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Sunday, June 5, 2016

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7 can't-miss apps: The Roll, 'Steppy Pants,' VSCO and more

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mashable.com - Tech 7 can't-miss apps: The Roll, 'Steppy Pants,' VSCO and more With Instagram rolling out its new algorithm-based feed and Elon Musk's new comments about AI, you may have missed some of this week'...

VOEZ is an addictive anime-themed rhythm game

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techcrunch.com - VOEZ is a new game out of Taiwan that is climbing the app gaming charts. It is part Rock Band, part DDR, but in a karaoke-esque setting. Put simply, VOEZ is an anime-themed rhythm game. You need to...

Get fit for summer with these workout apps

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techcrunch.com - Summer is almost here, which means… it’s time to download some workout apps! TechCrunch tested out dozens of the best fitness apps and we narrowed it down to our three favorites. Sworkit is perfect...

‘Wifi Whisperer’ Siphons Your Data in the Creepiest Way Possible

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wired.com - If you’re connected to a wireless network, odds are high that little bits of data are trickling out of your device like water from a leaky faucet. “Our phones leak data in a bunch of different ways...

Why China's Biggest App Has Sputtered Everywhere Else

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Reg Saddler



techinasia.com - Last week, my colleague Steven Millward wrote an excellent piece about China's most popular social app, WeChat and how, despite the money owner Tencent poured into marketing via stars like Lionel M...

Has Your TeamViewer Account Been Hacked? Here's What to Do Immediately

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Reg Saddler



thehackernews.com - Do you have remote login software TeamViewer installed on your desktop? If Yes, then it could be possible that your system can be accessed by attackers to steal your personal details, including you...

Instagram Launches Business Profiles: This Week in Social Media : Social Media Examiner

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Reg Saddler



socialmediaexaminer.com - Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. Instagram Announces New B...

GOTW: Say hello to June with new Android games!

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androidcommunity.com - Ah, to be back and talking about games. You don’t have to tell me you missed me, c’mon you guys. Truth is, I’ve missed writing this piece. So enough with the mushy stuff. We have games that we need...

Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI

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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, marking a major milestone in the social network’s battle against abuse, the company tells me. AI could qu...

Confessions of a Graphic Designer: Should Every Follower Be Followed Back?

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seattledesigner.blogspot.com - Common sense says you should follow whomever you want. But recently I read a post by a blogger who felt everyone on Twitter—especially those in "leadership" positions—should follow everyone back. ...

Current State of Customer Experience and Personalization: Not a Pretty Picture

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loyalty360.org - During the May 26 session titled, “Today’s Personalization is Broken. Learn the Breakthroughs that Work!” at the 9th annual Loyalty Expo, presented by Loyalty360 – The Association for Customer Loya...

Weeklong Promotion Builds on 7-Eleven Loyalty Program

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loyalty360.org - Members of 7Rewards, the loyalty program from popular convenience store 7-Eleven, are getting an extra treat next week for what the company is simply calling “7Rewards Week.” During the week of Apr...

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 ...

Time Warner Cable Provides Heightened Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Anyone who has an appointment to repair anything wrong with their cable television wants anything that can make the customer experience better. Time Warner Cable customers will soon receive just th...

Sears Tests Home Appliance Store Concept and Seeks Elevated Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Last week, Sears announced the May 19th opening of its first 10,000-square-foot Sears Appliance store in Fort Collins, CO. If this test goes well, this will be the first of what is expected to be a...

Verizon Enterprise Solutions Award Highlights Commitment to Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Verizon Enterprise Solutions recently earned a prestigious honor: The 2016 World Class Briefing Program of the Year from the Association of Briefing Program Managers (ABPM). This is the industry’s ...

Customer Forgiveness Sparked by Positive CX

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - When it comes to customer experience, every brand makes an effort to be absolutely flawless. The truth remains, however, that every brand also falls short of this goal; organizations make mistakes,...

LoopLR.com: A Real-Time Social Video Platform for the Creation and Distribution of User Produced Video Content on Smartphones - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - LoopLR is a real time social video platform for the creation and distribution of user produced video content on Smartphones and Tabs. LoopLR is a real-time video sharing app for Smartphones. It let...

My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”, Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and...

Room In The Moon : Social Travel Website - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rafael Dos Santos'; CEO of the – UK start-up “Room in the Moon”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. W...

Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist” is a social people search en...

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...

BunchCut : Sort Large Volumes of Images Fast - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Nathalie du Preez”, CEO and Co-Founder of the London and New York based start-up “Bunchcut” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly ...

Ekayan: A web based app for people to find out what their friends think about them, and get recognized for what's admirable about them - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - “Ekayan” facilitates you to anonymously admire your friends, and know what your friends think about you. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Gupta’ regarding his start-up ...

ShopLocket.com: An E-commerce Platform that Lets Anyone Start Selling Professionally Online in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - ShopLocket is the easiest way to sell online. Rather than having to build out a full online storefront or get lost in a marketplace, sellers are able to quickly sell from anywhere that they already...

ApprovalQ : Email Project Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sharif Aly”, Aly of the California – USA based start-up “ApprovalQ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what you...

Talk.io A New Way To Meet People - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Tomasz Dominiak'; Project Manager / CEO of Talk.io in Warsaw. Talk.io (http://www.talk.io) is a new product designed for anyone who wants to break free fro...

Mekiwi : Easy-To-Use StartUp to Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Antti Kananen”, CEO of the Finland based start-up “Mekiwi” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-u...

MeasurableMediaLabs.com: A Company that Conducts Advertising Case Studies for Online Publishers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - MeasurableMediaLabs.com is the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for online advertisers by validating the CPM publishers charge in order for publishers to be successful. “MeasurableMediaLabs.com...

Scoopinion.com: A Web-Based Application that Turns Your Browser into a Learning Magazine - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Scoopinion builds your personal magazine by matching what people like you have read well and you haven’t. It’s an effortless way to make the news good for yourself and the community. As per Mr. Kos...

Nearly 1 in 4 people abandon mobile apps after only one use

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techcrunch.com - Apple’s iTunes App Store is home to over 1.5 million apps and Google Play hosts over 2 million, but the number of apps that actually get installed and used on consumers’ devices is still quite smal...

The ONE Social Media Rule That Will Determine Whether You Succeed… Or Fail

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trafficcafe.com - This morning I was listening to a radio interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the future of social media, when the station suddenly cut to an advertising break that seemed to last for an e...

Hello? Where Are All the Windows Hello Peripherals? - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - When Microsoft revealed Windows Hello last year, I figured that the firm and its hardware partners would deliver compatible peripherals for existing PCs in time for 2015 holiday season at the lates...

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 #...

The iPhone 7 sounds like it will be totally boring

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mashable.com - It used to be fun to see an online leak for an unreleased gadget like the next iPhone or Samsung Galaxy or new MacBook. "Sh*t, a new shiny thing is coming!" we'd think to ourselves, eyes-bulging, m...

5 Ways to Recruit More Effectively on Twitter | Jobvite

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jobvite.com - Welcome to the second in our three part series on using LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook for social recruiting. In the first post we looked at 10 ways to use LinkedIn to attract, source, and approac...

Twitter Webinar: Turn Twitter Into A Perfect Sales Channel

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blog.thesocialms.com - Save your spot in the upcoming free Twitter Webinar: „7 Hacks That Turned Twitter Into A Working Sales Channel For Us“. The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, June 8, 9 AM PDT. We know how hard ...

Facebook enables Continuous Live Video to power puppycams and more

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Alessandra Colaci



techcrunch.com - Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting as long as the creators don’t mind that they won’t be able ...

What Music Can Teach Content Marketers about the Power of a Shared Customer Experience

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Mike Elgan



skyword.com - Under normal circumstances, reaching into a commercial refrigerator at a local deli and grabbing a can of soda shouldn’t require a lot of pondering. But that’s exactly what I was doing as I stared ...

How to Move In with Your Better Half—and Not Break Up

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Rolf Joho



gq.com - Sharing space with your significant other if a specific sort of problem. The key? A professional organizer breaks it down. Congrats! You've decided to take the plunge and move in with your better h...

Online Marketing Made Easy: Get Started Now

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freeaffiliatepro.com - Online marketing has nearly limitless profit potential if you know what they’re doing. See how companies track outside orders when choosing an affiliate program. You might lose commission if those ...

LG OLED TV | Television’s Natural Evolution – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - It is amazing how far televisions have come in most of our life times. We have went from analog, to digital, to hi-def, and currently 4K. That means TV manufacturers and producers have to push thei...

The top 7 predictions for the future of media

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businessinsider.com - The future of media is changing seemingly every day. Users are moving away from desktop and toward mobile. Social media referrals are overtaking search. Consumers are cutting their cords and saying...

Weekend Traffic Jam Link Up Party

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lainaturner.com - Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by the Traffic Jam Weekend Linky Party. We are happy to have you with us this week. Please spread #trafficjamweekend love on social media. Come on in, link up, s...

Setting Goals: In Pursuit of Fabulous!

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lainaturner.com - How often do you set a goal and then fail to follow through, get discouraged and give up, or completely forget about it 3 days later and are on to the next? It used to happen to me all the time. I ...

Launch Your Very Own Online Course - Troy Dean

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troydean.com.au - Troy: In this video, you’re going to learn how to take the knowledge you have in your head about what it is you do and turn that knowledge into a lucrative online course you can sell on the interne...

10 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free today

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bgr.com - The weekend has finally arrived, and what better way to celebrate than by downloading a bunch of free iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store. Today, we’ve rounded up 10 of the best iOS apps we could...

The Writing on the Wall

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drivingdc.com - Can you see the writing on the wall? this has always been a bit of a baffling statement that simply means you can see what is about to come based on current events. For the automotive world that tu...