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Thursday, March 23, 2017

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Facebook’s new feature will flag news stories that are ‘disputed by multiple fact-checkers’

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www.dailydot.com - There is finally a viable tactic for battling Facebook’s “fake news” problem, after months of brainstorming. Last week Facebook implemented a feature that flags stories that are “disputed by multip...

The world’s first official gaming-company newsletter, now preserved online

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arstechnica.com - Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that the Internet Archive continues to host some of the coolest relics of nerd history. Now, the scan-and-upload team led by Jason Scott delivers qui...

Adobe’s Project Fleek connects marketers and social video influencers

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techcrunch.com - Adobe is testing out a new product called Fleek, offering marketers a new way to recruit and manage video influencers for promotional campaigns. Laura Williams Argilla, Adobe’s director of services...

Facebook tests an enhanced local search and discovery feature offering business suggestions

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is testing an enhanced local search feature that could see the social network creeping in on Google Maps, Foursquare and Yelp territory, TechCrunch learned and Facebook confirmed. Facebook...

Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers, plans to add more data and direct booking

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techcrunch.com - The Facebook-owned photo and videoapp is announcing that it now has 1 million monthly active advertisers, compared to 500,000 in September and 200,000 just over a year ago. Some of that growth can ...

Google Duo adds supports for audio-only calls because why not

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techcrunch.com - Google’s standalone video-calling app Duo is no longer just for video calls. The company announced today it’s adding support for audio-only calls – a feature aimed at increasing the app’s adoption ...

Android plans to improve security update speed this year

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techcrunch.com - Google has spent the past year working with third party manufacturers and phone carriersto improve its update system for Android, which is often criticized for not being fast enough to protect user...

No sweat, Hoop Maps makes finding a game of pickup basketball as easy as a tap

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techcrunch.com - A typically spontaneous activity, pickup basketball can be difficult to just stumble upon if you want to play. It also can be difficult to get a game going out of the blue. “Wewanted to play and fi...

LinkedIn revamps timeline with Trending Storylines: curated, algorithmic news clusters

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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn — thesocial network for professionals that’s now a part of Microsoft — has long been working on ways to get its 465 million users to stay on the site longer and use it for more than simply...

Senate debates legislative rollback of FCC’s broadband privacy rules

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techcrunch.com - Republican Senators led by Arizona’s Jeff Flake proposed a resolution earlier this month that would roll back privacy rules adopted by the FCC last year that prevented ISPs from collecting personal...

Zendesk is also partnering with startup megacampus Station F

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techcrunch.com - Station F is going to be the world’s biggest startup campus. A thousand startups are going to work in this huge building. And Station F wants to partner with the biggest tech companies, such as Zen...

Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone

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techcrunch.com - Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a...

Five Creepy Things Your ISP Could Do if Congress Repeals the FCC’s Privacy Protections

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www.eff.org - Why are we so worried about Congress repealing the FCC’s privacy rules for ISPs? Because we’ve seen ISPs do some disturbing things in the past to invade their users’ privacy. Here are five examples...

Volumetric capture is the swift kick in the butt VR so desperately needs

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—As has become standard at my job, I recently strapped on a virtual reality headsetto go somewhere far, far away. On this day, it was a trip to outer space, with pit stops on a moon's ...

Early Snapdragon 835 benchmarks show mixed results from semi-custom design

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arstechnica.com - When it announced the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm promised that the latest in its family of ARM systems-on-chips would boost performance by 27 percent with a 40 percent reduction in power consumption....

Advertising in Windows has reached an exasperating new low

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arstechnica.com - I don't know what triggers OneDrive advertisements in Explorer. I don't know if they appear in Windows 10 stable builds or just Insider Previews as a taste of things to come. I don't know that I ev...

The arcade world’s first Easter egg discovered after fraught journey

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arstechnica.com - The historical record of video games received a strange shake-up on Wednesday from Ed Fries, the ex-Microsoft executive who had a huge part in the creation of the original Xbox. Fries took to his p...

Cost to meet fuel efficiency standards “greatly overstated” research group says

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arstechnica.com - It won’t cost automakers nearly as much as they say it would to fit new cars with carbon-saving technology over the next decade, a nonprofit transportation research group says. The analysis comes a...

OnePlus intros MP Early Access Program - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We still have no clue if and when OnePlus will be unveiling a new flagship phone in the next few months but we don’t see any reason why not. The OnePlus 3T needs a follow-up even up to know that we...

VAIO Phone A Android phone announced in Japan, hopes to rival Sony’s Xperia - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We almost forgot about VAIO but apparently, the brand is still alive and well. In case you’ve forgotten, the name is no longer a part of Sony. It was in December 2014 when we reported that the grou...

Samsung Pay finally, officially launches in India - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Months after they were beta testing the service with several users in the country, Samsung Pay is now officially available in India. With just one app, card payments, mobile wallets, and the countr...

You can now let Alexa order for you through Prime Now - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Amazon wants to create an ecosystem wherein you don’t need to open your computer or laptop or even browse through your phone to place orders for products that you immediately need or you regularly ...

Samsung Gear S3 gets new apps, features, and functions - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Gear S3 is better than ever. We don’t think we’ll see the Gear S4 anytime soon but that’s fine since the Gear S3 is more than enough. It doesn’t run Android Wear 2.0 but it is powered b...

In Sparking Email Engagement, New Study Suggests Staying Away from Upfront Discounts

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loyalty360.org - Today’s world has become saturated with marketing and advertisement efforts, and it often seems that customers are more eager to delete these brand messages than take note of them. As marketers loo...

Pear-U : Relationship Making Application - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sachet Gagwani”,Founder/CEO of the Ashburn – USA based start-up “Pear-U” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

VaporWare : Building, Testing, and Running Lean Cloud Software - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Jeff Schroeder”, Co-Founder of the US based start-up “vaporware” 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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www.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. “...

Ekayan: A web based app for people to find out what their friends think about them, and get recognized for what's admirable about them - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - “Ekayan”facilitates you to anonymously admire your friends, and know what your friends think about you. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Gupta’ regarding his start-up “...

LinkedIn is rolling out a trending topics section

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www.recode.net - LinkedIn is known for helping people find their next job, but now it wants to help people find their news, too. On Wednesday, the professional network is rolling out a “Trending” topics feed, a new...

My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”,Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...

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...

The Evolving Business of Social in 2017 and Beyond

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www.adweek.com - If on any given day you were to skim the industry trades, you’d find at least a handful of news stories about the ever-expanding ad capabilities, audience targeting and content plays from Facebook,...

This Awesome Traffic-Jam-Beating Car Is a Sneaky Ad for Something Else Entirely

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www.adweek.com - A car that conquers any traffic jam by rising up, having its wheels spread wide and rolling over all the other vehicles? Yeah, that’s probably an ad. A mysterious vehicle called the Hum Rider showe...

Facebook's Head of Advertising Says Purpose-Driven Marketing Won't Slow Down

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www.adweek.com - Facebook’s head of advertising said he expects more marketers to join the trend of purpose-driven marketing, following a series of Super Bowl spots that went beyond cute dogs in favor of more meani...

How 4 Agencies Are Using Artificial Intelligence as Part of the Creative Process

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www.adweek.com - A couple of weeks ago, Coca-Cola’s global senior digital director Mariano Bosaztold Adweek he wanted “to start experimenting” with “automated narratives,” including using bots for music and editing...

Platform Value? - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - Platform value offers companies the opportunity to leverage a relatively new type of value and really disrupt market dynamics. Platforms have disrupted numerous brick and mortar companies and are p...

New 2017 List: 50 Social Media Marketing Influencers #SMMW17

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www.toprankblog.com - The topic of Social Media Influence has really taken off since we first published this list. Many changes have happened in the social media marketing world ranging from the surprisingly closecompet...

The Beginner's Guide to Gamification (6 of 90): Applying Level 1 Octalysis to Waze(a)

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yukaichou.com - *New to Gamification?Check out my post What is Gamification & the Gamification Framework: Octalysis* Click here to see all videos in this Series Gamification Analysis of Waze Transcription Notes (I...

Roam Universal Premium Bike Phone Mount for Motorcycle – Bike Handlebars, Adjustable, Fits iPhone 6s | 6s Plus, iPhone 7

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iphonefindmyphone.com - Top 3 Motorcycle Mobile Phone Mount Reviews ||| Top3Reviews ||| Amazon Price: $29.99 $8.98 You save: $21.01 (70%). (as of March 22, 2017 12:57 pm – Details). Product prices and availability are acc...

My review of Website Design Computer Programming Software for Kids (Ages 10+) – Learn to Code HTML & CSS – Learn How to Create a Website – DIY Website Coding for PC, Mac & Linux – Agentmonhost – Best Web Hosting Companies

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Affiliate Marketing: The Online Marketing Blueprint For Internet Marketing (Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing): Affiliate Marketing:20 Best Ways to make Money Online in 2017

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freeaffiliatepro.com - How To Make Money Online In 2017 (Online Business Blueprint) How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing Through Facebook Paid Ads Best way to make money online from home in 2017 – Make $5K per day ...

Apple and Amazon take fight from smart home to hotel room

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www.macworld.com - Amazon’s Alexa has successfully challenged Apple on your home turf—literally. The Echo and other various Alexa-equipped devices are rapidly becoming the go-to when you need assistance at home, thou...

LG announces pricing and availability of Signature Wallpaper OLED TV - Tech Guide

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www.techguide.com.au - LG has announced the price and availability in Australia of its amazing new Signature OLED W7 – the TV that’s so thin and light that it can be mounted in your home like wallpaper. The 65-inch TV is...

Preparing for PHPCS 2.x Support

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developer.joomla.org - The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce that we are (finally) ready to release an alpha version of the Joomla! Coding Standards which is compatible with PHP_CodeSniffer 2.x. In preparation for t...

Russian mastermind of $500m bank-raiding Citadel coughs to crimes

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www.theregister.co.uk - The Russian programmer who built the bank-acount-raiding Citadel Trojan has admitted his crimes. Mark Vartanyan, who operated under the handle "Kolypto", was arrested in Norway last year, and extra...

A former Google and Apple exec was once offered a chance to become Twitter's CEO — here's why she turned it down

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uk.businessinsider.com - At one point in her career, Kim Scott says she "probably would have cut off my left arm" for the chance to be CEO of Twitter. But when a member of Twitter's board approached her in 2008 and asked i...