Friday, March 22, 2019

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9 Powerful Ways To Combine Social Media and Email Marketing

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www.jeffbullas.com - Social media marketing is great for reaching new people. Email marketing is awesome at making them convert. If you see an opportunity here, you’re correct. Customers need to encounter a brand up to 1…

The Biggest Trend in SEO | Orbit Media Studios

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www.orbitmedia.com - At conferences and in conference rooms, we hear these things a lot: “The Google algorithm is updated 500 times per year…” “You need to stay on top of your rankings…” And changes in Google mean change…

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Sirin Labs Announces Integration with MyEtherWallet | Finance Magnates Shared by Blair Semenoff www.financemagnates.com - Sirin Labs, creators of the cryptocurrency-focused Finney smartpho…

Tesla’s customer referral program is back weeks after it was killed off

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techcrunch.com - Tesla killed off its customer referral program way back on February 1, 2019 because the popular program was getting too costly to maintain. But now, less than two months later, Tesla is bringing it b…

Tesla sues former employees, Zoox for alleged trade secret theft

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techcrunch.com - Tesla has filed a pair of lawsuits against a handful of former employees who went to work at self-driving vehicle startup Zoox and Chinese EV automaker Xiaopeng. The separate lawsuits filed late Wedn…

Windows Virtual Desktop is now in public preview

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techcrunch.com - Last year, Microsoft announced the launch of its Windows Virtual Desktop service. At the time, this was a private preview, but starting today, any enterprise user who wants to try out what using a vi…

Respondology helps brands and influencers hide toxic comments

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techcrunch.com - “Don’t read the comments” is one of those cliches that sticks around because it’s still good advice — maybe the best advice. But the team at Respondology is trying to change that. The company started…

Daily Crunch: Facebook admits password security lapse

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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Faceb…

What to expect from Apple’s ‘Show Time’ event

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techcrunch.com - The biggest surprise about next week’s Apple event may be the fact that the company has anything left to announce. This week, several core pieces of Apple hardware received upgrades, including the iP…

Firefox is now a better iPad browser

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techcrunch.com - Mozilla today announced a new iOS version of Firefox that has been specifically optimized for Apple’s iPad. Given the launch of the new iPad mini this week, that’s impeccable timing. It’s also an adm…

Mailchimp and Shopify break up

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techcrunch.com - Shopify today announced that the Mailchimp app, which let its users use their Shopify data to create targeted email campaigns, for example, is no longer available in its marketplace. The reason for t…

Homeland Security warns of critical flaws in Medtronic defibrillators

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techcrunch.com - Homeland Security has issued a warning for a set of critical-rated vulnerabilities in Medtronic defibrillators that put the devices at risk of manipulation. These small cardio-defibrillators are impl…

Two serious WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild

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arstechnica.com - Attackers have been actively exploiting serious vulnerabilities in two widely used WordPress plugins to compromise websites that run the extensions on top of the content management system. The two af…

The 2020 Kia Soul—the boar with a backpack busts a move

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arstechnica.com - Although we make every effort to cover our own travel costs, in this case Kia flew me to San Diego (where it was very cold and sometimes snowy) to drive the Soul, and provided two nights in a hotel. …

JavaScript infinite alert prank lands 13-year-old Japanese girl in hot water

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arstechnica.com - Japanese police in the city of Kariya have questioned and charged a 13-year-old female student for distributing malicious code online after she linked to the code on an online message board. The mali…

Clippy briefly resurrected as Teams add-on, brutally taken down by brand police

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arstechnica.com - On Microsoft's official Office GitHub repository (which contains, alas, not the source code to Office itself but lots of developer content for software that extends Office), the widely loved (?) Clip…

You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone

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arstechnica.com - As on other remote play devices, you can navigate the entire PS4 interface. The touchscreen controls overlay is about as good as touchscreen controls overlays can possibly be. You can use your iPhone…

Cable and satellite TV sinks again as online streaming soars

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arstechnica.com - Cord cutting continued at a steady rate in 2018, as cable and satellite TV providers in the United States lost more than 3 million video subscribers, a new report from Leichtman Research Group said. …

HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

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arstechnica.com - HMD is in hot water following a report from Norwegian site NRKbeta, which found that HMD's Nokia 7 Plus was sending users' personal information to a server in China. HMD responded to the report, admi…

FCC has to pay journalist $43,000 after hiding net neutrality records

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission has settled a case over its refusal to comply with a public records request, agreeing to pay $43,000 to a journalist who sued the commission. Freelance writer Ja…

Microsoft reanimates corpse of maligned Office Assistant "Clippy" to help Teams compete with Slack

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www.techrepublic.com - Microsoft Office users in the 1990s likely have less-than-kind memories of "Clippit," also known as "Clippy," one of the assistants introduced in Microsoft Office 1997. The assistant concept was the …

Who has the fastest website in F1?

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jakearchibald.com - I was trying to make my predictions for the new Formula One season by studying the aerodynamics of the cars, their cornering speeds, their ability to run with different amounts of fuel. Then it hit m…

Building accessible websites and apps is a moral obligation

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gomakethings.com - Yesterday, we recorded a JS Jabber episode (I’m a co-host on the show) with Chris DeMars. (It comes out in a month or two.) Chris has a strong focus on performance and web accessibility, and at one s…

How to declutter a screen — a step-by-step guide

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medium.com - For the purpose of this tutorial, I’ve quickly designed a screen of a potential web app for high-school or college students. This app would allow them to track their scheduled classes, see the latest…

8 Dead Web Trends We're Better Off Without | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - A lot of very smart people have said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Other people say that nostalgia bait…ahem…“retrospectives” get a lot of clicks. They’re both rig…

Google Maps web starts getting a Material Design makeover

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www.androidpolice.com - The switch from the older Material Design to the new one, known as MD 2.0 or Material Theme among Android fans, has been a long process. Some apps like Photos adopted the change swiftly, while others…

“Hail The Dark Lioness”: An Important Series Addressing Identity Politics And Racial Injustice

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designyoutrust.com - South African visual artist, activist, and photographer Zanele Muholi took 365 self-portraits for her series titled ‘Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness’, to bring to attention the injustices fa…

T-Mobile testing out Home Internet pilot program to selected customers

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androidcommunity.com - With the T-Mobile and Sprint merger still on the verge of being approved (or not approved), the former needs all the goodwill from the US government and regulators that it can get. One way would be o…

Razer partners with Tencent for mobile gaming advancement

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androidcommunity.com - Razer knows gaming best. From game launchers to accessories to gaming consoles, the company knows what to do. Perhaps one of its biggest projects is the Razer Phone released in 2017 and now has a sec…

Sony Xperia XZ3 on DxOMark: See for yourself how it performed

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androidcommunity.com - The Sony Xperia XZ3 isn’t exactly the kind of phone you may be anticipating for but we know there are fans interested in its performance. The last device that hit DxOMark we featured was the Samsung …

Google Keep may soon introduce dark mode

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androidcommunity.com - Google’s journey into darkness continues. Well, what we mean of course is that they’re continually introducing dark modes to their various apps. The latest one that may actually get this option is no…

Pixel devices’ home screen search bar now showing off Google Doodles

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androidcommunity.com - Google is finally bringing Google Doodles to more places. Previously we told you about the special events themed pics and animated interpretation of the Google logo showing up on the Discover feed of…

Instagram Introduces Checkout Feature to Enhance Impulse Shopping

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loyalty360.org - It has been six years since Facebook made the crucial decision to purchase the photo-sharing platform Instagram. At the time, it was a zero-revenue company with only 30 million users, but now it has …

Walmart Reportedly Looking Into Entering The...Game Streaming Market - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Walmart is reportedly looking into a potential game streaming service. The company has apparently been in talks with game developers and publishers since the start of this year, and it’s also been ta…

Intel Kills Off Compute Card - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Two years after it first introduced the credit card-sized PC, Intel confirmed that it has now killed off the Compute Card. “We continue to believe [that] modular computing is a market where there are…

SEOs frustrated by Google’s belated pagination announcement - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - This week, SEOs learned that Google stopped supporting the rel=prev/next markup (that indicates a web page is part of a larger set of pages) within its indexing process years ago. Having factored rel…

5 Steps To Speed Up Your WordPress Website – Beginner-Friendly Guide

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www.bitrebels.com - There are many guides out there about https://turboweb.org speeding up WordPress, but most are not beginner friendly. This guide intention is to help a novice be as efficient as he can in his conditi…

Tips On How To Save Money When Buying Clothing Online

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www.bitrebels.com - The use of the internet has introduced several ways to revolutionize the way we buy things. Due to the benefits and advantages, more and more consumers prefer online shopping. Ladies and men are fond…

The Punishing Ecstasy of Being a Reddit Moderator

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www.wired.com - These are the rules: Users of /r/aww aren’t allowed to post about dogs that are dying, or sick, or just back from the vet. No posts about cats just adopted off the street; no bird-with-an-injured-bea…

The One-Hour Guide to SEO, Part 2: Keyword Research - Whiteboard Friday

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moz.com - Before doing any SEO work, it's important to get a handle on your keyword research. Aside from helping to inform your strategy and structure your content, you'll get to know the needs of your searche…

SEO Is a Means to an End: How Do You Prove Your Value to Clients?

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moz.com - “Prove it” is pretty much the name of the game at this point. As SEOs, we invest so much effort into finding opportunities for our clients, executing strategies, and on the best days, getting the res…

» Seeking Ground Rules for A.I. [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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www.futuristgerd.com - In February of this year, the New York Times hosted the ‘New Work Summit’, gathering together some of the greatest minds globally to “…assess the opportunities and risks that are now emerging as arti…

How to Avoid Distraction as a Marketer

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Does social media distract you from work and life? Wondering how to stay focused despite online interruptions? To explore how to avoid distraction as a marketer and as a human, I interview Brian Soli…

Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone Upgrade

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www.forbes.com - Apple may be moving forward with a polarizing iPhone redesign and several unusual (and somewhat creepy) tech upgrades, but now the company has accidentally revealed a long-awaited iPhone upgrade ever…

Suggestions For An Effective Website Marketing Strategy

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firstadsense.com - It is a secret that Web marketing is tough work. It is also known that Website marketing must be effective for your business to be profitable. There isn’t any point in working hard in the wrong direc…

Never Settle: Use These Website Marketing Tips And Thrive!

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firstadsense.com - The advice outlined through this article is designed to help you some ways to start using the Internet in just this way. Use the following tips as part of your online marketing. If you want to gain P…

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