Monday, February 05, 2018

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3 Quick Tips To Increase Inbound Traffic To Your Website

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www.jeffbullas.com - Website traffic plays a major role in your company’s success. Naturally, more visitors means more conversions, regardless of your current conversion rate. If you’re not dedicating time and effort tow…

February 2018 WordPress News - This Month in WordPress w/ CodeinWP

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www.codeinwp.com - People never give up on email marketing, do they? I mean, every company uses newsletters to promote their products because email is used by all the people in the world (or at least it should be) and …

Conversion Hack - Mapping Your Customers Journey. Top Resources to Get You Started

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curationsuite.com - More than ever it’s important have a very clear understanding of the path your customer takes toward the purchase of your product, service or introduction to your idea. This path has often been calle…

Google Ending BigCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop | PYMNTS.com

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www.pymnts.com - Google is reportedly ending its relationship with eCommerce platforms BigCommerce, Magento and PrestaShop, with plans to wind down support by March 20. With the integration, merchants using BigCommer…

Don’t Give Spotify Too Much Credit for Adding Credits

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pitchfork.com - When Spotify announced Friday that it had added songwriter and producer credits to its desktop app, music fans had reason to rejoice. Not only were listeners now afforded one of the basic pleasures o…

Deep State Mobile: Google Helps Lead the Charge For Socialized 5G That Would Eliminate Internet Privacy

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www.thegatewaypundit.com - A recently leaked proposal authored by a senior National Security Council official hopes to create a nationalized 5G network where anonymity would be banned and the government would have an easier ti…

The Pixel 2’s Visual Core photo processor now works with Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat

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techcrunch.com - Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until after the Pixel 2’s announcement to talk up the system-on-a-chip…

Strava appears to have disabled a key tracking feature over privacy concerns

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techcrunch.com - This will come as no surprise to those who’ve been following the news of the past couple of weeks, but it appears that Strava’s disabled at least one top feature as it works to get to the bottom of r…

Former Intel president launches new chip company with backing from Carlyle Group

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techcrunch.com - Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came out of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers. The compan…

Why I decided to install Messenger Kids

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techcrunch.com - I’ve been struggling with whether or not to download Facebook’s new app aimed at children, Messenger Kids, onto my daughter’s iPad. This weekend, I took the plunge. I sat with her as she typed her fi…

SpaceX could launch another Falcon Heavy in a few months (if the first one doesn’t blow up the launch pad)

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techcrunch.com - Tomorrow is a huge day for SpaceX: It’s the first-ever flight of the company’s massive, reusable rocket, Falcon Heavy. (It’s also the day, if all goes as planned, that Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster will…

Nike ramps up membership benefits with Apple Music, ClassPass and Headspace unlocks for app users

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techcrunch.com - The top line is that Nike is rolling out some membership related updates to its app for iPhone and Android today. The updates will come in the form of new unlocks with partnerships like ClassPass, Ap…

Businesses with Apple and Cisco products may now pay less for cybersecurity insurance

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techcrunch.com - Apple and Cisco announced this morning a new deal with insurer Allianz that will allow businesses with their technology products to receive better terms on their cyber insurance coverage, including l…

Samsung heir freed from prison after court suspends bribery charges

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arstechnica.com - Samsung Group's de facto leader and vice chairman, Lee Jae-yong (aka, Jay Y. Lee), was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of bribery, embezzlement, capital flight, and perjur…

Windows 10 S becoming a mode, not a version, as Microsoft shakes up its pricing

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arstechnica.com - With the next big update to Windows 10, version 1803, Microsoft is making some big changes to how it sells the software to OEMs. The biggest casualty? Windows 10 S—the restricted version of Windows t…

ISPs must follow net neutrality in New Jersey, governor declares

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arstechnica.com - New Jersey is enforcing net neutrality with a new executive order that requires ISPs to follow neutrality rules if they sell Internet service to state agencies. The executive order announced today by…

Horizon Zero Dawn is the best robot-safari adventure game ever made

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arstechnica.com - Make no mistake: Horizon Zero Dawn is the rare triple-A single-player adventure that delivers on pretty much every front imaginable. The monumental story (technically, a few of them) is executed with…

Here’s Ajit Pai’s “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband

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arstechnica.com - Ajit Pai had a dilemma when overseeing the creation of the Federal Communications Commission's new Broadband Deployment Report. Anyone who is familiar with the FCC chairman's rhetoric over the past f…

Quest to dominate self-driving cars is at the heart of Waymo v. Uber trial

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arstechnica.com - This story has everything: a cutthroat startup using cloak-and-dagger tactics going up against a corporate giant, a now-dismissed star engineer accused of stealing thousands of crucial files, cutting…

The 7 Top Video Tools You Should Be Using Now

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www.entrepreneur.com - These are the top video tools that you should be using this year. One of the reasons video has gotten so huge for content marketing in recent months is the rise of native video offerings as part of s…

Why The Hamburger Menu Should Disappear For Good | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - The hamburger menu was initially introduced as a means to obscure secondary navigation items in an effort to maintain a cleaner and more focused web or application design. Android was one of the earl…

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Another Amazon Key door-lock hack

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www.theregister.co.uk - Video The security of Amazon.com’s Key door lock has again been called into question. The Key is a wireless-networked electrified lock designed to be temporarily disabled by delivery workers to drop …

Edge Sense Plus app will allow you to customize Pixel 2 Active Edge

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androidcommunity.com - If you know your Android manufacturers, you will probably be able to correctly guess where the Google Pixel 2’s Active Edge features came from. Most likely, HTC engineers had a lot to do with this fe…

Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra now part of Sony Open Devices Program

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androidcommunity.com - Sony is a bit different from other smartphone manufacturers when it comes to allowing their users to use software based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project). That’s what the Sony Open Devices Progra…

Makers of the hyped ultra-secure Turing Phone file for bankruptcy

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androidcommunity.com - In 2015, we wrote about the Turing Phone, which promised to bring you a very secure phone made of tough liquid metal materials. It’s 2018, and those who pre-ordered the Turing Phone are still waiting…

HP Launches New Windows Mixed Reality Headset As Part of Latest Commercial VR Push - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - HP is unveiling a new commercial VR push at Solidworks World today. The company is expanding its Device as a Service (DaaS) to include VR products as part of the new push. The key part of the new VR …

4 Unconventional Ways to Promote Blog Content on Social Media

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contentmarketinginstitute.com - Remember when you could write an amazing blog post, paste the link with a featured image, and hit share on social to see your web traffic grow? The same old content promotion tactics don’t work anymo…

The Bug Mini Vape Mod Kit

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www.migvapor.com - 5 stars! I'm state certified for medical use & was recommended this vape by my dispensary staff- being an e-cig smoker, I know a bit about the potential problems with refillable vaporizers, however, …

SearchCap: Super Bowl search ads, Google SEO audit tool & Wordpress

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The popular auditing tool used by developers and search marketers now enables users to …

The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem

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searchengineland.com - Google has invested heavily in shaping the architecture of the web, working with developers, the open-source community and the SEO community to ensure adoption of technologies and practices as part o…

The Oculus Go might be coming very, very soon

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mashable.com - Neither did we — until we saw two photos shared to Reddit by user "bekris" (spotted by Upload VR) of what Bekris claims is the Oculus Go's developer kit. We'll be honest, this doesn't look like devel…

How to Use CAKE Software to Optimize Your Digital Campaigns

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instapage.com - You’ve set your KPIs and established benchmarks for success. Now it’s time to optimize your campaigns; but combing through your digital inventory and pinpointing the channels and optimization strateg…

Advertise Online With BING Advertising

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durac.info - Make lifetime commissions from Clickbank? Clickbank has thousands of affiliates making commissions every day. Today, you can be one of them too… Click Here! Advertise Online With BING Advertising – A…

Want The Most From Your IPad? Try These Tips!

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laptopsandnotebook.com - The iPad contains all kinds of features that make it great tool for anyone. When you first use an iPad, it can prove rather overwhelming learning how to use it. Use the advice from this article to be…

Digital Disruption Common Sense

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cxo-transform.com - Facebook took 3.5 years to acquire 50 million customers, Whatsapp took 15 months, Angry Birds took 15 days. Since 1995 when Clay Christensen and Joe Bower published the HBR article Disruptive Technol…

PTC Now Offers ‘End-to-End’ Technology Solution for Fashion Retail

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wwd.com - One of the overarching themes that emerged during the National Retail Federation “Big Show” last month was the need for retailers to do a better job of “change management.” Attendees and speakers at …

3 Reasons Why Talking to Real Users is Important for UX Design

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www.egnyte.com - When I first joined the Products team as a UI/UX designer, there was no easy way to get feedback from real users. We were mostly assuming an end user’s expectations, and while it wasn’t right – it di…

How to Get Back on Your Feet Once Your Google Rankings Drop

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curatti.com - The long-term effects of your SEO campaigns can sometimes be quite unpredictable. You might’ve actually done everything just right and climbed the SERP ladder. However, with SEO, you never really kno…

Inclined For Design: How Visual Technology Is Streamlining Home Decor Renovations

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www.forbes.com - Though technology has simplified much of our everyday lives, there remain certain time-consuming jobs. For many of us, making a house a home falls into that category. Whether moving into a new place …

Deciding And Purchasing A DJI Phantom 4 Drone - Travel Explored

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www.travelexplored.com - Being a photographer, I am always keen to look at different ways that I can capture a photo. In recent years one option that has caught my attention is that of aerial photography. Primarily using a d…

Ask the experts: Email marketing optimisation

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www.econsultancy.com - The latest in our 'ask the expert' series focuses on a core skill in the digital marketer's skillset - email optimisation. We grilled three of the loveliest experts we know – Kath Pay (Holistic Email…

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