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Friday, May 13, 2016

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This Isn’t a Google Streetview Car, It’s a Government Spy Truck

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motherboard.vice.com - The SUV in question. Notice the license plate readers mounted on the front roof. Image: Dustin Slaughter An SUV tucked away in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center’s tunnel bears the u...

Real Estate for Autonomous Car Facilities Gains Movement in Silicon Valley

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wsj.com - Apple Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc. and several car makers are seeking large expanses of real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area for their autonomous-car operations, a top landlord in the are...

Dental Digital Marketing Tips - Get Social Health

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getsocialhealth.com - We haven talked about dental digital marketing in a long time so I reached out to Heather King, Social Media Director at Infinity Dental Web. Heather manages everything digital from strategy to soc...

Twitter Says Users Now Trust Influencers Nearly as Much as Their Friends

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adweek.com - New research claims that social media influencers might have nearly as much clout as a friend or neighbor—and brands know how to harness these new household names. According to a joint study by Twi...

Samsung officially announces Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016)

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androidcommunity.com - After weeks of speculation and even a full leak yesterday, Samsung has finally made the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) official. And as expected, the final specs are pretty much the same as what has been...

Purported Moto G4 panel shows fingerprint sensor and 1080p screen

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androidcommunity.com - After months of not unveiling any new phones, the Lenovo-owned Motorola is expected to announce the new generation of Moto G. We've been calling it Moto G4 because it is the 4th model already. We j...

How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

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arstechnica.com - “Everyone was asking, 'what can we do?'” resident Chris Brems recalls. “Then [Chris] Sutton stands up and says, ‘Well, we can do it ourselves.’” Doe Bay is a rural environment. It’s a place where p...

The skinny bundle will be neither skinny nor bundled — but it will be great

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techcrunch.com - Mike Hoefflinger is an Executive-in-Residence at XSeed Capital and was previously at Facebook and Intel. In-home video entertainment is a very big deal. $381 billion globally in 2019 big. About $10...

Opera adds power-saving mode to its browser

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techcrunch.com - Opera is on a roll lately. Over the last few weeks, the company added a built-in ad blocker and VPN service to its desktop browser, for example. Today, the company is launching a new early release ...

The Roll helps you find the best photos on your phone

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techcrunch.com - Wondering which of the tens of thousands of photos on your phone are worth keeping or sharing may be a thing of the past, thanks to The Roll, a brand new app from EyeEm. The iOS app analyses your c...

5 Tips to Make Your App a Huge Success [Infographic]

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socialmediatoday.com - Building an app may be pricey, but retaining users and ensuring that they're active and engaged costs brands something, too. At BuzzPlant, we frequently help clients strategize how they can most ef...

Nissan’s new xStorage battery wants to compete with Tesla’s Powerwall in Europe

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arstechnica.com - The company says its stationary storage unit will come online in early 2016. This week, Nissan announced that people would be able to place orders for its new xStorage battery, a stationary storage...

When social media doesn't work

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businessesgrow.com - I’ve known Ray Hiltz for nearly five years. We became close social media chums, and the friendship solidified when I spoke at his content marketing event in Montreal in 2013. That’s an event I’ll r...

Google’s rumored Echo-like device is codenamed Chirp

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androidcommunity.com - The rumor mill is churning out as much details as possible about the upcoming hardware from Google that will integrate voice assisted technology as well. The project is supposedly codenamed “Chirp”...

MiXplorer, the file explorer app that does everything you want it to do

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androidcommunity.com - So we have this sad truth that one of our beloved file manager apps – that’s ES File Explorer – is going to the dogs because the developers thought it best if the app would, apart from numerous blo...

HERE 360 update brings house numbers, improved transit maps 

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been using Nokia’s HERE 360 for your navigation needs, then you’d better see if you already have the latest update to the app. While the updates aren’t that major, the improvements would ...

Customer Engagement, Customer Service Vault Audi to Top Spot in J.D. Power Study

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loyalty360.org - Officials of Audi of America have been working toward a particular customer service/customer engagement milestone. Now, that aspiration has come true. For the first time ever, Audi was named the to...

Tips on Building Ecommerce Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Building customer loyalty is something marketers pursue on a daily basis. It’s wonderful to attain customer loyalty and, more importantly, to retain it. Needle released an infographic titled, “Chut...

Effective Survey Execution Can Result in Brand Loyalty Spike

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loyalty360.org - Surveys have the potential to reveal crucial insight into customer sentiment and behavior. Through effective surveying, a brand can analyze shifting customer trends and predict how to best proceed ...

Innovative Lowes Foods eCircular Bridges the Gap Between Print and Digital Customer Experiences

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loyalty360.org - Lowes Foods is proud to claim an industry fist among brands that are vying for customer engagement in the grocery space. Based in North Carolina, Lowes Foods has faced a tremendously competitive in...

Personalization, Customer Experience Drives Customer Loyalty at Ford

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loyalty360.org - The differentiator for many brands today, including companies like Ford that sells automobiles, is a memorable customer experience, tailored by personalization and relevancy. Making that customer e...

On-the-Go Ordering Initiative Available for Dunkin’ Donuts’ Loyalty Program Members

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loyalty360.org - Dunkin’ Donuts wants to provide its customers a more seamless experience, marked by innovation, that always leads back to brand loyalty. During the company’s April 28 first-quarter earnings call, C...

Callidus’ cloud platform gets wired up for The Internet of Things

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marketingland.com - Imagine that, as a marketer, you have a direct stream of data reporting back from every product sold as a result of your campaigns. That’s the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) for marketer...

23 Ways to Build Colossal Pre-Launch Product Buzz

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jeffbullas.com - You have invested time, money and resources. The product has to be a hit, otherwise, it was all for nothing. You push publish and it’s live. You have finally launched the product and… Silence… Uh, ...

SPI 213: Gary Vaynerchuk on “Why Snapchat Matters” - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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smartpassiveincome.com - Today, I’m joined by none other than Gary Vaynerchuk! This business mastermind, author, and host of The #AskGaryVee Show is here to teach me everything he knows about the explosive new social platf...

Facebook releases 28-page doc to fight Trending Topics bias charge

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usatoday.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook came out swinging against charges of political bias in the news stories it promotes to its 1.6 billion users, insisting it surfaces the most popular topics regardless of id...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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James Hickey



sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...

When Facebook allows reviewers to 'inject' stories into Trending topics

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money.cnn.com - The 28-page document details a set of procedures that goes beyond relying on an algorithm to decide what stories appear as Trending, and it shows the need for editorial judgment in several steps of...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Stock in 3 Charts | Fox Business

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fool.com - Troubled chip company Advanced Micro Devices hopes to turn things around in 2016. The company is close to launching new graphics cards, with the goal of winning back some market share from rival NV...

Facebook And The First Amendment: Legal Challenges To Trending Controversy May Prove Difficult

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ibtimes.com - The pitchforks are out for Facebook, which is under increasing scrutiny for the role humans take in deciding what stories merit inclusion in its "Trending Topics" feature. As a First Amendment matt...

Google 'Chirp' Aims To Silence Amazon Echo, Report Says - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Ever since Amazon introduced the Echo, its Alexa-powered wireless speaker, people have been wondering whether Google might offer a similar product. After all, such a device would be a natural exten...

Google is worth more than Apple again

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money.cnn.com - Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30), the parent company of Google, just passed Apple (AAPL, Tech30) to become the world's most valuable company. Again. Larry Page's tech conglomerate is now worth about $498 b...

Cramer: Amazon is the web, retail is a dying newspaper industry

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cnbc.com - Cramer recollected visiting the headquarters of Borders 10 years ago and discussing with top executives what little power Amazon had. At that time, it was just an annoying fly that needed to be swa...

Google has big plans for Project Tango this year, report says

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mashable.com - The company is ramping up Project Tango, its technology for 3D-sensing smartphones and tablets, and hopes to eventually make the technology "ubiquitous," according to a new report in Bloomberg. SEE...

The Magical Splash Screen, When You'll See It, and When You Won't

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instapage.com - It’s New York City, 1914. A sold-out crowd at Hammerstein’s Roof Garden sits, eyes transfixed on a magician who would soon become known as “the man who walks through walls.” Two assistants enter th...

How to Find Brand-Boosting YouTube, Instagram Influencers

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adweek.com - Virtually every company knows that it needs Facebook and Twitter to reach its customers. Across more than 2,000 businesses analyzed by Yes Lifecycle Marketing, 80 percent used Facebook and 82 perce...

Photoshop gets 'Shazam for fonts' artificial intelligence tool - BBC News

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bbc.co.uk - Photoshop is to use artificial intelligence to help users identify typefaces they have seen elsewhere. Developer Adobe describes its DeepFont feature as "Shazam for fonts" - a reference to the song...

A Test Drive! The 2016 Honda Accord 4DR Touring Edition – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - The good folks over at Honda are no strangers to crafting stunning, durable rides for our transportation needs. Well today they are back, as they recently let us behind the wheel of the sleek and s...

High Tech to Get Kids Moving

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huffingtonpost.com - Every summer, parents grow a bit apoplectic thinking about the hours their kids are likely to spend doing the couch potato, screen-gazing thing. Some clever manufacturers are dreaming up alternativ...

iTunes Bug Could be the Cause of those Disappearing Music Libraries, not Apple Music

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iphonehacks.com - Keeping the things we own, even the digital things, is important, but when software steps in and deletes it, things can get out of hand pretty quickly. That was the case in early May, when Apple Mu...

Fox News host: Internet stacked against 'conservative thought'

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mashable.com - Does Facebook silence conservative voices? Does the entire Internet? Sure seems so, at least to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who touched on the recent controversy surrounding Facebook's trending to...

Is technology becoming less disruptive? - BBC News

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bbc.co.uk - The Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal opened in 2006 - the same year that Twitter launched. So, you'd think that when one of the tech sector's biggest events - TechCrunch Disrupt New York - moved to th...

As Apple display partner Sharp continues to bleed, new owner Foxconn shakes up management

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appleinsider.com - As Apple display partner Sharp continues to bleed, new owner Foxconn shakes up management By Jan Manon Thursday, May 12, 2016, 11:05 am PT (02:05 pm ET) While display panel maker Sharp continues ...

Xiaomi's application for single brand retail put on hold by government - The Economic Times

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economictimes.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi's application for single brand retail has been put on hold by the government with the company being asked to provide more documents to support its applicatio...

A Review of the SEO Training Course from DIY SEO

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bobwp.com - I’ve talked about SEO (or search engine optimization) on this blog. It’s been a part of the mix in some of my workshops and presentations. I even created an online course around the basics of the Y...

Cree Files Counterclaim Against Feit Electric - Solid State Lighting Design

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Future Lighting


solidstatelightingdesign.com - Cree, Inc., reports that it has filed a counterclaim in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina against Feit Electric Company, Inc. The lawsuit alleges infringement of two...

Privacy and the New Math

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Tamara Dull


linuxjournal.com - Among the countless essays and posts I've read on the fight over crypto that's been going on between Apple and the FBI, one by the title above by T.Rob Wyatt in Medium stood out so well that I aske...

Sometimes We Need Human Employees, Facebook Admits

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wired.com - After a tumultuous year, Gawker Media—known for its gossip, commentary, and sharp takes on the news of the day—is refocusing and reorganizing for 2016. In two internal memos released today, Gawker ...

Do or die: How retailers can innovate in an age of disruption

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retaildive.com - At the Retail Innovation Conference in New York City this week, Kasey Lobaugh, Deloitte's chief retail innovation officer, stood in front of a room full of retail executives and enumerated his frus...

[FIXED]How to Fix Touchscreen Problems in iPhone?(Unresponsive)

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technobezz.com - Oliver, first i am hearing this iphone 5 touch screen issue. But i am sure these method will work. If not kindly say so. Solution 1: Restart your iPhone Sometimes, your iPhone’s screen becomes unre...