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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

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Assange: Clinton Pushing for ‘Pence Takeover’ of Trump White House

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www.infowars.com - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleged Tuesday that Hillary Clinton and two intelligence officials are working to replace President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence. Assange asserted t...

The Complete Guide To Planning, Creating And Delivering Lead Magnets (+ Examples Inside)

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www.bloggingwizard.com - If you want to grow your email list faster, you need to offer your readers an incentive to join your email list. In the marketing world, we call these incentives “lead magnets.” But the process of ...

Microsoft announces addition to board and quarterly dividend

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news.microsoft.com - REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the appointment of Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, to its board of directors effective immediately. Microsoft also annou...

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15058 for PC - Windows Experience Blog

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blogs.windows.com - Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15058 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo Windows Insid...

This app helps immigrants instantly alert family and lawyers when they're detained

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mashable.com - For undocumented immigrants, signaling for help during a raid or roundup now only takes the push of a virtual "panic button." A new app called Notifica, designed for undocumented immigrants feeling...

9 Revolutionary Companies to Watch

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www.entrepreneur.com - This year is off and running with some extraordinary companies starting to make a name for themselves. I attend countless conferences and meetups. Over the course of my travels I meet with some of ...

Silicon Valley is using Pi Day to protest Trump

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www.usatoday.com - A USA TODAY motion graphic explaining the significance of Pi. By Berna Elibuyuk and Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY. USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO— Using a lighthearted day most often celebrated by middle schoo...

Why Work at VITAS? | VITAS Healthcare

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www.vitas.com - VITAS began in South Florida in the late 1970s when a minister and a nurse decided there must be a better way to care for people who were dying. The company has grown, stretching from the East Coas...

Hyper-V guest escape, drive-by PDF pwnage, Office holes, SMB flaws – and more now patched

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Lee Munson




www.theregister.co.uk - Patch Tuesday After taking a month off, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is back – and it's a blockbuster edition. There are 18 bundles of patches covering 140 separate security vulnerabilities. These fla...

Why Amazon Web Services is finally telling a hybrid cloud story

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Egnyte




www.cloudpro.co.uk - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has cut a clear path into the public cloud, but now that other vendors are taking a different, hybrid, route, the tech giant is changing direction. The cloud company start...

Wikileaks is Connected to Russia – Despite Their Claims

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patribotics.wordpress.com - Wikileaks has time and time again denied any connections to Russia or the Russian state, but – like Donald Trump – they are lying. This weekend, it was exposed on Twitter that they acquired major R...

SwiftKey update brings keypress sounds options to your smartphone - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you use the virtual keyboard SwiftKey, then you’re probably pretty pleased with a lot of their customization options which lets you personalize your device and your typing experience. The latest...

10 Windows 10 Tips to Boost Productivity

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www.hongkiat.com - Windows 10 is a fast and efficient operating system that’s designed to enhance user productivity. The most-used desktop operating system offers a multitude of features that help the users juggle be...

Okta IPO filing marks public market tipping point for SaaS Vendors

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techcrunch.com - When Okta, the unicorn cloud identity management company, filed its S-1 IPO paperwork yesterday, it was the latest pure-cloud subscription-based company to go public. Wall Street could finally be r...

Roblox nabs $92 million to power its massive social gaming platform for kids

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techcrunch.com - Roblox has spent the greater part of the millennium creating a cool placefor kids to play a diverse collection of games inside a single cross-platform world for its huge audience of tens of million...

Facebook’s new “Town Hall” feature helps you find and contact your government reps

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techcrunch.com - In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s nearly 6,000-word manifesto published last month, he laid out a number ofglobal ambitions he had for the social network in the days ahead – including one where its...

Jason Goldberg raises $400K more to turn Pepo into “the best place to host live conversation”

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techcrunch.com - Serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg has famously had his ups and downs, most notably with the e-commerce company Fab.com. He hasn’t stopped moving forward, however. In October, he launched a new mes...

Microsoft’s Teams is an almost excellent Slack-killer, and it’s now live for O365

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arstechnica.com - After being in beta since November, Microsoft Teams is now available to anyone with a suitable Office 365 subscription. Teams is a group messaging application organized around chatrooms. Slack has ...

Apple illegally fixed prices of iPhones in Russia, investigation finds

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arstechnica.com - A seven-month investigation by Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service has found that Apple's Russian armillegally fixed prices for certain iPhone models, according to a report from the Financial Tim...

In-the-wild exploits ramp up against high-impact sites using Apache Struts

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arstechnica.com - Eight days after developers patched a critical flaw in the Apache Struts Web application framework, there has been no let-up in the volley of attacks attempting to exploit the vulnerability, which ...

Ghost Recon: Wildlands review: One hot mess of an open-world game

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arstechnica.com - But Ubisoft has, for better or worse, crafted something of a template for the genre with games like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, into which slots Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. ...

Wowing and washable: Google’s smart jacket wears and works well at first glance

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—"The tech couldn't be seen as slapped on the garment,"Ivan Poupyrev, technical program lead at Google’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) group, told the crowd during his weeken...

Google Maps Timeline Is Moves 2.0, Except Not for iOS

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www.subtraction.com - Four years ago I wrote praisingly about Moves, a then promising iPhone app that tracked your steps and location throughout the day. The company that made Moves was eventually acquired by Facebook a...

Browser Watch, March 2017 | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Welcome to another edition of Browser Watch, the regular feature that runs down the latest news and developments among all the most popular and up-and-coming browsers available. Whether you’re a de...

Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are helping Google fight an order to hand over foreign emails

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uk.businessinsider.com - Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Cisco have filed an amicus brief in support of Google, after a Pennsylvania court ruled that the company had to hand over emails stored overseas in response to an FBI ...

Federal agents can search your phone at the US border — here's how to protect your personal information

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uk.businessinsider.com - When you're entering the United States, whether at an airport or a border crossing, federal agents have broad authority to search citizens and visitors alike. And that can include flipping through ...

Android Wear 2.0 to come to Huawei Watch by end of March - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - When Google announced the list of smartwatches that will be receiving the Android Wear 2.0 update, a lot of people (well, mostly the owners of said smartwatches) got pretty excited. What we forgot ...

LG G6 coming soon to the United States and Europe - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’re not suprised that LG is selling the G6 fast because we concur that it is one great phone. In just four days, LG received about 40,000 orders for the G6 in South Korea. In just one weekend sin...

Vertu bought by controversial Turkish businessman for £50m - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - It seems like it’s a sort of full circle for luxury smartphone Vertu who was originally owned by Nokia and passed on to different owners and now it is finally owned by a controversial Turkish busin...

Verve Loop is the newest sports headphones from Motorola Accesories - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Lest you forget that Motorola is more than just a smartphone brand, their other division, Motorola Accessories has just announced a couple of new products from them, at least in the UK. The Dash Ca...

ZTE teases Nubia event for dual lens camera phone, new Nubia Z17 mini - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - ZTE did roll out a new smartphone at the Mobile World Congress. The Nubia N1 Lite is a new mid-range smartphone that was introduced with an LTE phone that can reach gigabit speeds, the Blade V8 Min...

Beta Watch: Shiretoko Firefox 3.5 Intel-Optimized Browser

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gigaom.com - Last week I posted a Beta Watch mini-review of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, Mozilla’s sixth development milestone and fourth beta release of what will become Firefox 3.5. Unfortunately I found that, like ea...

How the "tech support" scam works

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boingboing.net - Security researchers at Stony Brook deliberately visited websites that try to trick visitors into thinking that their computers are broken, urging them to call a toll-free "tech support" number run...

11 Must-Attend Conferences for Entrepreneurs 2016-2017 - Indiegogo Blog

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go.indiegogo.com - In today’s world, connecting with entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives couldn’t be easier with how digitally connected we’ve become. But there is something to be said about face-to-face conversa...

Yesway Takes Next Step in Loyalty Program Development

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loyalty360.org - Often, the hardest part of launching any kind of marketing initiative is simply getting it off the ground; the first few months bridging the gap between concept and reality is, as many marketers wi...

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...

Interactive Personalized Video Creates Unique Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Some brands Loyalty360 has talked to in recent years have been reluctant to use video in connection with their respective customer experience offerings/initiatives. Loyalty360 talked to Chris Hall,...

Boxagon: Social Commerce Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Juan Diego Farah'; Co-Founder and CEO of the UK-Based Start Up “Boxagon”. Below, is the full interview that we have conduc...

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...

PrayerSpark : The First And Only Site For Interfaith Spiritually - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Michael Feder”,Founder of the Las Vegas – USA based startup “PrayerSpark” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and w...

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal po...

BlackBox-BI: A French Start-Up that Provides Easy to Use Affordable Business Intelligence for Companies of all Sizes - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - BlackBox-BI makes creating business dashboards easy. From data load to dashboard creation, BlackBox-BI focus is to make each step as easy as possible without compromising on functionality. “BlackBo...

Cheekd : Mobile Dating App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Lori Cheek”, CEO of the USA based start-up “Cheekd” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is al...

My February 2017 Monthly Income Report - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - First, before we get into some of the business stuff, on February 21, my wife and I celebrated our eighth-year anniversary! We took a trip with the kids to Disneyland to celebrate, since they had t...

Microsoft Begins Promoting Creators Update In Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Today, Microsoft has released a new update for Windows 10, KB4013429 and KB4013418 and they fix several issues with the OS and include the patches that should have arrived last month before the com...

AMD: There's Nothing Wrong with the Windows 10 Scheduler - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Earlier this month, AMD launched its Ryzen microprocessors to near-universal acclaim. But when a tech blog claimed that Ryzen didn’t function properly on Windows 10, AMD investigated. And it has no...

4 Ways You're Killing Your Brand's Reputation on Social Media

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www.adweek.com - Brand appeal and goodwill are important intangible assets that a brand can capitalize on to drive growth to its bottom line. With social media now taking the lead as a major source for consumer inf...

The incredible recent growth of Facebook and what it means for small business

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Bob Burg




www.susansolovic.com - Hold on to your figurative hats: more than 50 percent of all Americans check Facebook every day. Here’s how I got that number. According to the most recent Pew Research Center Social Media Update, ...

Apple Hypes the iPhone's Stickers by Staging a Colorful, High-Speed, Citywide Sticker Fight

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www.adweek.com - Nothing encapsulatesthe thrill of young, modern love quite like a game of chase. Especially when it involves a series of splashy emojis. Apple’s recent ads have promoted specific features of its ke...

The 11 Best Ways To Help You Overcome Age Discrimination

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over60andactive.com - It has been around in many forms for many centuries. Age discrimination might not reach the front pages of the news on a regular basis. That, however, doesn’t mean that it isn’t real. Age discrimin...