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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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Is your website’s newsroom missing key pieces of content? - Biznology

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biznology.com - If one of your company’s goals is to gain media attention, then your website can be a supporting factor with the information that the press and even your customers might be looking for. Sending out...

Tesla driver killed in Autopilot crash was speeding, report says

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mashable.com - Joshua Brown, the Tesla driver who on May 7 died in a crash in Florida while the car's Autopilot was engaged was speeding, according to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTS...

Singapore tests out petrol-free future with new, all-electric taxi company

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mashable.com - SINGAPORE — By the start of 2017, 100 electric taxis will run on Singapore's roads, helping the government sort out what the country needs to do for a greener, emissions-free future. The new fleet ...

What happens when an Apple executive decides he wants to hire you

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businessinsider.com - Most people who dream of working for Apple apply the normal way — they find a job listing or a recruiter calls them, they send a resume, cover letter, and eventually land a series of interviews. Bu...

Remix OS for PC is moving up to Marshmallow

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androidcommunity.com - Early this year, Jide Technology continued on their commitment to bring a true multi-window, multi-tasking Android experience to all platforms, including a standard desktop PC, by launching the Rem...

Google having a back-to-school sale for Nexus 6P, Huawei Watch

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androidcommunity.com - High school and college students, your days are almost numbered. Vacation will soon be over and it’s back to school in a month’s time. But Google will try to make it up to you by offering great dis...

Pokédetector – Notifications alerts you when there are Pokémons around

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androidcommunity.com - Another day, another news about a Pokémon GO related app to help all you trainers and would-be trainers out there. Pokédetector - Notifications lets you know if there are any monsters lurking aroun...

How To Master The Digital First Impression [Infographic]

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socialmediatoday.com - It takes just 90 seconds for a potential employer to decide whether to give you the job, according to career experts – and these days, that first minute and a half is likely to be spent checking yo...

Taboola steps up in video, buys ConvertMedia for shy of $100M

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techcrunch.com - Taboola, the startup behind the publishing widget that recommends more content at the end of articles online, has made an acquisition to expand its horizons beyond the written word: it has bought C...

Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

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techcrunch.com - Reflect, a Portland, Oregon-based data visualization service, today announced that it has raised $2.5 million on an oversubscribed seed round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Other participants in t...

Nintendo NX said to be a portable console with removable controllers and a TV dock

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo’s upcoming NX console is slowly taking shape, but a new report provides a lot more specificity than we’ve seen in the past, claiming the still-secret gaming hardware is actually primarily ...

Engie wants to open up the auto-repair industry with diagnostics tech and mechanic marketplace

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techcrunch.com - Israeli startup Engie wants to crack open the auto-repair industry with a combination of hardware and software to enable you to better understand the health of your car, tied to a more transparent ...

Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones

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techcrunch.com - Amazon today announced that it has partnered with the U.K. government to test some of the technologies that may one day enable its Prime Air drone delivery service. In a partnership with the U.K. C...

Watch TechCode’s Demo Day here

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch is pleased to bring you TechCode‘s Demo Day today, Tuesday July 26th from Mountain View, California. TechCode’s U.S. accelerator program focuses on artificial intelligence and hardware s...

Microsoft wants you to write better, stay focused and bore fewer people

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft announced a number of updates to Word, PowerPoint and Outlook today that will bring more of its machine learning smarts (among other things) to some of its core Office suite products. For...

T-Mobile adds Apple Music and over a dozen video services to its free streaming program Binge On

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techcrunch.com - T-Mobile again expanded its free streaming program Binge On this morning, with the addition of Apple Music and fifteen other providers, including video services like ABC, Fox Now, FXNOW, Disney Cha...

Mobileye won’t supply Tesla self-driving tech beyond current EyeQ3 processor

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techcrunch.com - On their quarterly earnings call this morning, self-driving automotive technology company MobileEye announced that Mobileye’s work with Tesla will not extend beyond EyeQ3, the processor currently u...

Pokémon Go estimated at over 75M downloads worldwide

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techcrunch.com - Pokémon Go has already earned one official record — most downloads on the App Store in a launch week ever. But it’s going to break a lot more records still: app analytics firm Sensor Tower estimate...

VR studio Kite & Lightning raises $2.5M to build a fighting baby game

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techcrunch.com - Funding may be becoming a bit harder to come by for some startups in the current climate, but generally as long as a company has the right idea someone will always be there with a checkbook in hand...

Now Tim Sweeney thinks that Microsoft will use Windows 10 to break Steam

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arstechnica.com - Tim Sweeney doesn't like Windows 10 or Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform, the common development platform that allows developers to create software that can run on Windows on PCs, phones, tabl...

AMD unveils Radeon Pro SSG graphics card with up to 1TB of M.2 flash memory

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arstechnica.com - While graphics cards with more than 8GB of memory might seem like overkill to gamers, those in the creative industries like VFX and 3D modelling can't get enough of the stuff. After all, VFX studio...

10 Social Lessons for B2B Companies | Simply Measured

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simplymeasured.com - The social media landscape is ever-changing, and so is the way people are making buying decisions. Social media is a great tool to attract prospects and customers with your content and guide them t...

11 Simple Yet Effective Edits to Instantly Improve Your Social Media Content

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blog.bufferapp.com - As marketers, writers and crafters, we spend hours on bringing our content ideas to life and after all that effort, want our content to be seen. Writing powerful social media copy to grab people’s ...

For BuzzFeed, Five Billion Views Are Worth More Than 18 Billion Impressions

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recode.net - BuzzFeed doesn’t care where you see its stuff — just that you see it. And it says you see its stuff a lot — five billion times a month, according to a new memo from CEO Jonah Peretti, who says that...

How to Unlock Your Phone’s Trusty Call-Blocking Powers

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wired.com - Telemarketers, scammers, and political surveyors have one thing in common: They can all ruin your day with a barrage of unsolicited phone spam. If the Do Not Call List isn’t doing its job for you, ...

Pokémon GO hits 50M Google Play downloads within three weeks

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androidcommunity.com - From 21 million downloads on its first week to 50 million this week, Pokémon GO has definitely broken a number of records in the mobile gaming industry. No doubt it's the biggest mobile game in US ...

Motorola launches Moto Mods developer portal

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androidcommunity.com - There has been a lot of warm reception for Motorola’s Moto Mods. If you haven’t heard of them, that’s a darned shame but here it is in a nutshell – Moto Mods are modular and swappable accessories t...

Twitter apparently removed its Android widget in alpha version

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androidcommunity.com - Are we still even surprised when Twitter does something strange and inexplicable? Maybe it’s part of their continuing experiment into figuring out their place in this social media world, but appare...

BlackBerry DTEK50 announced as the latest Android BlackBerry phone

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androidcommunity.com - After weeks of anticipating for the second Android-powered BlackBerry device, the Canadian company has finally unveiled the DTEK50. It's the same one we uncovered a while ago. There's no Hamburg or...

Google Maps update brings cleaner look, areas of interest

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androidcommunity.com - Have you ever looked at your Google Maps and be all confused because of all the lines and grids and things that you don’t really need to know? Well it looks like Google has heard you as the latest ...

Travel Customer Experience Becomes Inherently Mobile at Starwood Hotels and Resorts

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loyalty360.org - Customer experience in the travel industry certainly isn’t immune from the impact that mobile has in today’s loyalty marketing world. Just ask Julie Atkinson, Senior Vice President, Global Digital,...

Interactive Personalized Video Can Trigger Better Customer Experience, Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Interactive personalized video is a great way to create a better customer experience and better customer engagement. That’s according to Scot A. Laudicina, Vice President, Cross Sell, Pitney Bowes ...

Samsung Pay Seeks Greater Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Samsung is taking a different approach toward mobile payments. Samsung Pay, which is a mobile payment service that allows Samsung users to make payments using compatible phones, is different from o...

Providing a Superior Digital Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Harley Manning, VP, Research Director, Forrester believes that, inherently, a digital customer experience is a better experience. “In general, digital experiences tend to not to be perceived to p...

Social Media Engagement Platforms Provide Effect Avenue for Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Social media has revolutionized the world of marketing. Brand loyalty has expanded as a result, and the line between advertisement and genuine brand advocacy has been blurred by the proliferation o...

Papadakis Konstantinos : Latest Technologies Designed by High Detailed Graphics - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Konstantinos Papadakis”, Developer and Owber of the Greece based start-up “PapadakisKonstantinos” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it e...

Soundest : App For E-commerce Email Marketing - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rytis Lauris'; C0-Founder and CEOof the UK- based Start Up “Soundest”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted...

ParkParrot : Automated System Showing Available Parkings - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Chandler Burke”, Founder of the Chattanooga – USA based start-up “ParkParrot” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do an...

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...

EQNS : Advanced Education In The Sciences - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ilya Uts”, CEO & Founder of the New York – USA based start-up “EQNS” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what yo...

Pampered Teacher : Sends Teachers a Subscription Box Filled with Hand-Selects 4-6 Teacher Gifts - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Cristin Frank”, Owner Of the NY – USA based startup “Pampered Teacher” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

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,...

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...

Fripito : Up-To-Date Travel Guides - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Irma Stastova”, Marketing and Sales Manager of the Nevada- USA based start-up “Fripito” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that...

WhyWaitTheApp.com: A Mobile Discovery App that Allows Users to Find a Plethora of Info Related to Restaurants & Bars - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - WhyWait is a discovery app that allows users to find the following for restaurants/bars: Happy Hours, Deals, Events, Menus, Images and Social Media Integration. “WhyWait” is a discovery app that al...

XLR8 : Social Matching and Communication Platform for Entrepreneurs - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Rick Duree”, Chief Firestarter of the Missouri- United States based startup “XLR8″ Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that ...

My Home Needs That : Search Engine Dedicated to Furniture and Homeware - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Adam Pilling”, Foundert at the London – UK based start-up “MyHomeNeedsThat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and...

DealTrunk : Browser Extension To Display Best Deals From Online Retailers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Amanda Wrzeszczynski”, Founder of the Pittsburgh, USA based start-up “DealTrunk” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal po...

Marketing Day: Taboola buys ConvertMedia, Google's expanded text ads & more

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marketingland.com - Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: What is call intelligence, and why should you care? ...