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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

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Check Out the Submarine Internet Cables the NSA Probably Tapped

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wired.com - The words “mass surveillance” usually bring to mind wiretaps, security cameras, and the NSA hoovering unfathomable quantities of cellphone metadata and Internet activity. Few pause to consider the ...

Facebook makes its dynamic ads more friendly to brick-and-mortar retailers

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techcrunch.com - Facebook just announced some new features for its dynamic ads, aimed at making the format more appealing to businesses with brick-and-mortar stores. Facebook’s dynamic ads show you different produc...

Bing partners with CBS Interactive in syndication deal

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searchengineland.com - Microsoft has struck a syndication deal with CBS Interactive for the Bing search network. The partnership makes Bing Ads the exclusive search provider for some CBS Interactive sites, including Find...

MarTech Europe preview: here’s what to expect in 6 weeks

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marketingland.com - We’re only six weeks away from MarTech Europe in London, November 1-2, and I’m thrilled with the program — an incredible roster of speakers bringing deep insights and experience across the intersec...

Kickstarter is breaking down assumptions about where innovation can occur

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techcrunch.com - The few who still think Kickstarter can replace venture capital need not look further than a new report from Polygraph to see just how separate the world of crowdfunding is from traditional early-s...

Microsoft can’t stop launching Nokia feature phones

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mashable.com - Microsoft may have cut short its Windows Phone and mobile efforts, and it may be in the process of selling its feature phone business, but the company is anything but done with launching new featur...

B&W P7 Wireless headphones are all about sound over features

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mashable.com - Up until a few weeks ago, wireless headphones were a relatively small product niche. All smartphones shipped with wired earbuds; most hi-fi enthusiasts still bought wired headphones for their super...

Federal policy for self-driving cars pushes data sharing

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techcrunch.com - Self-driving cars are expected to radically transform transportation as we know it. The agency today released its Federal Autonomous Vehicles Policy (PDF), a document that will govern the way self-...

Canary’s new security camera cuts the cord to tackle the great outdoors

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techcrunch.com - I’m a bit surprised Canary didn’t just go ahead and make the Flex its flagship. For starters, the camera is just a heck of a lot nicer looking than its predecessor, a white (or black) pill-shaped p...

Tesla patches exploit that left Model S potentially vulnerable to remote access

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techcrunch.com - Tesla moved quickly to patch a vulnerability discovered by Tencent security research team Keen Security Lab that rendered the Model S susceptible to remote attacks, provided the Tesla Model S was c...

Hands-on with Leica Sofort instant camera

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techcrunch.com - Leica, the company best known for its soul-fryingly expensive, lovingly hand-crafted high-end rangefinder cameras, recently launched the Sofort. It’s a $300 Polaroid-style instant camera that aims ...

BMW Films are back to wow a new generation of potential car lovers

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techcrunch.com - Probably the first time I saw Clive Owen, it was in a “film” commissioned by BMW to advertise its cars. At the time, I didn’t really care all that much about cars (I had one, and it was fine, and t...

CloudFlare adds lots of new encryption features

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techcrunch.com - CloudFlare is encrypting its corner of the internet. The company announced today that it has rolled out new encryption features for all the websites it protects: TLS 1.3, automatic HTTPS rewrites, ...

Runnable wants to make developers more productive

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techcrunch.com - Back in 2013, Runnable launched with the mission to become the “YouTube of code” that allowed its users to find and run code snippets on its site. Times have changed, though, and the well-funded co...

macOS Sierra review: the Mac is now a mature platform

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techcrunch.com - With every new major update for Apple’s operating system for the Mac comes the mandatory review. This year, OS X is now called macOS — while this is a small cosmetic change, it’s also a good opport...

Tinder taps Spotify to let you add music to your profile

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techcrunch.com - Tinder is teaming up with Spotify to give users a new way to judge each other. Just as Tinder allowed folks to connect their Instagram accounts to their Tinder profile, the same is now true for Spo...

Elio Motors locks in price for nonrefundable reservations

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techcrunch.com - Elio Motors has raised funds for manufacturing its forthcoming three-wheeled commuter vehicle in a few innovative ways, including Regulation A+ stock offerings. Its latest creative funding is throu...

Analyzing China’s mobile advertising technology market

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techcrunch.com - Yoni Argaman is vice president of marketing and business strategy at Inneractive. For those of us in the mobile advertising technology business, China is one of the most exciting markets in the wor...

My trippy day playing Rez Infinite’s final level with its creator

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arstechnica.com - SEATTLE—I just finished playing the final level in the upcoming PlayStation VR launch title Rez Infinite and took my headset off to see the game's creator, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, looking at me with a b...

Patent firm hits Apple with $22.1M verdict over LTE patent

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arstechnica.com - Acacia Research Corporation, the largest publicly traded patent-assertion entity, won a $22.1 million verdict against Apple last week. A jury in the patent hotspot of East Texas found that Apple ha...

Using On-Site Customer Feedback Surveys To Get Inside Your Customer's Mind

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growandconvert.com - Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot about how using customer feedback can transform marketing for a business. We’ve previously talked about long form customer feedback surveys that you send to your ...

Editorial: A Spotlight on Interesting JavaScript Projects

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sitepoint.com - This is the editorial from my latest JavaScript newsletter, you can subscribe here. Occasionally while browsing the web I come across some cool project or library that does something I’d never thou...

THINK Marketing - The 1 essential for building strong customer relationships

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ibm.com - Social media writers have a lot of hopes for their accounts. They hope that they’ll rack up followers. They hope that their odd post will go viral. They hope that people will like what they post. W...

How to Broadcast With YouTube Live : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - YouTube Live will stream video from your webcam or desktop, letting you host webinars, broadcast vlogs, and more in real time. In this article, you’ll discover how to broadcast video using YouTube ...

7 Tips to Increase Conversions By Keeping Your Digital and Social Media Promises

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socialmediatoday.com - Is your marketing making promises that you can’t keep? Are your websites, blogs, social profiles, Instagram photos, tweets and Facebook updates over promising? Is your blog or website filled with s...

6 Brands Using Altered Reality in their Marketing Campaigns | SEJ

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searchenginejournal.com - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, often referred to together as Altered Reality, have started to really dominate the discussion when we talk about how the internet will be used and presented t...

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...

Humble Bundle comes out with an Artifex Mundi PC and Mobile Bundle - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - They say there’s no rest for the wicked, but that is certainly true of the good guys at Humble Bundle as well. They keep churning out these gaming bundles so you can spend your money and get games,...

Xiaomi releases invite for September 27, probably for the Mi 5S - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi hasn’t confirmed that there will be a Mi 5S, but it seems like it’s a foregone conclusion, especially now that they’ve sent out the press invitations for the launch of their new product. The...

WhatsApp now has mention feature for group chats - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Have you ever been in a group chat with friends or colleagues and you just stepped out for a few minutes and when you come back, 100+ unread messages? Now what if buried in those tons of messages w...

Samsung’s green battery icon “Android compatible” after all - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung’s battery explosion issue is not yet over. The replacement program is still ongoing and beginning September 28, sales will resume in South Korea. Other countries are expected to follow so e...

Moto Z and Moto Z Play up for pre-order on Best Buy, Amazon - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Moto Z is currently available in the United States from Verizon together with the Moto Z Force. The UK also has listed the phone for pre-order on Amazon UK this time together with the Moto Z Pl...

Yahoo Messenger now lets you send videos in your chats - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Yahoo Messenger is still alive. Yes, that sentence isn’t from the year 2000 and yes, it is true. Despite the recent Verizon Wireless buyout of for the Internet assets of Yahoo, some of their produc...

Nikon outs new line of Android-compatible action cameras - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - When it comes to action cameras, GoPRO is still the brand name to beat. But Nikon is no ordinary brand name as well. Although more popular for their “serious photography” cameras and digital SLRs, ...

How one man could have deleted any Facebook page – Naked Security

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Arun Sureshkumar has been added to Facebook’s wall of thanks and netted himself a cool $16,000 bug bounty for finding a zero-day vulnerability in Facebook Business Manager. Anyone with knowledge of...

My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”, Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and...

Codility.com: An Automated Tool for Assessment of Programming Skills - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. As per Mrs. Sobantka; Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. Codility is designed for software devel...

SpyderMate: A Suite of Five Unique and Powerful SEO Analysis Tools that Allows you to Manage any Number of Internet Marketing Campaigns Easy - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - SpyderMate is a suite of unique and powerful internet marketing tools structured to make managing any number of internet marketing campaigns easy. “SpyderMate” is a suite of five powerful SEO analy...

CareerSonar a Social Job Discovery - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co interviewed Mr. ‘Aviram Ben Moshe'; Co-founder & CTO at the US (NY)based start-up “CareerSonar”. “CareerSonar” ranks all jobs available online by the strength of your inside connection...

EzyOnlineBookings.com: An Online Booking System that Allows Businesses to Take Appointment Bookings Right on their Existing Website - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online booking system that allows businesses to take appointment bookings right on their existing website. According to Mr. ‘Gol'; EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online boo...

Adlet: Advertising Platform for Bloggers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Ms. “Emma Coles”, CEO of the UK-based start-up “adlet.co” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Adlet is an online advert...

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...

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...

TheVegasHookUp : Profile Filtering System - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Jamie Brewster”, Founder and CEO of the Oakland – USA based start-up “TheVegasHookUp” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that...

Classified Post : Online Classfied Ad Website - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Robbie Alvarez”, CEO of the US based start-up “The Classified Post” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1-What is it exactly that you do and what your...

Glass Biospheres Add Artistic Flare To Amazon’s New Seattle Campus - Our Explorers

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ourexplorers.com - Back in 2013, architecture firm NBBJ revealed their plans for a unique feature to be added to Amazon’s Seattle campus: three biosphere domes that would house plant life. Recent photos have captured...

Apple Delivers macOS Sierra - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Somewhat lost in all the excitement around Apple’s other hardware and software updates this month is macOS Sierra, which begins shipping today as a free upgrade for all Macs introduced since late 2...

How to: Avoid Word Vector Hysteria & Trend Surfing Idiocy - Portent

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portent.com - There’s suddenly a lot of discussion (aka freaking out) about Rankbrain and word vectors. I could dwell on the fact that the recent spate of articles followed some excellent MozCon discussions on t...

How to stay on top of marketing and sales news and tips

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susansolovic.com - We complain a lot about information overload today, but when you make your living selling, you need all the high-quality marketing and sales news and tips you can get. Fortunately, with easy access...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...