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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

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Microsoft comes through with rollup of updates and fixes for Windows 7 | ZDNet

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zdnet.com - After signaling the company was likely reneging its promised "convenience rollup" of fixes for Windows 7, Microsoft has done the right thing and delivered a a collection of security and non-securit...

Apple CEO Tim Cook to arrive in India today; set to meet PM Narendra Modi this week - The Economic Times

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economictimes.indiatimes.com - KOLKATA | NEW DELHI: Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is set to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week during his trip to India, which has emerged as a key market for the iPhone maker as...

Apple hires wireless charging experts, hinting at tech for 2017 iPhones & iPads

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appleinsider.com - Apple hires wireless charging experts, hinting at tech for 2017 iPhones & iPads By Roger Fingas Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 09:14 am PT (12:14 pm ET) Apple is hiring a number of people with experience...

Top Tech Companies Ranked By Engineering Retention

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partyondata.com - (TL;DR) Here’s the ranking going from top to bottom (so higher / longer the better): By running advanced Linkedin searches and counting up the hits. Specifically, for each company, at their headqua...

Tips for Handling Negative Comments and Trolls on Social Media

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jeffbullas.com - Some of us are more sensitive than others. Make a negative comment and some people will break into tears. Some will take it on board and modify their behavior. Others will turn into an attack dog a...

Down to Lunch has met with investors about raising funding

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techcrunch.com - We’re hearing from multiple sources that Down to Lunch has met with investors about a potential financing round. Down to Lunch became a bit of a darling during its rise thanks to its dead-simple ap...

9 reasons you should attend SocialPro in Seattle this June

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marketingland.com - Are you a professional social media marketer focused on driving results for your company or clients? Then Marketing Land’s SocialPro is the conference for you. SocialPro is designed from the ground...

Elon Musk vows to 'make it right' after report of Tesla using foreign workers paid $5 per hour

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Jefferson Faudan



mashable.com - Elon Musk and Tesla are scrambling to regain the moral high ground after a detailed and highly critical report this week alleged the company used subcontractors who were paid as little as $5 per ho...

Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kids

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mashable.com - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's annual developer conference doesn't officially kick off until Wednesday but about 120 of the company's youngest developers are already getting to preview one of its...

Decoding SEO: Understand What Your Consultant is Telling You

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entrepreneur.com - Join us live with Marcus Lemonis at Thought Leaders Arizona on May 24. Seats are limited--secure yours now >> Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the kind of techie, jargon-filled field that can...

Norton antivirus has a gaping security flaw

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Reg Saddler



bgr.com - A security researcher has discovered a “bug” in Symantec antivirus software, which affects “the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products.” I say “b...

RunKeeper acknowledges location data leak to ad service, pushes updates

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arstechnica.com - RunKeeper announced Tuesday that it had found a bug in its Android code that resulted in the leaking of users’ location data to an unnamed third-party advertising service. The blog post came four d...

Tesloop offers city-to-city autonomous travel in a Tesla

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techcrunch.com - Travelers in the Southwest have a new all-electric option: long-distance car sharing in a Tesla with Autopilot. The service is called Tesloop, and it currently serves 15 cities in southern Californ...

Google Image Search will now include shopping ads

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techcrunch.com - As more of today’s consumers shop online using their mobile devices, often bypassing Google for e-commerce sites directly – and especially Amazon – Google has moved to combat the trend by launching...

Microsoft and SAP love grows stronger in the cloud

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft and SAP have been pals for years and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire Now customer conference in Orlando, the two company CEOs, Satya Nadella and Bill McDermott announced they were ta...

Sketchfab now supports all VR headsets for its 3D model sharing platform

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techcrunch.com - You saw it coming, right? 3D model repository Sketchfab just added support for all major virtual reality headsets out there. You can now view your pretty 3D models in your VR headset. The Sketchfab...

Motorola shows off three new additions to its budget Moto G line

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techcrunch.com - So much for pomp and circumstance. A day ahead of Google I/O’s official kick off, Morotola/Lenovo has spilled the beans about three new versions of the company’s warmly received Moto G line of budg...

Oracle CEO: Google’s Android broke Java in two

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Safra Catz testified in federal court today that Oracle spends "hundreds of millions" of dollars promoting and supporting Java and that the investment was at risk because o...

BitTorrent Inc. announces live streaming TV service powered by P2P

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Ars Technica



arstechnica.com - BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, is planning to launch a live streaming TV service with both free and paid options. The company claims it will ...

Snapchat and Podcasting Growth: What the Research Reveals : Social Media Examiner

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Reg Saddler



socialmediaexaminer.com - To discover more, I interview Tom Webster from Edison Research about his latest study on Snapchat and podcasting adoption. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from So...

How to Add a Services Section to Your Facebook Page : Social Media Examiner

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Reg Saddler



socialmediaexaminer.com - The Services section on Facebook allows professional service businesses to create a Services tab to highlight their offerings. In this article, you’ll discover how to use the Services section of yo...

Mekorama is a free/pay-what-you-want puzzler with awesome level editor

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Android Community



androidcommunity.com - If you like to help out cute robots maneuver their way out of mind-boggling puzzles, then you might want to try out this new game called Mekorama, now available on the Google Play Store. Looking a ...

Meizu intros “floating” Gravity Speaker as a crowdfunding project

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androidcommunity.com - Meizu has always been known as one of the more popular Chinese OEMs but we bet you didn’t know or maybe forgot that it has other product offerings aside from smartphones. Perhaps we’re too focused ...

Motorola launches new Moto G family–G4, G4 Plus, and G4 Play

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androidcommunity.com - Enough of those rumors, leaks, and speculations about the Moto G because it's finally here. Motorola has officially lifted the veil off the next-generation G phone. After spotting a mysterious with...

Samsung brings update to Always on Display for Galaxy S7, S7 edge

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androidcommunity.com - The Always On Display for the new Samsung flagships, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, is pretty useful for a lot of people, especially those that receive a lot of messages and notifications, as it allows...

Brave father stars in Samsung’s new TV ad, Tween Pop

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androidcommunity.com - Fathers out there, what is the strangest and most uncomfortable thing you’ve done just to make your child happy? Well, some of you may be able to relate to Samsung’s newest ad or you might think th...

6 Photographers Prove that Customer Experience is all about Marketing - Joel Comm | Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Consultant

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joelcomm.com - Every successful business builds a product twice. The first build happens in the office, in the studio, or on the factory floor. At the end of that process, the company will have something that peo...

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

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bloomberg.com - Twitter Inc. is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages. The social media company will soon stop counting photos and links a...

Great Customer Experience? Good. Now, Keep it That Way.

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loyalty360.org - Sometimes, the ability to deliver a great customer experience (CX) happens at the beginning. Some combination of skill, strategy, focus and customer obsession mean that an organization “gets it” fr...

Thanx Branded App Enables Simplified Brand Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Customer loyalty solutions provider Thanx took another big step forward on Tuesday with the launch of the Thanx Branded App. The app allows businesses to incorporate a full-fledged mobile loyalty a...

SpareFoot.com: The World's Largest Marketplace for Self-Storage - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solution for locating storage facilities, comparing prices, and booking storage units online. According to Mr. ‘Betts'; Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solut...

716Labs : Helps App Developers In The Marketng Validation stage - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Scott Falbo”, Co-Founder of the Buffalo – USA based start-up “716Labs” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what ...

Morces.com: Get More Than Just a Mobile Site! - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Morces is an absolute free platform for all users to go mobile in a matter of minutes! In addition to optimizing website for mobile devices, Morces provides comprehensive set of social tool such as...

How to Turn Your Browser Into a Marketing Tool

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ducttapemarketing.com - I use the Chrome browser and judging from the data I get from Google Analytics so do 60.12% of my site visitors. Chrome is certainly winning the browser war at the moment and this is due in large p...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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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 #...

Microsoft, SAP Are Bringing HANA To Azure - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Microsoft and SAP are deepening their partnership with new integrations between Office 365 and SAP's cloud products, as well as a plan to bring HANA to Azure. The announcements arrived on May 17 as...

Bill Gates' summer reading list will make your vacation a whole lot nerdier

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mashable.com - On Tuesday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates revealed his summer reading list, recommending five books he thinks you should check out this upcoming season. Aaaannnddd unsurprisingly, the books he selec...

Apple OS Updates Fix Bugs, Brick Some iPads - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Apple pushed several operating system updates across its product range this week. Rather than aim for big new features, these maintenance updates target bugs and performance. As is sometimes the ca...

Oracle co-CEO says Google caused Oracle revenue to plummet

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reuters.com - SAN FRANCISCO Longtime customers dramatically reduced the amount of licensing revenue they paid to use Oracle products after Google stole its copyrighted software to enter the smartphone market, Or...

Facebook responds to allegations that Trending Topics are rigged

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marketingland.com - Yesterday, a report surfaced on Gizmodo that Facebook’s Trending Topics team was suppressing conservative news stories from appearing on the influential sidebar of the social network. Specifically,...

Visitor logs show Google's unrivaled White House access - Watchdog.org

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watchdog.org - A project examining White House visitor logs shows the Obama administration has extended an open door to Google. Johanna Shelton, Google’s director of public policy — in effect, the company’s top l...

4 of the Best FREE Infusionsoft Integrations - PieSync

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blog.piesync.com - You know what makes a good CRM?One that combines marketing, sales and customer service. You know what makes a GREAT CRM? A CRM that has integrations. We love integrations, they save time, they make...

Google to Introduce Its Voice-Activated Home Device

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nytimes.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Google will introduce its much-anticipated entry into the voice-activated home device market on Wednesday, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Named Google ...

4 Offline Marketing Strategies That Can Add the Human Touch to Your Landing Pages

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instapage.com - You can find plenty of online marketing trends, best practices lists, etc. to optimize your landing page. And, you can apply all of these smart tactics, but that doesn’t mean that just because your...

Solid Reliable Information To Help You Understand E-mail Marketing

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marketingpromotion.biz - The golden rule of email marketing is making certain that the target audience is actually interested in getting your information. The fastest way to lose your customers is to send them emails that ...

Universal Music Appeals Ruling Against VKontakte

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billboard.com - Universal Music Russia filed an appeal on the court's ruling in a dispute with the social network VKontakte over music copyright infringement, the Russian legal information agency has (RAPSI) repor...

Apple Engineers Visited a Customer to Try and Figure Out the Music Deletion Bug in iTunes

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iphonehacks.com - Software randomly, and unexpectedly, deleting huge swaths of owned content isn’t a good thing, so obviously when Apple’s software is reportedly the cause of such an issue, attention is gathered. Th...

Business Transformation Enabled by IDC DecisionScapes

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Rob Llewellyn



cxoweekly.com - The future of business will be technology fueled and driven. Future technologies (Mobility, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Crowd-sourcing, Internet of things, Industry 4.0, Big Data, 3D printing) o...

48w led light squares

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vancouver.craigslist.ca - Led light bars for sale !!! or trade for 35s or 37s on after market rims for any truck, newer cell phones, laminate flooring (need 1000 sq ft around), atv quad, dirtbike, anything of value!\ Email ...

Apple Exempted from Local Sourcing Laws Under ‘State of Art Tech’, Exclusive Stores to be Opened Soon

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techpp.com - Apple was frantically trying to get the nod from the officials for its exclusive retail stores in India thus eventually circumventing the 30% local sourcing condition. After a panel recently recomm...