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Surface Pro 3 Battery FAQ for the 8/29/2016 System Firmware Update
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microsoft.com - A limited number of Surface Pro 3 owners find that their battery can no longer hold a charge, and it looks like the battery capacity has diminished. With the power plugged in, the Surface Pro 3 is ...
LinkedIn Now Supports Hashtags Again – Sort of
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Jeanette JOY Fisher
socialmediatoday.com - Everyone knows that LinkedIn doesn’t support hashtags, right? That, of course, doesn’t stop people from using them on the platform all the time, much to the amusement of smug social media types (my...
Waze sources say app is being transformed into ridesharing service
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slashgear.com - Google began testing a ridesharing feature in Waze with a limited number of people in San Francisco earlier this year, and now sources say it will soon expand the feature to cover everyone in the c...
Galaxy Note 7 survives falling 100ft in a block of ice
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slashgear.com - The Galaxy Note 7 is a beautiful phone, but some have questioned its durability. So-called torture tests are nothing new, and Samsung's latest handset has already been subjected to many of them. Th...
Pixel 2 Chromebook discontinued after selling out on Google Store
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slashgear.com - If you were hoping to get your hands on a Chromebook Pixel 2 from Google, it seems like you've missed your window of opportunity. The Chromebook has sold out on the Google Store, and the company te...
Pebble Update 4.0 released: details and download
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slashgear.com - Today the next big release from Pebble has been ushered in, fully prepared for examination by thousands of Pebble watch users. This newest update was teased earlier this month with a picture of Pik...
Samepage Announces Integration with Egnyte Connect
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samepage.io - San Jose, CA - August 30th, 2016 This morning, Samepage Labs Inc., a top-rated communication and collaboration platform, is announcing native integration with Egnyte, the market leader in smart con...
Moo.do turns Gmail into a task management system
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techcrunch.com - If starring your important emails is your way of creating a to-do list in your inbox, but you long for something more robust, a new product from Moo.do aims to help. With Moo.do for Gmail, the idea...
Sweden’s Greta wants to disrupt the multi-billion dollar CDN market
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Jefferson Faudan
techcrunch.com - Swedish startup Greta is on a somewhat quiet mission to disrupt the multi-billion dollar Content Delivery Network (CDN) market. The young company already boasts an impressive list of angel investor...
Facebook Offers Brands a Revamped Offers Experience
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adweek.com - Facebook Tuesday announced several new features for its Offers ad units and page posts. The social network outlined the new features in an email to SocialTimes: Facebook offered more details on the...
This Indian company is promising a $7 Android smartphone
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - How does one sell a new smartphone brand in the world's fastest growing market that already has more than 65 established players? SEE ALSO: After dubious $3 smartphone, another Indian company promi...
With a new carpool service, Google is accelerating in its quest to take on Uber
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - Google is working fast and furiously on its next big step to take on ride-hailing app Uber. The technology giant, under parent Alphabet, is building a new service that connects commuters for the p...
6 Do-It-Yourself PR Tips for Small Businesses
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Reg Saddler
smallbusinesspr.com - If you’re a small business, doing your own PR is all about crafting pitches and getting them to the right people. Creating buzz in your industry involves being authentic to yourself and your busine...
The future of mobile video is virtual reality
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techcrunch.com - After the dust settles, the real takeaway from Instagram’s cloning of Snapchat is that the connected camera revolution is just beginning. Instagram Stories sends a powerful message to hundreds of m...
Intel’s ‘Kaby Lake’ Core processors are big news for VR, notebooks and convertibles
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techcrunch.com - Intel’s latest processor generation is now official, and the 7th generation of Core processors looks to pack a punch. The so-called “Kaby Lake” lineup is the first to follow the new “tick-tock-tock...
The Boosted Board 2 Dual+ is more exciting (and water-resistant) than the original
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techcrunch.com - The changes aren’t monumental, but they turn the board into a complete product, whereas before it might have been perceived as a $1,500 toy. Firstly, all exposed components on the board now have wa...
Mophie debuts a whole bunch of battery power banks with reduced price points
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techcrunch.com - Mophie wants everyone to know that it’s more than just battery cases — the company made as much extremely clear when we met to take a look at its new offerings. Not that it minds that its Juice Pac...
All-you-can-eat data deal coming to a programmatic market near you
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - Earlier this year, I wrote about the emerging opportunity for brands to truly adopt personal marketing. I define personal marketing as the ability within a programmatic media-buying context to cust...
DealTrunk : Browser Extension To Display Best Deals From Online Retailers - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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...
Pokemon GO unbans some “innocent” users
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slashgear.com - Pokemon GO creators Niantic Labs is probably having a terrible time nowadays. After the initial fever and fervor surrounding the game, the court of public opinion has quickly turned against them. A...
Bans on several Pokémon GO accounts now being reversed
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re one of those Pokémon GO players who honestly do not understand why your account has been suspended, there might still be some home left for you. Developer Niantic has announced that those...
Intel unveils Kaby Lake, its first post-“tick-tock” CPU architecture
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arstechnica.com - Intel’s tick-tock model may be dead, but the PC industry still demands new hardware every year. Many PC models are refreshed once a year or so, and that means that the PC makers need new stuff to p...
Detroit’s music chops and auto shops could drive connected-car entertainment
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techcrunch.com - Scott "DJ Skee" Keeney is a renowned radio DJ, host of Skee TV and founder of Dash Radio, a curator-led digital broadcast platform that merges the best of terrestrial and internet radio. On a recen...
You can now order pizza from your Apple TV
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techcrunch.com - Do you know what goes great with binge watching Netflix? Pizza. At least, that’s one reason why Papa John’s has today launched a new application for Apple TV which allows you to order a pizza, sele...
A few dozen Nest Labs employees just headed to Google; here’s why
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techcrunch.com - Nest Labs, the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, is parting ways with a few dozen employees who work on its Internet of Things platform. According to a Fortune report that we’ve indep...
Apple adds a 2TB iCloud storage option for $19.99 per month
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techcrunch.com - iCloud users can now access up to 2TB of storage, as Apple just added a new tier that provides 2TB for $19.99 per month. As a refresher, iCloud storage can be used by Mac and iOS users to store and...
VR on the battlefield, to the couch and back again — sort of
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techcrunch.com - Yuval Boger is the CEO of Sensics, author of the VRGuy blog and podcast and co-founder of OSVR, the open-source virtual reality initiative. Fifteen years ago, a team of scientists working at Johns ...
Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and Josh Elman will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF
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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn’s story has come to a close — being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion — and its rise and finale is thanks to a laundry list of people. Two of those who were instrumental to its growt...
Google to undercut Uber in San Francisco with new ride-sharing service
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arstechnica.com - On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal said a “person familiar with the matter” confirmed that Google would be moving into the ride-sharing market currently dominated by Uber and, to a lesser extent, ...
Nest’s software team gets sent to Google, aims for IoT unity
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arstechnica.com - Just three months after Nest co-founder Tony Fadell left the company and new CEO Marwan Fawaz took over, Alphabet's troubled smart home division, Nest, is apparently experiencing another shakeup. A...
“We’re a tech company, we’re not a media company,” says Facebook founder
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arstechnica.com - Facebook faces more pressure from lawmakers in Europe, after Germany's interior minister called on the company to quickly remove hateful and illegal posts—on the same day that its chief Mark Zucker...
11 Stupid Mistakes the Smartest People Make
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Reg Saddler
quora.com - What are some stupid things that smart people do? originally appeared on Quora--the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Wow, there are ...
Google holds Project Tango Workshop for more devs, creative people
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androidcommunity.com - So much has been said about Project Tango since the concept was introduced more than two years ago as an experimental smartphone with 3D mapping. As early as 2014, we’ve seen working videos and a t...
Crowdsource lets you help translate images, handwriting, text, map data
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a bilingual person with a bit of extra time on their hands every once in a while and who likes helping people out without expecting anything in return, Google has the app for you. Crowdso...
Verizon’s LTE Advanced now available across the US
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androidcommunity.com - T-Mobile may have been making waves the past few weeks, but Verizon doesn’t want to be left out of the news cycle, but on a less controversial topic of course. The carrier has announced that they a...
Get these Ultra Sound Bluetooth Stereo Headsets at a 2-for-1 price [DEALS]
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androidcommunity.com - For a limited time, you can double your listening enjoyment with two pairs of Ultra Sound Bluetooth Stereo Headsets and save 74% off the retail price at Android Community Deals. If you are a music ...
More than 86% of the world’s iPhones can still be hacked with just a text
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uk.businessinsider.com - More than 86% of Apple iPhones in the world are apparently still vulnerable to a security flaw that allows a hacker to completely take over the device with just a text message, according to data fr...
Chase Pay Extends Customer Experience Reach with Phillips 66
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loyalty360.org - Chase Pay continues its expansion into the fuel market, announcing on Wednesday that the mobile payment solution has come to a multiyear agreement with Phillips 66, ensuring that the platform will ...
What’s Next for Programmatic Advertising – 5 Trends Every Marketer Should Know
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - Programmatic advertising continues to rapidly gain adoption around the world as the industry seeks more efficient methods of buying and selling digital inventory. In the U.S., programmatic account...
SMS Messaging Yet to Break Through as Customer Engagement Channel
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Loyalty 360
loyalty360.org - From email, to direct mail, to Facebook and Twitter, it seems that every available channel is being leveraged to serve up personalized marketing to consumers. One medium that is conspicuously missi...
Pushstartr : Database Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ryan Nutley”, CEO of the Ireland based start-up “Pushstartr” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start...
EQNS : Advanced Education In The Sciences - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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...
Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can no...
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...
Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Brian Zuercher had a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has be...
My Driving Pal : Security and Safety - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Shahram Rezaei”, Founder Of the California – USA based startup “MyDrivingPal” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do ...
Marketing Day: Facebook Offers, Twitter video ads & Apple's EU tax woes
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Brett Prince
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: How to launch your employee advocacy program Aug 30,...
Google Cast is Now Part of the Chrome Web Browser - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - Users of Google Chrome may have noticed an interesting change to their browser over the past week: Google Cast capabilities are now built-in and no longer require an extension. Oh, how I wish that ...
August Updates for Office 365 Include Improved Inking, Security, and More - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - The Office 365 team at Microsoft continues its torrid update pace this month, with a slew of improvements that hit across virtually all of the client platforms that they support. “August has been a...
What Are Subdomains, and How Do They Affect SEO?
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Gerald Weber
hostgator.com - You’ve probably come across various subdomains throughout your time spent searching online. But, maybe you’ve always wondered why companies use them, and if you can see any benefits from using them...
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