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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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Sneak Peak at Our First Product Release: Blockmarket M1

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medium.com - As we announced just a few days ago the team behind the Syscoin project has formed an official company entity, Blockchain Foundry. That company will be used for a host of purposes, including ongoin...

How to Promote Your eBook With Social Media : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Want tips to promote your ebooks via social media? Social media can help you build visibility and generate leads with ebooks. In this article you’ll discover six ways to promote your ebook on socia...

Windows 10 Market Share Reaches 23% in August, Windows 7 Remains Flat - Petri

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petri.com - Microsoft released Windows 10 a little over a year ago, and the OS has quickly been adopted by users around the world. While the company said that there are over 350 million users of the operating ...

Pinterest brings on a new head of engineering who specializes in image search

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techcrunch.com - Pinterest said it has hired Li Fan, the former head of image search at Google, as the company’s new head of engineering. Much of Pinterest’s most promising technology involves searching for objects...

Instagram is killing photo maps

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mashable.com - The photo-sharing app has begun to kill its photo map feature, with some users already seeing the option removed when visiting other profiles. Instagram confirmed the changes to Mashable on Tuesda...

5 questions we have before Sony's big PlayStation event

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mashable.com - Sony executives and developers will take the stage Wednesday in New York for an ambiguously titled "PlayStation Meeting." But despite the obtuse title, we know a bit of what's being discussed, than...

Guess what? Any phone could explode, not just Samsung's Galaxy Note7.

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mashable.com - Just when the company launches its Galaxy Note7, its best smartphone ever — one that I called the best smartphone on the planet — reports of devices exploding have forced the company to halt produc...

50 dope Instagram pictures from Burning Man 2016

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mashable.com - Burning Man, a yearly gathering of 70,000 festive folks in Nevada's Black Rock Desert that celebrates art, inclusion and community, has concluded for 2016. However, it's just beginning for those wh...

LG V20 first look: trading hype for maturity

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androidcommunity.com - Dual curved edge screens. Modular components. USB-C only port. There are just some of the growing fads around smartphones these days, and almost each new smartphone this year, including LG’s own G5...

“Capture the Wow of Now” video highlights no-blur of new Sony devices

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androidcommunity.com - Sony did not exactly surprise anyone when it dropped their new smartphones, the Xperia XZ and the smaller Xperia X Compact, during the recent IFA 2016. Leaks and rumors were going around the past f...

4 Productivity Lessons You Can Learn from Mark Zuckerberg - Joel Comm - New York Times Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Social Influencer, Futurist

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joelcomm.com - Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck sweater was famous. Mark Zuckerberg has his own uniform of grey T-shirt and hoodie. Both built enormous companies that made them billionaires. But you have to think the...

Volvo and Autoliv launch joint venture to create self-driving software

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techcrunch.com - Yet another partnership has been forged to help usher in the era of self-driving software: This time, it’s Volvo, which announced (via Reuters) a joint venture with Swedish-American car safety syst...

7 Instagram Features Your Brand Should Know | Sprout Social

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sproutsocial.com - For some businesses, it’s hard to stay up to date on the latest Instagram features. Social networks are changing all the time. By the time you get comfortable, an update occurs and changes your soc...

About.com launches The Balance, a personal finance website for everyone

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techcrunch.com - In a quest to dismantle itself and become more relevant in the 21st Century, IAC-owned About.com is launching another standalone vertical in the form of The Balance, a personal finance website tail...

Besties IBM and Box create a workflow tool for regular folks

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techcrunch.com - When Box praised its partnership with IBM at its earnings call last week, it was holding one card close the vest. The two companies had been working on a new workflow tool, and today they announced...

Yelp invites hackers to expose vulnerabilities through bug bounty program

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techcrunch.com - Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world’s hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in search of vulnerabilities that could affect reviewers and businesses. Yelp...

Lost in translation: Streaming in China

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techcrunch.com - The rapid growth of streaming is taking the globe by storm, but no country seems to have the market potential for OTT video streaming quite like China. While the United States OTT market is beginni...

The Coros Linx is a smart bike helmet that makes sense

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techcrunch.com - While cycling apps are thick on the ground, a full gadget ecosystem is hard to come by. Seattle startup Coros is looking to change that with the Linx, a helmet-app combo (with handlebar controller)...

What to expect at Apple’s iPhone press conference

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techcrunch.com - Apple is about to unveil its lineup of new products tomorrow in San Francisco. Rumor has it that Apple is introducing the iPhone 7, the iPhone 7 Plus and the Apple Watch 2. The company will also ta...

Intel buys computer vision startup Movidius as it looks to build up its RealSense platform

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techcrunch.com - Intel’s RealSense platform was the star of its Intel Developer’s Forum conference in San Francisco last month and it seems the company is only looking to grow the scale and capabilities of its comp...

Michael Kors brings really, really big design to Android Wear

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techcrunch.com - At their heart, most smartwatches really aren’t all that far removed from those calculator watches from the 80s. The height of geek chic. Big and bulky pronouncements to world that the wearer is un...

Xiaomi’s Android set-top box to launch as soon as October for less than $100

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techcrunch.com - There’s much anticipation about Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s long-awaited entry into the U.S. market. And we don’t have long to wait. Kinda. TechCrunch understands that Xiaomi will begin sel...

Feds pin brazen kernel.org intrusion on 27-year-old programmer

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arstechnica.com - In August 2011, multiple servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel were infected with malware that gave an unknown intruder almost unfettered access. Earlier this we...

Hands on with the LG V20—a big improvement over the LG G5

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arstechnica.com - The specs are about what you would expect for a 2016 flagship: a Snapdragon 820, 4GB of RAM, a 3200mAh battery, and a 5.7-inch, 2560x1440 IPS LCD. The V20's big eyecatcher is the always-on second s...

How to Conduct Remote Usability Testing

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webdesign.tutsplus.com - In the previous article we talked about what “Remote Usability Testing” is, and covered the pros and cons. In this article I’ll give you some practical advice for carrying out your own remote usabi...

4 Easy and Effective Email Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

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smallbusinesspr.com - Email marketing allows you to reach a highly targeted audience at a low cost. In fact, experts at Campaign Monitor, an email marketing company, estimate that an effective email marketing message ha...

Hyundai Merges Apps, Ensuring Comprehensive Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Brands are searching for ways to offer consumers a truly connected experience. This kind of seamless CX often comes by way of a sophisticated mobile app; a smartphone experience that gives customer...

JobQuotes : Connect Consumers With Local Professionals For Any Project - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Brandon Large”, CEO & Founder of the Aliso Viejo, USA based start-up “JobQuotes” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

Airwalk Design : Pinterest For Designers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Daniel Schwarz'; Founder & CEO of the London-based start-up “Airwalk Design”. Below, is the full interview that we have con...

Fanaka : Automates Sales, Projects and Accounting - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Michael Mbugua”, Founder and CEO at the Nairobi, Kenya based start-up “Fanaka-Hybrid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that y...

AppAppeal.com: Finding Web Apps Made Easy! - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - AppAppeal reviews and compares web applications to help people find the best web app for their needs. Our quality reviews are comprehensive, objective, and created by professional writers. We do no...

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...

My Home Needs That : Search Engine Dedicated to Furniture and Homeware - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Adam Pilling”, Foundert at the London – UK based start-up “MyHomeNeedsThat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and...

Report: 32 percent of global page views now impacted by ad blocking

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marketingland.com - While some in the industry are alarmed by ad blocking others dismiss it as overblown, it continues to grow. The latest evidence comes from Blockmetry, a company started by former Googler Pierre Far...

How Much Money Does It Take to Start an Online Business? - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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smartpassiveincome.com - It wasn’t until 2010, two full years after my initial small investments, when I spent a bit more money for one of the best investments you can make in your business: building an email list. The Ema...

Google Claims Hours More Battery Life with Chrome for Windows - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Google has provided a new battery life comparison that shows that the latest version of its Chrome web browser for Windows obtains about two hours of additional battery life on the same hardware wh...

Microsoft Announces Clubs and Looking for Group (LFG) Previews for Xbox Live - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that it is rolling out Clubs and Looking for Group (LFG) to Preview members on Xbox One and the Xbox app for Windows 10. These features were previously announced at E3, al...

Celebutante-Turned-Entrepreneur Paris Hilton Is a Self-Proclaimed 'Techie'

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adweek.com - Specs Age 35 Claim to fame Recording artist and DJ; businesswoman (her name is on more than 50 boutiques, a resort, and fashion, accessories and fragrance lines); former star of The Simple Life on ...

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 #...

Pop! Slots Was August’s Top Trending Android Game in the U.S.

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adweek.com - Digital market intelligence company SimilarWeb revealed the 10 fastest-growing Android games in the U.S. in August. SimilarWeb determined the top 10 games by looking at both the percentage of insta...

The gimmicky LG V20 is the first Android Nougat smartphone

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mashable.com - Like Samsung, LG releases its flagship line of phones in the spring and a weirder, but still high-end, phone in the fall. The second model acts as a kind of testing ground for more cutting-edge tec...

Microsoft Seizes SaaS Lead From Salesforce - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Early SaaS adopters bought Salesforce applications. Latter-day salesforce automation implementers are buying Microsoft applications as cloud services. That means Microsoft in the second quarter of ...

FIR #51: A real plastic influencer - FIR Podcast Network

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firpodcastnetwork.com - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:40:50 — 41.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Today’s panel features Jen McClure, who founded the Society for New Communication resea...

Remember to market to your own influencer network - Biznology

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biznology.com - I really love influencer marketing. Too much. So much, in fact, that I often forget to do the sales and business development work required to keep Gerris Corp moving forward. An army runs on its st...

Kim Dotcom’s Bitcache Can Work as a Bitcoin-Powered Affiliate Program for Content Creators

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bitcoinmagazine.com - Kim Dotcom, the notorious internet entrepreneur and Megaupload founder, has been building hype for the relaunch of his file-sharing website on Twitter and various media outlets over the past few we...

Hacked BitcoinTalk.org User Data Goes Up For Sale On Dark Web - CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News

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cryptocoinsnews.com - An opportunist using the name “DoubleFlag” has put the recently hacked BitcoinTalk.org’s database for sale on the dark web, according to Hackread. The same seller has also offered 68 million hacked...

The Stolen DAO Funds Are On the Move - CoinDesk

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coindesk.com - More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move. Identified via an analysis of the ethereum classic blockchain, the finding comes courtesy of data analy...

Taking a Look Under the Hood: 31 Popular Marketing Tags That Give You Greater Customer Insight

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instapage.com - From the outside it looks shiny, it runs smoothly, and it gets you where you need to be. Step on the gas pedal to go. Spin the steering wheel to turn. Push the brake to stop. Pop open the hood and ...

DJI Releasing New 'Mavic' Quadcopter

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heliguy.com - There’s never a dull moment with DJI and it looks as though another announcement from the Chinese drone giant is imminent. August 15th 2016 saw DJI trademark the name ‘Mavic’. The description of th...

Facebook vs. Instagram: Which Is a Better Fit for Your Marketing Efforts?

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adweek.com - You may already be aware of the fact that Facebook owns Instagram. The fact that the world’s largest social media platform is Instagram’s parent company has caused some marketers to view them as a ...