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Friday, August 5, 2016

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I’m an influencer, pay me more! - Biznology

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biznology.com - Back in January I had the honor of being a guest on Shel Holtz‘s premier PR podcast, For Immediate Release. It must have gone well because I was back on a panel of PR professionals yesterday, joini...

'Forza' players can win a real car in new ESL tournament

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mashable.com - One top Forza player will be getting an actual, real, drivable car as the first place prize of ESL's Forza Racing Championship tournament in September. SEE ALSO: Esports creeping beyond livestreams...

Tesla's Autopilot couldn't stand up to these hackers

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mashable.com - A driver of a Tesla Model S died in early May when both he and his car's semi-autonomous Autopilot system failed to see a tractor trailer crossing in front of the car on a highway in Florida. While...

SPI 225: Meet the Flynn Family (the ones who really run the show), with April, Keoni, and Kailani - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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smartpassiveincome.com - My guests today are the reason I do what I do. They’re what motivate me to dream big, follow through on my goals, and maintain a balanced life. Here with me are my wife and my two kids: April, Keon...

Late July Updates for Surface Pro 4, Surface Book, and Surface Pro 3 – Surface

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blogs.technet.microsoft.com - We have new updates for Surface Pro 4, Surface Book, and Surface Pro 3 devices. Click the links below to go to the specific location for your device on the Download Center. At the Download Center, ...

Apple offers big cash rewards for help finding security bugs

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reuters.com - LAS VEGAS Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that already offer p...

File:National IQ per country - estimates by Lynn and Vanhanen 2006.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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commons.wikimedia.org - File:National IQ per country - estimates by Lynn and Vanhanen 2006.png File File history File usage Global file usage Size of this preview: 800 × 370 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 148 pixels | 6...

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 adds special battery saving mode, blue light filter

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androidcommunity.com - We have yet to do a comprehensive review and analysis of the Galaxy Note 7 but for now, we'll be content in our first hands-on feature and reading about the new phablet. After months of all those r...

Getting to know the FF, a Ferrari you can drive every day

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arstechnica.com - First, let's make one thing clear: the FF isn't a sports car, it's a grand tourer (or GT). Its design brief was less about breaking lap records at Monza and more about being able to cope with weeke...

Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers

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theverge.com - For longtime Mac users, MacRumors’ Buyer’s Guide is an online institution. The publication catalogs the release dates of each major Apple product line and contrasts them against the company’s usual...

Valve opens up the HTC Vive’s tracking system to third-party developers

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techcrunch.com - One of the most technically advanced features of the HTC Vive is the way it tracks a users motions inside their play space. Valve’s ‘Lighthouse tracking system’ was just opened up to third-party ha...

Apple Music exits beta on Android with 3.3 stars

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techcrunch.com - Apple released its music streaming service for Android phones as a beta in November 2015. Nine months later, the app is now official at version 1.0. And yet, it only has an average rating of 3.3 st...

Twitter’s newest ads are designed to get users to tweet

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techcrunch.com - Twitter today is debuting a new advertising format that will encourage its users to tweet more often, while talking about an advertiser’s brand. With the new ads, businesses and brands will now be ...

Nissan says EV chargers will outnumber gas stations in the UK by 2020

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techcrunch.com - A new study by car maker Nissan predicts the U.K. will have more electric vehicle charging locations than gas stations by 2020. It’s a bold prediction to estimate that EV chargers will outnumber pl...

Apple announces long-awaited bug bounty program

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techcrunch.com - Tech companies hold the keys to some of our most personal information — payment details, health records, chat logs with our lovers and archives of family photos — and, as we hand over more and more...

In-app marketing startup Insert raises $10M

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techcrunch.com - Insert is the new startup from the team behind app development company Worklight (which was acquired by IBM for $70 million). Today it’s announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A fundin...

Shoka put a brain for your bicycle in a connected smart bell

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techcrunch.com - Connected bikes could be huge assets to the future of urban transit, especially as cities and cars grow more connected, too. But smart cycles can be very expensive, and cyclists also tend to be ver...

Beloved Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Krikorian has died

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recode.net - Blake Krikorian, longtime and much beloved Silicon Valley entrepreneur, died yesterday. While the cause of his death is still unconfirmed, he was apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing i...

Blackberry enters a new era, files 105-page patent lawsuit against Avaya

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arstechnica.com - BlackBerry has filed a patent lawsuit (PDF) against internet telephony firm Avaya. The dispute marks a turning point for Blackberry, which pushed into the Android market last year but has been stru...

Bristol Cars—the thinking person’s car company—is back with a Bullet

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arstechnica.com - Five years ago, things were looking bleak for a company many thought a relic of bygone times. The Fighter—a 200mph GT with the V10 from of a Dodge Viper in the nose—failed to find much of an audien...

Valve will grant royalty-free licenses to anyone making SteamVR peripherals

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arstechnica.com - For now, if you want to play any of the virtual reality games or apps in the SteamVR ecosystem, the only hardware you can use comes from HTC. That may soon change, however. SteamVR creator Valve ha...

QuakeCon 2016 kicks off with gameplay reveals for Quake Champions, Prey

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arstechnica.com - That event kicked off in Grapevine, Texas on Thursday with gameplay reveals for both games, though Quake Champions' 75-second video was more revealing. The upcoming Quake-branded online shooter fro...

Starting this fall, Apple will pay up to $200,000 for iOS and iCloud bugs

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arstechnica.com - As part of a security presentation given at this year's Black Hat conference, Apple today announced that it would be starting up a bug bounty program in the fall. The program will reward security r...

Facebook Testing Out New Page Information Options to Help Small Businesses

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socialmediatoday.com - In September last year, Facebook unveiled a new, more mobile-friendly look for business Pages, with additional display options to help provide more information for on-platform visitors. Among those...

Latest BlackBerry software update now ready for PRIV, DTEK50

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androidcommunity.com - We're impressed that BlackBerry is always in the news. Even before the DTEK50 Android phone was unveiled, several rumors and speculations have been heard related to the ailing company. It's difficu...

Google Nik Collection review - Amateur Photographer

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amateurphotographer.co.uk - The Google Nik Collection contains some of the most highly regarded image-editing plug-ins for Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom and Aperture on the market. The plug-ins were originally developed by N...

Paperless Coupons Lead to Heightened Customer Engagement at Walgreens

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loyalty360.org - Walgreens launched paperless coupons in 2014 and since then it has seen a continual increase in monthly redemptions, with more than 135 million total coupons clipped through the program. Now, accor...

Mobile Wallets Hold Key to Elevated Mobile Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Mobile wallets have been talked about within the loyalty industry for quite some time now, but, according to a new report from Urban Airship, more businesses are jumping onboard amid a significant ...

Social Media Leads to Increased Online Customer Engagement for Small Businesses

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loyalty360.org - For several years now, a strong digital presence has been a defining trait of small businesses that have been able to separate from the pack. While mega-corporations like Apple and Google are expec...

Proactive Personalization

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loyalty360.org - This is part of a series of 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...

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...

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...

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...

CMS2CMS : A CMS Migration tool . - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - CMS2CMS is the web based service that helps to move content from the existing CMS to a new one easily and fast. Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Ruslan Savchyshyn'; Director and Founder in ...

99 Viral Tweets: The Ultimate Swipe File For Twitter Marketers - Traffic Café

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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...

Fire Sales for Lumia 950 and 950 XL on Eve of HP Elite x3 Launch - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Microsoft is trying to sell off its remaining inventory of Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL handsets ahead of the launch of HP’s new Elite x3. This isn’t the first time Microsoft has “drained the swamp” ...

Kik Users Have Now Sent Branded Chatbots Nearly 2 Billion Messages

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adweek.com - After its first few months offering dozens of chatbots, Kik says users have caught on and exchanged nearly 2 billion messages with brands, entertainment companies and publishers on the platform. Ac...

US Internet Speeds Improve, Still Lag Behind Other Countries - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Internet speeds in the US have gotten faster in the first six months of 2016, but not quick enough to surpass speeds in other nations, according to a new report from Speedtest. Speedtest.net is a g...

China has More Than 700 Million Internet Users

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huffingtonpost.com - By Hong Soon-do, Beijing correspondent, AsiaToday - China is transforming into the world's biggest Internet nation. The number of web users in China--already the world's largest online population--...

Viesearch Friends of Viesearch - Some of our Lastest Referrers

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viesearch.com - A website which gives many java tutorials for free. It contains a core java tutorial, spring framework tutorial, hibernate tutorial, richfaces tutorial, other java frameworks tutorials and general ...

Are smart city transport systems vulnerable to hackers? - BBC News

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bbc.co.uk - It wasn't so much the word, but its position that caused New Jersey photojournalist Lori Nichols to turn her car around on a highway near Atlantic City close to midnight to snap a photo. The word w...

LG SH7B soundbar is the latest tech indulgence on the block - The Economic Times

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in.techradar.com - Soundbars are all the rage these days and it's easy to see why — they take up little space, sound better than your TV speakers and are simple to set up. While the LG SH7B soundbar system may not se...

Elon Musk: Tesla's fully autonomous cars will 'blow people's minds'

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techinsider.io - Tesla's fully autonomous cars will be here before you know it. During an earnings conference call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk was asked about Tesla's timeline for fully autonomous vehicles. Musk ...

Back(up)-to-School: A Personal Story

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backblaze.com - So it will soon be that time of year again for many of you—back to school time. As a student myself who’s interning at Backblaze over the summer, I know the hassle of back to school shopping. There...

Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck — Basic income

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medium.com - Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self...

This startup spent the last 9 years bucking the conventional wisdom — now it looks super smart

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uk.businessinsider.com - When storage startup Egnyte first launched in 2007, it did a lot of things differently than the competition. The conventional wisdom at the time, which prevailed at companies like Box and Dropbox, ...

Almost half of companies don't teach staff data security

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cloudpro.co.uk - Egnyte has revealed that 44 per cent of companies do not think it should be compulsory for staff to be trained around data security, even though they have formal data protection processes in place....

Let a Dynamics GP Consultant Show You How to Integrate Dynamics GP

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abouttmc.com - Make no mistake, Excel is not a program the Microsoft Dynamics product line is replacing: On the contrary, Excel, a mainstay of many startups and small to medium-size businesses, is enhanced with i...

Don't Fall for This Sneaky Lost iPhone Scam

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gizmodo.com - Phishing scams have a history of employing some impressive web design skills to trick people into giving up their Apple ID credentials. But a new attack, thoroughly detailed by Joonas Kiminki at Ha...

FollowMe4: TPS Consulting Daily

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followme4.blogspot.com - TPS Consulting Daily TECHNOLOGY Pioneer’s PLX-500 turntable offers SL-1200 performance on the cheap Shared by Ars Technica arstechnica.co.uk - With vinyl sales continuing to rise—now accounting for...