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Saturday, November 5, 2016

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Podesta Emails Reveal Clinton’s Inner Circle as Sex Cult with Connections to Human Trafficking

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dangerandplay.com - Clinton’s inner circle includes child traffickers, pedophiles, and now members of a “sex cult,” the recent Podesta emails from Wikileaks reveals. An email to John Podesta reads, “I am so looking fo...

Snapchat Marketing Excellence

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smedemy.com - Are you currently using Snapchat to get online traffic? If you’re like most marketers, you’re probably not using Snapchat, yet… Snapchat is taking the Internet by storm… It’s one of the fastest gro...

UK ISPs must now advertise broadband price with line rental included

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arstechnica.co.uk - Updated, October 31: Starting today, the ASA will start enforcing new broadband advertising rules. The new rules (detailed below) require fixed-line ISPs to advertise all-inclusive costs, including...

Marketing to Millennials Comes Down to 3 Simple Practices - Relevance

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relevance.com - Millennials are on the minds of almost everyone these days. Employers are trying to attract and retain them, political candidates are trying to win their votes, and marketers are, of course, trying...

The Secret to Retaining Top Talent at Your Company

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huffingtonpost.com - The fight for talent today is fierce. Every company out there is under extreme pressure to not only hire the best talent available, but to retain that talent. Companies are all looking for ways to ...

Do you own the software that runs your Tesla?

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latimes.com - When Tesla announced recently that it would make “full self-driving capability” available on new S and X models for a mere $3,000 extra, optimists hailed the development as a watershed moment for c...

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...

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...

Label 59: A Web-Based Application that Requires No Coding Skills and That Helps you to Label Anything Interactively on your Own in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Label 59 is a web application that helps you to label anything interactively on your own in minutes. It is ideal for creating engaging presentations that have interactive labels attached to them. “...

NES Mini teardowns have begun, chips identified

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arstechnica.com - Reviews and impressions of the NES Mini hardware began to circulate this week (including our own from yesterday). The next step, of course, is unscrewing of the nostalgic little box to see how it t...

The NFL is launching a virtual reality series on YouTube & Daydream

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techcrunch.com - The NFL and Google announced this week they’re teaming up on an exclusive virtual reality series that will give viewers a behind-the-scenes looking into NFL life – from “players, to coaches, to exe...

The Here One smart earbuds are the coolest gadget I’ve tried in a while

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techcrunch.com - I spend most of my days chatting with virtual/augmented reality companies, so the world of Black Mirror always seems a bit more imminent than it perhaps is. That being said, the future felt frighte...

Apple provides a soft(er) landing for MacBook Pro buyers with deep discounts on peripherals and dongles

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techcrunch.com - Apple is addressing the sudden and wide inexplicable fear of dongles driven by the MacBook Pro’s USB-C only approach with a store-wide discount on adapters. The price cut applies to a bunch of dong...

Google and Blizzard team up on a Starcraft made just for AIs

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techcrunch.com - AIs have more or less mastered chess, Go, and a number of other highly cerebral games — how will they do on something like StarCraft II, which combines high-level strategy with the need for quick r...

Now it’s Periscope cloning Snapchat with augmented selfie masks

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techcrunch.com - Periscope is following Snapchat and Facebook’s lead by creating its own animated augmented reality selfie masks. The first ones can make you look like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, and will be a...

Come see Boston Dynamics and its robots stomp on the Disrupt London stage

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techcrunch.com - If artificial intelligence will inevitably be a central part of how we will interact with machines and services in the future, then learning more about who is developing these new AI systems — and ...

Google brings RCS, the next-gen upgrade to SMS, to Android phones on Sprint

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techcrunch.com - As promised earlier this year, Google is bringing RCS – Rich Communications Service, an upgrade to the SMS standard – to Android devices. Its first carrier partner on the initiative is Sprint, whic...

Adobe’s Project VoCo lets you edit speech as easily as text

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techcrunch.com - Adobe today showed off a new experimental tool, Project VoCo, at its annual MAX conference in San Diego. Project VoCo lets you edit speech as easily as text — and you can’t just edit existing text,...

Microsoft brings back the traveling salesman with new WeWork partnership

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techcrunch.com - WeWork has long been a place for small startups and solo entrepreneurs to grab a desk and get to work, all with the flexibility of month-to-month payment. But today has signed on a rather huge clie...

The Powerbeats3 bring some nice upgrades for iPhone owners

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techcrunch.com - The Powerbeats3 don’t look all that different from their predecessors. There are a few tweaks here and there, mostly aimed at getting them to fit better. The primary distinction is tucked away insi...

Silicon Valley’s Guy Kawasaki becomes a Santa Cruz local

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santacruzsentinel.com - Here are Guy Kawasaki’s top 10 tips for social media: 1: Perfect your perspective. Think Tinder, Tinder, Tinder. 2: Perfect your profile. Your photo must convince people you are likable, trustworth...

21 Experts Share Their #1 Tip for Generating More Traffic to a Blog - PBNButler

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pbnbutler.com - Website: www.reginaldchan.net | Twitter: @Reginald_Chan “You have to determine the source of traffic you want to gain. For example, most bloggers and freelancers are very busy on a daily basis. Foc...

5 Social Media Tactics That Bring Results (And The Best Tools To Use) - Mirasee

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mirasee.com - Do you spend hours putting together a blog post only to see it die without any activity on social media? Are you a small team struggling to make an impact on the large landscape that is social medi...

FREE PLR Membership Site - Private Label And Resell Rights - Lifetime Access - Warrior Forum

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warriorforum.com - How would you like to have FREE instant access to valuable "private label rights" & "resell rights" products? Join the most popular PLR membership site on the web! Lifetime Free PLR Membership (cli...

What you need to remember when you're marketing across channels

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ibm.com - If marketers in the golden age of advertising looked so dapper and relaxed, it’s only because they had it so much easier. When it came to putting across a message, the choice they had to present to...

All the best stuff for web designers announced at Adobe MAX | Webdesigner Depot

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webdesignerdepot.com - We’re seeing a lot of interesting competition to Adobe apps these days, but that hasn’t slowed Adobe down at all. (Are you taking notes, Apple?) At this year’s Adobe MAX conference, Adobe has unvei...

8 Things You Can Do For Web Traffic This Weekend

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smedio.com - Your product or service is awesome and if you could just get more traffic, all would be right with the world? Well the truth is there are many factors that determine your success online. Generating...

Why the 4 Ps of Marketing Might Be Outdated

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inc.com - The 4 Ps of marketing, also known as the producer-oriented model, have been used by marketers around the world for decades. Created by Jerome McCarthy in 1960, the 4 Ps encourages a focus on Produc...

Windows 10 is getting a bunch of new features in the spring. Here are our 10 favorites

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wired.com - Microsoft is gearing up for a Windows refresh. The Windows 10 Creators Update will arrive on all Windows 10 devices for free in the spring of 2017. Today, Microsoft showed off all the new features ...

Forms Can Now Be Embedded in AMP Pages - Search Engine Journal

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searchenginejournal.com - The Accelerated Mobile Pages project announced this week it has launched support for forms in AMP HTML. Types of forms can range anywhere from a simple e-mail capture form, to interactive polls, to...

LinkedIn Launches New Salary Comparison Tool, Advances Data Collection Processes

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socialmediatoday.com - If you’re still wondering why Microsoft is handing over $26.2 billion to acquire LinkedIn, you’re not paying attention. Yes, LinkedIn is the home for your digital resume, a place where recruiters c...

How to block the ultrasonic signals you didn’t know were tracking you

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Reg Saddler





wired.com - Dystopian corporate surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer “always-on” devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to crea...

Android OS captures 88 percent of the mobile market last Q3 - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Android has hit new records the past Q3, beating Apple’s iOS and other available platforms. The Cupertino company reported a decline recently which meant some numbers went to Android. Google has ca...

New Samsung Gear S3 arriving this November 18, now up for pre-order - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve only been waiting for the new Gear S3 smartwatch from the South Korean tech giant. We’re looking closely at anything Samsung releases now because we’re very much interested in how the company...

Motorola pushing devs to create more Moto Mods, with crowdfunding via Indiegogo - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The execs at Motorola know they possibly have a very cool piece of technology with the Moto Mods feature found in the Moto Z family of smartphones. They already released a number of these mods made...

LeEco officially starts selling direct to US consumers, rebates galore - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We told you about LeEco recently, another aggressive China-based company that wants to invade the US market. LeEco, while otherwise unknown to most US consumers, has been a known quantity in China ...

The Secret to Loyalty Success in Today’s App Marketplace? User Retention

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loyalty360.org - It was only a few short years ago when the Holy Grail in the app space was solely user acquisition. If a developer could beat their chest about a healthy rise in the number of new users for their a...

Great Customer Experience Expectations: The Cost of Poor Cellphone Service

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loyalty360.org - In today’s buyers’ market, consumers now call the shots – and their expectations are high. Currently, a full 25% of consumers will now switch to another brand after just one bad experience, and by ...

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...

Mekiwi Oy : Finnish Startup To Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Antti Kananen”, CEO of the Finland based start-up “Mekiwi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-u...

Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can no...

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...

Fitnescity : Allows Users To Connect With Personal Trainers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Leila Zemrani”, Founder and CEO of the New York – US based start-up “Fitnescity” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...

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...

HireOwl : Connects Startups to Talented University Students for Internships - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “John Lidington”, Founder of the NY – United States based startup “HireOwl” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do a...

Microsoft Access now included in Office 365 Business and Business Premium with new enhancements - Office Blogs

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blogs.office.com - As businesses of all sizes come to realize the value of data analytics to inform decision-making, many are also discovering the need for database solutions like Microsoft Access to help collect, or...

6 Effective Ways to be Awesome at Customer Service

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lifehack.org - Even if you master every single digital marketing technique out there whether it be sales, copywriting, SEO, e-mail marketing, or the rest—they’re not worth a cent if you consistently drop the ball...

How This Ambitious 19-Year-Old Female CEO Started At 16

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lifehack.org - Yesterday was one of those days I felt entirely too old. I became acquainted with a female CEO who started her entrepreneurial journey at only 16 years old — while she was still in high school! Tod...

Why Planners Should Add Digital Place-Based Media to the Mix

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adweek.com - The media landscape is undergoing the greatest change since the advent of television. At its heart are consumers who are now enabled through technology and new over-the-top platforms—Netflix, Amazo...

10 Steps for Building a Converting Webpage

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lifehack.org - We all know that any business needs to have a great website, but how do you get traffic to your site? You need to have even greater landing pages. A landing page, or converting webpage, is what is ...