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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Google’s Allo app lets you send extra-secure ‘incognito’ messages

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washingtonpost.com - (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP) Google started offering users end-to-end encryption for the first time Wednesday with its new Allo instant-messaging app. The move makes Google the latest company to follow...

Bill Gates should buy Twitter. And make it a public utility. – Progress through sharing.

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medium.com - Twitter’s current market cap is only $13 Billion. Annual charitable giving in the US is $350Billion. The Gates foundation will give $40–50 Billion alone over the next period of years. And Microsoft...

Free Speech on Political Views in the Workplace: Maybe, Maybe Not

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itbusinessedge.com - 5 Tips for Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce In a post last month, I shared some tips for managing political tensions in the workplace from a human resources perspective. But with just eight ...

RYOT Bringing VR News and Comedy Shows to Hulu - VRScout

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vrscout.com - The two made for VR series will be coming to the Hulu VR app this Fall. HuffPost RYOT has created a new slate of VR shows, set to launch this fall on the Hulu VR app for Oculus Rift and Samsung Gea...

Google Pixel phones tipped to barely have water resistance - SlashGear

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slashgear.com - Our smartphones these days have become part and parcel of our lives to the point that we bring them with us anywhere and everywhere. That runs the risk of exposing them to elements, so consumers ha...

6 iPhone Accessories That Will Turn You Into A Power User Immediately

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brobible.com - Bros, if you’re like me and tend to click on a bunch of ‘MUST HAVE iPhone Accessories’ articles then you’ll notice that over time, across a thousand websites, all of the lists tend to look the same...

SearchCap: Google app deep links, AMP reports & the Possum update

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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 will show AMP URLs before App deep link URLs in mobil...

Weebly updates its website builder with a focus on e-commerce and marketing

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techcrunch.com - Weebly launched a new version of its platform today. While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to build my own website), CEO David Rusenko said that with...

InfluxData closes $16 million Series B led by Battery Ventures to organize IOT data

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techcrunch.com - Imagine for a moment that you’re riding in one of John Zimmer’s proposed autonomous sleeper cars and you’re fast asleep on a road trip across the state. All of the sensors on the vehicle are collec...

App Developers: It’s Time to Focus on Retention Strategies (Report)

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adweek.com - Retention is one of the biggest challenges facing mobile application developers today. In many cases, apps hemorrhage users within the first few days of downloading, and when new users are necessar...

Facebook Announces Several Measurement Products, Integrations

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adweek.com - Measure this: Facebook Wednesday announced a host of new products and integrations with its measurement partners. The social network announced the following new products or integrations: Nielsen Ca...

Man airdrops all iPhone 7 demo photos from an Apple Store and here they are

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mashable.com - Remember all those beautiful photos taken on the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus that Apple showed during its September keynote? Turns out, the company has many more photos and videos it uses for sh...

Jason Calacanis on the new Inside.com, the state of the media and what's interesting to investors

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mashable.com - Jason Calacanis, who sold his company Weblogs to AOL for $30 million in 2005 and was an early investor in Uber and other tech startups, said he doesn't need to work again. But as a serial entrepre...

7 reasons why you shouldn't update your iPhone to iOS 10

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mashable.com - iOS 10, like every new release of Apple's mobile operating system, is a compelling update that's full of new features, including a beefed up Messages app, redesigned Apple Music and Maps apps, rich...

Apple reveals 50MW solar plant in Arizona

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pv-tech.org - The Cupertino, California-based tech conglomerate has kept quiet about the project until now. Source: Flickr/Marco Paköeningrat Apple has unveiled a new 50MW solar plant in Florence, Arizona, in co...

Introducing, The NoPhone Air.

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thenophone.com - Introducing the NoPhone Air, the first NoPhone that is no phone at all. When you open the NoPhone Air packaging, it looks like there is nothing inside. With absolutely no features, the NoPhone Air ...

Hackers take Remote Control of Tesla's Brakes and Door locks from 12 Miles Away

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thehackernews.com - Next time when you find yourself hooked up behind the wheel, make sure your car is actually in your control. Hackers can remotely hijack your car and even control its brakes from 12 miles away. Car...

Netflix wants 50% of its library to be original content

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techcrunch.com - Netflix is looking to shift its content mix even further towards original TV and movies, with a goal of achieving a 50 percent mix between its own programming and stuff licensed for its use by outs...

Flickr is shutting down Marketplace, its commercial photo licensing program

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techcrunch.com - Two years ago Flickr rolled out Marketplace, a photo licensing service that was meant to help Flickr users get paid by big websites and media properties who wanted to use that user’s photos. As of ...

To make good VR, you need good VR content. Z Cam is eager to help

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techcrunch.com - Freshly launched at Photokina, Z Cam just launched its S1 camera. Aimed at the VR crowd, the camera captures four perfectly synchronized 4K streams for high-end 360 video recording. With the new ca...

Nucleus raises $5.6M in Series A funding led by Amazon’s Alexa fund

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techcrunch.com - Nucleus, the home intercom system which started shipping in August, has closed $5.6M in Series A Funding. The round was led by Amazon’s Alexa fund, which invests in promising startups that incorpor...

Michael Kors lends its name to a gold-colored Fujifilm instant camera

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techcrunch.com - Slowly but surely Michael Kors is becoming a technology brand. The company recently lent its name to an Android smartwatch. I tried it out. It was, I don’t know, fine I guess. But mostly it was rea...

With Kúla Bebe, any smartphone is a 3D camera

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techcrunch.com - If you spotted the iPhone 7 Plus launch and hung your head in sadness because the dual lenses weren’t for 3D photography, Kúla‘s new Bebe might be the solution you’re looking for. The product split...

Twitter’s new transparency report is disclosure done right

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techcrunch.com - It’s common practice these days for companies that hold significant amounts of user data to publish transparency reports. Google, Facebook, Dropbox and Slack all put out their numbers on a regular ...

The Oculus Touch motion controllers will cost many moneys

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techcrunch.com - Oculus is just months away from releasing the Touch controllers and we now have a better idea of just how much they’ll hurt your wallet. A GAME store display revealed that the launch price of the c...

Aria Systems launches automotive recurring revenue platform

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techcrunch.com - Aria Systems is bringing together the chocolate of usage- and subscription-based revenue opportunities with the peanut butter of increasingly connected automotive systems. The resulting candy (to c...

Former Battlefield finalist Photomath’s app can now solve your handwritten math problems

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techcrunch.com - Learning any new subject can be challenging — for many students, that subject is math. Fortunately, Photomath is here to help. Photomath, a finalist in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Europe 201...

Exclusive: This company has the perfect cure for streaming video

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digitaltrends.com - You’re watching Game of Thrones on Sunday night on HBO Go – or trying to anyway. The stream sputters, the audio drops out, it freezes for a few seconds, before the app ultimately crashes. Wait seve...

Forget the Celebs, Reach Out to Hyperlocal Influencers Instead

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marketingprofs.com - Who do you look to on social media when you want advice about a potential purchase? Sure, the Kardashians of the world have the ability to influence people's purchases across the globe, but those k...

Stop touting the crazy hours you work. It helps no one.

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washingtonpost.com - Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2014. (LAURENT GILLIERON/EPA) As Labor Day approaches, and a single day of rest from all the hour...

Venturi and The Ohio State University set new electric land speed record

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arstechnica.com - We spoke to team leader David Cooke last Thursday, when the team was bedding in the car and getting ready for the record attempt. "We're ready to go fast," Cooke told Ars, despite the fact that the...

Battle.net’s name is changing—just in time for its 20th anniversary

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arstechnica.com - If you've touched PC gaming over the last two decades, chances are good that you've logged into the Battle.net service at least once. Blizzard Entertainment's hugely popular online-gaming network h...

The Blogger's Guide To Landing Page Optimization: Best Practice Tips To Get You Started

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bloggingwizard.com - Starting a new blog is so dang exciting. You have endless themes to choose from, social sharing buttons to decide on and oh, the fun of writing your very first blog post. But when the excitement we...

A Quick Guide to Social Chat Channels for Businesses | Cision

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cision.com - Recent updates to Facebook Messenger and Twitter DMs have renewed interest in social chat for customer communication, yet this is a medium that has been productive for communications professionals ...

Essential Web Skills Every Modern Entrepreneur Must Have

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entrepreneur.com - Everyone and their great-grandmother has heard of the internet. It’s lowered the barrier to entry for entrepreneurs worldwide. It’s also leveled the playing field where your target audience can be ...

Build Your Own Robots and Quadcopters With These Ingenious Bricks

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wired.com - If you’re interested in building your own ASIMO, you’ve got to start somewhere. Kinematics’ modular TinkerBots provide a very great jumping-off point, letting you quickly assemble and program your ...

5 Outstanding Marketing Campaigns You Can Run Without a Developer

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blog.wishpond.com - When most marketers hear “email marketing automation”, they think about sending triggered emails to their leads and customers. However, there’s another often-overlooked use for email marketing auto...

How to Increase the Facebook Visibility of Your Local Business : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you have a Facebook page for your local business? Are you looking for ways to reach your customers on Facebook? Because your audience is naturally limited by the area you serve, local marketing ...

T-Mobile and Verizon start selling “safe” Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Sales of the Galaxy Note 7 may have been halted only a few days after its official launch in key markets but in South Korea, the tech giant will begin selling the smartphone on September 28. We had...

Comcast to launch Wi-Fi mobile phone service in 2017 - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Because there has been a major shift from watching terrestrial and digital television to online and on-demand video streaming, those who are in the business of the former now have to look for addit...

iPanel offers fast access to launching fave apps, switching settings - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - App launchers are very popular these days. We’ve lost count of how many related apps we’ve featured already but one thing is for sure: all of them are pretty useful. We’ve probably tried dozens wit...

Mozilla Firefox browser updated with offline page viewing, reader mode - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Mozilla has just released another version of Firefox. Your web browser is about to be updated whether you’re on your Android mobile device, tablet, or desktop. The last update we featured that roll...

Galaxy Note 7 software update finally adds the battery level safety indicator - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung is very much busy these days, no thanks to the battery explosion issue that’s being reported worldwide. Not all Note 7 early adopters have encountered any problem but to be safe and sure, t...

How one man could have deleted any Facebook page

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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...

The 1999 Handset That Finally Made Cellphones Cool

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slate.com - Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images; Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images; Yuya Shino/Getty Images for Tokyo Game Show; Discostu/Wikimedia Commons. It was 1997, and cellu...

Everything You Need to Know About Twitter's New Update

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inc.com - What do the new changes to Twitter's 140-word character limit mean for the company's prospects and its strategy going forward? My Inc.com colleague Salvador Rodriguez has you covered. But what if y...

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...

Pushstartr : Database Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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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...

SpareFoot.com: The World's Largest Marketplace for Self-Storage - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solution for locating storage facilities, comparing prices, and booking storage units online. According to Mr. ‘Betts'; Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solut...

PrayerSpark : The First And Only Site For Interfaith Spiritually - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Michael Feder”, Founder of the Las Vegas – USA based startup “PrayerSpark” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...