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Want to Increase Blog Traffic? Some Fab Tips for Success

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pegfitzpatrick.com - I am going to share the biggest and best secret about blogging and how to increase your traffic. Are you listening? Lean in really close and I will whisper it to you: create great content. That’s t...

The Beginner's Guide to Twitter

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mashable.com - Update: This post was updated November 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools. Do you have a parent, friend or colleague ready to ditch his or her digital training wheels and head into Twitte...

4 Ways to Proactively Manage Your Online Reputation

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www.vistaprint.com - Taking your small business online is a big deal. It means you’re staking your claim in the digital world and letting the online masses know you exist, howeveryou can’t just set-and-forget your digi...

Nvidia and AMD are benefiting from Bitcoin and Ether miners, but for how long?

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www.thestreet.com - As interest in cryptocurrency mining sparks GPU shortages, leads shares of GPU vendors to be upgraded and spawns articles on how to create a cryptocurrency mining rig, it's worth taking a trip down...

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Leak Shows: Hollywood Cybersecurity Lives and Dies With Third-Party Vendors

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variety.com - This weekend’s leak of the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” mayturn out to be Hollywood’s biggest breach since the Sony hack in 2014. But security experts aren’t surpris...

Arms review: Nintendo reinvents the fighting game and it’s brilliant

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arstechnica.co.uk - In their place is a bold mix of long-range, third-person combat played at a strategic pace far removed from the split-second timing and dexterous button bashing typical of the genre. There are even...

Spotify for Windows 10 available now in the Windows Store - Windows Experience Blog

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blogs.windows.com - Beginning today you can download the Spotify app for Windows 10 right from the Windows Store. Spotify for Windows 10 is now available to download in the Windows Store. We’re excited to announce tha...

Google brings “spinner” for those looking to digitally spin something - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Depending on which side of the “debate” you’re on, this may be good or bad news for you. Google is getting on the whole “fidget spinner” bandwagon by bringing a digital version to your smartphone, ...

AMD’s Zen steps into the server room with Epyc

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN—Today, AMD unveiled the first generation of Epyc, its new range of server processors built around its Zen architecture. Processors will range from the Epyc 7251—an eight-core, 16-thread chip...

Netflix debuts choose-your-own-adventure stories for kids

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techcrunch.com - Netflix today announced the debut of “interactive” stories on its service – a sort of choose-your-own-adventure style of storytelling, where viewers get to decide what happens next. The new stories...

Google Cloud Platform launches in Sydney

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techcrunch.com - Nobody can accuse Google of not moving as fast as it can to make up the considerable gap in available cloud regions between its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its two biggest competitors: AWS and ...

Phhhoto shutters app and pivots to photobooths, blaming Instagram

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techcrunch.com - Animated GIF capture tool and social network Phhhoto is shutting down its app due to server costs becoming unsustainable after getting slammed with competition by Instagram’s copycat Boomerang. Phh...

Twitter bots get enterprising, courtesy of Sprout Social

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techcrunch.com - These days, the idea of bots on Twitter might be associated more with accounts that auto-Tweet, auto-like, and auto-retweet messages, or are corralled into large armies that follow people and do ot...

Mozilla brings its private web browser Firefox Focus to Android

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techcrunch.com - Late last year, Firefox introduced a new, private web browser for iPhone, called Firefox Focus. The browser by default blocks ad trackers and can erase your browsing history, including passwords an...

Uber is implementing tipping, but how well it works will be critical

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techcrunch.com - On the heels of what must feel to employees like the longest six months in Uber’s eight-year history, the company last week tried punctuating a seemingly endless stream of news about its corporate ...

Fetch launches self-service truck rentals to help you move the big stuff

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techcrunch.com - Fetch wants to be there for those moments where you need to transport something that won’t fit in the trunk of an Uber XL. The service, which allows users to easily rent trucks or vans for hours or...

Marbl launches a social network and travel tool for the millennial jet set

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techcrunch.com - Marbl Media wants to be the mobile app that a new, millennial generation of jet setters goes to flip the script on how to share tips and plan trips. Starting with an Instagram platform for content ...

Final: One credit card to rule them all

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techcrunch.com - A startup calledFinal wants to change the way people use credit cards — or rather, the company wants to change the credit card industry to fit consumers’ lifestyles. With a 1% cash-back bonus and n...

Meditation app Headspace hires a new chief business officer

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techcrunch.com - One of the first times Ross Hoffman met Headspace CEO Rich Pierson when talking about a role running the company’s business, Pierson was not talking a lot about business. Instead, he was peppering ...

Sphero spinoff Misty Robotics gets $11.5 million to create a mainstream robot for the home

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techcrunch.com - Hardware startup Misty Robotics has a daunting task ahead of it. The Boulder-based company is working on a robot aimed at mainstream consumers for employment in the home and office. But Misty certa...

More Android apps from dangerous Ztorg family sneak into Google Play

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arstechnica.com - For the second time this month, Google has removed Android apps from its Google Play marketplace. Google did so after a security researcher found the apps contained code that laid the groundwork fo...

Video game trade group sees pros and cons in new Trump administration

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arstechnica.com - "We have a new administration in Washington that's brought some challenges," Gallagher said. "Gamers are feeling both ways. Remember, when you have almost everyone in this country as a gamer, and 8...

Review: The Toyota C-HR Hybrid is a mass-market vehicle with panache

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arstechnica.com - From the Auris and the Avensis to the Yaris and the RAV4, all of Toyota’s recent mainstream cars have been depressingly vanilla. White goods. Reliable, serviceable, capable—but as engaging as a was...

HDR and video games: Ars leaves E3 with more questions than answers

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arstechnica.com - LOS ANGELES—4K was on everyone's lips at this year's E3. We heard this buzz term(which has come to mean 3840x2160 pixel resolution) so many times that we almost made a drinking game out of it. But ...

Google not, learn not: why searching can sometimes be better than knowing

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medium.freecodecamp.com - A few months ago, I was reading through some of the posts in my home town’s freeCodeCamp study group. I came across an intriguing post. One of the campers expressed her frustration with not being a...

How to Perform an AdWords Audit - Search Engine Journal

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Is your AdWords account as effective as it could be? Unless you’ve audited your AdWords account, you can’t know for sure. Simply, an AdWords account audit is the process of evaluating the effective...

Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware

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arstechnica.com - A Web-hosting service recently agreed to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites, the company said recently. The South K...

12 Tips on How to Make a Great First Impression, According to Executives

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www.inc.com - Whether it's a sales call, an interview, or chance meeting with someone you want to know better, there are things you can do to leave a positive and lasting first impression. Check out these quotes...

Google Allo now lets you make Duo calls from within the app - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - When Google first released the Allo messaging app and the Duo calling app, people were actually wondering why they had to release two separate apps for these two closely related functions. Even wei...

Armani announces Connected, its first touchscreen smartwatch - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The march of the fashion brands going into wearables goes on and we’re just halfway through the year! This time, the one making the announcement is Emporio Armani and they’re introducing their firs...

ZTE launches Nubia M2 Play in China - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - ZTE is not yet done with its Nubia M2 line as they have announced a new variant to the smartphone. The Nubia M2 Play has been announced in China, and specs-wise, it is somewhere in between the orig...

Nokia officially rebrands Withings, now calls it Nokia Health - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Nokia is back. Thanks to HMD Global for its numerous efforts to bring back life to the Finnish brand that was once the top phone maker in the world. We’ve seen a number of new Nokia phones already ...

5 Accessories That Upgrade Your Smart Phone - Indiegogo Blog

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go.indiegogo.com - We all rely on our smartphones, whether it’s to get us from point A to point B, capture life’s greatest moments or catch Pokemon. Stay connected with these innovative phone accessories, designed to...

Instagram is still clobbering Snapchat, and it's worse than we thought

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mashable.com - Instagram Stories is still eating Snapchat alive, and we have fresh data to prove it. Instagram's Stories now have 250 million daily active users, up from 200 million in April, according to the com...

Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Dominic Smith”, CEO of the Baltimore USA-based start-up “Imboard” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your ...

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...

Lapkin : Biodegradable Laptop Keyboard Cover - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Mihaela Muruianu”, Co-Founder of the London based start-up “Lapkin” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1.What is it exactly that you do and what your...

SpyderMate: A Suite of Five Unique and Powerful SEO Analysis Tools that Allows you to Manage any Number of Internet Marketing Campaigns Easy - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - SpyderMate is a suite of unique and powerful internet marketing tools structured to make managing any number of internet marketing campaigns easy. “SpyderMate” is a suite of five powerful SEO analy...

Launch Your Product with Crowdfunding | The $1 Million LEGO Wall - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Whenever I travel anywhere, I bring my laptop, and on my laptop there’s a laptop cover that everyone seems to ask about. It comes from Brik Book, and it’s a LEGO-compatible cover. It’s awesome. I i...

Cobalt and Burgundy Surface Laptops Are Backordered - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Ever since Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop and they opened pre-orders, I have been watching the configuration pages closely to see if the company would sell-through their initial allotment o...

Apple's Newest Ad is a Subtle Work of Emotional Magic

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www.adweek.com - Remember those big boxes of unsorted photos that ’90s-you would find in closets, guiltily sift through, then give up on? Smartphone use has made that problem so much worse: Because it’s so easy to ...

Fox Networks Group Follows YouTube's Lead in Adopting 6-Second Ad Format

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www.adweek.com - YouTube’s non-skippable six-second ad format is branching out. Fox Networks Group has now joined YouTube in adopting its unique ad format. The six-second non-skippable ads will air first on Fox’s d...

Watch the SMX Advanced keynote: Google's Jerry Dischler talks current, future SEM trends

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searchengineland.com - In a wide-ranging keynote discussion at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Wash. last week, Google’s head of search ads, Jerry Dischler, talked new products and features and what the newest innovations revea...

SearchCap: Google job schema, Google mobile first & the SEO movie

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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. Do you have job listings you want to surface higher in Google? Google now has new str...

Digital Disruption Common Sense

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cxo-transform.com - Facebook took 3.5 years to acquire 50 million customers, Whatsapp took 15 months, Angry Birds took 15 days. Since 1995 when Clay Christensen and Joe Bower published the HBR article Disruptive Techn...

Lenovo just blew our minds with this bendable laptop concept

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mashable.com - Wild concept renderings of tech devices are a dime a dozen, but when a major tech company shows one off, people tend to pay attention. On Tuesday, Lenovo uses the Lenovo Transform event in the New ...

6 reasons why the OnePlus 5 is the Android phone to get

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mashable.com - The long-awaited OnePlus 5 is here. And. It. Is. Glorious. The OnePlus 5 is what you get when take a Google Pixel XL and marry it to the iPhone 7 Plus's dual cameras. It's the perfect phone for any...

Your online reputation on Google is the direct result of the content you write on your website, your blogs, and on social media, over time - Biznology

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biznology.com - How (and, to be honest, if) you, your brand, your business, and services, your products, and your colleagues are portrayed in a simple Google search is the most important personal and professional ...

56 new emoji are here—but iPhone users will have to wait

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mashable.com - Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update a...

iOS 11 Makes Setting Up New Devices Super Easy

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www.macrumors.com - iOS 11 Makes Setting Up New Devices Super Easy In iOS 11, Apple is implementing a new "Automatic Setup" feature, which is designed to make it much quicker to get a new device ready to go right out ...

The Size of iPhone’s Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years

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sensortower.com - As the minimum storage capacity of iPhone continues to increase—it sits at 32 GB today on the iPhone 7, double the the iPhone 5S’s 16 GB circa 2013—it’s not surprising that the size of apps themsel...

Everything You Need To Know Before Shopping For Your Next Car

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carshopping.biz - Car shopping can be dreadful even though the thought of a process that is very exciting for some but frightening for many. Some research can help make the process of car shopping process. Start by ...

Make $500 a Day Online w/ Affiliate Marketing Basics

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duracmarketing.com - Make lifetime commissions from Clickbank? Clickbank has thousands of affiliates making commissions every day. Today, you can be one of them too… Click Here! Learn the best ways to make $500 each da...

8Mode LED Fidget Spinner Has Eight Modes and Amazing LED Light Display - Press Release - Digital Journal

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www.digitaljournal.com - This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire Syracuse, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/20/2017 -- A new fidget spinner with an amazing, spinning LED light display and eight different modes...

ODPi Webinar on DataOps at Scale: Taking Apache Hadoop Enterprise-Wide

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www.linux.com - 2016 was a pivotal year for Apache Hadoop, a year in which enterprises across a variety of industries moved the technology out of PoCs and the lab and into production. Look no further than AtScale’...

Customers’ lives are digital--but is your customer care still analog?

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www.mckinsey.com - Digital customer care is still new territory for many companies. They can learn a lot from the natives. Today’s customers expect digital service. More and more are getting it, too, across sectors f...

SAS® Viya™ now available in Cloud Foundry environment

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www.sas.com - If you’re a CIO who needs help adapting your IT footprint to meet business demands, analytics leader SAS has a solution: The SAS® Viya™ Cloud Foundry release is available now. Cloud Foundry offers ...

Microsoft admits to disabling third-party antivirus code if Win 10 doesn't like it

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www.theregister.co.uk - Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues. Redmond is currently being sued by security house Kasper...

Hackers extorted a cool $1 million from South Korean web hosting provider - Help Net Security

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www.helpnetsecurity.com - Whether through ransomware, or simply by breaking into computer systems and exfiltrating and deleting the data found on them with other means, cyber extortionists are going for the big fish: busine...

Three things to consider when developing embedded UIs for the IoT

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embedded-computing.com - With no signs of the IoT economy slowing down—IHS Markit reports that we’ll hit over 75 billion devices by 2025—the challenge for embedded development teams is figuring out how to modernize legacy ...

Cybersecurity Fact vs. Fiction

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www.darkreading.com - Today's security industry is plagued with misinformation and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). Is your car safe to drive? Could that insulin pump you rely on give you a deadly dose? Could your po...

Amazon Turns to Subscription Boxes to Dominate Clothing Market

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www.bloomberg.com - Amazon.com Inc. is entering the fashion subscription box business. Sure, the e-commerce giant shook the supermarket world Friday when it unveiled its takeover of Whole Foods Market Inc.But on Tuesd...

Forrester Names 7 Hybrid File Sharing Leaders

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www.cmswire.com - Enterprise file sync and share isn't going anywhere. Once viewed primarily as a consumer tool, the software has gained acceptance in the workplace to the point where Forrester analyst Cheryl McKinn...

Getting started with the WeMos D1 Mini ESP8266 Dev Board

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embedded-computing.com - [D1 Mini front by Tpkull WeMos via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.] Since Arduino boards have become something of a de facto standard for maker and DIY projects, many other boards have adapted the...

Egnyte vs. Box | Cloud Storage Reviews

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cloudstoragereviewed.com - With the mounting assets in the online world, companies are looking for storage options. Also, file storage and sharing as well as collaborating with multiple users across an organization has becom...

BitPay Wallet Review

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themerkle.com - The BitPay wallet application checks a lot of the right boxes for both novice and experienced Bitcoin users. The cross-platform compatibility is quite significant as well, as it creates a seamless ...

SophosLabs analysis: why the surge in Word docs hiding ransomware?

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Thanks to Graham Chantry of SophosLabs for the behind-the-scenes work on this article. Most media attention tends to focus on the new, unique attack techniques. But for security practitioners deali...

21 Ways to Step Up Your Snapchat Game

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www.pcmag.com - These 21 tips make Snapchat superstardom a snap. 21. Make a Spectacles of Yourself Everything Snapchat does, Instagram -- and others -- have copied. Selfie filters can be found in Facebook and Inst...

3 Qualities You Need to Constantly Advance Your Career

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www.entrepreneur.com - Entrepreneur Network provides you with expertise and opportunities to accelerate your brand's growth. Learn More » You only need three things to constantly advance your career. The first is attitud...

4 Toxic Habits that Keep 'Wantrepreneurs' Down

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www.entrepreneur.com - Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Entrepreneur has an affiliate partnership with Hurdlrso we may get a share of the revenue from ...