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Sunday, February 19, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

VW Taps Its Hippie Heritage With an Electric Microbus

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www.bloomberg.com - Volkswagen AG unveiled a battery-powered version of its iconic hippie-era Microbus as the carmakeroverhauls its U.S. lineup to move beyond its emissions-cheating scandal. The latest iteration of th...

What Working at a Social Media Company Taught Me about ROI

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www.entrepreneur.com - For the past four years, myself and three other marketers have met frequently to talk shop. We’ve celebrated a variety of milestones together -- promotions, an engagement, our children’s birthdays....

USB Killer now lets you fry most Lightning and USB-C devices for £65

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arstechnica.co.uk - Remember the USB Killer stick that indiscriminately and immediately fries about 95 percent of devices? Well, now the company has released a new version that is even more lethal! And you can also bu...

Huawei Watch 2 release date, news and rumors

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www.techradar.com - Huawei hit the ground running with its first Android Wear watch, delivering a wearable that was stylish, premium and had a great, circular screen. As such the Huawei Watch deservedly found a place ...

With $15M in funding, Caavo aims to unify all your streaming TV boxes and services

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techcrunch.com - A startup calledCaavo thinks it has a solution to the too-much-TV problem, with a device that brings together all the different streaming boxes and TV services you subscribe to. The company, which ...

This venture firm just produced one of the first detailed equity research reports on Snap Inc.

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techcrunch.com - Many things that used to be trueprimarily of the public market now happen within the world of private company investing, including the participation of mutual fund investors. Now, you can add equit...

Why a cybersecurity solution for driverless cars may be found under the hood

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techcrunch.com - Clarence Hempfield is vice president of Location Intelligence at Pitney Bowes. Autonomous vehicles were one of the most talked about technologies in 2016. Ever since Tesla, Google and Uber put thes...

PAL-V begins pre-sales of its flying car – starting at $400,000

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techcrunch.com - If you still feel like you were somehow “promised” flying cars based onPopular Science magazine covers in the 1960s then you’re in luck, because Dutch company PAL-V is now accepting pre-orders for ...

Confirmed: Magic Leap acquires 3D division of Dacuda in Zurich

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techcrunch.com - Magic Leap, the augmented reality startup that has raised $1.4 billion in funding but has yet to release a product, has made an acquisition to expand its work in computer vision and deep learning, ...

Could we be reaching the end of the road for small-capacity turbocharged engines?

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arstechnica.com - The other day over at Evo, Antony Ingram wrote an interesting piece regarding the current trend among automakers for downsized engines. Although it's much more common in Europe, even here in the US...

Huge, curved, fast, and loud: HP’s 34-inch Envy all-in-one reviewed

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arstechnica.com - Sometimes it feels like PC makers develop products by adding adjectives. Why would you sell an all-in-one desktop when you could sell a gigantic, ultra-wide premium curved all-in-one desktop? That ...

Yahoo Hacked Once Again! Quietly Warns Affected Users About New Attack

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thehackernews.com - Has Yahoo rebuilt your trust again? If yes, then you need to think once again, as the company is warning its users of another hack. Last year, Yahoo admitted two of the largest data breaches on rec...

The New Prerequisite for Brand Loyalty: Make Your Customers Feel Loved

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loyalty360.org - It’s the Age of the Customer, the era of the Internet of Me. Brand names and physical footprints are no longer the decision-drivers they once were. Consumers have turned their trust to whatever the...

11 Tech Trends You Can Bet Your Customer Experience Budgets On, Today through 2020…

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loyalty360.org - Today, nearly every customer experience in nearly every industry is driven or supported by ever-more-quickly-evolving digital technology. The landscape is changing so rapidly that customer experien...

Loyalty 2030: The Evolving Thinking Behind “Loyalty Programs” of the Future

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loyaltyexpo.com - Loyalty 2030: The Evolving Thinking Behind “Loyalty Programs” of the Future What was a loyalty program in 2000, is not what many new programs look like today—and today’s average program only scratc...

The Conversion Journey: Lead Generation

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lps.leadpages.net - The Five Stages of the Conversion Journey. In order to turn more leads into customers, you have to understand the path taken by visitors to your website. We’ll break down each of the 5 stages of th...

Talk.io A New Way To Meet People - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Tomasz Dominiak'; Project Manager / CEO of Talk.io in Warsaw. Talk.io (http://www.talk.io) is a new product designed for anyone who wants to break free from...

Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Dominic Smith”, CEO of the Baltimore USA-based start-up “Imboard” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your ...

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...

Liquid : Platform to Easily Segment and Personalize Your Apps in Real-Time - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Alexandre Vaz”,CEO at the Lisbon – Portugal based start-up “Liquid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what yo...

Trendii : Social Commerce Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Christopher Latter”, Co-Founder at London – UK based start-up “Trendii” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what...

HP Spectre x360 15 (2017) First Impressions - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - This is the one I’ve been waiting for. And in my early testing, the 15-inch HP Spectre x360 nicely improves on its predecessor, a PC I described as a portable productivity monster, in virtually eve...

An (Inoffensive) History Timeline Of South Park Games

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www.bitrebels.com - The appeal of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s expansive journey through all things satirical, weird, and downright disgusting, is so great that it was picked up for its debut video game ap...

Facebook Rolls Out Major Video Updates: This Week in Social Media : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. Facebook Announces Autopl...

Amazon vs. Google: Who Will Win the Most Voice-First Shoppers? - CPC Strategy

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www.cpcstrategy.com - Posted by Leanna Kelly on February 17, 2017 in Ecommerce The plug-in device flipped on and off your household lights with a double clap of your hands. The Clapper blew everyone’s minds in the 80s a...

Affiliate Marketing: 7 Steps to Earning $2000+ in less than 25 Hours a Week (How to Make Money Online: Affiliate Marketing for Beginners Secrets)

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How To Get The Best From Your Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - Many people own an iphone these days, but some don’t know the many ways it can benefit them. You are not the only person who isn’t making the iphone has to offer. Read this article if you would lik...

USA Gear Digital SLR Camera Backpack with Laptop Compartment , Rain Cover , Lens Storage for DSLR Cameras for Nikon D3300 D5300 D5500 D7200 D500 D750

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slr-digitalcamera.com - More features compared to you'll know exactly what to do with! Travel-Ready Construction – Heavy-duty clasps, takes care of as well as zippers produce long lasting usage in any type of problem. The...

No notification LED? Here’s How to set beep alert notifications on Android – Samsung Update

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updato.com - For more than a few years now, notification LEDs have become a part of the basic features of Android devices. However, some manufacturers to drop out the LED notification light as a cost-cutting mo...

Samsung Galaxy S8 Kicks Off OLED Battle Royal With Apple And iPhone 8

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www.forbes.com - Samsung will get a jump on Apple with its next-gen Galaxy S8 display. What does that mean to consumers? By shrinking the bezel (borders), Samsung will be able to increase the display size of the S8...

Retail Technology in 2017: Customer Expectations Powering the In-store Connection

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blog.dealertrack.com - The technology behind selling vehicles is changing, from a dysfunctional array of tools into a smooth and connected journey that fuses the power of online efficiency with in-store, in-person, and a...

5 Things Twitter Inc. Needs to Learn from Weibo -- The Motley Fool

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www.fool.com - Chinese microblogging site Weibo (NASDAQ:WB) is often called the "Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) of China," but that's really a misnomer. Instead, Weibo's platform can more accurately be described as a hybrid...

How PetSmart continues to see value in mobile BI software

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searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com - Who needs offices when, thanks in large part to the maturity of mobile business intelligence applications, insights can be delivered to managers wherever they find themselves? That was a realizatio...

Button Shop enhances your website with elegant web buttons!

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www.kristanixsoftware.com - Overview Example Buttons Features Screenshots Support Download Make stunning buttons with Button Shop and give your website a popularity boost! Within five minutes, you will be making stunning, mem...