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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

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3 Powerful Strategies for Delivering Your Best Social Media

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pegfitzpatrick.com - Random acts of social media getting you nowhere? Your lack of strategy and planning could be keeping you from social media success and growth of your social platform. I’m going to share three power...

PB153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger

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problogger.com - Hey there, it’s Darren from ProBlogger and welcome to Episode 153 of the ProBlogger Podcast where today I want to talk a little bit more about my income streams. Back in Episode 150, I outlined in ...

Windows 10 Redstone 2: Edge Gets New Security Features To Combat Malicious Websites - Petri

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petri.com - With the release of Window 10, Microsoft introduced a new browser called Edge. As the successor to IE, the browser stripped away legacy code in favor of a modern environment that the company hoped ...

BlackBerry DTEK60 “Argon” exists, seen at FCC, Wi-Fi Alliance

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slashgear.com - Barely a week ago, we saw signs that BlackBerry’s once rumored “Argon” Android smartphone was actually still on track to be launched. In fact, it would be formally named as the DTEK60, after the DT...

Microsoft Extends Its Security Layer To Office 365 - Petri

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petri.com - It seems we can’t go a week without a major data breach occurring; from Yahoo! losing data to over 500 million accounts to point-of-sale systems being compromised. Data, security, and software are ...

Apple is reportedly working on new sleep and fitness apps for the Apple Watch

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mashable.com - Apple is reportedly getting ready to launch two new Apple Watch apps. One is centered around sleep tracking, and the other uses heart rate information to assess fitness levels, according to a new ...

Snapchat says it's a camera company with more TV-like content to come

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mashable.com - Snapchat is hoping for more advertisers to appear. The company, now known as Snap Inc., is looking to convince advertisers and marketers of its value, positioning itself as stronger than other dig...

Virtual reality ads are in high demand -- when done right

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mashable.com - The digital ad industry's biggest trade group says consumers want to see more commercials they can immerse themselves within — as long as they're done right. A new report from the Interactive Adver...

If Google buys Twitter, there’s a perfect spot for it in YouTube

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techcrunch.com - If you combined the fastest and slowest types of social media, the result could be both must-see and never-forgotten. YouTube lacks short-form, frequently updated content, but is synonymous with vi...

SearchCap: Google cross-device retargeting, science datasets & JavaScript SEO

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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. Cross-device remarketing for signed-in users will roll out over the next few months. ...

Millennials Aren’t Shopping on Social Media (Infographic)

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adweek.com - Marketers and retailers have been trying to push social commerce on social media users. Many see it as the next wave for social marketing, as it allows connection with customers, increased opportun...

Tonight: Virtual Democracy Plaza - Join a Debate Watch Party - VR Voice

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vrvoice.co - Tonight: Virtual Democracy Plaza – Join a Debate Watch Party In the lead up to presidential elections, NBC News transforms Rockefeller Center into Democracy Plaza — an interactive celebration of Am...

Ad blocking usage is up more than 10 percent from last year

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mashable.com - Publisher malaise towards ad blockers doesn't seem to have lessened consumer appetites for downloading them. Ad blocking usage jumped 11 percent in the past year, according to a new report from Ado...

Donald Trump is not deleting tweets, despite claims to the contrary

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mashable.com - A good story tends to burn up the internet, regardless of its veracity. During Monday's presidential debate, word spread quickly that tweets were being deleted from Donald Trump's Twitter account....

Microsoft Has a Whole New Kind of Computer Chip---and It'll Change Everything

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wired.com - It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future. Ballmer, the big, bald, boisterous CEO of Microsoft, sat in the lecture room on the groun...

Microsoft Partners with Adobe on Dynamics 365 - Petri

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petri.com - Microsoft announced today that it will make Adobe Marketing Cloud the preferred marketing service for its Dynamics 365 Enterprise offering. The new partnership will give customers a powerful, compr...

Why Your Smartphone Is a Massive Threat to Your Company's Security

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inc.com - Information security is hard. Complete security is not just virtually implausible--it is pretty close to impossible. Enter BYOD--Bring Your Own Device--and the almost, practically, nearly impossibl...

Hofstra bans private Wi-Fi, charges $200 for network connectivity during debate

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techcrunch.com - In an exciting bit of pre-debate frisson, journalists covering the presidential debate at Hofstra University are now Tweet they have to pay $200 for Wi-Fi access on site and, more importantly, the ...

Microsoft pushes its three pillars at Ignite—security, intelligence, and cloud

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arstechnica.com - ATLANTA—At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President for Cloud and Enterprise, explained that the company wants IT professionals to feel empowered and digital...

Windows Server 2016 will come with commercial support for Docker Engine

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft loves to talk about how we are now living in a “cloud first, mobile first” world, but in this world, there is still plenty of room left for Windows Server. Today, at its Ignite conference...

Microsoft signs up Adobe for its Azure cloud computing services

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft and Adobe today announced a major partnership that will see Adobe deliver its cloud services on Microsoft Azure and that will make Adobe the preferred marketing service for Microsoft’s Dy...

Microsoft brings new AI-powered features to Office 365 and Dynamics 365

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft’s Ignite conference is bringing 23,000 IT professionals to Atlanta, Georgia this week and the company is using this opportunity to talk about how it plans to bring more intelligence to it...

Lenovo’s gutting of Motorola is nearly complete

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techcrunch.com - My first cell phone was a Sanyo. But only because I couldn’t afford a Motorola. I wanted a StarTAC. All the cool kids had a StarTAC. My Sanyo said loud and clear I was not a cool kid. Sometime late...

ColorTV launches its content recommendations on Apple TV, Android TV and more

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techcrunch.com - ColorTV is an SDK for marketers and developers to analyze the shows you watch and provide content recommendations within the same vein. Raising $1.5 million in seed funding from Foxconn earlier thi...

HERE’s new traffic services will bring together live data from millions of cars

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techcrunch.com - Crowdsourcing live traffic data has been one of Waze’s key competitive advantages in navigation software for a while, but Germany’s HERE might give it a run for its money with new services that pul...

Microsoft makes its Edge browser safer for the enterprise

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techcrunch.com - At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced that it is making its Edge browser more secure in enterprise environments. As Microsoft explained during a press conference ahead of the event, t...

Biz Stone on the future of search

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techcrunch.com - Elisa Schreiber is the marketing partner at Greylock Partners and the producer of the Greymatter video series. Technology is transforming the way people connect; not just to each other but to techn...

Movie pirate? Don’t trust Plex Cloud

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techcrunch.com - Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big...

Driverless highway from Vancouver to Seattle proposed

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cbc.ca - Vancouver and Seattle should be connected by a driverless highway, according to some high-tech entrepreneurs. The proposal, which involves dedicating at least one lane on the I-5 from Seattle to Hi...

Branson, Zuckerberg, Trump and More: How The World's Top CEOs Construct Their Online Brands

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inc.com - Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page has more than 80 million followers. If you follow him you'll be the latest to hear about his recent travels, diseases he's trying to cure and his political opinions ...

RIAA takes on stream-ripping in copyright lawsuit targeting YouTube-mp3

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arstechnica.com - The Recording Industry Association of America, the British Recorded Music Industry, and other industry lobbyists have sued one of the world's leading websites. They say that Youtube-mp3.org facilit...

Amazon fined $84,000 for shipping li-ion batteries by air

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arstechnica.com - Amazon UK Services Ltd has been fined £65,000 for attempting to ship dangerous goods on passenger planes, including lithium-ion batteries and aerosols. The retailer was found during sentencing at S...

Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe

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arstechnica.com - ATLANTA—Microsoft has announced that the next major update to Windows 10 will run its Edge browser in a lightweight virtual machine. Running the update in a virtual machine will make exploiting the...

Microsoft, Adobe ink cloud partnership

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arstechnica.com - ATLANTA—Microsoft and Adobe announced today a new partnership that will see the two companies use and promote each other's cloud services. Under the new partnership, Adobe will be using Azure for i...

Growth Hacking Case Study - 92,600 visitors in 7 days: how we crashed our client's servers riding the pokemon go superwave

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rainmakers.io - Like most progressive growth teams, we’re always on the lookout for different content types and angles to pull in traffic and drive conversions for our clients. One of our weekly brainstorms brough...

How to Choose the Best Ecommerce Platform for SEO (August 2016)

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ecommerce-platforms.com - Why is SEO Important for Ecommerce? Well, 44% of every online purchase begins with an online search (IPSOS 2012). Making sure that your products can be found easily on search engines such as Google...

5 Ways to use Direct Messages for Better Customer Service and Engagement on Twitter

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Reg Saddler




socialmediatoday.com - Over the last couple of years, Twitter has been working on making their Direct Messaging experience richer for users. Their latest move on this front came earlier this month, when they announced th...

5 Tips for Making Your Brand More Discoverable on Instagram

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socialmediatoday.com - Instagram has exploded in popularity since it first launched in 2010. Now with more than 500 million monthly active users, including both consumers and businesses, some 70 million photos are shared...

Oculus Founder: Cables To Be Major Obstacle In VR Industry For A Long Time

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techcrunch.com - It might sound obvious, but if you’re hoping that mom will want to hop into virtual reality while you make her drag around a bunch of ugly ass (and dangerous) wires, it probably won’t happen. That’...

FIFA 17 Companion app now available to help manage your Ultimate Team - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Playing sports games in this day and age is not as simple as you just playing as your favorite athlete or even as your favorite team. There are fantasy teams, leagues, tournaments, and all other ad...

Samsung Galaxy C9 listed on Geekbench and AnTuTu - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - This is the year of the 7’s for Samsung. The company even skipped the Galaxy Note 6 so it can align the S and Note series. Unfortunately, that seemed like bad luck because the Note 7 is not exactly...

Bing AMPs up mobile experience with quick-loading pages - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We don’t know how many of you use Bing but we know some people who prefer it over Google. For whatever reason, the Bing App is preferred perhaps because of the kind of search results it shows. It w...

Huawei Nexus tablet, new Pixel laptop may launch with Andromeda hybrid OS - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve only been talking about Andromeda, Google’s rumored new OS which is reportedly a mash-up between Android and Chrome OS, for a short while, but here are new confirmations from sources about th...

HTC 10 Desire lineup focusing on markets outside the US, Canada - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The announcement of HTC’s new mid-range line-up, the Desire 10 devices, sparked some interest in the brand’s two new smartphones. But if you live in Canada and you’re just waiting for the day when ...

Fuji revamps instax smartphone printer - Amateur Photographer

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amateurphotographer.co.uk - Fujifilm claims the instax Share Smartphone printer SP-2 delivers higher resolution prints (320dpi) and better contrast. New features include a faster printing time of 10 seconds, and new filters a...

Passport to CX: Engaging Customers in Travel & Entertainment

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engagementexpo.com - Passport to CX: Engaging Customers in Travel & Entertainment Perhaps no industry is undergoing more change in customer loyalty than travel & entertainment. Thanks to increasingly accessible in-home...

iOS 10: What it means for email marketing

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loyalty360.org - With the recent release of iOS 10 comes a new “feature” to the native mail app – a grey bar at the top of every email that tells consumers if an email message is from a mailing list, with a link to...

Five Loyalty Lessons From Pokémon Go

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loyalty360.org - Niantic and Nintendo’s Pokémon Go hasn’t even finished rolling out internationally yet, but already it is making a significant impact on consumers and brands. In just a matter of weeks, the augment...

Customer Experience Once Again Crucial to Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Not so long ago, brands held an enormous amount of power over consumers. Loyalty (if you could call it that) was based largely on the product offered and the scarcity of options in the sector. Than...

Is Customer Loyalty Down at Samsung Following Galaxy Note7 Recall?

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loyalty360.org - That is the question. Will Samsung take a hit in the customer loyalty/customer confidence department after the Galaxy Note7 recall? According to a new survey from Branding Brand, a leading mobile e...