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Facebook's Sandberg says company did not do enough to protect people's data

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www.foxnews.com - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for Cambridge Analytica scandal, says the social network is taking 'strong action' to get ahead of the problem. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandber…

13 types of videos that could power up your business

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www.influencebuzz.com - Video is certainly worthy of investment, but it’s important to consider the different pieces, platforms and productions that will play to your company’s strengths. Here are 13 types of videos that ca…

The BR-X1 Skeleton Tourbillon Sapphire Watch From Bell Ross Sells For Half A Million Dollars

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brobible.com - Tourbillon watches are some of the most expensive types of watches on the planet, but this BR-X1 Skeleton Tourbillon Sapphire from Bell Ross is extremely expensive by any standards. It retails for ju…

Quotes That World Leaders Wanted Suppressed Are Now Billboards in Google Street View

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www.adweek.com - The Swedish branch of global advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has been planting digital Easter eggs around the world, and they might come as quite a shock to those who stumble across them. Wo…

Bombshell: Facebook Admits 'Most' of Site's 2 Billion Users Compromised by 'Malicious Actors' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - CommonDreams.com reports that Facebook has admitted that more user accounts may have been compromised than those announced during the company’s most recent data scandal. Initial reports stated that a…

Google employees petition to pull out of Pentagon AI project

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thehustle.co - Thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the search giant to end a partnership with the Pentagon to improve AI and image-recognition tech that could be used for drone strikes. The …

LinkedIn jobs report finds a 19.3% increase in March hiring

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www.cnbc.com - U.S. employers hired significantly more people in March than last year, according to the LinkedIn Workforce Report, a monthly analysis of employment trends. Hiring across the U.S. was 19.3 percent hi…

1.5 BEEELLION sensitive files found exposed online dwarf Panama Papers leak

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www.theregister.co.uk - Security researchers have uncovered 1.5 billion business and consumer files exposed online – just a month before Europe's General Data Protection Regulation comes into force. During the first three m…

Never, Ever Go To A Job Interview Without These 10 Things

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www.forbes.com - The key to a great job interview is preparation. As somebody who has interviewed thousands of candidates I can tell you that it is very sad to meet a candidate who is smart and friendly -- but also, …

The high-stakes battle for the Pentagon’s winner-take-all cloud contract

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techcrunch.com - There is a battle afoot, one you might not have heard about yet, but it involves a high-stakes winner-take-all contract for the Department of Defense’s cloud contract. It could involve billions of do…

Facebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada, B.C. data watchdogs

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techcrunch.com - Privacy watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia are combining existing investigations into Facebook and AggregateIQ. The latter being a Victoria-based ad targeting tech company that has been linked …

Skype targets podcasters and live streamers with a new feature for recording video calls

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft is hoping to capitalize on the popularity of podcasts and videos to make Skype more appealing to content creators. The company is now testing a new “Skype for Content Creators” mode for its…

Myanmar group blasts Zuckerberg’s claim on Facebook hate speech prevention

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techcrunch.com - It’s becoming common to say that Mark Zuckerberg is coming under fire, but the Facebook CEO is again being questioned, this time over a recent claim that Facebook’s internal monitoring system is able…

Facebook data scandal also affects 2.7M EU citizens

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techcrunch.com - Another data-point to flesh out the Facebook data misuse scandal: The company has informed the European Commission that a total of 2.7 million EU citizens had their information improperly shared with…

Highlights and audio from Zuckerberg’s emotional Q&A on scandals

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techcrunch.com - “This is going to be a never-ending battle,” said Mark Zuckerberg. He just gave the most candid look yet into his thoughts about Cambridge Analytica, data privacy and Facebook’s sweeping developer pl…

Best Buy customer info may have been exposed in data breach

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techcrunch.com - It’s been a week filled to the brim with customer security comprises, and here’s one more to add to the pile. A day after Sears, Kmart and Delta confirmed that they’d been impacted by a breech of dat…

Facebook reportedly suspends AggregateIQ over connection to improper data-sharing

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techcrunch.com - AggregateIQ, a Canadian advertising tech and audience intelligence company, has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly being closely connected with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, r…

Walmart to roll out over 500 more Pickup Towers to U.S. stores this year

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techcrunch.com - Walmart announced this week it’s going to roll out more than 500 additional Pickup Towers to its U.S. stores over the course of the year. The towers, which are like high-tech vending machines distrib…

DHS defends media-monitoring database, calls critics “conspiracy theorists”

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arstechnica.com - Earlier this week, Bloomberg Law uncovered a Department of Homeland Security job listing for a "media monitoring services" request to keep tabs on over 290,000 "global news sources" and develop an ex…

Facebook: It wasn’t 50M hit by Cambridge Analytica breach, but rather 87M

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arstechnica.com - In a new blog post published Wednesday morning, Facebook announced that even more people—beyond the initial 50 million—have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. At the end of a lengthy p…

Facebook admits Zuckerberg wiped his old messages—which you can’t do

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arstechnica.com - Facebook has been quietly deleting old messages from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out of their recipients' Facebook Messenger inboxes, the company has acknowledged. This isn't an option available to …

Amazon customers take to social media after mysterious account closures

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arstechnica.com - Hundreds of Amazon customers have taken to social media to voice their frustrations about their accounts being mysteriously deactivated, with no reason given by the online retailer. For the past week…

FCC won’t reveal the secrets behind Ajit Pai’s anti-net neutrality dance video

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission has denied a public records request that sought emails regarding Chairman Ajit Pai's "Harlem Shake" video. Pai shot the video with the Daily Caller, a conservati…

Hours after Zuck deletion scandal, Facebook announces new unsend feature

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arstechnica.com - Hours ago, Facebook admitted that Mark Zuckerberg had given himself special powers to delete old Facebook messages from recipients' inboxes—a feature that's not available to ordinary Facebook users. …

2018 iPad review: Content creation with compromises

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arstechnica.com - Just like last year's iPad, this year's model is still the best tablet at its price point for watching videos, playing games, reading emails, and browsing the Web. But by adding Pencil support and ex…

Facebook Imposes New Restrictions on Ads and Popular Pages

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www.wired.com - As Facebook tries to make itself over before CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress next week, the company is announcing several new authentication requirements for ads and Pages. Zuckerberg also …

Apple Promises a New MacPro Next Year—for Real This Time

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gizmodo.com - Today, in a story by Techcrunch’s Matthew Panzerino, Apple gave us an actual timeframe for when we’ll see its next pro-level Mac desktop. The company, clearly aware of the fact that it’s been way too…

More than 50 Enormous Ancient Drawings Found in Peru Add to Nazca Mystery

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www.ancient-origins.net - More than 50 new geoglyphs have been added to the mysterious Peruvian desert carvings. Some are made by the same culture as the Nazca lines and others show unique designs predating them. Archaeologis…

A Hidden Figures TV Series Is in the Works for Nat Geo

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mentalfloss.com - For retro game players looking for a simple fix, the recent arrivals of Nintendo’s official NES Classic and Super NES Classic game systems have been an exciting purchase. The systems—when you can fin…

Mophie Charge Steam Pad+ brings 10W of wireless charging power

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androidcommunity.com - If your smartphone supports wireless charging and you’re in the market for a new, reliable charging pad, popular brand Mophie has just released a new higher-power version of their well-reviewed produ…

Taskade is a to-do list app that lets you collaborate with others

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androidcommunity.com - There are a lot of productivity and to-do list apps out there that should help even the most disorganized person put a semblance of order in their lives. One of the newest ones available now for your…

How Loyalty Can Help Retailers Compete Against Amazon

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www.loyalty360.org - According to data from One Click Retail, Amazon was responsible for about 44 percent of all U.S. e-commerce sales last year, or about 4 percent of the country's total retail sales figures. The fastes…

Co-Creation: Loyalty Marketing's Big Secret

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www.loyalty360.org - Loyalty marketers are always looking for an edge that can push their loyalty efforts over the top. Success has been found in programmatic efforts that build customer reciprocity and status, or provid…

Ever wanted to know what NOT to do in PPC? Make sure you avoid these blunders:

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www.portent.com - Today, for a change of pace we’ll look at how to build the most wasteful, ineffective PPC account possible. The blunders listed here range from ignoring easy wins that could have maximized your ad’s …

How to Use Webinars to Build Good Customer Relationships

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www.marketingprofs.com - Webinars are truly a great marketing strategy for generating leads for your business. However, that's certainly not the only measure of their effectiveness. Webinars are an excellent platform to comm…

‘Masters of the Universe’ Panel: There Is No Way to Compete with Google and Facebook | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - “Isn’t it time for some serious competition for these people, and wouldn’t we have a lot of conservatives, millions of people across the country, flock to these other outlets that would be fair and w…

Facebook scrambling to explain why Zuckerberg could pluck his messages out of other people’s inboxes

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www.theblaze.com - Facebook is scrambling again after Tech Crunch reported that the social media giant has been using a secret tool to pluck messages sent by CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and other company executi…

5 Advertising Opportunities Your Competitors Are Not Using Yet

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instapage.com - It is getting expensive to reach target audiences with paid ads. Facebook CPMs are up 122% year-over-year, business services keywords on Google AdWords have an average CPC of $58.64, and LinkedIn’s C…

Ways To Improve Your Mobile Marketing Skills

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firstadsense.com - Add guidelines and maps to your website online that can be used on all cell devices. A lot of people use apps to locate places. List your enterprise with Google Maps and identical websites. Make your…

Getting Into The Swing Of Facebook Marketing

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duracmarketing.com - Facebook offers numerous opportunities to connect and communicate with new and existing customers. Because people love to communicate with each other, social media sites get more and more popular. Ta…

Designing The Best Web Site For Your Needs

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agentmonhost.com - Many people have a casual interest in the creative field of website creation, but do not try it because they think it will be too hard. If you feel discouraged by the task, but really want to design …

Big Co vs. Startup? - TheCollectiveSearch

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www.thecollectivesearch.com - So you’ve decided to start a career in software sales. Great! Now here’s one of the bigger questions you should be asking – do I want to be working in a startup or for a big company? Just like you sh…

More Colorado Towns Vote Down A Comcast State Law Hamstringing Broadband Competition

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www.techdirt.com - For years we've discussed how incumbent ISPs like Comcast have spent millions of dollars quite literally writing and buying shitty, protectionist laws in more than twenty states. These laws either ba…

IoT platform market: growth, fragmentation, trends, forecasts, vendors

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www.i-scoop.eu - One of the many components of an IoT solution is the IoT platform (other components of the IoT stack are connectivity, devices, sensors and actuators, IoT gateways etc.). Although it’s only a few yea…

Embedded World attendees excited by PICMG technologies

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www.embedded-computing.com - PICMG, an embedded computing specification development organization, had it largest presence at Embedded World to date this year. Attendees from the industrial, IoT, transportation, and defense marke…

Botched upgrade at Belgian bank Argenta sparks phishing frenzy

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www.theregister.co.uk - Belgian bank Argenta has apologised for a botched tech plumbing upgrade that delayed transfers and confronted customers with incorrect balance data. The bank, which has 1.4 million Belgian customers,…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a terrible breach of drone buyers' data

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www.theregister.co.uk - Exclusive A popular drone dealership website left its entire transaction database exposed online with no encryption at all, revealing a host of purchases by thousands of police, military, government …

A Guide to McAfee at RSA 2018 | McAfee Blogs

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securingtomorrow.mcafee.com - As the RSA Conference convenes some 32,000 April 16-19 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, cybersecurity has perhaps never been so vital, diverse, and wide-ranging. To help make sense of that, McAfee…

5 Business Optimization Resources for Service Providers

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aepiphanni.com - Whether you are a chiropractor, dentist, or hairdresser (oops, hair stylist), maintaining a healthy business practice involves continually growing your client base. In today’s mobile-connected and so…

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