Tuesday, June 12, 2018

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Introduce your nonprofit to new supporters with a welcome email series

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4agoodcause.com - The best way to introduce your newest email subscribers to your organization is to automate a welcome email series. These emails quickly and effectively get the attention of your new supporters and i…

Cybersecurity mistake meant Macs could have hosted nasty files

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www.cnet.com - Important tools for keeping malicious software off Macs could have been tricked, cybersecurity firm Okta said in research made public Tuesday. Okta researchers examined several whitelisting services …

Valve sets sights on Discord with updates to Steam Chat

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techcrunch.com - Discord has risen among the ranks of gamers as the most common choice for game-related communications. And it’s easy to see why: it works well and the competition is pretty dismal. But Valve is looki…

Instagram is proof shameless copying pays off

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mashable.com - The best way to beat your biggest competitor is to straight-up copy them. That may go against everything they teach you in business school, but that's the lesson we can draw from the past two years I…

Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints - MediaShift

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mediashift.org - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and co-founder Biz Stone have taken executive transparency to new heights, not only using their own Twitter micro-blogging service frequently to share details of their persona…

December’s Smash Bros. Ultimate includes every existing character, plus Ridley

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arstechnica.com - Every third-party and DLC character from prior games, including Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake, Street Fighter's Ryu, and Final Fantasy VII's Cloud, will join Smash Ultimate—as too will the fan-favor…

Sony at E3: Death Stranding is every bit as bizarre as Kojima fans dreamed

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arstechnica.com - A new character was introduced in the gameplay demo. Strange shadows emerged from the ground and consumed the protagonist at the end of the demo. But it wasn't long before Ellie was sneaking to evade…

Apple just banned cryptocurrency mining on iOS devices

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arstechnica.com - Apple recently announced new restrictions on the use of cryptocurrencies on iPhones and iPads, a change first noticed by Apple Insider on Monday. "Apps may not mine for cryptocurrencies unless the pr…

How Nintendo regained its footing with the Switch and smartphones

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techcrunch.com - As recently as a couple of years ago, Nintendo very much felt like a company at a crossroads. The Wii U presented a rare major misfire for the gaming giant, while its executives stubbornly clung to a…

Everything Nintendo announced at E3 2018

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo came out with the big guns for its pre-recorded E3 conference this morning, delivering updates on a couple veteran franchises while also bringing some new titles to its Switch console. We di…

Hands-on with Nintendo’s Poké Ball Plus

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo doesn’t come out with a ton of hardware in-between system launches, but the peripherals it does come out with have a history of being pretty quality. That being said, the Poké Ball Plus may …

Google brings offline neural machine translations for 59 languages to its Translate app

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techcrunch.com - Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it’s offline. That’s because the offline translat…

Fortnite won’t support cross-play between Nintendo Switch and PS4

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techcrunch.com - As rumored, Fornite is coming to the Nintendo Switch. In fact, it’s arriving even earlier than we imagined, available today as a free download from the Nintendo eShop. The addition widens the play fi…

Uber bets on developing world growth with low-data Uber Lite

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techcrunch.com - “The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States”, Uber’s head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me. The transportation giant already sees 75 mil…

Jane.ai raises $8.3M to bring a digital assistant into your office software

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techcrunch.com - Even as AI assistants delve deeper into consumer hardware, companies still seem a bit reticent to bring them deep into their office software workflows. Jane.ai is aiming to bring natural language pro…

Google’s Family Link software now recommends ‘teacher-approved’ apps

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techcrunch.com - Google today is expanding the capabilities of its Android parental control software, Family Link, to go beyond helping parents better manage their child’s device and app usage. Now, the Family Link a…

Is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the most ambitious crossover event in history?

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo sure thinks so. Take that, The Avengers. The game is certainly a massive undertaking and a comprehensive Nintendo history lesson, including every playable character from past Super Smash Bro…

Facebook cracks down on ads from e-commerce scammers flagged by new reviews

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is cracking down on shopping sites and others that bait and switch customers by delivering lower quality products than what they advertised on the social network. Today, Facebook launches a …

Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast

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techcrunch.com - This week completely scrambled the video landscape, and its implications are going to take months to fully understand. First is the district court’s decision to approve the merger of AT&T and Time Wa…

Macy’s acquires minority stake in tech retailer b8ta

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techcrunch.com - Macy’s has partnered with b8ta, the retail-as-a-service startup that originally started out as a way to let people try out new tech products. Macy’s has acquired a minority stake in b8ta and will use…

Gaming leans into diversity at E3, but not hard

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techcrunch.com - To say the gaming community is not known for its friendliness to women and minority groups is something of an understatement. But we’re starting to see developers abandon the usual excuses of traditi…

Google puts an end to Chrome extension installs from third-party sites

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a major change to its Chrome Web Store policy that aims to shield users from websites that try to fool them into installing their Chome extensions. Until now, developers who pu…

Tesla lays off roughly nine percent of workforce

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techcrunch.com - Tesla has laid off about nine percent of its employees, Electrek first reported. This is part of the reorganization Musk talked about in May on the company’s quarterly earnings call. The layoffs repo…

Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaigns

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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s hundreds of pages of follow-ups to Senators make for decidedly uninteresting reading. Give lawyers a couple of months and they will always find a way to respond non-substantively to the mo…

How to Make Your Blog Load Faster and Keep Visitors from Leaving

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www.bloggingpro.com - The question “how to make blog load faster” is on every blogger’s minds. After all, bloggers are concerned mostly with the content they publish. They think that other factors such as site speed may b…

Ubisoft at E3: Beyond Good & Evil is back

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arstechnica.com - The game was introduced with a team member riding into the hall on a motorcycle, of course. LOS ANGELES—Ubisoft held a press conference at E3 today to show off its upcoming slate of games. As is usua…

Spider-Man PS4 hands-on: Next-level superhero awesomeness with a learning curve

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arstechnica.com - LOS ANGELES—A typical E3 video game demo offers one of two things: a snappy "vertical slice" of immediately accessible action, or an all-too-brief tease of a much larger and more complicated sales pi…

Microsoft “Andromeda” this year, new HoloLens in 2019, and the next Xbox in 2020

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arstechnica.com - Internal documents outlining Microsoft's future hardware plans have leaked, giving a sneak peek at what the next couple of years of the company's hardware are likely to look like, writes Brad Sams of…

Comcast, AT&T, Verizon say they have no paid prioritization plans

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arstechnica.com - The repeal of federal net neutrality rules became official yesterday, giving broadband providers the right to block or throttle Internet traffic or to prioritize traffic in exchange for payment. But …

Metro Exodus world premiere: Could this be the Half-Life 3 we always wanted?

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arstechnica.com - SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The Ukrainian game developers at 4A Games don't hesitate to list Half-Life 2 as a defining inspiration for Metro, their long-running first-person shooter series. A 4A representat…

First state net neutrality law took effect today, countering FCC repeal

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arstechnica.com - The State of Washington today became the first US state to impose a net neutrality law that replaces the nationwide regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. Washington's legisla…

Japanese IT Giant Fujitsu Launches Blockchain-Based Rewards System for Retail

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cointelegraph.com - Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has launched a blockchain-based reward points system aimed at innovating retail, according to a press release published today, June 6th. The blockchain-based data storage sy…

Typekit Announces Bauhaus-Inspired Fonts | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Bauhaus (meaning School of Building) is a legendary design school, based in Germany in the early part of the 20th century. Although it survived just 14 years—closed by political pressure as the Third…

Here's How Elon Musk Got His Groove Back and Turned Tesla's Image Around

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www.inc.com - For Tesla fans, it was a breath of fresh air to see good old Elon Musk on stage at the company's recent shareholders' meeting. Tesla stock had been in the doldrums, weighed down by the slow ramp-up o…

Sick of Incessant Spam Calls? Apple Is Making It Easier to Fight Back

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www.inverse.com - It’s not just you: The scourge of spam calls to our smartphones appears to be getting worse. Between the end of 2009 and the end of 2017, the number of consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commis…

These states are working to keep net neutrality alive

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www.fastcompany.com - Federal regulations meant to protect net neutrality formally end today, fulfilling a promise by the Trump administration to scrap FCC rules approved in 2015. For most of the country, unfettered acces…

How to Increase New Member Participation in Your Loyalty Program

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www.loyalty360.org - How many times have you visited a store and during checkout were prompted to sign up for a loyalty program? Chances are, you signed up via email then left the store and never thought about that loyal…

A Windows 10 Field Guide Update - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The Windows 10 Field Guide is now being updated to support Windows 10 version 1803, and we are lowering the price of the book. As always, these new updates will be free for those who have already pur…

Commemorating 20 years of Google - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Later this year, Google will celebrate its “official” 20th birthday. To acknowledge Google’s two decades of providing services used by most people around the world on a daily basis (not to mention be…

Network Marketing Tips | How To Succeed If You Don't Like "Selling" - The Straight Talk

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terrypetrovick.com - Are you the person who doesn’t want to do network marketing because they don’t want to chase their family and friends? Or that you don’t want to be that guy or that chick that everybody runs from. Ho…

Facebook LIVE for Business? 5 Simple Steps to Instantly Get Targeted Prospects to Talk to with Facebook LIVE! • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Getting people signed up to ManyChat is super simple. Just one click on a link can sign them up as a subscriber to YOUR ManyChat bot. Even cooler is that when someone simply leaves a comment on your …

Video Marketing Strategy: The Video Content Marketing Formula for Maximum Results • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - I hope you are ready, because you're about to get a full-blown video marketing strategy handed right to you. One that you can start running with TODAY, and get leads very quickly. If you are ready to…

Instagram Algorithm Update & Tips For Staying Alive On Instagram • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - The Instagram algorithm was updated on March 15th, and as Instagram promised, it was one of their biggest updates to date. It will affect the way you view your posts. They stated on their blog,”You m…

The Fast Simple Way to Gain Expert Status (Even if You're a Total Newbie) • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Having your own product, even if only a simple one, is going to set you apart from everyone else and help you have instant authority with your prospects. And you don’t have to wait until you become “…

Master Youtube Video Marketing Online for Traffic, Leads & Sales

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Video marketing is the process of producing, publishing, and distributing to promote or market a brand, product or service. Think video reports, step-by-step tutorials, customer testimonials, videos …

6 Types of Emails to Send to Your List to Build Rapport & Grow Your Income • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - So you’ve been creating great content, generating leads, and building your list. But now you might be wondering, “Ok, so what the heck do I actually send to my subscribers to get them to open my emai…

Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals – Local Internet Marketing

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andyrkelly.com - If you own a professional services business, odds are you’re trying to get leads in the door. What I often see is that these types of businesses develop automated lead funnels, because that’s what th…

We’re in this IoT thing together

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blogs.sas.com - It will be years, perhaps decades, before we fully realize how the Internet of Things (IoT) changed our lives for the better. By then, we won’t be calling it the Internet of Things, or IoT, anymore, …

"The internet was supposed to save democracy. I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong."

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www.vox.com - The web, and in particular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, were supposed to make information easier and freer to share, to advantage the citizen at the expense of governments, to pr…

5 UX lessons from the UI of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

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www.martechadvisor.com - User Interface? Are they different or inter-related concepts? User Interface (UI) is how a user interacts with technology and its design includes all visible aspects (to the user) of the system. A go…

Anchor Text SEO: Everything You Need to Know in 2018

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blog.kissmetrics.com - There’s a lot of conflicting information about anchor text out there. One site tells you to focus as heavily on your keywords as you can. Another tells you to stay as far away from any kind of anchor…

Intelligent oven Candy Watch & Touch wins the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2018 [Video]

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www.kb-eye.com - The revolutionary Candy Watch & Touch, the first intelligent oven designed and developed to communicate with users and manage every moment of food preparation through a simple touch, has been success…

Apple’s Core ML 2 vs. Google’s ML Kit: What’s the difference?

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venturebeat.com - At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2018, the Cupertino company announced Core ML 2, a new version of its machine learning software development kit (SDK) for iOS devices. But it’s not the only…

Hello, 'Apple' here, and this dodgy third-party code is A-OK with us

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www.theregister.co.uk - A recently discovered security vulnerability in Apple's "code-signing" process potentially made it easier to trick macOS users into running malicious third-party code. Developers have been warned of …

How Pinterest is wooing ad buyers with a consumer insights message - Digiday

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digiday.com - In IPG Mediabrands Cafe last week, a table was lined with mini Greek yogurt doughnuts, raspberry almond pound cake bites, frozen yogurt fruit kebabs and other petite treats. The spread wasn’t the wor…

This week in GDPR: TrustArc expands its channel program, Qualys adds new functionality to its SAQ cloud app & more - MarTech Today

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martechtoday.com - TrustArc expanded its TrustArcConnect Partner Program to meet what it says is a significant growth in global demand for privacy technology solutions. The program enables resellers, systems integrator…

Should We Trust Good-Guy Hackers?

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www.egnyte.com - This article was co-written by Kris Lahiri, Data Protection Officer and Dawid Balut, Egnyte Architect. Businesses test for network vulnerabilities in many different ways and the public’s opinion of g…

Mehr als 900 offene Positionen

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www.vacantum.com - Als IT-Projektmanager/in sind Sie für die Planung und Durchführung von Projekten im Bereich Customer Experience bei Kunden unterschiedlicher Branchen verantwortlich. Sie übernehmen die klassischen Pr…

Why Facebook Chatbots Could Be Your Best Friend in Online Marketing

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www.entrepreneur.com - In his latest deep dive into some of the benefits of Facebook marketing, Entrepreneur Network partner Ben Angel examines what sets the Messenger function apart from other marketing endeavors. The abi…

Wave of corporate mergers seen in wake of AT&T, Time Warner deal

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www.cbsnews.com - Now that a federal judge has cleared AT&T's $85 billion takeover of Time Warner, other companies are likely to rush to consolidate. Tuesday's ruling signaled that federal regulators will have a hard …

Behavioral Data Is About to Take a Back Seat to Declared Data

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www.entrepreneur.com - Marketers can infer a lot about consumers through behavioral data -- from their go-to Starbucks beverage to their favorite time of day to shop. But behavioral data provides only half the story: Who’s…

Big Day for AT&T, Time Warner and U.S. as Court Rules in Antitrust Case

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www.nytimes.com - Doing so might encourage the Justice Department to act more aggressively when it looks at deals in the future, and might prompt a rethink by companies with similar deals in the works. A key argument …

‘Everything’s on the line’: AT&T’s showdown with DOJ over Time Warner finally gets a decision today

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www.washingtonpost.com - A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on whether to block AT&T's $85 billion Time Warner merger, in what has become America's most closely watched antitrust trial in decades. The opinion by Jud…

The Secret to Making Facebook Ads Work for Your Business

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www.entrepreneur.com - Did you know that the attention of a goldfish is nine seconds? Ours is shorter -- we only have an attention span of eight seconds. So, when it comes to catching the eye of a potential customer, you g…

How to Overcome the Biggest Online Retail Business Challenges

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www.mytemplatestorage.com - Did you know that only $1 is spent on conversions for every $92 spent on lead generation? Does that sound like a fair distribution of your resources? The major challenge that online retail businesses…

3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Position Their Brand to Dominate Voice Search

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www.entrepreneur.com - Comscore predicts that by 2020, 50 percent of all searches will be completed with voice. Yet, according to a recent survey by personalization provider RichRelevance, almost 70 percent of U.S. shopper…

Unlockd enters administration, blames Google’s ‘anti-competitive conduct’

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www.cio.com.au - Melbourne start-up Unlockd – which at the start of this year had been gearing up for an Australian Securities Exchange IPO – has gone into voluntary administration. In a statement released this after…

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