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Thursday, July 7, 2016

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Meet the Marketer: Mark Bornstein of ON24

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dmnews.com - "Conversations, not clicks." That's how Mark Bornstein, VP of Content Marketing at ON24, sees the future of customer engagement. Maybe it's a predictable position for a spokesperson for ON24 to ta...

11 Best Slim Wallets For Men, From $9.99 To $65

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brobible.com - Just like your cellphone and car keys, your wallet is something that goes everywhere with you in life. Due to the amount of time you spend in life carrying around a wallet the space taken up by tha...

What You Need to Know about Ransomware Attacks and Office 365

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spanning.com - These are some pretty alarming stories. Just as organizations have begun to trust putting their collaboration applications – and data – in the cloud – we are reminded that the bad guys are gunning ...

Pokémon Go is out now on Android and iOS

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arstechnica.co.uk - Pokémon Go, the augmented reality game that lets you capture virtual Pokémon in real world locations, has launched on Android and iOS—but only in Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. A worldwide relea...

26 Ways to Use Video for Your Social Media Marketing : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you want to add video to your social media marketing? Looking for ways to increase video views and engagement? In this article, you’ll discover 26 ways to use video to improve your social media ...

Snapchat may be outgrowing its disappearing photos

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mashable.com - Snapchat is taking its biggest step back yet from the disappearing messages that made it famous — and it may not be a bad thing. Snapchat revealed a new feature Wednesday called Memories, which wil...

SearchCap: Google Now on Tap, estimated numbers & bids

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google expands Now on Tap to translate app screens, discover...

Do you really know how much you're bidding?

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searchengineland.com - We’ve all read stories about the most expensive CPCs in AdWords — and while we may find these high CPCs surprising, I bet most of us don’t truly know how much we are bidding for our own keywords. H...

Exclusive: 500,000 hoverboards officially recalled

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mashable.com - After many months of safety warnings and reports of fires caused by hoverboards, 10 manufacturers, distributors and retailers have finally issued an official recall of 501,000 hoverboards in the U....

Microsoft Updates Skype for Business Mac Preview - Petri

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petri.com - A new version of the Skype for Business for Mac Preview is now available, adding new contacts and presence, IM, peer-to-peer calling, group video calling, and conversation history capabilities. Mic...

ZWOOKY : Innovative Contact System - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Thomas Stoll”, CIO at the Uerikon – Switzerland based start-up “ZWOOKY ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

Customized Or Creepy? Websites And Your Data, A Guide

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fastcompany.com - Two visitors to the same news site see different headlines on the same article. Two potential donors see different suggested giving amounts on a charity website. A software vendor with free and pre...

Oops! TP-Link forgets to Renew and Loses its Domains Used to Configure Router Settings

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thehackernews.com - To make the configuration of routers easier, hardware vendors instruct users to browse to a domain name rather than numeric IP addresses. Networking equipment vendor TP-LINK uses either tplinklogin...

Skype Meetings is Microsoft’s new free video conferencing tool for small businesses

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft today launched Skype Meetings, a new audio and video conferencing tool specifically designed for small businesses. Skype Meetings is essentially a stripped down version of the Skype for B...

Google launches a more scalable and robust Kubernetes

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced the next version of Kubernetes, its open source orchestration service for deploying, scaling and managing software containers. The focus of version 1.3 is on providing Kubern...

Microsoft gives Salesforce a shove with new Dynamics 365 integrated cloud platform

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft announced its intention today to combine the Dynamics CRM and ERP products into an integrated platform on top of which it is hoping third parties will build applications. It’s a complex a...

Signs of a new Samsung Gear VR are surfacing

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techcrunch.com - It’s been less than a year since the consumer Gear VR was first shown off and it already seems as though Samsung and Oculus are regrouping to push out a new version of the mobile VR headset. A Dutc...

How Hardware-as-a-Service will save IoT

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techcrunch.com - Ajay Kulkarni is co-founder and CEO at iobeam, and curates the new Minimum Reliable Product hardware blog. Here’s the dirty little secret about the Internet of Things: The Things might not work, an...

Alibaba unveils its first smart car — and it’s available for pre-order now

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techcrunch.com - Alibaba has officially announced its move into the automobile space after it unveiled its first “internet car” in collaboration with SAIC, one of China’s big four state-owned automakers. The RX5 is...

Snapchat Memories is a searchable replacement for your camera roll

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techcrunch.com - You can now post old content to your Snapchat Story. That’s just one of the sweeping consequences of Snapchat’s new feature “Memories”. It creates a smart camera roll alternative in Snapchat where ...

Volkswagen throws in with LG on ‘Cross-Over’ connected car platform

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techcrunch.com - Everyone’s picking teams for the coming connected car wars, and Volkswagen and LG have chosen each other. The new smart car squad announced a “memorandum of understanding” to collaborate on R&D rel...

Google’s Now on Tap gets even smarter

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techcrunch.com - Now on Tap was one of the marquee features of Android Marshmallow when Google first announced this update to its mobile operating system last year (which is now already being eclipsed by the next v...

IBM survey says ads are the biggest reason people consider canceling their streaming video services

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techcrunch.com - IBM’s Cloud Video division is releasing the results of a new survey looking at the behavior of subscribers to video-on-demand services like Netflix and Hulu. Perhaps the most interesting answers we...

Drivers are warming up to autonomous cars. Mostly.

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techcrunch.com - The results of two new studies — one big, one really big — on what consumers want in autonomous cars have been released recently. The answer of both is, in a nutshell, we want to be able to let a c...

Verizon increases its data caps and increases its prices

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arstechnica.com - Last week, rumors floated of a restructuring of Verizon’s data plans, and today those rumors have proven largely correct. The wireless networking company has increased the sizes of all of its data ...

Report: The next iPhone may finally ditch the 16GB version

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arstechnica.com - If the headphone jack is the new floppy drive, what's the new CD-RW? Speculation about the headphone jack has dominated most of the conversation about the next iPhone, but here's a rumor that shoul...

An 8-Step Formula for Blogging Success

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blogtyrant.com - Millions of people start new blogs every month but not many of them achieve success. And while some elements of blogging can be complicated, the overall strategy is not that hard. If you look at al...

Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age

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nngroup.com - Edward Teach, the pirate better known as Blackbeard, is one of the most infamous pillagers in history. More relevant to our interests, however, is that he was also a man who understood the importan...

Transform Your Company's 'About Page' From Jargon-Filled to Genuine

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entrepreneur.com - We're now accepting submissions for our 2016 Top Company Cultures list. Think your company should be on it? Apply Now » Many companies don’t put as much thought into their About Page as they do the...

9 Social Media Marketing Trends That Could Make or Break Your Business in 2017

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toprankblog.com - That’s the question I was asked in an interview recently. This kind of question can be really easy since there are so many easy candidates – IoT, VR, and just about anything to do with Facebook. Bu...

Samsung Grace TouchWiz UI on Note 5 compared with the old on Galaxy S7

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androidcommunity.com - Xeetechcare, the same guy behind the Speed Tests for Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge VS LG G5 and the LG G5 and its Snapdragon 820 VS Nexus 6P, has just published a video comparing the TouchWiz UX of the Ga...

Samsung Level U Pro ANC brings you wireless, noise freedom

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androidcommunity.com - It’s not enough that Samsung recently released the Level U and the Level U Pro wireless earphones. They needed to bring you something that has even better features, if you don’t like the ambient no...

Badland 2 now out on Android, but published by Cheetah Mobile

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androidcommunity.com - When indie game developer Frogmind released the sequel to their much-loved game Badland, of course called Badland 2, on iOS, Android users were eagerly awaiting when they could play it on their sma...

Sennheiser PXC 550 wireless headphones will last you 30-hours 

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androidcommunity.com - If you spend a lot of your time on your daily commute, then you probably need a set of wireless headphones that can last you for hours and that has noise cancellation to drown out the sound of traf...

Lexa brings Amazon’s Alexa voice service alive in your smartphone

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androidcommunity.com - Who knew that Amazon's Alexa would be popular? It's not super famous yet but it's been making waves already and has even prompted Google to come up with its own. Sure, Google Now was launched first...

User Experience Essential Piece of Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Nearly all executives would agree that user experience is among the most important factors in building a strong following for any brand. What is less clear, however, is how exactly that role is def...

Samsung Pay Adds Loyalty Program Functionality

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loyalty360.org - Samsung sent shockwaves through the mobile wallet market on Wednesday, announcing that its payment technology, Samsung Pay, is now compatible with membership and loyalty cards. This is in addition ...

ShopSocially Emphasizes Role of Social Media in Predator Nutrition Loyalty Program

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loyalty360.org - Loyalty platform ShopSocially earned a big partnership recently, with the announcement that sports nutrition company Predator Nutrition selected the company to design and execute its loyalty progra...

Arctic Cat Delivers Ultimate Virtual Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Arctic Cat, among the most widely recognized and respected brands in the recreational vehicle industry, recently launched the new Arctic Cat 360 Wildcat VR experience. For off-road and snowmobiling...

Brands Must Ensure a Seamless Online Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Customers have so many shopping options at their disposal and, when it comes to online purchases, brands must ensure a seamless customer experience, according to a new study from Monetate. Accordin...

Lenati Takes a Holistic Approach to Customer Base Health

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loyalty360.org - Customer acquisition, engagement, and retention are becoming highly advanced disciplines. Finding effective ways to measure these has become much more challenging. Lenati, a marketing and sales con...

Customer Referrals, Impulse Buys Move Toward a New Era of Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Customers today are constantly bombarded with marketing material. From car commercials to targeted online advertisements, it’s difficult to do anything without being told to buy a new product, shop...

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

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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...

ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustwort...

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 ...

RunLastMan : Sports Betting Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Graham Carrick”, CEO at the Dublin – Ireland based start-up “RunLastMan” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wh...

SpotLoss: A Device that Keeps Track of Everything from your Keys to your Kids - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - SpotLoss is a device that allows you to keep track of everything from your keys to your phone to your kids. The SpotLoss fob allows you to press a button on the fob to find your phone, or a button ...

Needls : Get Notified of Leads in Real Time - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Justin Hartzman”, Founder and CEO – of the Toronto – Canada based start-up “Needls.” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1- What is it exactly that yo...

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...