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Navigating the Leap from Big Tech to Startups — Advice from a Former Google and Flipkart Exec
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firstround.com - At 11:58pm on October 13, 2015, Flipkart’s product and engineering teams were assembled in a series of war rooms. It was the eve of ‘The Big Billion Days,’ the Indian e-commerce giant’s annual blockb…
18 Website Optimization Tips For More Traffic and Higher Conversions
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www.incomediary.com - When it comes to website optimization, there is a lot you can be doing if you want to increase sales, get more traffic and have higher conversions. What is website optimization? To me, it’s how you c…
Is Slack ruining our jobs — and lives?
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www.vox.com - If you’ve spent any time with Slack, you’ve likely seen this message float below the text field of your company’s communications software. It can mean a few things: A vibrant discussion is taking pla…
TPS Consulting Daily
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Privacy and data protection an opportunity, says entrepreneur Shared by Rob Llewellyn www.computerweekly.com - Privacy and data protection should not just be viewed as legal and technical …
What to expect from Google I/O 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Developer season has begun! Next week, Google will be putting on a big party at the pointy outdoor amphitheater in Mountain View. It’s shaping up to be a biggie, too, if this week’s Google earnings c…
Spotify spotted testing ‘Your Daily Drive,’ a personalized playlist that includes podcasts – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Spotify was recently spotted testing a new personalized playlist — the first one to mix music and podcasts, customized to user’s musical tastes. According to a report by The Verge, which saw the new …
Sign up for Extra Crunch membership from TechCrunch – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Sign up today to help us support builders like you. Original Research and Reporting Extra Crunch membership offers exclusive access to analysis of successful startups, resources on company building, …
Adtech veteran Quantcast is latest tech giant to face GDPR privacy probe – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Another tech giant is under investigation in Europe for potential privacy breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechCrunch has learnt. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC),…
Microsoft announces the HoloLens 2 Development Edition – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona ear…
Daily Crunch: Facebook shows off an aspirational redesign – TechCrunch
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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…
Acast launches Acast Access to make paywalled podcasts available on any player – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Podcast monetization company Acast is launching a new way for publishers to put their podcasts behind a paywall. Until now, podcasts have not been well-suited to subscription paywalls, due to the fac…
Cybersecurity 101: Why you need to use a password manager – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - If you thought passwords will soon be dead, think again. They’re here to stay — for now. Passwords are cumbersome and hard to remember — and just when you did, you’re told to change it again. And som…
Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year’s decision to ban porn from its platform has had a marked averse effect on Tumblr’s traffic. No surprise, really, especially given how wide the net was cast for “adult content” when it anno…
Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois …
May Mobility COO and Co-founder Alisyn Malek at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Even as the giants of the autonomous vehicle industry were setting ambitious timelines for their robotaxi deployments, May Mobility was already hitting the streets. The startup launched its first low…
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited U.S. test – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company’s earnings call with investors. The streaming service today is announcing the launch of voice-e…
Microsoft extends its Cognitive Services with personalization service, handwriting recognition APIs and more – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - As part of its rather bizarre news dump before its flagship Build developer conference next week, Microsoft today announced a slew of new pre-built machine learning models for its Cognitive Services …
Hundreds of Orpak gas station systems can be easily hacked thanks to hardcoded passwords – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency says a popular gas station software contains several security vulnerabilities that require “low skill” to exploit. The advisory, posted by the Cybersecurity a…
Brand new fiber link from Alaska to US will carry 100 terabits over the Yukon – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Alaska is disconnected from the rest of the U.S. in a lot of ways — that’s kind of the point of Alaska. But giving residents the choice to participate in the modern online world is important for the …
Plum, the money management chatbot, raises another $4.5M and lands on iOS – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Plum, the chatbot-based app that helps you manage your money, is disclosing $4.5 million in further funding. The round, which quietly closed in the summer, was led by venture firm VentureFriends and …
Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now hiding Like counts from both a post’s viewers as …
How Using an iPad Pro for Work for 6 Months Has Changed Everything
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www.inc.com - Let's get this out of the way up front: this isn't going to be a feature review. I'm not interested in breaking down whether the screen is better than previous versions, or what liquid retina means, …
On Leadership with Scott Miller: #48 Guy Kawasaki
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resources.franklincovey.com - Join Guy Kawasaki, bestselling author and former chief evangelist at Apple, as he shares some of his uproarious stories and most valuable life lessons, including why quitting can be a sign of courage.
Exclusive: New privacy oversight on the table for Facebook, Zuckerberg
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www.politico.com - Since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have faced a barrage of other revelations that it had failed to protect users' privacy. | Andrew Harnik/AP File Photo Facebook …
Facebook Set to Create Privacy Positions as Part of F.T.C. Settlement
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www.nytimes.com - The company has strongly resisted naming Mr. Zuckerberg in the F.T.C.’s settlement as personally liable for privacy violations, according to the two people with knowledge of the talks. The company ha…
Game with hidden Ruby interpreter pulled from Nintendo Switch eShop
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arstechnica.com - Last week, developer Amir Rajan revealed an interesting Easter egg hidden in the Switch version of A Dark Room, an inventive text-based adventure that was ported to the console early last month. If y…
You can use this website to help pick new tires—here’s how it tests them
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arstechnica.com - Of all the areas of automotive technology that have improved over the years, perhaps none is as significant—and as little understood by the public—as the advances in tire technology. After all, a veh…
Ex-YouTube engineer reveals how video site worked to kill off Internet Explorer 6
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arstechnica.com - The year is 2009. YouTube, four years old, has become the Web's leading video site. Though Internet Explorer 6 was far from current—it had been superseded by versions 7 and 8—it nonetheless made up s…
Video: Slay the Spire is a friendly game of death, but it was hard to get it right
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arstechnica.com - Normally, we devote our "War Stories" videos to established and classic games of old. So what is a 2019 video game doing here? Anyone who asks this question about Slay the Spire, made by a three-pers…
Spot the not-Fed: A day at AvengerCon, the Army’s answer to hacker conferences
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arstechnica.com - FORT MEADE, Maryland—Late last year, I was invited to a relatively new hacker event in Maryland. Chris Eagle, a well-known researcher in the field of malware analysis and author of The IDA Pro Book, …
Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game
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arstechnica.com - Dig Dog is a pretty fun little video game. Call it "Spelunky for kids"—and don't think of that as a backhanded compliment, either. Dig Dog, which launched Thursday on iOS, Xbox, Windows, and Mac, sha…
Wireless carriers fight ban on throttling firefighters during emergencies
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arstechnica.com - The US mobile industry's top lobbying group is opposing a proposed California state law that would prohibit throttling of fire departments and other public safety agencies during emergencies. As repo…
Did a vigilante ROM leaker go too far to “preserve” a lost Atari ROM?
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arstechnica.com - That alone would have been notable news in the world of gaming history—the Dumping Union suggested as much by titling their forum announcement "Sit down on the toilet before reading this or else you …
Xbox’s new Code of Conduct: yes to “get wrecked,” “potato aim,” no to hate
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arstechnica.com - An apparently new page at the official Xbox website, dubbed "Community Standards for Xbox," was recently unearthed by members of the ResetEra gaming forums. The page appears to be the first of its ki…
Dealmaster: Get Fitbit’s best smartwatch, the original Versa, for just $180
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster returns with another batch of deals and savings to share. Topping our list today is a deal on Fitbit's Versa smartwatch—now you can get Fitbit's best smartwatch for…
AMD to launch new 7nm Navi GPU, Rome CPU in 3rd quarter
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arstechnica.com - In its earnings call, AMD offered a little more detail about the launch of its next-generation processors, built using the Zen 2 architecture and TSMC's 7nm manufacturing process, and new GPU archite…
Google unveils auto-delete for location, Web activity, and app usage data
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arstechnica.com - Google will soon let users automatically delete location history and other private data in rolling intervals of either three months or 18 months. "Choose a time limit for how long you want your activ…
Family of deceased Model X owner sues over 2018 crash
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arstechnica.com - The family of deceased Model X customer Walter Huang has sued Tesla and the state of California in state court, the family's attorneys announced on Wednesday. "Mrs. Huang lost her husband, and two ch…
The streaming service that wants to save the retro gaming biz from piracy
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arstechnica.com - A bit more of the game selection. Antstream promises 500 of its 2,000 licensed games will be available at launch, with an average of ten more added each week. Many games will have associated Challeng…
Pitchford promises no “free-to-play junk” for Borderlands 3
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arstechnica.com - During yesterday's streamed presentation, Pitchford announced that "we're gonna do some kickass campaign DLC, and I'm sure we're going to do all kinds of fun customizations like heads and skins. But …
Iota Partners With Jaguar Land Rover on Crypto Rewards Program, Price Jumps 20%
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Joel Comm
cointelegraph.com - United Kingdom car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover will use blockchain network Iota to reward drivers with cryptocurrency for data reporting, the companies confirmed in a press release on April 29. Pa…
5 Best WordPress AMP Themes for 2019
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line25.com - As Internet connectivity and device performance improve, more and more users expect a good web experience during their browsing. An important part of providing a good browsing experience for websites…
Top Six Best Rich Snippets Plugins For WordPress (2019)
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winningwp.com - The core version of WordPress was designed with search engines in mind. WordPress helps search engines crawl your content and offers SEO-friendly features such as permalinks, however it still lacks s…
My Key Learnings after 30,000 LOC in Rust
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medium.com - For me, Rust takes a stroll over the memory lane above and picks and drives home the best experiences from all those languages — which is a mind boggling, insane achievement. To pay for all that grea…
Google UX Designer David Hogue Shares How to Reverse Over-Complication in Product Design and How…
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medium.com - Most product designers have the best of intentions with their work — they want to make quality products that solve problems for their users, and strive to constantly find new ways to serve and deligh…
Our smartphone addiction is killing us – can apps that limit screen time offer a lifeline?
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Reg Saddler
theconversation.com - We’re squandering increasing amounts of time distracted by our phones. And that’s taking a serious toll on our mental and physical well-being. Perhaps ironically, software developers themselves have …
Huawei 8K TV with 5G connectivity may be in the works
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androidcommunity.com - Huawei is all about business. To be honest, it doesn’t need to work harder because it’s already No. 2 in the industry. It has dreams to be on top of the game but we’re guessing it doesn’t need to lif…
Android Q automatic light-dark mode switching appears on Pixel
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androidcommunity.com - Dark mode in Android has long been in demand. The Android has finally added the feature to the latest versions of the mobile platform. In Android Q, users can easily enable dark mode but it wasn’t li…
Google, Polestar to allow devs work on Android Automotive OS
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androidcommunity.com - From Android to Android TV to Wear OS, Google has been working to improve on the Android Automotive OS. Android Auto has been around for years and the platform certainly has a bright future especiall…
OnePlus 7 series specs leaked again
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androidcommunity.com - It’s here: the complete list of OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro specs. Well, we’re not sure if it’s from OnePlus but we’ll get to confirm all the information two weeks from today. The Chinese OEM is laun…
Latest Moto Z4 phone render confirms previous leaks
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androidcommunity.com - Motorola may not be on top of the game but it’s not going away. The brand stays as long as Lenovo allows it. We’ve recently seen the Moto E6 specs spilled ahead of launch. There’s the upcoming Motoro…
Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL leaked some more before public launch
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androidcommunity.com - In a few days, we’ll finally see the next pair of Pixel phones. The Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL have been part of the rumor mill since last quarter. It’s the first time Google is launching new mobile de…
Moment camera app brings tons of new features to Android
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androidcommunity.com - For those who are willing to shell out a couple of bucks or so for a camera app that can do more than your built-in one, one of the most popular names out there is the Moment app. If you’re already a…
Superbook able to ship only 75% of pre-orders through Kickstarter
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androidcommunity.com - When you back a project on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, it doesn’t always mean that you’ll eventually get the product that you invested in. There are several factors that can contribute to why the creat…
More Tiles for Wear OS by Google added as useful widgets
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androidcommunity.com - Android TV is getting there but we think Wear OS could be ahead. The new wearable platform has undergone a lot of changes ever since it was introduced as Android Wear. It was back in 2014 when Google…
6 Tips for Pinterest Marketing in Just Minutes a Day
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are you ready for a better Pinterest marketing plan? Time-saving Pinterest marketing tactics can deliver more results with less effort. In this article you’ll discover six tactics to help you market …
The State of Best-in-Class Customer Experience Survey Report: Top Imperatives for Your 2019 & Beyond
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loyalty360.org - Through a unique blend of content, networking, and research, Loyalty360 represents a community of the best voices and minds in the customer loyalty industry. As such, in partnership with SAP, we are …
Grammarly Premium Picks Up a Consistency Checker - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Those using the Premium version of Grammarly now have a new tool that will catch inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and formatting. “English is full of gray areas where there’s no single ‘righ…
Rethinking Rostering – How To Improve Employee Scheduling
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www.bitrebels.com - Trying to manage a team of employees is one of the most difficult and fickle aspects of running a business. All it takes is one person calling in sick to completely dismantle a well-prepared schedule.
Sitelinks searchbox, logo enhancement and unparsable structured data report added to GSC - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Google has introduced three new reports within the new Google Search Console: a new report for unparsable structured data and two new enhancement reports. Unparsable structured data report. The unpar…
Instagram Will Test Feature Hiding 'Likes' on Photos to Protect Feelings | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - The Washington Post reports that the CEO of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, recently stated that the site would soon test hiding the “like” counts from photos and view count from videos in an attempt to get…
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