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Xiaomi Mi Drone released with two editions to battle DJI
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slashgear.com - This morning the folks at Xiaomi have released their long-awaited "Mi Drone" to the masses in two editions. You'll find one version coming with a camera capable of capturing 1080p video, and one wi...
Have we forgotten to talk? | Pricing Power
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pricingpower.net - Technology is fantastic and is transforming the relationship professionals have with their customers. But recently I have been wondering if we have forgotten something – the art of conversation. ...
UK study quantifies Twitter’s misogyny problem
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Reg Saddler
techcrunch.com - Online abuse remains the big hairy monster in the room for platforms powered by user-generated content. Twitter especially has had some very sizable and public problems with problem users, taking f...
Well played, Google: Advertisers (finally) get more device bidding controls
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searchengineland.com - Just last week, I submitted this column with the title, “Is it time for Google to rethink Enhanced Campaigns?” The piece I wrote was rife with criticisms of the desktop/tablet-centric campaign stru...
The 5 strangest search terms in 2,000+ AdWords accounts
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Brett Prince
searchengineland.com - Over the past two years, my team and I have audited more than 2,000 AdWords accounts. While auditing all of those accounts, we saw a lot of search term reports. Some search terms were good, some we...
Twitter tunes into Spotify to soundtrack its audio cards
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techcrunch.com - Whistle while you tweet with the new partnership between Twitter and Spotify. Now you can listen to 30-second previews of songs in your timeline thanks to Twitter’s audio cards which now support Sp...
4 'Overwatch' hero strategies for beginners to master
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mashable.com - In Overwatch, Blizzard Entertainment — the studio behind World of Warcraft and StarCraft 2 — steps out of its comfort zone and into one of the most competitive markets in the world of video games: ...
How Uber is designing an app that works in more than 400 cities
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mashable.com - Uber may have been the target of considerable (and deserved) flack for its new logo in February, but the rideshare company has bigger design challenges on its mind than simply rebranding. Uber want...
Small $ Startup’s to Big Money Makers
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roadgrit.tv - Menu WATCH HOME MADE MONEY KITCHEN TO THE ROAD I Need More Money SEX DRIVE THE DANCING TRUCKER SHOW Social Highway BIG RIG VIDEOS THE GRIT TRUCK FEED LIVE LIFE OF A TRUCKER Trucking In The Badlands...
The circle is complete: Minecraft is getting a deathmatch mode
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techcrunch.com - Minecraft, a game that skyrocketed to unprecedented levels of popularity among all ages because of its open-ended gameplay, infinite worlds, and limitless possibilities for creation and collaborati...
Nintendo’s first game Miitomo is turning into a ghost town
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techcrunch.com - Nintendo’s first smartphone application – the social game called Miitomo, which allows avatars to interact in a virtual world – may already be in decline, according to a new report. Following its l...
Netatmo launches new platform to make smart objects talk to each other
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techcrunch.com - French startup Netatmo just introduced a new developer platform called Netatmo Connect so that developers can build software and hardware integrations with Netatmo products. Netatmo sells weather s...
FullContact launches a better alternative to your Mac’s built-in Contacts app
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techcrunch.com - Managing a large database of contacts can get messy, which is why a number of startups over the years have attempted to tackle this space with a wide variety of apps that attempt to streamline the ...
Skillshare books $12 million to take its education platform international
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techcrunch.com - Edtech startup Skillshare Inc. has raised a $12 million round of venture funding to grow its marketplace of “bite-sized, self-paced courses for creators,” according to founder and CEO Michael Karnj...
Tesla’s patent strategy opens the road to sustainability for transport and for itself
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techcrunch.com - Craig Buschmann is an intellectual property attorney at Brinks Gilson & Lione. What makes Tesla unique? How about everything. Mention patents to most people and their eyes glaze over. Worse, they t...
How ready is the Internet for IoT?
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techcrunch.com - Doron Sherman is the vice president of Strategy at PubNub. We’re currently witnessing rapidly expanding product launches and sky-high elevated expectations from the emerging deployment of the Inter...
Front grabs $10 million to bring email to the next level
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techcrunch.com - It’s safe to say that email is broken. But a startup called Front wants to reinvent email, or at least make it suck less. Front started as a collaborative email service for companies so that multip...
62 percent of U.S. adults get their news from social media, says report
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techcrunch.com - A new study from Pew Research claims that 62 percent of people get their news from social media, with 18 percent doing so very often. As expected, the top social media news source is Facebook. The ...
Bang & Olufsen’s Beoplay A1 packs a lot of sound into a little Bluetooth speaker
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techcrunch.com - Some days it’s hard to get excited about Bluetooth speakers. That’s not a statement of judgment, really, it’s just that the space has been flooded with a lot of likeminded devices that are honestly...
Lenovo admits its Motorola business ‘has not met expectations’
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techcrunch.com - Lenovo has admitted that it has failed to build on its acquisition of Motorola. The Chinese firm acquired the phone-maker from Google for $2.91 billion in late 2014 and, in its end-of-year earnings...
Intel’s quad-core “Skull Canyon” NUC is a workstation for the size-obsessed
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arstechnica.com - Intel's quad-core "Skull Canyon" NUC. Compared to the regular Skylake NUC, Skull Canyon is a little shorter and a lot longer. Andrew Cunningham The port layout is similar, but Skull Canyon adds Thu...
17 Quick Wins to Boost Your Social Media Marketing Right Away — The Queue
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stories.buffer.com - When I set up a daily to-do list, I often have a spectrum of tasks that need to get done. There are the big projects that figure to take multiple days to complete. There are medium-sized tasks that...
3 Ways to Supercharge Your Content-Marketing Strategy
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Reg Saddler
entrepreneur.com - User-generated content is the riskiest of all marketing strategies because of the obvious potential for negative comments. But if done right, it will pay off more than any other type of content mar...
Verizon’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Play To Take On Netflix, Amazon, Google & Facebook
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fastcompany.com - It’s barely noon and the teenage girls at AOL’s live studio in downtown Manhattan are already doing the giggle-scream, their excitement at the sight of Beau Mirchoff, star of MTV’s Awkward, bubblin...
4 Statistic-Based Strategies For Reaching Millennials via Social Ads
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Reg Saddler
nanigans.com - It's undeniable that the Millennial generation will shape the economy for years to come. With over 92 million Millennials in the US alone, the generation born between 1980 and 2000 is the biggest i...
comScore Releases New Report on Ad-Blocking and Invalid Traffic [Infographic]
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socialmediatoday.com - WEBINARS SOCIAL NETWORKS What Kind of Content do Pinterest Users Eat Up? [Infographic] 4 Statistic-Based Strategies For Reaching Millennials via Social Ads 8 Reasons Why Your Facebook Ad Stats May ...
Two new original scripted comedies available on YouTube Red
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve already subscribed to the YouTube Red video streaming service from Google, then you’ve probably been scouring the service for new original content (well, if that’s the reason why you got ...
PayPal to release Version 6.0 next week, will end support for other versions
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androidcommunity.com - The PayPal mobile app is about to receive some changes. PayPal announced that a slew of updates will be released this June. Avid customers who are loyal in using the Android app will be prompted to...
Periscope now saves your video streams automatically
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androidcommunity.com - A few weeks ago, live video streaming site Periscope introduced a beta feature that would let users save the videos that they stream so that other people would be able to view them later. The only ...
ES File Explorer finally wises up, update removes charging ads
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androidcommunity.com - After all the flak that the developers of ES File Explorer when it began including adware in its main app, it’s about time that they listened to the music. We’ve got word that the most recent updat...
Huawei counter-sued by Samsung in the same court
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androidcommunity.com - Huawei recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung and we knew that the South Korean tech giant would file a counter-suit. That's expected because Samsung never backs out of any ch...
Another ASUS ZenFone 3 variant shows up on GFXBench
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androidcommunity.com - ASUS is scheduled to unveil the ZenFone 3 at the Computex 2016. The Zenvolution is where the Taiwenese company will be launching the new premium flagship phone that is also expected to arrive in di...
Save more than 90% on Android development training [DEALS]
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androidcommunity.com - Learn to develop apps for the world’s most popular mobile platform with The Comprehensive Android Development Bundle. This package can be purchased by Android Community readers at a savings of more...
Here's how Twitter @mentions are changing
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mashable.com - Posts on Twitter — tweets — are about to undergo their most significant change in a decade. Most of the changes, like no longer counting photos and Twitter handles against your character count, are...
Twitter's new features could be the much-needed boost it's been waiting for
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dailydot.com - After spending the past year throwing things against the wall, it seems as though Twitter’s planned changes are finally sticking. The microblogging platform announced on Tuesday that it would be am...
Congrats, FBI, You've Now Convinced Silicon Valley To Encrypt And Dump Log Files | Techdirt
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techdirt.com - Congrats, FBI, You've Now Convinced Silicon Valley To Encrypt And Dump Log Files from the a-victory-for-privacy dept Soon after the original Snowden revelations, I went around talking to a bunch of...
As Flash Apocalypse approaches, here are HTML5 rules-of-thumb to keep in mind
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marketingland.com - The end of Adobe’s Flash as a technology for ads, that is. While the death of other marketing phenomena has sometimes been exaggerated, we know that Flash is racing toward its demise on June 30. On...
A marketer’s first month as a Snapchat user
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marketingland.com - There are a few different waves of adoption when it comes to social networks. First, the classic early adopters. Then, the friends peer-pressured by those adopters. Right before the social network ...
3 Unusual Lessons We Learned by Studying Over 16 million Posts (And 100,000 Brands) on Social Media - The Buffer Blog
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Travis Wright
blog.bufferapp.com - At Buffer, we love to see new stats and research about how to best share to social media and drive engagement. And as a brand on social media ourselves, we know just how challenging it can be to po...
99 Viral Tweets: The Ultimate Swipe File For Twitter Marketers - Traffic Café
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Jonathan Gunson
trafficcafe.com - You’re about to see some amazing Tweets here, many of which have been retweeted a huge number of times. My intention is to inspire your own viral Tweets with this collection, so enjoy browsing. You...
SPI 215: How to Keep Up With Your Editorial Calendar (and How to Get Ahead) - The Smart Passive Income Blog
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Pat Flynn
smartpassiveincome.com - I want to introduce a very important member of Team Flynn whose work you see every day on SmartPassiveIncome.com, though you might not realize it. She’s Janna Maron, my Managing Editor. Janna has b...
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14352 - Thurrott.com
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thurrott.com - On Thursday evening, Microsoft issued Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14352 to testers on the Fast ring. This build adds improvements to Cortana, Windows Ink, and more. Here’s a rundown of the new...
Facebook Is Using This Data to Pitch Canvas Ads to Mobile-Minded Marketers
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adweek.com - Almost a year after Facebook rolled out its Canvas ad unit at Cannes, the social network is releasing data about the mobile product, which allows for entire campaigns to be built inside of it. Ford...
Brands Can Now Measure the Social Media Impact of Their Wendy Williams Show Integrations
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - As TV syndicator Twentieth Television looks to line up new brand integrations during the upfront, it has partnered with data science player 4C to measure their social impact—and find new sponsors t...
What Lies Ahead for Gawker Now that a Tech Billionaire Is Bankrolling Lawsuits Against It?
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - If you thought the Gawker saga would slow down as we creep closer to Memorial Day weekend, you thought wrong. Following a dizzying 24 hours that ended with Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel ad...
Landing Pages Defined in 60 Seconds [Animated Video] - Copyblogger -
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Stephan Stavrakis
copyblogger.com - You’ve probably heard us talk about landing pages a lot around here. There is a good reason for that. When executed correctly, a landing page is a powerful tool that helps you gain new subscribers,...
SMS Marketing: a Grossly Underrated Marketing Tactic
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Gerald Weber
kikolani.com - Text message or SMS marketing delivers insanely higher ROIs and ridiculously higher sales than any other digital or conventional media. No convinced? Take a moment to let these figures sink in: A c...
Three tips to improve your mobile marketing from Nick Wilsdon, Vodafone
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searchenginewatch.com - While marketers realise the importance of mobile, many of them have yet to catch up with consumer expectations, or realise how SEO and mobile work together. Everybody knows that it’s the year of mo...
Facebook, Microsoft Team Up on MAREA Subsea Cable
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Tom Maduri
adweek.com - Facebook and Microsoft are going under, as in underwater: The two tech giants will team up to build a new, state-of-the-art subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean. The new cable, MAREA, will be the...
Clash of Clans Updated With Friendly Challenges, More
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adweek.com - Clash of Clans received a major content update, introducing Friendly Challenge battles to users. These battles allow clanmates to battle one another for fun, without wasting any of their troops. Us...
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