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Saturday, March 25, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

Square's chip credit card readers just got 14% faster

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finance.yahoo.com - Banks and credit card issuers decided to phase out the all-American credit card swipe in 2015, and since then consumers have not been happy. Though more secure, the longer processing times of its r...

Why Google Ad Boycott Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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www.foxbusiness.com - Some of the nation’s biggest advertisers, including AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), are pulling their ads from Google’s display network and YouTube videos until the search giant...

The Best Form of Personal Branding? Become a Recognized Expert

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www.personalbrandingblog.com - We all know the power of developing a strong personal brand. As I discuss in my book Reinventing You, when your true talents are recognized by others, you’re more likely to receive job offers, prom...

Startup Stack: 25+ Influencers Pick Their Favorite Tools For 2016 - Maptive

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www.maptive.com - 2016 is the year of growth. For many entrepreneurs and startup founders, that means investing in new tools that can boost productivity, improve processes, and drive more profits. The question is, w...

Still running Windows Vista? Here’s a wake-up call for you

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Users of the Windows Vista operating system have been receiving warning messages from Microsoft for a while, but the clock is ticking down fast with just a few weeks to go: on April 11, Microsoft’s...

Fripito : Up-To-Date Travel Guides - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Irma Stastova”, Marketing and Sales Manager of the Nevada- USA based start-up “Fripito” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that...

Unpatchable 'DoubleAgent' Attack Can Hijack All Windows Versions — Even Your Antivirus!

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thehackernews.com - A team of security researchers from Cybellum, an Israeli zero-day prevention firm, has discovered a new Windows vulnerability that could allow hackers to take full control of your computer. Dubbed ...

Nintendo Switch “vertical” mode found in Neo-Geo games—are more coming?

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arstechnica.com - The Nintendo Switch may not have a full-blown Virtual Console collection yet, but its eShop has a few emulated classics already. This week, fans finally noticed that its current, small slate of '80...

Tesla Model 3 is ‘just a smaller, more affordable’ Model S, says Elon Musk

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techcrunch.com - The Tesla Model 3 is not a product iteration along the lines of successive iPhones, Elon Musk clarified on Twitter on Friday. Instead, it’s a “smaller model affordable version of Model S” with less...

Weekly Roundup: Apple acquires Workflow, Uber loses its president

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techcrunch.com - This week, Apple and Amazon both made big acquisitions, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal broadband privacy rules created by Obama’s FCC and Uber lost its president. These are the top tech headlines ...

What to do about those ‘government-backed attack’ warnings from Google

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techcrunch.com - Just kidding; please don’t do that. Google regularly issues warnings to people whose accounts are or have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers, and every time it does, users get really nervou...

Include Office Hours Partners with Intel Capital for Bay Area Underrepresented Founders

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch Include is partnering with Intel Capital for Include Office Hours on March 28th from 11:30am-12:30pm. Intel Capital Managing Directors Trina Van Pelt, Ken Elefant, and Director Christine...

Erato’s Muse 5 wireless in-ear headphones give AirPods a run for their money

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techcrunch.com - Apple’s AirPods are probably the first really mainstream completely wireless headphones, but Erato has been making these for a while now. The company’s latest is the Muse 5, a set of in-ear buds th...

Insta360 Air brings affordable, easy 360 photo and video to Android phones

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techcrunch.com - You can share 360-degree video and images in more places than ever before, but how to capture that content in the first place? Insta360 has built a bit of a name for itself creating relatively inex...

The Nio EP9 is the fastest EV at the Nürburgring, and now we have the full video

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arstechnica.com - We're continuing this week's theme of hypercars and electric vehicles with unnecessary amounts of power thanks to a video sent to us by the nice people at Formula E. You may remember late last year...

How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Webmaster Tools

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www.wpbeginner.com - One important step in optimizing your site for search engines is adding your WordPress site to Google Webmaster Tools. Many of our readers ask us for SEO Tips and how to increase organic search tra...

It's happening! It's happening! W3C erects DRM as web standard

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www.theregister.co.uk - The World Wide Web Consortium has formally put forward highly controversial digital rights management as a new web standard. Dubbed Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), this anti-piracy mechanism was ...

Facebook Messenger rolls out message reactions, mentions - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve seen the beta tests going around, but now it’s time for the official announcement from Facebook itself. If you’ve enjoyed the various reaction emojis you could do on the main app, you will no...

Samsung Gear S3 Classic gets LTE connectivity and new concept watch designs - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We just said that the Samsung Gear S3 is getting new apps, functions, and features. It’s not Android Wear 2.0-powered but the Tizen OS-run smartwatch is loaded with LTE which means it can be used t...

Instagram brings screen over “sensitive” posts, 2-factor authentication - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - While Instagram is probably one of the most vibrant communities in the world of social media, there have also been a lot of problems when it comes to online bullying, cyber stalking, and even just ...

4 Tips for Enhancing Your Programmatic Advertising with The Right Creative

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loyalty360.org - According to AdRoll,66% of advertisers have said they plan to increase their programmatic ad spend. That same report revealed that more than half of marketers’ budgets are projected to be spent thr...

Twitter is being unbundled before our eyes

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www.theverge.com - On Tuesday, Reddit announced it was introducing profile pages. The Reddit profile contains a list of the user’s posts in reverse-chronological order, and a follow button for subscribing to them. Co...

Apple Wants to Bring Augmented Reality to the Masses

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www.bloomberg.com - Tim Cook hastalked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple Inc.'s chief executive in 2011. Driverless cars. Artificial intelligence. Streaming television. But no technology has fired up Cook ...

Instagram opens shoppable organic posts to more businesses in the US

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marketingland.com - Now more marketers can set up shop on Instagram without cutting the Facebook-owned photo-and-video app a share of the proceeds. After testing shoppable organic posts with 20 brands since November 2...

Hubchi : Online Marketplace For Booking and Entertainment - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Prasanthy Gurugubelli”, Founder at theHyderabad – India based start-up “Hubchi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

DealTrunk : Browser Extension To Display Best Deals From Online Retailers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Amanda Wrzeszczynski”,Founder of the Pittsburgh, USA based start-up “DealTrunk” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do ...

LivingJunction.com: A Drag-and-Drop Social Publishing Platform to Create Social Magazines Around your Hobbies and Interests - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Living Junction is a social publishing platform that let’s you drag-and-drop rich media content to the pages of your own gorgeous magazine to bring your favorite topics alive. “Living Junction”is a...

Needls : Get Notified of Leads in Real Time - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Justin Hartzman”,Founder and CEO – of the Toronto – Canada based start-up “Needls.” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1- What is it exactly that you...

Count.ly: An Innovative, Open Source, Real-Time Mobile Analytics Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Countly is an innovative, open source, real-time mobile analytics platform intended for game studios, marketers, agencies, operators, and pretty much everyone with an aim to increase loyalty, user ...

Papadakis Konstantinos : Latest Technologies Designed by High Detailed Graphics - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Konstantinos Papadakis”, Developer and Owber of the Greece based start-up “PapadakisKonstantinos” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it ex...

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...

My Home Needs That : Search Engine Dedicated to Furniture and Homeware - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Adam Pilling”, Foundert at the London – UK based start-up “MyHomeNeedsThat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...

MonitorBacklinks.com: An Easy Backlink Checker Tool that Notifies you via Email or in your Changelog if Someone Removes your Links or Makes them Nofollow - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Monitor Backlinks looks to replace the notepad and spreadsheets that SEOs use to keep track of their backlinks, checking their status regulary and notifies when they get removed or nofollowed. “Mon...

How Snapchat Raised the Bar for Brands on Mobile

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www.adweek.com - Many questions remain following the remarkable Snap Inc. initial public offering. Is Snap a media company or a camera company? Will Snapchat be the conduit through which an entire generation consum...

Amid an Advertiser Exodus, Even YouTube's Own Ads Are Running on Vile Content

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www.adweek.com - To cap off a week of companieslike AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson pulling their ad dollars from YouTube due to placement around offensive videos on the platform, it was shown today that not ev...

Astronauts Wanted, Focused on Gen Z Viewers, Joins the 2017 NewFronts Schedule

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www.adweek.com - More Gen Zstorytellers are joining the lineup of presenters at the Digital Content NewFronts this year. Astronauts Wanted, a production company that focuses on episodic content, feature films and e...

Adobe and IBM Are Rolling Out More Artificial Intelligence Tools for Brands

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www.adweek.com - At the Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, Adobe unveiled the latest suite of updates for Sensei, the company’s platform for artificial intelligence that competes with IBM’s Watson and Salesforce’...

SEM account management: Part 3 -- How to get more responsibility

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searchengineland.com - In part 1 of this series, we showed how SEM account managers can avoid getting fired; part 2 detailed how they can improve account performance and “deliver the goods” to their organization in the f...

Tech Bigwigs Know How Addictive Their Products Are. Why Don’t the Rest of Us?

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www.wired.com - In late 2010, Steve Jobs told New York Times journalist Nick Bilton that his children had never used the iPad. “We limit how much technology our kids use in the home.” Bilton discovered that other ...

Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living

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www.wired.com - Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place. After disrupting the way we love, communicate, travel, work, and even eat, technologists believe they can solve the ultimate...

How to Blow Up Your Blog Visits via Community Management | Basic Blog Tips

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basicblogtips.com - Social media and internet communities provide you a unique opportunity to directly and instantly communicate with your target audience. These platforms let you create engagement, attract an audienc...

ROWNYEON Portable Velcro Travel makeup bag / Makeup Case

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bedandbreakfastreport.com - BEST TRAVEL MAKEUP CASE EVER | PurseN [PLEASE EXPAND FOR DETAILS] CHECK YOUR EMAIL Ten winners were selected and emailed early this morning the receive one of these awesome PurseN Amour Travel Case...

Law of Attraction Secrets for Making Money: Master the Science of Making Money and Getting Rich: Make More Money, Save Money, Get out of Debt, Retire Early, … Miracle (thesuccesslife.com Book 2)

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durac.org - Amazon Price: N/A (as of March 24, 2017 1:41 pm – Details). Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability informat...

Portable 20″ Golf Training Chipping Net Hitting Aid Practice In/Outdoor Bag

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golfclubsz.com - Emoji Universe 2 Ply Professional Practice Golf Balls Review Callaway Practice Golf Balls and Indoor Chipping Game Amazon Price: $13.90 $13.90 (as of March 24, 2017 1:17 pm – Details). Product pric...

Sell Information Products Even Without Product Creation: 2 Book Business Bundle About Information Product Selling & Affiliate Marketing

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freeaffiliatepro.com - Small Business Ideas: How to Start an Online T-Shirt Business How to start a small business selling t-shirts online. In this video, we’ll show you step by step, the easiest, most cost-effective way...

STORIS Ranked as a Leader in Gartner’s FrontRunners Retail Technology Analysis

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www.furnituretoday.com - This press release is submitted and shown here in its original form, unedited by Furniture Today. Mt. Arlington, NJ - STORIS Leading Retail Software Solutions has been ranked as a Leader in Gartner...

Luna, the Most Human AI Prototype to Date, Wasn't Built By a Tech Giant

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bigthink.com - Luna is the most amazing AI you’ve never heard of. Ask her to find the square root of 3,942,871 she promptly replies,“The result is 1,985.6664.” She can explain the theory of relativity to you in s...

What Shoptalk 2017 Taught Us About the Future of Retail

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www.forbes.com - This week, the Fung Global Retail & Technology team was in Las Vegas to attend Shoptalk 2017, the next-generation commerce event which brings together technology and retail. One of our ongoing rese...

Can Curated Data Fix The $18.3 Billion Analytics Market?

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www.forbes.com - The global analytics market will be worth $18.3 billion by the end of the year according to a recent Gartner. Despite this, many organizations are still failing to see return on investment followin...

How to Log Off of Facebook Forever, With All Its Perks and Pitfalls

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www.nytimes.com - “I think it’s a matter of being as responsible about your social media presence as your personal presence,” she said. “What is it you want people to see and know about you?” Bruce R. Mendelsohn, a ...