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Thursday, September 15, 2016

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Evernote Comes to Windows Store, Edge, and the Outlook App

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blog.evernote.com - It’s been a busy season here at Evernote HQ. We’re rolling out product improvements, finding new ways to make productivity easier by linking Evernote to other great apps, and listening to amazing s...

Lucid Software Raises $36 Million for Sales Expansion

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bloomberg.com - Lucid Software, a provider of a cloud-based diagramming service, raised $36 million to expand its sales staff and get its software ready for international markets. Lucid, co-founded by former Googl...

The impact of tech on creative people - Creative Review

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creativereview.co.uk - In the 4th century BC Aristotle used to sit in the shade and debate with his followers and students. Today, I am sitting in some airport, moderating a discussion with my students via WhatsApp. They...

GCHQ mulls sharing DNS filters with UK telcos to tackle cyber attacks

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arstechnica.co.uk - GCHQ's cyber boss went to Washington on Tuesday armed with a long wishlist for the UK's eavesdropping nerve centre: chief among them was to scale up DNS filtering to block "known malware and bad ad...

New Twitter App Streams N.F.L. Games and Other Sports

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nytimes.com - Twitter is making a play for people’s living rooms, unveiling an app on Wednesday for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Microsoft’s Xbox One that will showcase its bet on live content. Twitter’s new fre...

Movie magic: This app brings your 'Star Wars' toys to life with special effects

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mashable.com - For as long as Star Wars has been around, fans have made their own fan movies with toys using stop motion or by dressing up as characters and adding cheesy homemade special effects. But wouldn't it...

'Destiny: Rise of Iron' delivers a new challenge in Archon's Forge

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mashable.com - Archon's Forge isn't a centerpiece mode for Destiny in the same way that the raids are, but it's a brand new and potentially rewarding public activity in Rise of Iron. Remember Court of Oryx? Desti...

Here's how to use 'invisible ink' in iMessage

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mashable.com - If you've been paying attention, then you know Apple made Messages one of the stars of iOS 10. The update supercharged the operating system's messaging features with the ability to add a whole boat...

Is Your Marketing House Built on a Rock or Sand? | MarTech

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marketingtechblog.com - It’s not often that I have to get biblical here, but this is one of those times! Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his...

LeEco picks up an English language film production company

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techcrunch.com - In its press material, LeEco refers to as a “global internet company,” a phrase that doesn’t really mean that much on the face of it – but when you’re LeEco, it’s probably best to be purposely vagu...

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert demos the Spot at Disrupt

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techcrunch.com - The audience at Disrupt got a surprise visit from Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. While the company’s YouTube channel is quite popular, it’s even more impressive to see one of Boston Robotics’ robots ...

Reid Hoffman and Josh Elman on where Greylock is (still) shopping

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techcrunch.com - At Disrupt SF in San Francisco this morning, in front of a packed audience, Greylock investors Reid Hoffman and Josh Elman talked about some of the trends that they’re tracking in the startup unive...

EU digital copyright reform proposals slammed as regressive

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techcrunch.com - The European Commission’s proposals to reform the region’s copyright rules, published in draft form today, have been criticized by tech companies and digital rights groups as regressive and a misse...

Twitter launches on Apple TV, Fire TV and Xbox One

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techcrunch.com - Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that. Today, the company said it i...

Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh

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techcrunch.com - Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. The announcement comes a year-and-a-half ...

5 Needs Every Employee Has But Doesn't Ask For

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inc.com - In the new age of work, we have seen a growing trend towards people-first leadership. Workplaces are learning that the true key to business growth and success is to focus on employee happiness, eng...

New EU rules promise 100Mbps broadband and free Wi-Fi for all

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arstechnica.com - BRUSSELS—The European Commission has promised free Wi-Fi in every town, village, and city in the European Union, in the next four years. A new grant, with a total budget of €120 million, will allow...

The 5 Worst Social Media Practices Brands Should Avoid

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fastcompany.com - You don’t need to look too hard to find brands that have suffered epic social media fails. Like that time Spirit Airlines tried to leverage the sexual abuse caused when hackers stole and leaked pri...

40 Useful Tools to Manage and Grow Your Blog (Updated)

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wpbeginner.com - We are often asked by our users about what tools we use to manage and grow our WordPress blogs. We have listed some of them in our WPBeginner Blueprint, but there are some more that we use on our d...

The 1 Simple Way to Instantly Improve Your Email Marketing

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inc.com - Email marketing remains one of the most enduring (and effective) online marketing methods available today. With that in mind, why do so many of us make the same critical blunder over and over again...

7 Social Media Tools You Can’t Live Without

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Reg Saddler




socialmediatoday.com - Social media is a crucial aspect of your marketing strategy, but sometimes it can be easy to be overwhelmed. With so many topics that you can post and tweet about, you might not have time to do it ...

How to Create Instagram Ads : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Instagram advertising gives businesses and brands an effective way to increase visibility and connect with customer and prospects. In this article you’ll discover how to create Instagram ads for yo...

Amazon Echo Dot launches with faster voice recognition in a more compact form

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androidcommunity.com - Amazon’s Echo and Alexa are perhaps two of the best things that ever happened to the top e-commerce site. We have been hearing raves about the two products, especially the Alexa voice service becau...

Samsung also contemplating removal of the headphone jack in future products

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androidcommunity.com - A phone brand ditching the 3.5mm headphone jack is actually old news. It’s interesting that some people in the mobile industry was surprised about Apple’s decision to do away with the headphone jac...

Cable TV Sees 2.8M Political Spots Since January

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adage.com - If the 2016 presidential primary season is any indication, the data-driven cable TV buying trend among political advertisers is not going away. The massive shifts in the dayparts and number of netw...

Crowdid : E-Commerce Platform Selling Crowdfunded Products - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ed Havens”, Founder (CMO) at the San Francisco – USA based start-up “crowdid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do a...

GetQuantify.com: A Real-Time Online Collaboration Application for Small Businesses - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Getquantify is real-time online collaboration application for small businesses. Organize your tasks into projects and keep your team up to date. “GetQuantify.com” is a real-time online collaboratio...

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...

StoryMarkLife.com: A Mobile and Tablet Applications Company for Lifestyle and Business that’s Redefining the Way we Capture and Share Experiences - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - StoryMark Life is a mobile and tablet applications company for lifestyle and business that is redefining the way we capture and share experiences. “StoryMark Life” is a mobile and tablet applicatio...

Stores.Miscake.com: A Web-Based Service for Creating Online Stores - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Miscake Stores is a service for creating online stores. It is designed both for small merchants and big resellers. Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mrs. Richardson regarding...

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...

Connection Steps that Lead to Customers - Copyblogger -

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copyblogger.com - Once upon a time, there used to be a division in how people saw the web. (Way back in 2009, I wrote a blog post about this, calling the two points of view “the cool kids” and “the internet marketer...

AdWords Extends Timeline for Transition to Expanded Text Ads

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wordstream.com - Google knew they were making news when they announced Expanded Text Ads at their annual performance summit in May. The standard ad format of 25/35/35 characters had been the norm since AdWords was ...

SearchCap: Google extended text ads, Bing Ads structured snippets & Doodle 4 Google

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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 bumps Expanded Text Ad deadline to January 31, 2017 S...

10 Lesser Known Social Networks For Small Business Branding

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bitrebels.com - If you’ve been working on your social media presence lately, you’ve probably set up at least a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account. These platforms tend to steal the spotlight when it comes to ...

Creating Websites With Dropbox-Powered Hosting Tools – Smashing Magazine

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smashingmagazine.com - Let’s say you want to quickly sketch out your idea of a website, or just quickly whip up a small site for testing purposes. Also, neither should take a lot of time to build nor should they need a f...

Have 'A Perfect Day in Los Angeles' with VR from Jaunt and Tastemade

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mashable.com - LOS ANGELES — Jaunt Studios and Tastemade have given Los Angeles the virtual reality treatment. Jaunt, which has raised $100 million from partners including The Walt Disney Company and Evolution Me...

Lucky number 7! Apple's stock is soaring

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money.cnn.com - Apple (AAPL, Tech30) stock surged more than 4% Wednesday afternoon while the broader market was mostly flat. Apple's stock is now up nearly 10% so far this week -- an impressive move given the big ...

How to Be Heard Through the Noise Online

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huffingtonpost.com - Content, Content, and more Content, oh yes everyone has a blog, that doesn't mean everyone's blog is effective. Content is King, but without out a plan it's just part of the noise. It's tougher tha...

Apple stock surges on preorders of iPhone 7

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cnbc.com - Apple shares surged more than 4 percent Wednesday, their highest levels in about nine months, as the iPhone 7 cycle begins. The stock was the top gainer in the Dow Jones industrial average for a se...

9 reasons you should download iOS 10 now

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mashable.com - If you're slightly skeptical about some of the operating system's features or simply reluctant to change, we've compiled nine awesome reasons why you should put your fears aside and download iOS 10...

Gawken: The Gawker replacement you need to read

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mashable.com - A satirical website has launched that will help you push through your grief over the loss of the anti-establishment hero, Gawker. This week, Gawken appeared on the internet, and the people cheered....

Jason Burrows and Using Digital Marketing to Generate Traffic

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gaggleamp.com - Jason Burrows is the CEO of an integrated marketing agency with a global reach focusing mostly on B2B. His first experience with social media was with Myspace to Facebook and then Twitter on a pers...

FIR #52: All About Influence - FIR Podcast Network

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firpodcastnetwork.com - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:48:40 — 44.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Today’s panel features social media and communications consultant Richard Binhammer, Zo...

New York internet kiosks go offline after too many people use them for porn

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mashable.com - New York's Wi-Fi kiosks seemed like a great idea at the time. When they were introduced in February this year, they aimed to provide crucial power and internet facilities to visitors and residents....

Google still rules search, but YouTube and Facebook emerging as well

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thedrum.com - While Google remains the most important and dominant search engine, as it transitions into machine learning with RankBrain, marketers should not neglect other sources of traffic. Emerging search si...

Salesforce boosts social offering with Facebook Lead Ads automation

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thedrum.com - Salesforce Marketing Cloud has announced that it will bolster what it can offer to advertisers by adding direct lead automation from Facebook to its cloud. The move, confirmed by the company at Dme...

26 free commercial use fonts

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blog.tshirt-factory.com - Font design is intricate, essential to a good impression and very often needs to be practical. Fonts vary based on theme, what you want to communicate and the “etiquette” required in certain situat...

How to Optimize Amazon Product Images - CPC Strategy

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cpcstrategy.com - Posted by Tara Johnson on September 14, 2016 in Amazon Optimizing your Amazon content is an intentional strategy that can have a direct impact on your product’s organic search ranking. Unfortunatel...

Future Speed! The Koenigsegg at Salon Priv̩ 2016 РstupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - If you are anything like us, you’re probably a big fan of anything fast and sleek. Today we get a look at something new that certainly beholds those qualities and much more. Today we get a look at ...