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Saturday, July 30, 2016

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Canyon

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canyon.com - Conditions of entry for the "Canyon-Twitter" online competition 2016 The organiser of the online competition is Canyon Bicycles GmbH (hereinafter known as CANYON), Karl-Tesche-Str. 12, D-56073 Kobl...

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg endorses Clinton following claim of 'bias'

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dailymail.co.uk - Facebook executive chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg came out for Hillary Clinton with an endorsement posted on her Facebook site – just months after the company faced scrutiny for claims of ...

Bringing HSTS to www.google.com

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security.googleblog.com - Posted by Jay Brown, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Security For many years, we’ve worked to increase the use of encryption between our users and Google. Today, the vast majority of these connectio...

7 Tools Every Digital Entrepreneur Must Use

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jeffbullas.com - Being an entrepreneur isn’t all about sitting on a secluded beach somewhere in paradise. If you think that entrepreneurship is about working 2-3 hours a day, then you’re a wrong. An entrepreneur ha...

AMD Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 arrive August 4 and August 8

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arstechnica.co.uk - While AMD has focused on the mainstream marvel that is the RX 480 for the past few months, it does have two more cards based on its 14nm Polaris architecture on the way, the RX 470 and the RX 460. ...

Test your startup idea in a week with a design sprint

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thepathforward.io - The 1 week design sprint format was defined by the Google Ventures design team. The design sprint is great as it forces you to collaborate with others to generate lots of ideas, critique them, buil...

Maker Studios conducts round of layoffs

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mashable.com - The Disney-owned online digital entertainment company let go of a handful of staffers on Thursday, Mashable has confirmed. "Maker Studios’ business is constantly evolving and after careful thought...

9 things most people don’t understand about SEO

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searchengineland.com - SEO is a complicated discipline. There are many components to it, and best practices change from time to time. Add to that the fact that Google updates its algorithm frequently, causing ranking shi...

Sheryl Sandberg's new book 'Option B' explores grief in wake of husband's death

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mashable.com - Status update from Facebook HQ: Sheryl Sandberg is penning a new book. The chief operating officer of Facebook and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is close to finishing a seco...

Search Marketing Is The Future, Right? - Search Engine Journal

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searchenginejournal.com - This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Bing Network. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve always been fascinated by the constant evolution of search. It scares me to accept that I’ve never...

How to Use Facebook's Nonprofit Tools

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socialmediatoday.com - Before Facebook set the gold standard for social networks - and before most of us considered the implications that such networks would have in the tangible, physical world - there were a handful of...

Oracle takes the cloud revenue fast track with $9.3 billion Netsuite deal

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techcrunch.com - When Oracle bought Netsuite yesterday for a cool $9.3 billion in cash, it let the world know it was now totally serious about growing cloud computing revenue — it wasn’t always the case. In the ear...

Microsoft cuts 3,000 jobs in smartphone division, sales

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft plans to lay off nearly 3,000 more jobs over the next year across its smartphone hardware business and global sales division. The latest cuts heap misery on Microsoft staff, after the sof...

Lobster, the marketplace for user-generated content, integrates with Dropbox

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techcrunch.com - Lobster, the platform that lets brands and publishers license user-generated content from social sites like Instagram and YouTube, has today announced integration with Dropbox. Plus, the platform h...

PlayStation VR play area requirements detailed, seated play recommended

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techcrunch.com - PlaySTation VR is set to arrive on October 13, but a new official pamphlet being distributed by the company (via Polygon) sheds some light on what players can expect in terms of space requirements ...

Dating apps attach themselves to the Pokémon craze

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techcrunch.com - Pokémon Go may be the perfect dating app: you’re out in the real world, have an immediate way to start a conversation with an attractive stranger and, clearly, the two of you already share a common...

A glimpse inside Tesla’s super secretive Gigafactory

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techcrunch.com - We’ve been invited in for an early look, but that doesn’t mean we have an all-access pass. Even in most of the areas in which we are allowed, cameras generally aren’t (I’d have brought more picture...

34 Twitter Tools You Can Use in Your Marketing Strategy

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blog.hootsuite.com - When you’re packing for a hiking trip, you know the contents in your pack can make or break the experience. If you’re prepared, you can weather any storm that comes your way. But if you’re ill prep...

7 Small Business SEO Strategies And Ideas | BuildFire

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buildfire.com - I started several small businesses in the past, but struggled to generate leads and sell my products. At the time, I didn’t know much about SEO, and how to take advantage of it to drive organic cus...

10 Crucial YouTube Ranking Factors

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searchenginepeople.com - It may be hard to believe, but YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world behind Google, and the second most visited site on the web. This is the kind of traffic you can’t ignore. In ...

3 Facebook Features that Need to Go Away Now - Joel Comm - New York Times Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Social Influencer, Futurist

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joelcomm.com - From its humble beginnings as a network for college students, Facebook has become the behemoth of the social media world. Feature-rich with posts, comments, likes, shares, photos, videos, groups, p...

Growth Hacking Products and Tools

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discoverbusiness.us - Growth hacking has a singular focus: achieve business sales and growth. Different from traditional marketing, it is the Web 2.0 method of reaching a market and disseminating an idea. It involves an...

How Open are Consumers to Emoji Use by Brands? (Study)

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socialmediatoday.com - Emoji characters are fun and interesting and, according to one study at least, up to 92% of online consumers use them. But the big question for social media marketers is should brands use them? Wha...

Republic Wireless brings 9 new Android phones and Clear Choice plans

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androidcommunity.com - If the plans being offered by the major US carriers don’t appeal to you and you believe more in the “next generation” way of communicating through WiFi calling, then Republic Wireless may just be t...

Lego Star Wars awakens the force in new Android game

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androidcommunity.com - Star Wars Episode VIII is still more than a year away (although Rouge One: A Star Wars Story is coming this December) and so you probably need as much Star Wars-related entertainment as possible. W...

Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge come out on top in battery test by…Samsung

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re doing any kind of test on a device you’ve produced and pit it against devices from other brands, then you better hope to God that your product comes out on top. Well, apparently, that’s w...

SwiftKey users reporting missing syncs, receiving others’ suggestions

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a heavy SwiftKey user, you probably rely a lot on the typing data and predictions that it has learned about you, and you’re used to having all this information auto-synced so no need to c...

Browse securely for life with Windscribe VPN

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androidcommunity.com - Want a better, safer internet experience? Then you need to get a lifetime subscription to Windscribe VPN, offered to Android Community readers with savings of more than 90% off the retail price. De...

How to remove all old posts from your Facebook Timeline

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thenextweb.com - Facebook is notoriously bad for reminding you of the things you’ve posted in the past. If you’re like me, you probably have quite a few posts lurking in the dark history of your Timeline that you c...

Four Attributes of Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - This is the first of four posts on modern approaches to customer loyalty aimed at improving it through customer engagement. A fuller discussion is available in my new book, You Can’t Buy Customer L...

Does Everybody Need to do Everything to Do Video Right?

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loyalty360.org - If you were to cook up a video service for subscribers today, what ingredients would you need? The recipe for success would surely include a significant measure of exclusive content, mixed with a g...

Twitter Develops Standalone App to Provide Even More Avenues for Digital Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - As a social media platform, Twitter has been one of the most influential brands in the past decade. The platform has impacted the way people communicate online, engage with brands, and even interac...

GameStop Listens to Its Customers Regarding Loyalty Program Rewards

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loyalty360.org - Many members of GameStop’s highly successful PowerUp Rewards loyalty program have asked the company to send them their rewards automatically after reaching a certificate reward threshold. After lis...

A 10x future demands change

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loyalty360.org - In last month’s blog I talked about keeping your team innovative. One of the key tenets of an innovative team is the concept of moonshots or "10x Thinking" or audacious goals. In a “moonshot econom...

Point Shout : Mobile App to Listen, Engage and React to Customers' Needs - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ionut Danifeld”, Co-Founder at the Brussels – Belgium based start-up “PointShout” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...

Vertical Method : Posture Strength For Techies and The Desk-Bound Workforce - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Jennifer Davis”, Founder and CEO of the San Francisco- United States based startup “Vertical Method” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is...

AbbeyPost : Brand-New Marketplace and Community - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - AbbeyPost is a brand-new marketplace and community designed exclusively for plus size women’s fashion! Shopping is an inherently social activity, but for over 100 million plus size women in the US,...

Boxagon: Social Commerce Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Juan Diego Farah'; Co-Founder and CEO of the UK-Based Start Up “Boxagon”. Below, is the full interview that we have condu...

nspHire : Job Search App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Rasheen Carbin”, CMO at the US based start-up “nspHire” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up i...

D-Tangle : New Innovative Gadget Using Set of Earbuds - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Christina Nicholson”, Executive Director of the Nicosia- Cyprus based start-up “D-Tangle” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly th...

Wob.io: An Online Jukebox that was Designed with the Express Aim of Being Simple and Easy to Use - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Wobio provides free music streaming, special tailored online radio per user, and lets you connect with artists and friends. According to Mr. Alp; Wobio provides free music streaming, special tailor...

Musistic : Music Technology Company - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jimbo Lattimore”, CEO of the Memphis USA-based start-up “Musistic” about his Company. Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do an...

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...

AppAppeal.com: Finding Web Apps Made Easy! - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - AppAppeal reviews and compares web applications to help people find the best web app for their needs. Our quality reviews are comprehensive, objective, and created by professional writers. We do no...

Automattic’s WooCommerce ecommerce platform now connects with Square

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marketingland.com - Keeping online and brick-and-mortar stores in sync is one of the biggest challenges for modern retailers, especially smaller ones. To help out, Automattic’s ecommerce platform WooCommerce has annou...

China's largest search engine, Baidu, struggles on earnings

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marketingland.com - Baidu, China’s largest search engine with over 80% of marketshare in that country, has had it’s worse quarter in terms of profit since their IPO over 11 years ago. In their Q2 2016 earnings report ...

Gilded as charged

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techcrunch.com - The threat of advertising skulks outside the periphery of every free site or service, but the more terrifying thought is that, to paraphrase “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” the ads are coming ...

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...

Lowe's New 360-Degree Videos on Facebook Aim to Teach Fans Home Improvement Skills

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adweek.com - Lowe's has been notably innovative with digital video for nearly two years now, going back to its Vine campaign called #FixIn6 that won Clio and Cannes Lions awards. Now the do-it-yourself brand is...

CNN's 360-Degree Videos for Norfolk Southern Will Make You Fall in Love With Trains

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adweek.com - Norfolk Southern gave Democratic and Republican convention attendees tours of its trains and a chance to meet some of its employees without anybody having to walk outside. Through a partnership wit...