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Saturday, February 11, 2017

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Liberals Are Very Upset That Jeff Bezos And Amazon Are Standing By Ivanka Trump

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dailycaller.com - On Thursday, the Daily Dealer reported all the stores liberals are boycotting for selling products made by the First Daughter, Ivanka Trump. Activist group Grab Your Wallet wants to shut down the c...

Apple’s Double Standards Against Gab

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medium.com - Gab’s mission is to put people and free speech first. Gab believes in individual responsibility and empowering our users the tools to create and mold their own experience. We believe users are inte...

No More Old-School, On-Page SEO; 5 Tactics that Have to Shift

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moz.com - Friends and fellow SEOs, I just need a few minutes of your time. This is gonna be short and sweet. If you're optimizing a page to rank well for a keyword or set of keywords, you probably use some s...

Google coding champion whose Cameroon hometown is cut off from the internet - BBC News

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www.bbc.com - The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his cousins' house in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, because the government has cut...

Personal Branding 101: The Beginner's Playbook

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www.inc.com - By Kelly Gibbons, founder and managing partner of Main & Rose. The power of building your personal brand is phenomenal. I know this because I have devoted my career to creating an award-winning fir...

Valve is developing three full-length VR games in Unity and Source 2

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arstechnica.com - Setting aside Valve's VR mini-game collection The Lab, it's been over three years since the once mighty games developer released its last full-fat video game—the e-sports MOBA Dota 2. Its last sing...

Spark Spotlight: Courtney Hollar

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www.egnyte.com - At Egnyte the Spark is at the center of everything we do, including our logo. When it comes to our team, we see the Spark as the intersection of talents and passions that drive each and every emplo...

Activision Admits Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Failure - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - I’m not surprised that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare hasn’t met expectations. But people misunderstand Activision’s new direction for the series. And people who should know better, too. During a f...

Former judge wants to head patent office, says he’ll “Make Patents Great Again”

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arstechnica.com - Who'sthe director of the US Patent and Trademark Office at the moment? It's a tougher question to answer than you'd think. A patent blog that closely watches USPTO internal politics, IP Watchdog, r...

Bored with ho-hum cloud backups? Use Usenet (yes, Usenet!) instead

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arstechnica.com - Cloud backups these days are all the rage—for good reason. Rather than dealing with shuffling physical media offsite, you can simply backup the data offsite, where it can be stored in one or many p...

Hotel room photos could stop sex traffickers

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www.cnn.com - The idea is that law enforcement agencies can then check adverts featuring suspected trafficking victims in hotel rooms against TraffickCam's database of photos. Stand up to modern slavery on March...

Virally growing attacks on unpatched WordPress sites affects ~2m pages

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arstechnica.com - Attacks on websites running an outdated version of WordPress are increasing at a viral rate. Almost 2 million pages have been defaced since a serious vulnerability in the content management system ...

Review: HP’s Elite Slice is a cool possible future for the desktop

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arstechnica.com - Mini desktop PCs are a well-established market segment at this point, and they follow pretty much the same template. Take laptop or low-power desktop CPUs, slapthem on a small motherboard that uses...

Specs for first Intel 3D XPoint SSD: so-so transfer speed, awesome random I/O

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arstechnica.com - In 2015, Intel and Micron announced 3D XPoint (pronounced "three dee cross point"), a new form of high-speed, non-volatile, solid-state storage. But we're still waiting for products that actually u...

Samsung’s Chromebook Pro: A thoughtful marriage of Android and Chrome OS

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arstechnica.com - The market is about to be flooded witha new wave of Chromebooks, all focused on Android apps. Chrome OS and Android were always meant for different devices, but now OEMs are making Chromebooks that...

Charter wrongly charged customers $10 “Wi-Fi Activation“ fee, gets sued

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arstechnica.com - Charter admits that it accidentally charged a "Wi-Fi Activation" fee to some customers, and the company is now facing a lawsuit over the charges. The wrongful charges hit customers of Bright House ...

Decrypted: Miller finds his groove in The Expanse

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arstechnica.com - Things are getting complicated in The Expanse. On Earth, political intrigue is afoot. Mars is getting ready for war. Fred Johnson's Outer Planets Alliance is trying to prevent one. And we finally k...

Ford’s billion-dollar self-driving car AI deal

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arstechnica.com - If you had to pick a single buzzword to define the auto industry of late, it would have to be "mobility." Car companies are coming to grips with demographic and socioeconomic changes and the rise o...

Valve says goodbye to Steam Greenlight, hello to “Direct” publishing

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arstechnica.com - Nearly five years after it was first announced, Valve said today it is doing away with Steam Greenlight, the controversial system that let users vote on which games they thought should be sold on t...

Essential server security for web developers - Developer Drive

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www.developerdrive.com - As a web developer, no one expects you to be a security expert. Especially when it comes to server technologies. However, you do your company, your clients, or yourself a great disservice if you do...

7 Instagram Hacks for Brands

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simplymeasured.com - Whether your brand is new to Instagram, or you’re a seasoned pro, there are a few hacks that can help you use data to optimize your content and take advantage of the high engagement that brands oft...

Moto Mods challenge finalists chosen - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Moto Mod hackathon is almost over. The “Transform the Smartphone Challenge” on Indiegogo is ending soon after over 700 entries have been submitted from 55 countries and 30 states according to M...

Verizon brings improvements to its Total Mobile Protection program - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Apparently there is an American that drops his/her phone at least once a week, maybe even more. And since there are a lot of klutzes and careless people out there, around 30% of smartphone owners a...

YouTube Go is a low-data-usage version of video sharing network - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Watching videos online have become an important and most of the time enjoyable part of our lives. But some countries like India where Internet connectivity is still a huge problem do not get to enj...

Google Play Developers requested to present User Data policy - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re an app developer, check your email inbox because you might be receiving a special notice from Google about the changes happening to the Play Store. We’re not sure when the big change will...

Dunkin’ Donuts Continues to Excel in Delivering Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - As customer experience becomes a differentiating driver of brand loyalty, the perception of a company that delivers exceptional CX is a strong indicator of its overall success. This is the basis o...

Relationship Marketing at the B2B and B2C Level Drives Loyalty for Pearle Vision (Free to Read)

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loyalty360.org - Optometrists and other eyecare professionals have a very important relationship with their patients. However, they can sometimes be more concerned about operating their business versus training the...

Mangomolo : Stream Personlized Live and On-Demand Content - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Wissam Sabbagh”, CEO of the Beirut – Lebanon based StartUp “Mangomolo” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what ...

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

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www.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...

Narwall : Personalized Designs for Toys, Apparel and Decor for Kids - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Andrew Fry”,Founder of the startup based in Campbell – United States “Narwall” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

Stores.Miscake.com: A Web-Based Service for Creating Online Stores - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Miscake Stores is a service for creating online stores. It is designed both for small merchants and big resellers. Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mrs. Richardson regarding ...

My Driving Pal : Security and Safety - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Shahram Rezaei”,Founder Of the California – USA based startup “MyDrivingPal” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do a...

ApprovalQ : Email Project Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sharif Aly”,Aly of the California – USA based start-up “ApprovalQ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your...

Limetr.ee: A Web Application that Allows you to Safely Keep Messages, Photos and Videos you Want to Preserve as a Legacy for your Child - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Limetree is about gathering family and friends around your children’s history. About the legacy you want to pass to your child. About safeguarding memories for the future. Below is the full and in-...

Ostrato cloudSM™ : Cloud Based Services and Applications - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jay Chapel”, CEO of the USA-based start-up “Ostrato” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Ostrato cloudSM™ empowers...

MinYawns : Minions To Supervillains - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Billy Sheng'; Founder of the Start Up “MinYawns”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. What is it...

CareerSonar a Social Job Discovery - Start-Ups.Co

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www.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 connections...

Musistic : Music Technology Company - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jimbo Lattimore”,CEO of the Memphis USA-based start-up “Musistic” about his Company. Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and...

Xbox One Faces a Familiar Sales Story in January - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - This is starting to become a tradition: Microsoft announces record sales of its Xbox One console. But still manages to fall short of the PlayStation 4. “Thanks to continued support by our fans, 201...

Windows Weekly 504: Tormented to Tears - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss two Windows 10 Creators Update builds, Windows 10 Cloud, developers, Surface news, and more. Download this episode and subscribe to Windows Weekly Enjoy the...

Subir Chowdhury: Make the Difference You Are Meant To Make - Episode #80 · The Sales Blog

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thesalesblog.com - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:03 — 48.6MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS Are you ready to make the difference you are meant to make in the world? Anthony’s guest ...

Local Search Marketing For Business Owners | The Official Site Of James Hickey

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digitalbloggers.com - Remember when you used to get that big, heavy yellow book with nothing but listings and ads for local businesses? Well, that big book is still around (for no good reason really), but is on its deat...

UAW Confirms Rumors Tesla Employees Approached Union About Unionizing

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dailycaller.com - The United Automobile Workers (UAW) union said Friday it was approached by workers at Tesla’s main California assembly plant about ways to unionize the employees. UAW alsodispelled claims made by t...

How to Get Your Music Into Content ID

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futureofmusic.org - Whenever YouTube describes its efforts to fight back against copyright infringement and discourage misuse, it’s always quick to point to its Content ID system. Content ID is the system, first rolle...

Beacons expanding beyond big retailers, restaurants

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www.creditcards.com - Credit Cards Credit Card News Beacons expanding beyond big retailers, restaurants - Editorial Policy Beacons – those electronic Bluetooth devices that alert you to sales and specials inside chain r...

Editorial: Don’t penalize people who own old cars

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www.bendbulletin.com - Oregon, as we all know, is short on money and long on a desire to be the greenest place around. That can lead to some weird propositions, one of which is Oregon House Bill 2877. The measure would r...

20 Halo T-shirts to Get You Psyched for Halo Wars 2

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teehunter.com - The newest game of the Haloseries, Halo Wars 2, is set to release February 21st. Are you excited? ‘Cause I sure am! Some of my happiest gaming memories involve both the Halo Franchise and RTS (real...

Amazon Add-On Items: Can FBA Sellers Erase the Badge? - CPC Strategy

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www.cpcstrategy.com - Posted by Leanna Kelly on February 10, 2017 in Amazon Vendor Strategy Since their inception, Amazon’sAdd-On items haven’t been discussed much. But when they are discussed, they’re the subject of a ...

The 8 Core Drives of Gamification (#4): Ownership and Possession

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yukaichou.com - (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book. For a video walk-through, check out: ...

Sony's 2017 high-end LCD TVs cost more than LG's OLEDs

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www.cnet.com - For the last couple of years the best TV picture quality has come courtesy of LG's OLED TVs. They've also been the most expensive. Thanks to a combination of LG's aggressive price drops and high in...