never leave the…

Critics wary as Google's Chrome begins an ad crackdown

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www.washingtonpost.com - SAN FRANCISCO — On Thursday, Google will begin using its Chrome browser to eradicate ads it deems annoying or otherwise detrimental to users. It just so happens that many of Google’s own most lucrati…

Are You Sure What You Need is Another Sales Event? - Digital Leadership Associates

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www.social-experts.net - When I talk to Marketers and I ask them how are their ABM (Account Based Marketing) Programs as well as programs to work closer to sales, the answer always is; “When I ask sales how we can help them,…

2019 Volvo XC40 Review

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www.slashgear.com - The SUV market is getting crowded, fast, and carmakers are scrambling to have their own models stand out. At first glance, Volvo’s new 2019 XC40 might not fit the bill, both figuratively and literall…

The all-new 2018 Subaru Crosstrek is a crossover ready to off-road

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www.boston.com - The Subaru Crosstrek is all-new this year with engine enhancements, design changes, and improved technologies that make it a more appealing entry-level crossover. There are loads of crossovers on the…

Xbox Live Multiplayer Paywall: Why I think it will go away - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft has two subscription services under Xbox Live, Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass. On Xbox consoles, in order to play a video game online, you must have a subscription called Xbox Live Gold …

7 Tactics To Boost Your Blog Traffic With Social Media

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marcguberti.com - I'm happy to see you around. You may want to subscribe to my blog. Thanks for visiting! Getting blog traffic with social media works. Some bloggers rely on social media for all of their traffic. For …

Mercedes-AMG And Cigarette Racing 515 Project ONE Debut Racing Boat With 140 MPH Top Speed

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brobible.com - The 2018 Miami International Boat Show is taking place as we speak and the racing boat world was just blown away by an announcement from Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing. The Cigarette Racing 515 Pr…

Get Paid to Play with Current | Bad Crypto Podcast ep. 85 - The Bad Crypto Podcast

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badcryptopodcast.com - Credit card companies are making it difficult to buy crypto. But Coinbase is making easier to accept crypto on your site. Millenials are a crypto-friendly generation. And how would you like to paid t…

Google to acquire Xively IoT platform from LogMeIn

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techcrunch.com - Google announced today that it intends to buy Xively from LogMeIn, giving Google Cloud an established IoT platform to add to their product portfolio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a blog p…

Founders Co-op, a fixture on Seattle’s venture scene, is raising its fourth fund

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techcrunch.com - Founders Co-op, a Seattle-based seed-stage venture firm, is looking to close its fourth and newest fund with $25 million, according to an SEC filing that shows the outfit has raised at least $10.7 mi…

This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single Unicode symbol

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch has learned of a potentially serious new bug affecting a wide range of Apple devices. During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser disco…

DroneBase raises $12M in Series B funding, announces enterprise AR tool for drone pilots

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techcrunch.com - If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there’s a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year. DroneBase is a startup that connects drone users wi…

Facebook should actually be Tinder too

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techcrunch.com - There’s beauty in the double-blind opt-in. That’s the way you match with someone on Tinder. You like them, they like you, you both find out and get connected. But to date, the feature’s largely been …

The plague of rationalization

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techcrunch.com - Joe Flaherty is director of Content & Community at Founder Collective. There are many reasons startups fail. Unfortunately, we just didn’t have enough time and ran out of money. Unfortunately, the cu…

Samsung’s Notebook 9 Pen is a reasonably capable convertible

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techcrunch.com - You’d be forgiven if you’ve had some trouble combing through Samsung’s laptop product page. Honestly, I’ve been looking most of the afternoon, and I couldn’t really tell you the distinctions between …

Twitch launches always-on chat rooms for channels

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techcrunch.com - Game streaming site Twitch today is debuting an always-on chat room feature it’s simply calling “Rooms.” The addition was first announced at its developer event TwitchCon back in October, and was exp…

Need a post on Harvard.edu about your ICO? $500, please

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techcrunch.com - In the endless hunt to gain credibility for token products, founders are resorting to some shady – and ridiculous – tactics. After researching the weird world of pay-for-play recently and taking part…

For one-time NPR and NYT digital chief, a new adventure: WordPress

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www.poynter.org - When Kinsey Wilson was leading digital transformation at USA Today 15 years ago, WordPress was emerging from a single bit of code that helped pretty up typography for casual writing. Since then, Wils…

Someone Is Sending Amazon Sex Toys to Strangers. Amazon Has No Idea How to Stop It.

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www.thedailybeast.com - The first time Nikki unexpectedly received a sex toy in an Amazon box, she thought there must have been a mix-up at the factory. She’d bought some mascara that hadn’t arrived yet. “At first I believe…

How to Master Blogging Skills And Be Successful

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pegfitzpatrick.com - Whether you’re thinking about starting a blog, just getting started, or have had a blog running for a few years it’s important to look for ways to boost your blogging skills. Blogging is an important…

FedEx customer data left online for anyone to rifle through

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arstechnica.com - Passports, driver licenses, and other sensitive documentation for thousands of FedEx customers were left online, possibly for years, in a blunder that left the information available to identity thiev…

The Winter Olympics in 4K and HDR: A pain in many ways, but gosh, those sparkles

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arstechnica.com - Last week, we looked into the limited access and information for 4K Winter Olympics content in the United States—which was still confusing even one day before the opening ceremonies kicked off. This …

Price of 2-in-1 drug spikes to $3,000—separately, the two drugs cost $36

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arstechnica.com - Irish drug company Horizon Pharma has hiked the price of a two-in-one painkiller by more than 2,000 percent in the past five years, according to a report in Financial Times A 60-pill bottle of the dr…

19 Experts Explain Why Your Website Isn't Bringing in Customers

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www.entrepreneur.com - They told you to build a website, so you did. They told you'd you get customers if you had a website, but that hasn’t happened. I’ve been involved in building and marketing thousands of websites sinc…

Why There's a 4-Ton Steel Ball Making Mini-Earthquakes in Germany

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mentalfloss.com - Is there really such a thing as 'muscle memory'? For example, in the sense of your fingers remembering where the keys of the keyboard are? Yes and no. There is no literal memory in the muscles, but t…

We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too?

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www.theregister.co.uk - Discussions about the future of cars quickly turn to the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles. But the acronym of choice in such discussions is CAVs – connected and autonomous vehicles – and the "con…

Cake Web Browser brings a new wave of excitement, faster navigation

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androidcommunity.com - The Cake Web Browser is the latest mobile browser to rock the industry. At first, we thought it won’t deliver anything new but we’re wrong. A few weeks of using it and we’re happy mainly because of t…

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S in the works as per some firmware files

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is set to show off new smartphones at the upcoming Mobile World Congress. Yesterday, we learned about the Redmi Note 5 and the Redmi Note 5 Pro. The two were launched in China and we’re expect…

Pinterest now brings better organization for pins, boards, sections

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androidcommunity.com - For people who are addicted to pinning and uploading stuff on Pinterest, you probably have tons of pins and boards and sections already. The problem now is how to arrange all of them in a way that ma…

Game Dev Tycoon complains about Google’s removal of 77% positive reviews

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androidcommunity.com - When you’re a new game on Google Play Store, you know that visibility is one of the major challenges that you’ll face. You need all the positive reviews and ratings that you can get. Game Dev Tycoon …

Nokia 7+ with Android One, entry-level Nokia 1 may launch

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androidcommunity.com - Nokia has been busy these days working on the Android Oreo updates for all its Android phones. The devices introduced in the market so far are receiving the new version coming from Nougat. While most…

How To Post To Facebook And Twitter If Your Internet Goes Down

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blog.digi.me - We’d just like to say that of us here at SocialSafe are hoping that everyone in New York and the other affected areas of the United State manages to stay safe during Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts are…

Should Every Follower Be Followed Back?

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seattledesigner.blogspot.com - Should Every Follower Be Followed Back? Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google+ Email Other Apps Common sense says you should follow whomever you want. But recently I read a post by a blogger who…

What you Can Learn from Email Unsubscribes

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www.loyalty360.org - It’s always hard when someone says good-bye, whether they unfriend you on Facebook or unsubscribe from your email list. But unsubscribes aren’t always a bad thing. Plus, they can teach you a few thin…

Beware the Shiny Object

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www.loyalty360.org - If you are in business, you are concerned about cyber security. The best solutions deploy technology and engage employees. It is that time of year again when the little part of me says it is time to …

Lessons from Sleep Number: Don’t Snooze on your Brand Advocates

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www.loyalty360.org - Brand advocates are the the cheerleaders that help your brand engage and build relationships with future prospects, leads and customers. These loyal patrons are invaluable for a brand, and Sleep Numb…

Approaching Consumer-Facing Programs: Asking the Right Questions to Deliver Maximum Impact

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www.loyalty360.org - Earlier this year on CAPRAplus we discussed ensuring that the wants and needs of the consumer are put first when developing any consumer engagement program by asking the question, “Do my consumers re…

Is PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel influencing Missouri AG Josh Hawley’s Google probe?

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www.kansascity.com - Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office would not directly answer Wednesday when asked whether his investigation into Google had any connection to campaign donations from billionaire Peter Thi…

Blazor: a technical introduction

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blog.stevensanderson.com - Today the ASP.NET team announced that Blazor has moved into the ASP.NET organization, and we’re beginning an experimental phase to see whether we can develop it into a supported shipping product. Thi…

Are You So Good Your Customers Would Pay You Double? - Shep Hyken

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hyken.com - What if your customers said they would be willing to pay you twice what you normally charge? All they want in return is an amazing customer service experience. Really? That’s it? That’s all they want…

Microsoft Issues Updates for Surface Pro, Book, and the Surface Dock Updater - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft this week shipped new firmware updates for Surface Pro (2017 and LTE) and the first generation Surface Book. It also issued a new version of the Surface Dock Updater software utility. “We’v…

In Safe Hands: Mobile Connections in the City

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www.adweek.com - A mass shooting in Little Rock, Ark., last July led Facebook to activate its Safety Check feature—a crisis-response system that is gaining new recognition in the aftermath of terror. The social media…

Why Scannable Shelf Tags Could Improve the Retail Experience After Beacons Failed

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www.adweek.com - Once upon a time, beacons—Bluetooth-powered devices that can push messages to smartphones—offered brands an opportunity to connect with consumers in physical retail locations and gather data about th…

iProspect Shakes Up Leadership With New U.S. CMO and First Chief Tech Officer

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www.adweek.com - iProspect has named Belle Lenz its U.S. chief marketing officer and Joel Grossman its first-ever chief technology officer. Lenz was formerly communications director of the Americas for the global dig…

6 Months with Complice: A Review | LifeDev

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lifedev.net - In the middle of 2017, I made a big change. After over a decade of living in Silicon Valley, I picked up and moved across the country to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I was taking on a new location, a…

Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids

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www.wired.com - In December, when Facebook launched Messenger Kids, an app for preteens and children as young as 6, the company stressed that it had worked closely with leading experts in order to safeguard younger …

Google Image Search removes View Image button and Search by Image feature

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searchengineland.com - Google has removed the View Image button and the Search by Image feature when viewing an individual image within Google Image Search. Google announced this change on Twitter, saying: Today we’re laun…

Google turns on default adblocker within Chrome

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www.theguardian.com - Users of latest Chrome browser on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Android will have some of most intrusive types of ads blocked automatically Google will start automatically blocking intrusive ads within …

Assange Advocates Ask the Support of President Trump

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www.infowars.com - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now that the British magistrate has refused to release Assange from criminal responsibility for violating his bail in 2012, Assange’s hopes for being released from the Ecuadorian E…

India hopes to become an AI powerhouse by copying China’s model

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qz.com - Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government’s attention. On Feb. 01, delivering his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley told parliament that the government think-ta…

The Life Actionbook: Tools and Actions for Personal Development by Steve Shockley

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awesomegang.com - About The Life Actionbook: Tools and Actions for Personal Development by Steve Shockley Paralyzed by analysis? You might be like me. I read dozens of non-fiction books a year, but few actually improv…

How to Run Split Landing Page Tests with AdWords Campaign Experiments

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instapage.com - At the end of August 2017, Google announced a change to the ad rotation options in AdWords campaign experiments. Settings that previously allowed advertisers to select “Optimize for Clicks,” “Optimiz…

Excellent Stratagies For Sucessful Internet Promotion Campaigns

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durac.info - Internet marketing is one of people. This article will provide you with helpful tips and techniques on the internet. You will learn what it takes to succeed at Internet marketer with this information…

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