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Saturday, March 18, 2017

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5 Mobile Apps To Turn Your Instagram From Marketing Zero To Hero

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blog.creationagency.com - Instagram is a tough channel to gain an engaged audience. With that being said, it can be a great source to get link clicks and drive traffic to your website if done correctly. Most Instagram users...

New MagikPOS Malware Targets Point-of-Sale Systems In US & Canada

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www.darkreading.com - Security vendor Trend Micro Friday has warned of a new type of point-of-sale (PoS) malware that is being used to attack POS systems belonging to businesses in the US and Canada. The malware, which ...

Some HTTPS inspection tools might weaken security

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www.cio.com.au - Companies that use security products to inspect HTTPS traffic might inadvertently make their users' encrypted connections less secure and expose them to man-in-the-middle attacks, the U.S. Computer...

10 Pintastic tools to grow your business - from management to image editors!

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www.lilachbullock.com - Are you using Pinterest to help market your business? It’s been a while since I’ve covered anything Pinterest on the blog, even though it’s probably one of my favourite social networks. So, if you ...

You Don't Really Need an Anti-Virus App Anymore

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fieldguide.gizmodo.com - Ten years ago the first thing you needed to load on a brand new computer were anti-virus and malware applications. The internet was a mine field of malicious content that could infect your entire h...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 available starting March 24 in the US - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is now ready for pre-order just like the LG G6. The tablet will arrive earlier on March 24 with a $599.99 price tag in the United States. This Android tablet was the South...

How to Structure Your First UX Design Portfolio

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uxplanet.org - Whether you submit the application through an employee referral or online, you are probably aware that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of applicants who want the job as much as you want. So, wh...

Piwik Pro raises $2 million to truly liberate your analytics

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techcrunch.com - You know when you set up a website and you add a Google Analytics tracker to see how many visitors you have? What you’re actually doing is giving Google and other parties access to your stats and u...

LinkedIn open sources Flashback, a tool for mocking internet traffic

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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that is now owned by Microsoft, is makingone of the tools that it has developed in-house for its own work open for use by others. The company today an...

How does the Lucid Air stack up against the competition?

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techcrunch.com - Now that we know that the Lucid Air will start at $60,000 (before applying the federal tax credit that’s available for electric vehicles), people are going to start comparison shopping. The first c...

WikiLeaks will give tech giants CIA zero-day exploits after they meet mystery demands

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techcrunch.com - When it became clear that the organization possessed documents that detail exploits affecting a handful of major tech companies, it looked like Julian Assange would play nice. Now, a week has passe...

Apple plans to invest $500 million for new research centers in China

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techcrunch.com - Apple is trying to tap into local talent by building new research centers around the world. As spotted by MacRumors, the company just announced on its Chinese website that it is going to build two ...

Nintendo could double production of the Switch

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techcrunch.com - If you launch a new console with a massively successful game like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it’s not that hard to sell your console. This is exactly what is happening with the Nintendo Switch as N...

The Atomo Modular Electronics System is like LEGO for electronics

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techcrunch.com - One of the hardest things about Raspberry Pi and Arduino is figuring out where to stick all the pieces. While both of these systems work well alone – you can have a lot of fun with just a board and...

Tizeti is bringing wireless internet to urban Africa

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techcrunch.com - Internet accessibility in emerging markets is a huge challenge. Facebook and Alphabet have spent millions on internet-enabled drones, balloons, andother services to solve the last mile problem of c...

Apple gives indie gamers a permanent home on the App Store

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techcrunch.com - Breaking into the App Store can be difficult enough, but for small-time mobile game developers it’s even more of a challenge as they go up against billion-dollar, globalpublishers who dominate the ...

Weekly Roundup: Intel buys Mobileye for $15.3B, Uber’s navigation for drivers improves

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techcrunch.com - This week four people were accused of hacking at least 500 million Yahoo accounts, Spotify partnered with Waze and Intel bought computer vision company Mobileye. These are the top stories of the we...

Hack that escapes VM by exploiting Edge browser fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own

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arstechnica.com - Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: They compromised Microsoft's heavily fortified Edge browser in a way that escapes a...

A new race series for Tesla electric cars? Yes please

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arstechnica.com - Its cars are blindingly fast, but as a company, Tesla appears to be utterly indifferent to racing. This is perhaps understandable; Tesla isup to its eyeballs in orders for cars and is hard at work ...

Best PC Builds

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www.tomshardware.com - The Best PC Builds. Our title is practically self-explanatory. Unlike the System Builder Marathon, these configurations are not chosen by Tom's Hardware's editors. They are submitted and selected b...

When is 3% a big deal?

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itsonlywords55.com - Three percent, that’s an insignificant amount, right? I mean, that’s what we’re always hearing in relation to Planned Parenthood. As Planned Parenthood tells us, only “Three percentof all Planned P...

LG G6 UX 6.0 features and capabilities shown off in a video - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - After a successful launch at the Mobile World Congress, now we’re learning more about the LG G6. The smartphone is now ready for pre-order on Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Verizon is offering it wit...

Talon for Twitter 6.0 major update goes out of beta - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Just last week we were telling you about Talon’s beta update which saw a sort of major overhaul for the 3rd-party Twitter client. We predicted that the update will eventually rollout to the main ap...

BBM update to reduce spam invites, adds quick reply for Nougat - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Just a couple of weeks ago Blackberry rolled out an update for its Messenger app for Android devices, more popularly known as BBM. While that one wasn’t really that major of an update, it’s still a...

Google Voice update brings web calling, deleting conversations, etc - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Google Voice may not be the most “exciting” when it comes to voice and messaging apps, but it is pretty useful for some that would like a free phone number that syncs across your devices, including...

The Transformation of Payments: A Flashpoint of Innovation

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loyalty360.org - For any brand or company, the payment experience must be considered part of the sale. Think about the last time you went to a store and left because the line to pay was too long. Or the last time y...

Playing into Strengths, Identifying Weaknesses: How A Strong Brand Identity Gives GM the Information

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loyaltyexpo.loyalty360.org - Identifying a challenge in the customer loyalty space can often be as valuable, if not more so, than solving one. Many brands find themselves stagnant simply due to their inability to find a starti...

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...

MeasurableMediaLabs.com: A Company that Conducts Advertising Case Studies for Online Publishers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - MeasurableMediaLabs.com is the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for online advertisers by validating the CPM publishers charge in order for publishers to be successful. “MeasurableMediaLabs.com...

SpareFoot.com: The World's Largest Marketplace for Self-Storage - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Sparefoot is a simple and efficient solution for locating storage facilities, comparing prices, and booking storage units online. According to Mr. ‘Betts';Sparefoot is a simple and efficient soluti...

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

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www.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 cond...

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: March 17 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because I’ve pilkunnussija’d and I can’t stop correcting my own writing, this edition of Short Takes looks at a Surface Book 2 report, Windows Vista’s EOL, a controversial Windows 10 change, and mo...

Why Snapchat’s $24 Billion Valuation Was No Surprise to Mobile Marketers

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www.adweek.com - A few weeks ago, when Snap Inc. started trading at $24 per share, the mobile application (and self-proclaimed “camera company”) proved that it was a force to be reckoned with. Snapchat boasts 161 m...

The ANA Is Urging 7 Major Ad Platforms to Allow Independent Auditing, and Most Seem to Be on Board

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www.adweek.com - The Association of National Advertisers today called out seven of the world’s biggest ad platforms, sayingthey should open themselves to independent auditing of ad campaigns. That doesn’t appear to...

Google Responds After The Guardian and BBC Pull Advertising

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www.adweek.com - When The Guardian decided yesterday to pull all of its ads from Google and YouTube in response to the discovery that its ads were sharing space with what The Guardian’s Jane Martinson described as ...

Change Your Question Change Your Direction

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leadershipfreak.blog - The questions you answer determine the direction you go. In order to find the right answer, you must ask the right question. “The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the empha...

Prepare Your Brand for Unpredictability

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www.skipprichard.com - For many years, the big brands dominated powerfully over all. Little-known brands struggled to be noticed, hoping for shelf space or a PR miracle that would catapult them to the top. That’s all cha...

Frustrated With Ads Appearing Next to Offensive Content, Havas Pulls U.K. Spending From Google and YouTube

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www.adweek.com - Havas Worldwide is pulling all spending from Google and YouTube in the United Kingdom, citing the desire to have more control of its inventory in hopes of keeping brands away from inappropriate or ...

Bad News, CMOs: Your SEO Is DOA

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www.adweek.com - You’re managing branding, marketing communications, advertising, promotions, public relations, market research, sales management and product development, and you’re doing your best to keep up with ...

Advice for AMP-curious publishers

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searchengineland.com - The Accelerated Mobile Pages project has some big numbers on the scoreboard: More than 860,000 domains are publishing over 35 million AMPs per week, according to stats shared by Google at a recent ...

Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S8

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www.independent.co.uk - One of the biggest events in the tech calendar is set to take place later this month, with Samsung belatedly preparing to unveil its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. It will launch alongside...

CEO Makes Potential Employees Take a 'Snowflake Test' Before Hiring - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - In the article, Reyes explained how his test works, and what questions it includes. “I don’t want most people to work for my company. No, seriously. Most people suck,” wrote Reyes. “And I want peop...

I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it | Tim Berners-Lee

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www.theguardian.com - Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportun...

How Legal Landing Pages Are Helping Lawyers Turn Prospects Into Clients

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instapage.com - In just three short years, things have changed in the legal industry — a lot. And those changes impact how your law firm finds new clients. As recently as 2013, 34% of those in need of an attorney ...

Getting Your Money’s Worth: All About Using Your Iphone

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Are you searching for new iphone apps and do not know where to find them or even upload them into your iphone? You don’t need to type in the “.com” when typing web addresses into your iphone. Say t...

Remarkable Advice For A Phenomenal Social Media Marketing Plan

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firstadsense.com - Operating an Internet business is intimidating at times, because marketing methods are constantly evolving. There are new sites and strategies, and this can be a little intimidating. For example, y...

Global Warming and Climate Change @ What Causes Global Warming

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whatcausesglobalwarming.net - What Causes Global Warming Why It Is Important To Know The Main Cause Of Global Warming Home About Contact Me Site Map What Causes Global Warming Global Warming Global Warming and Climate Change Am...

Looking To Market Using Facebook? Try These Ideas!

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duracmarketing.com - Facebook is orders of magnitude more popular than the second-most-popular social media site. There are millions of account holders, and millions more sign up everyday. If you have a business, Faceb...

Solid Advice That Will Surely Help You In Affiliate Marketing

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duracmarketing.com - Although establishing your own affiliate promotion program may seem daunting, the process is not that difficult. The tips in this article will help you acquainted with the various types of web mark...

Are You Seeking Information About Facebook Marketing? Then Check Out These Great Tips!

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internetmarketinginfos.com - Be sure there is not too much spam on your Facebook page. Filters are available to help stop spam before it even appears. Keeping vigilant and using all of the tools available to you to prevent spa...