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Sunday, April 10, 2016

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How To Grow an Email List With Subscribers Who Are Willing To Pay

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jeffbullas.com - Money is in the list – you’ve read this a million times. Email list subscribers are the biggest asset for any blog or online business. They’re your qualified sales leads. It’s much easier to build ...

Apple received first court order to unlock iPhone in 2008, cooperated with government

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digitaltrends.com - Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union unearthed records showing that Apple and Google began facing governmental requests under the All Writs Act, a law forcing them to comply with court ord...

Facebook Messenger Now at 900 Million Users, Announces Improved Connection Features

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socialmediatoday.com - For some time now, many have been anticipating Facebook’s move to take Messenger to the next level and make it a more viable and important tools for brands, a mission Facebook has repeatedly stated...

Your next car will need a firewall

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thenextweb.com - As our cars become increasingly connected to the internet, and eventually drive themselves, we’re going to want them to be rock-solid secure. The recent Chrysler exploit and FBI warning both highli...

5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Twitter Account

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jeffbullas.com - While Twitter’s growth is said to be in decline, the 140-character social network is still a valuable asset for your business. Because it’s almost 1 billion users still have significant influence o...

8 Reasons to Consider Marketing with Google+ - Jeffbullas's Blog

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jeffbullas.com - When Google+ was launched there were mixed reactions. The responses ranged from people with social media fatigue who thought “not another social network! “. There were also those curious personalit...

Right now tech investors are dog paddling in the ocean, waiting for the next wave

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businessinsider.com - VCs still have lots of money to invest in startups, and many big companies have a ton of cash to spend on acquisitions, but nobody's quite sure what to bet on. In several recent conversations, I've...

Facebook Announces Major Update for Facebook Live, Including New Discovery Tab

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socialmediatoday.com - Back in August, when Facebook released its own live-streaming offering to move in-line with the trend started by Periscope and Meerkat, the option was only made available to celebrities, a move whi...

What is Omnichannel Personalization and Why Do It? - The CMO Club

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thecmoclub.com - This article is part of a four part series. You can access each part of the series by clicking the links provided below. What is Omnichannel Personalization and Why Do It? How to Engage Customers:...

How to connect a Bluetooth keyboard to your Apple TV

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cnet.com - Entering text on the newest Apple TV got much easier with the recent release of tvOS 9.2 Users can now use their voice, with Siri Dictation to spell out usernames and passwords, or tell Siri what t...

Up Periscope: Inside Twitter’s one-year-old broadcast startup

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mashable.com - It’s been a little more than a year since we collectively discovered our passion for personal live broadcasting on Twitter – mostly thanks to Meerkat. It’s no small irony that, today, Meerkat has p...

Someone turned a real Glock gun into a clone of the Nintendo 'Duck Hunt' zapper

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mashable.com - Someone went and created a real gun based on the fake gun used in Nintendo's Duck Hunt game. The result? A very cool looking but dangerous weapon sporting a bit of gaming nostalgia. See also: Horri...

Yahoo email accounts down for some users for hours

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mashable.com - A large number of users claim they have not been able to access their Yahoo email accounts for most of Saturday. The reports of problems appear to have begun early Saturday morning, with no public ...

Paul Walker's daughter wins $10.1 million settlement

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mashable.com - Paul Walker's daughter, Meadow, has been awarded more than $10.1 million in a settlement over his death in a car crash in 2013. On Saturday, TMZ reported Walker's only daughter had received a settl...

Facebook Looking to Address Decline in Personal Updates with New Prompts

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socialmediatoday.com - Everyone’s on Facebook all the time - everyone’s using Facebook to post updates and stay in touch and generally keep their connections updated on all their various life happenings, right? Well mayb...

Loyalty360 - Mobile Customer Engagement Preferred Method of Service-based Messages

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loyalty360.org - Mobile customer engagement is huge these days and, according to a new Vibes study, consumers expect service-based communications from companies. Whether it’s an alert that their payment has been pr...

No Password Required! 135 Million Modems Open to Remote Factory Reset

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thehackernews.com - More than 135 Million modems around the world are vulnerable to a flaw that can be exploited remotely to knock them offline by cutting off the Internet access. The simple and easily exploitable vul...

Live Video Revolution Webinar

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livevideorevolution.com - FTC Disclaimer: Results may vary and testimonials are not claimed to represent typical results. All testimonials are real. These results are meant as a showcase of what the best, most motivated cli...

Researchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines

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arstechnica.com - A botnet that enslaved about 4,000 Linux computers and caused them to blast the Internet with spam for more than a year has finally been shut down. Sophisticated Mumblehard spamming malware flew un...

The future of the car is not about propulsion

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techcrunch.com - Mike Hoefflinger is an Executive-in-Residence at XSeed Capital and was previously at Facebook and Intel. I’m impatient to see breakthroughs in cars. I have high expectations for what Apple will do ...

Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible?

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techcrunch.com - For long months now, Facebook Comments have been riddled by some of the most transparent, eye-roll-inducing “I make a good salary working from home” spam you’ve ever seen. Every mail service can fi...

"Helvetica" Filmmaker's New Venture Is A VR Documentary Company

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fastcodesign.com - Stories by Gary Hustwit: Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, "I Would Not Want To Be A Designer" A Rare Interview With Graphic Design Legend Massimo Vignelli Rem Koolhaas: "There’s Been Very Littl...

Saturday's Best Deals: 802.11ac Router, Dress Shoes, Sugru, and More

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deals.kinja.com - An 802.11ac router, dress shoes, and electric yard tools kick off Saturday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of Edito...

Plantronics BackBeat GO 3 first-impressions

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slashgear.com - Usually, with headphones you have a choice: the convenience of Bluetooth and no wires, or the audio quality of wired, but the fuss of cords and cables in your pocket or bag. Plantronics believes it...

Slate (and Panoply) Are Moving to Brooklyn

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adage.com - Hear from Fortune 500 brands that have been forced to pivot as consumer preferences evolve, as well as entrepreneurs building brands from scratch to meet new consumer needs. This event peels apart ...

Loyalty360 - Southwest Airlines Elevates Customer Experience with Pay with Amazon

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loyalty360.org - Officials at Southwest Airlines elevated the customer experience by welcoming Pay with Amazon onboard WiFi-equipped aircraft. As a result, customers will have a new and convenient way to purchase p...

Loyalty360 - Pep Boys Elevates Customer Engagement Levels with Mobile-first Strategy

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loyalty360.org - Raising the level of customer engagement is an ongoing quest for any loyalty marketer. For Rachel Silva, Assistant Vice President of Marketing for Pep Boys, effective customer engagement has always...

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal po...

99 Viral Tweets: The Ultimate Swipe File For Twitter Marketers - Traffic Café

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trafficcafe.com - My intention is to inspire your own viral Tweets with this collection, so enjoy browsing! There are some extremely viral Tweets here, some of which have been retweeted a huge number of times, and y...

Top 10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

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inc.com - TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you've yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash o...

Windows 10 Roadmap Reveals New Features Coming in Anniversary Update - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Microsoft quietly published a Windows 10 Roadmap site for its business customers this week. But in doing so, the software giant also revealed some amazing new features that are coming in this summe...

Self-driving cars are having issues navigating crumbling U.S. road

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yahoo.com - Volvo’s North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker’s semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show. “It ...

Texas teen's death spurs renewed call to fix recalled cars

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yahoo.com - (Reuters) - The brother of a Texas teenager killed by shrapnel from an exploding Takata Corp air bag said on Thursday that his family never received a recall notice about the defective vehicle safe...

Google+ Profile and Google Brand Page Marketing

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sd-entrepreneur.com - When Google announced last week that they’ll be starting to roll out Search Plus your World, it became more evident that search is shifting towards a simpler way of retrieving data for their users ...

High school student invents a cheaper hearing aid

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money.cnn.com - When Mukund Venkatakrishnan was 14, he visited India and was tasked with helping his grandfather get tested and fitted for a hearing aid. He saw what a costly and difficult process it was and resol...

Disney Isn't Buying Netflix or Snapchat | Fox Business

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fool.com - Cupid is flinging arrows at Walt Disney. BTIG media analyst Rich Greenfield posted a head-turning blog entry on Friday. He feels that the media giant is in a pickle after overspending on content fo...

Facebook F8: Chatbots, AI Expected - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Facebook is one of several businesses preparing for a future of chatbot communication. The social media company plans to make some key announcements around chatbots and live chat during next week's...

News from The Associated Press

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hosted.ap.org - WASHINGTON (AP) -- A draft version of a Senate bill would effectively prohibit unbreakable encryption and require companies to help the government access data on a computer or mobile device with a ...

FBI Director Admits to Covering Webcam with Tape While Attacking ‘Unhackable’ Devices

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infowars.com - While being asked about the public’s growing awareness of surveillance during the Q&A portion, Comey stated he began covering his webcam after seeing the practice from “somebody smarter” than him. ...

Alexa, Cortana, and Siri Aren’t Novelties Anymore. They’re Our Terrifyingly Convenient Future.

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slate.com - Photo by iStock. Photo illustration by Holly Allen. It was a weeknight, after dinner, and the baby was in bed. My wife and I were alone—we thought—discussing the sorts of things you might discuss w...

Can news publishers take on the tech giants at their own game?

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theguardian.com - The cleverest new business strategy to emerge because of the internet must be Amazon’s cloud model. Google’s AdSense probably ranks up there. It’s brilliant, too. Everyone engaged in a relationship...

Use These Affiliate Promotion Tips To Stay In The Game

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Rolf Joho


freeaffiliatepro.com - You will be forced to change up with new types of techniques to stand out from the competition. Yet, even with all the differences from company to company, some things remain true to form that earn...

Beginner's Guide to Gamification (11 of 90): Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback (II) - Yu-kai Chou & Gamification

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yukaichou.com - Check out all the videos for the Beginner’s Guide to Gamification Last episode, people wanted me to talk more about the core drive. Other social games like Draw Something (at least in the early sca...

Brevis: A New Jailbreak Tweak That Lets You Customize 3D Touch Menu

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Jason Frovich


iphonehacks.com - All of us will agree on the fact that 3D Touch has been the focal point of attention by Cydia developers ever since the iOS 9 jailbreak was released. We’ve seen tweaks that add new menu items, brin...

Apple says it won't sue FBI to find out how San Bernardino iPhone 5c was hacked

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appleinsider.com - Apple says it won't sue FBI to find out how San Bernardino iPhone 5c was hacked By Neil Hughes Friday, April 08, 2016, 12:23 pm PT (03:23 pm ET) Saying that whatever method was used by the FBI wi...

It Doesn’t Sound Like Much; But it’s a Step in the Right Direction

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automotive.ninja - We have witnessed many vehicles being offered as hybrids or plug-in hybrid variations and one question that comes to mind is when this technology is going to make its way into the cars we know and ...

Aspire Cleito Giveaway – Enter In Seconds!

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ecigarettedirect.co.uk - You will be asked to answer a question and to enter your email address. If you are correct, you will be emailed a link. Click on the link to enter the prize draw. If you are unsuccessful, you may h...

Nvidia shows off experimental 1,700Hz ‘zero latency’ display | Games | Geek.com

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geek.com - You probably don’t notice display latency on your computer much these days thanks to the improvements in IPS technology. The refresh rates are good enough for even the fastest games. However, VR co...

Doing Business in Cuba Under the FCPA, Part V | JD Supra

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jdsupra.com - JD Supra provides users with access to its legal industry publishing services (the "Service") through its website (the "Website") as well as through other sources. Our policies with regard to data ...


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