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Saturday, June 3, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

OneLogin breach: Hacker stole AWS keys, rifled through customer data for 7 hours

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arstechnica.co.uk - Updated, June 2: OneLogin has revealed more about the attack on its systems, confirming that a "threat actor" had accessed database tables including "information about users, apps, and various type...

TRYING TO BE(e) SIMPLE ABOUT BRANDING AND PERSONAL BRANDING

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www.bebee.com - Unlike my other articles where I tried to complicate things, here is an attempt to be simple. Simply because wordplay [PLAYING WITH WORDS ] can make life and work messy and painful. I pushed its bo...

Google Home to release in Canada on June 26th, pre-orders open now

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mobilesyrup.com - Google Home is now available to pre-order in Canada with the device going on sale at a variety of Canadian stores on June 26th. At I/O 2017,Google announced that the company’s voice-activated assis...

How to create the most value for the next technology wave

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techcrunch.com - Doug Clinton is a managing partner and co-founder at Loup Ventures and previously worked as an analyst at Piper Jaffray. Major technology platforms shift every 10-15 years, with new platforms build...

10 Gmail Shortcuts Everybody Ought to Know

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www.apartmenttherapy.com - If you're anything like me, you spend a lot of time each day clicking through your inbox. (And, admittedly, if you're anything like me you also walk away from the inbox with a seemingly never-endin...

Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet

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techcrunch.com - Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum’s initial release, published an essay...

Android creator Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone looks stunning and will cost $699

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techcrunch.com - There’s been much speculation around the new project from Andy Rubin, the man responsible for developing Android, and now we have the answer. Well, part of the answer, at least. Essential, Rubin’s ...

Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk leaves Trump’s advisory councils, Blue Apron files for IPO

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techcrunch.com - This week President Trump made the senseless decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, prompting Elon Musk and Bob Iger to leave the White House advisory councils. Blue Apron filed for IP...

Launch Academy’s startup visa program gives entrepreneurs permanent residency in Canada

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techcrunch.com - As the U.S. seems to be hell-bent on making itself less attractive to immigrants and visitors, its neighbors to the north are sensing an opening and going the other way in an effort to attract the ...

Your windows become powerful with SolarGaps

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techcrunch.com - If you’re about to replace your roof, Tesla has you covered, but roofs have a long life span, and besides, not all of us have the luxury/misery of having a roof to replace in the first place. Most ...

Nintendo’s Switch Online service will cost $20 per year and launch in 2018

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techcrunch.com - Important news for Switch owners, Nintendo has spoken up to confirma number of details around the online service for its new console. Online is an essential component to gaming these days, and the ...

AT&T makes DirecTV Now a $10 add-on to its Unlimited Choice plan

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techcrunch.com - Recent reports have indicated that AT&T’s new streaming service, DirecTV Now, may be seeing slowing growth. But don’t count it out just yet. This week, AT&T announced it’s expanding its distributio...

Alphabet’s Waymo is also exploring self-driving trucking

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techcrunch.com - Alphabet-owned Waymo, the autonomous driving technology that began life as Google’s self-driving car project, is evaluating a move into self-driving trucking. The company told BuzzFeed that it’s cu...

Ex-Apple designer & former Twitter engineer launch Halide, a premium iPhone camera app

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techcrunch.com - An ex-Apple designer and former Twitter engineer have teamed up fora new take on iPhone photography, with today’s launch of their iOS camera app called Halide. The idea is to offer a variety of hig...

Is “I forget” a valid defense when court orders demand a smartphone password? [Update]

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arstechnica.com - On May 30, two suspects accused of extorting the so-called "Queen of Snapchat" as part of asex-tape scandal are scheduled to appear in a Florida court. But as wild as the premise sounds, primarily ...

Logitech MX Master 2S and MX Anywhere 2S: Multicomputer mousing made easy

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arstechnica.com - At first glance, Logitech’s latest mice—the MX Master 2S and the MX Anywhere 2S—are a typical incremental upgrade. They feature an improved “Darkfield” optical sensor, which tracks on most surfaces...

Be Inspired with This Kid’s Awesome Business Plan – The Mission

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medium.com - You know, it’s entirely possible we’re making business planning way too complicated. Business planning is incredibly important, and you need to dedicate time and resources to making sure you’re rea...

How to Succeed Without Compromise – Personal Growth – Medium

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medium.com - Dominic Barton is the most influential man you probably haven’t heard of. He’s the Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, the prestigious management consulting firm. They work behind the sc...

What's Right With Twitter's Live Video Strategy

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www.forbes.com - Few high-tech companies have inspired as much head-scratching as Twitter. Right from its early days, experts wondered what it was for and called it a pointless distraction. The idea that an entire ...

Just Make It Look Pretty…

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blog.marvelapp.com - The assumption that designers and developers sole role is to either make things look pretty or to be a cog in a machine with nosoul. Making this article look pretty with a pretty image by: Joanna K...

6 major tech companies have doubled their design hiring goals in last half decade

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techcrunch.com - Dylan Field is the co-founder and chief executive of Figma, a cross-platform design and collaboration tool. Before starting Figma, Dylan interned at LinkedIn, Flipboard, and O’Reilly Media. You kno...

Announcing a free plan for small teams - Wake

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blog.wake.com - At Wake, our mission has always been focused on bringing openness and transparency to the design process. We’ve always believed that by providing a space where designers can share ongoing work not ...

Writing for UX: some practical tips – Prototyping: From UX to Front End

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blog.prototypr.io - A few simple writing tips to keep in mind when writing for user experience. Don’t use words just because they sound better. Try not to use ‘discover’ when you mean ‘find’, or ‘retain’ instead of ‘k...

This is what a brutalist world would look like on your phone

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www.theverge.com - Designer Pierre Buttin has taken brutalism to a new extreme with a series of redesigned mobile apps. In his latest project, titled Brutalist redesigns, Buttin renders Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, ...

Verizon reportedly tried to buy #2 cable company Charter, was rejected

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arstechnica.com - Verizon recently tried to buy Charter Communications for "well over$100 billion," but the US' second biggest cable company rejected the offer, according to a New York Post article yesterday. Charte...

OnePlus 3, 3T will get Android O update eventually when it comes out - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you own a OnePlus 3 or a OnePlus 3T, you were finally wondering if you will be receiving the Android O update when it comes out later this year. Well, wonder no more as the founder and CEO of On...

Skype overhauls app, design, morphs into Snapchat-like messaging app - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - With all the messaging apps that are available in the market, which offers you free messaging and voice and sometimes video calls, you might wonder why you would need a sort of antiquated service l...

The Retail Reckoning: How to Survive the Digital Revolution

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loyalty360.org - For too long, retailers have remained bloated in store footprints and overconfident in mindset. Store experiences refused innovation for decades, while merchants ripped every dollar they could out ...

Constructing a Winning Customer Data Collection Process

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loyalty360.org - Constructing a Winning Customer Data Collection Process Prior to launching a loyalty program, developing a data collection structure will be imperative to the success of the loyalty program. By lev...

The Importance of Building a Social Business Landscape for Your Business #CMOTalk - Converge.XYZ

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converge.xyz - For many companies, the concept of social business is often poorly understood, poorly executed and, in some cases, completely overlooked. What is social business and why is it important? That’s wha...

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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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...

ShareWhere : Social Sharing Application - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Geoffrey Chan”, Founder of the Miami based start-up “ShareWhere” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your s...

CareerSonar a Social Job Discovery - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co interviewed Mr. ‘Aviram Ben Moshe';Co-founder & CTO at the US (NY)based start-up “CareerSonar”. “CareerSonar” ranks all jobs available online by the strength of your inside connections...

Scoopinion.com: A Web-Based Application that Turns Your Browser into a Learning Magazine - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Scoopinion builds your personal magazine by matching what people like you have read well and you haven’t. It’s an effortless way to make the news good for yourself and the community. As per Mr. Kos...

Room In The Moon : Social Travel Website - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rafael Dos Santos';CEO of the – UK start-up “Room in the Moon”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. Wh...

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: June 2 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because the stress level has hit Defcon-1, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s intelligent edge, Steve Ballmer’s rewriting of history, Skype’s SnapChat jealousy, Paul Allen’s crazy pla...

8 Digital Marketing Stats That Got Our Attention This Week

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www.adweek.com - It was another intriguing week in online marketing data points, with even more eyebrow-raising mobile numbersthan usual. Check out the eight that we found particularly noteworthy: 1. Social TV in 2...

Why Leaked Moderation Documents Are the Best Thing to Happen to Social Media

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www.adweek.com - In most cases, especially today, anything leaked is usually the beginning of a series of unfortunate and very public events that ends with litigation, extreme embarrassment, firings or all three. H...

The Battle Against Fake News Is Just Getting Started

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www.adweek.com - While “fake news” is now a commonly used term, those of us in the technology security industry have called this type of misinformation—the kind designed to deceive—by many other names, such as hoax...

Spotify Just Poached 2 WPP Execs to Take Closer Aim at Ad Agencies and Auto Brands

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www.adweek.com - Spotifyannounced two new executive roles today to cozy up to ad agencies and automotive brands. The digital music service has hired Angela Solk as its global head of agencies. Solk will be tasked w...

SearchCap: Google ends ODP description, EU fines Google & local best practices

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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: Business profile and review best practices from TripAdvisor ...

VR: Watch over 200 alligators feast in Florida

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www.usatoday.com - In Florida, alligators are not picky about what they eat as long as it fits in their mouth. Watch hundreds of alligators swarm for an epic feeding frenzy at St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological ...

Google Confirms Chrome Browser to Feature Ad-Blocker by 2018 - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - VentureBeat reportsthat following rumors for the past six weeks relating to the implementation of a native ad-blocker within Google Chrome, the company has finally stepped forward to set the record...

9 Ways to Drive the 400M+ Instagram Users to Your Landing Pages

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instapage.com - You may have cracked Twitter and Facebook conversion to your landing pages, but Instagram comes with its own special challenges. For instance, did you know that you can only add one link to your pr...

How To Make Money So You Can Travel and Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur

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gregmeares.com - Are you realizing that your don't like how your life is beginning to look? Would you like additional income to help augment your current situation? Watch the Video I recently put together that sho...

Finding Great Deals When Shopping Online For Items - My AliExpress

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myaliexpress.info - The Internet is ripe with shopping mall. You can get everything you want from your own home. There are so many places that you may need to understand what you’re doing. Read the following article f...

Expert Suggestions For Facebook Marketing That Really Works

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duracmarketing.com - Facebook is free and can be accessed by all people. Whether reaching out to older people in the U.S. or the younger people in Brazil, you are able to do it and then some. The following article will...

Looking For Effective Email Promoting Techniques? Try These Ideas!

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internetmarketinginfos.com - Are you failing to see the positive results you want from e-mail marketing? Are you unsure how to begin utilizing marketing emails?This is the place for you! This article contains the information y...

Tips And Tricks That Make Your Iphone More Fun

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laptopsandnotebook.com - You may be confused if you have never had a regular old cell phone. There are a number of phones that seem to do the market today. It is hard for you to decide which smartphone really has the most ...