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For The Only Truly Immersive VR Experience: Who You Gonna Call? - VR Voice
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vrvoice.co - For The Only Truly Immersive VR Experience: Who You Gonna Call? By Charlie Fink Three places you will never find a real New Yorker: the Circle Line, the Observation Deck of The Empire State Buildin...
HackerOne says 'no' to FlexiSpy stalkerware bug bounty program
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www.theregister.co.uk - Bug bounty organizer HackerOne has told stalkerware developer FlexiSpy that it won't take its business because of the ethics – or lack thereof – that the software maker exhibits. FlexiSpy has been ...
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...
BlackBerry KEYone Review - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - At a time when manufacturers are scrambling to banish as much bezel as they can, those who go the completely opposite route are sure to catch people’s attention. Especially when that device carries...
Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon?
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www.bloomberg.com - Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc., sat down to record a private video for the top officials of the world’s largest retailer: Wal-Mart. I...
Report: Uber faces federal criminal probe over regulator-evading software
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arstechnica.com - The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. “We’re not commenting,” Aaron McLear, an Uber spokesman, e-mailed Ars. “But I’ve attached our letter to Portland, ...
Facebook promises to hire 3,000 people to moderate content
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arstechnica.com - Videos of murders and suicides are posted regularly on Facebook, and now the company has vowed to keep that kind of content off the site. In a recent post, Mark Zuckerberg said his company will hir...
Who needs the FCC? Seattle writes its own broadband privacy rule
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techcrunch.com - Hardly anyone was pleased by the rollback of the broadband privacy rule last month, opening up the possibility of ISPs collecting and selling your browsing data — including, as it turns out, cities...
Apple updates its analytics service with new metrics showing how apps get discovered
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techcrunch.com - Apple yesterday updated its App Analytics service for mobile app developers on iTunes Connect, which will now offer more detail on how users found an app – whether through browsing or searching the...
Epix Cast offers an easy way for viewers to stream movies to their connected TVs
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techcrunch.com - Epix islaunching a new feature that could make it easier than ever before to stream movies on your Internet-connected TV — Epix Cast, which allows you to find a movie in the mobile Epix app and the...
Why we stepped up to the patent troll problem
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techcrunch.com - Entrepreneurs don’t pour all their energy into building startups just to have a patent assertion entity (PAE, or “patent troll”) attack them with patents of questionable quality. That is, unfortuna...
Snapchat launches self-serve ad manager
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techcrunch.com - Snap Inc. wants the ad dollars of smaller businesses, not just giant brands. So today it’s launching its new self-serve ad manager for buying video Snap Ads. There’s also the new Snapchat Mobile Da...
Facebook deflates filter bubbles by letting you follow topics, not just Pages
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techcrunch.com - Facebook gets a lot of flack for just reinforcing your world views in its News Feed echo chamber instead of challenging your opinions. That’s because you choose exactly which friends and Pages to f...
TuringSense scores $3 million to build fitness trackers smart enough to train athletes
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techcrunch.com - TuringSense announced today that it’s closed a $3 million early funding round, an investment that brings the Bay area-based sports tracker startup’s total investment to $6 million. The company’s en...
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn talks privacy, compromise and connecting communities
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techcrunch.com - FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has a lot of issues on her regulatory plate, some given marquee billing (the repeal of the commission’s Broadband Privacy Rule) and others lurking in the wings for y...
The KeyOne is the phone BlackBerry should have made 10 years ago
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techcrunch.com - The KeyOne is a device from an alternative timeline where BlackBerry didn’t completely whiff and miss the touchscreen revolution. In that parallel universe, Biff Tannen wasn’t elected president and...
Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display at Seattle museum
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techcrunch.com - Long before the iPhone or even the Mac, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take the idea of personal computing seriously. In the earliest days of t...
Amazon’s new dev kit promises to bring Alexa far-field tech to more third-party devices
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techcrunch.com - Back in December, component company Conexant announced that it had teamed up with Amazon to create a development kit for third-party manufacturers looking to build Alexa into their devices. The pai...
Google adds phishing protection to Gmail on Android
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techcrunch.com - Following the widespread phishing scam that affected Google Docs and Gmail users this week, Google says it’s now rolling out a new security feature in its Gmail application on Android that will hel...
Imagination Technologies can’t resolve Apple IP spat, opens formal dispute
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arstechnica.com - Imagination Technologies has placed its patents row with Apple on a formal footing, confirming to the City that it has opened a dispute resolution process because—it says—attempts to settle a licen...
Oculus shuts down Emmy-winning VR short-film division
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arstechnica.com - If the world of virtual-reality filmmaking has a big future, it won’t be developed within one major company's offices: Oculus. The Facebook-owned VR company announced late Thursday that its interna...
Sunk: How Ross Ulbricht ended up in prison for life
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arstechnica.com - On October 1, 2013, the last day that Ross Ulbricht would be free, he didn't leave his San Francisco home until nearly 3:00pm. When he did finally step outside, he walked ten minutes to the Bello C...
What’s New for Designers, April 2017 | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - From new tools to code snippets to typefaces that will make your design life better, this month’s design newbies are a lot of fun to play around with. My favorites include a task management app tha...
Four Killer Features of Nunjucks | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - Nunjucks calls itself "A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript", which sounds about right. It's not intentionally super lightweight like Mustache or the slightly more robust (but sti...
6 Ways to Make Usability Hygiene Work for You | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - The term ‘usability hygiene’ was firstly introduced by Google in the context of the basics that need to be addressed in order to prevent user frustration. In this article we will look at six key ar...
Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users
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thehackernews.com - Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all wit...
The Old Password May Soon Be Forgotten
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Reg Saddler
www.fastcompany.com - “Then said they unto him, ‘Say now Shibboleth’; and he said ‘Sibboleth’; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan.” The lite...
SoundCloud brings new discovery feature called The Upload - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - Unlike other music streaming services like Spotify and Google Play Music, most of which bring you the most popular or mostly established music out there, SoundCloud’s focus has been on new, undisco...
ASUS shows off battery power of ZenFone 3 Zoom against iPhone 7 - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re asked to choose between the ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom and Apple’s iPhone 7, which would you want to make your own? Well that also probably depends which platform you prefer, but chances are mos...
'Sextortion' case fuels legal debate over phone passwords
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www.cnn.com - YesJulz, 27, whose real name is Julieanna Goddard, is a party promoter, jet-setter, and social media marketer who was described as "Snapchat Royalty" in a profile last year in The New York Times ma...
Customer Marketing Can Save Retail
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loyalty360.org - Retail has some troubling storms brewing for the future. It’s hard to say it could get much worse than the last couple of years, but it looks like the industry hasn’t hit rock-bottom quite yet. And...
Loyalty 2030: Innovation Cultivated Through Loyalty - Lenati
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www.lenati.com - Seattle, WA – Loyalty Expo selected Lenati, a leading marketing strategy firm, to speak on The Evolving Thinking Behind Loyalty Programs of the Future. Principal and Head of the Customer Loyalty Pr...
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...
BunchCut : Sort Large Volumes of Images Fast - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Nathalie du Preez”, CEO and Co-Founder of the London and New York based start-up “Bunchcut” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly ...
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...
FoodTrucksNearMe.com: A Website that Allows Users to Find Food Trucks Locations and Menus via Computer or Smartphone - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Food Trucks Near Me is a website that allows users to find food trucks locations and menus via computer or smartphone. “Food Trucks Near Me”is a website that allows users to find food trucks’ locat...
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...
Here@ : Find New Friend, Love Interest, or Find a Job - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam McCaa”, CEO of the US based start-up “Hereat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is al...
Conversion In A Box : Web Based Niche Marketing Tool - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Mark La Fay'; Founder of the – USA start-up “Conversion In A Box”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1....
Liquid : Platform to Easily Segment and Personalize Your Apps in Real-Time - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
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...
Plink.com: A Facebook Credits-Based Loyalty Program - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Plink is a Facebook Credits-based loyalty program that rewards Facebook members for dining and making purchases at their favorite restaurants and stores. As per Mr. Stratz; Plink is a Facebook Cred...
Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can no...
Morces.com: Get More Than Just a Mobile Site! - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Morces is an absolute free platform for all users to go mobile in a matter of minutes! In addition to optimizing website for mobile devices, Morces provides comprehensive set of social tool such as...
What Brands Can Learn From This Botched Swimsuit Giveaway
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www.adweek.com - If you’re going to run a social media giveaway for your company,don’t do what Sunny Co did. The apparel company launched an Instagram contest sponsored by the Twazer app promising to give away a re...
Snapchat Is About to Let Brands of All Sizes Buy Self-Service Ads
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www.adweek.com - Snapchat today is announcingits self-service ad-buying system, which is rolling out with 20 brands, including smaller players like online sneaker seller Goat, social app Mammoth Media, movie ticket...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Still in No Hurry to Monetize Facebook Messenger
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www.adweek.com - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerbergstuck to his guns on the company’s focus on Messenger as a product over Messenger as a monetization vehicle. During the question-and-answer portion of Fac...
SearchCap: e-commerce SEO & crawl data analysis
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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why e-commerce SEO is NOT a one-shot wonder May 4, 2017 by T...
Google shortcuts use personalization and rich content to build next-gen local discovery tool
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searchengineland.com - Several weeks ago, without much fanfare, Google added new shortcut icons to its mobile app and website. They appear immediately under the search box to provide quick access to current weather, spor...
Canadians playing more music, driven my smartphones and streaming: survey
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www.ctvnews.ca - TORONTO - Blasting songs through a smartphone is becoming an increasingly popular habit for Canadian music fans. A new survey by Nielsen Music Canada found that about 53 per cent of listeners said ...
Apple CEO Pledges $1 Billion Towards Creation of US Manufacturing Jobs - Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - Speaking to Mad Money host Jim Cramer on CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company would be creating a $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs across America.“We’re announc...
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