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7 Outdated SEO Practices You Need To Quit Right Now - Upward Media

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www.upwardmedia.com - It’s a no-brainer that we live in an increasingly fast-paced world—especially the online version. Everything from our buying preferences and purchasing habits to the way we consume knowledge and inte…

Announcing App Service Isolated, more power, scale and ease of use

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azure.microsoft.com - Today, we are announcing the general availability of App Service Isolated, which brings the simplicity of multi-tenant App Service to the secure, dedicated virtual networks powered by App Service Env…

Showroomers and Webroomers: How To Reach Today’s Shoppers

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retailminded.com - With the onslaught of the digital revolution, the nature of the retail industry has shifted. The days of simply walking into a store and making a purchase are seldom. Today’s shoppers, showroomers an…

Egnyte Connect – Design Within Reach – Success Story

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www.egnyte.com - Design Within Reach (DWR) founder Rob Forbes started the company back in 1998 with a simple vision – to make modern design accessible to the public. Forbes had recently returned from London and was l…

HolodeckVR is turning location-based VR into a multi-user social adventure

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techcrunch.com - Whether or not consumer VR becomes as widespread as many hope, there’s no denying that a lot of the current technology is a blast to try. This thesis has birthed much of the excitement around bringin…

Oculus updates its Home platform to play nice with Steam purchases

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techcrunch.com - Oculus may be aiming to become the content power house of virtual reality, but it’s still making efforts to play nice with other ecosystems. In a new update rolling out today for PCs, Oculus has adde…

Amazon launches ‘Themes,’ a feature for filtering Customer Reviews by popular terms

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techcrunch.com - Amazon has quietly launched a new feature called “Themes,” designed to make it easier for shoppers to navigate a product’s customer reviews. Now, in the Amazon mobile app, you’re able to see which wo…

Facebook tests ‘going live’ from Facebook Camera, Live Stories like Instagram

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is testing a new way to “go live” on its social network – an option that was previously available by pressing the “Live” button on the Status update box. Now, for some users, the ability to …

A digital stylus that works on any surface, almost

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techcrunch.com - Developed by Israel-based OTM Technologies, Phree is a digital pen that you can use to, in the words of the CEO, express yourself anywhere, anytime, on any surface. Almost any surface. It doesn’t wri…

Equity podcast: Tesla rides high, Apple inches toward $1 trillion, and Redfin’s IPO surges

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techcrunch.com - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we walk through the numbers driving Silicon Valley each and every week. This episode, Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley an…

RANKED: The most valuable brands in the world

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www.visualcapitalist.com - Tech has already conquered the stock market and the realm of digital advertising. Now the technology sector also has a strangle hold on another measure: the value of consumer brands. The massive scal…

Surfing the Internet... from my TRS-80 Model 100

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arstechnica.com - Mobility redefined: TRS-80 Model 100, Raspberry Pi B, a serial cable, a USB-to-serial converter, and a swag backup battery to power the Pi. Onscreen, I'm on Google's home page with Lynx. The true tes…

Security researcher who neutralized WCry to be released on $30,000 bond

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arstechnica.com - Marcus Hutchins, the celebrated security professional who was arrested Wednesday on federal charges he helped create and distribute malware that steals banking credentials, will be released from dete…

Siemens, DHS warn of “low skill” exploits against CT and PET Scanners

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arstechnica.com - The Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued an alert warning of four vulnerabilities in multiple medical molecular imaging s…

What kind of gaming rig can run at 16K resolution?

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arstechnica.com - The key to the build is four Quadro P5000 video cards provided by Nvidia. While each card performs similarly to a consumer-level GTX1080 (8.9 teraflops, 2560 parallel cores), these are pro-tier cards…

4 Steps To A Cover Letter That Actually Gets You Hired [Template Included]

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cultivatedculture.com - We need to craft a good cover letter to help boost our chances, but we don’t want to spend several hours doing so because there are far more effective ways to spend our time when it comes to job sear…

No vulns. No hardwired passwords. Patchable. Congress dreams of IoT: Impossible Online Tech

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www.theregister.co.uk - After years of warnings about the parlous state of Internet of Sh!t security, the US Senate has finally introduced legislation on the matter. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act woul…

4 Ways to Build Trust and Influence on LinkedIn

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Interested in practical, scalable ways to establish your professional credibility? LinkedIn is a powerful platform for fostering strategic connections and creating a successful brand. In this article…

Tim Cook Hints That Apple Is Working on Autonomous Systems – But Not Just for Cars

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futurism.com - The rumors that Apple may be building an autonomous system received an update yesterday. During a conference call with investors on Tuesday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook hinted at the work Apple is doing w…

RED Hydrogen One to make full 4-View holography a reality - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - RED Hydrogen One is now one of the highly anticipated Android phones of today. We first heard about it earlier in July as the world’s first holographic media machine. RED, a known maker of high-end p…

Adapticons brings adaptive icons Android O feature to Lollipop and up - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re one of those people who puts a lot of thought into how your icons look on your smartphone, you’re probably looking forward to Android O because one of its features is called Adaptive Icons.…

7 Ways to Add More Value to Your Loyalty Program

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www.loyalty360.org - To keep customers active in your loyalty program, it’s essential to reward members beyond discounts and demonstrate the value of continuous participation. Research featured in the International Journ…

BlackBox-BI: A French Start-Up that Provides Easy to Use Affordable Business Intelligence for Companies of all Sizes - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - BlackBox-BI makes creating business dashboards easy. From data load to dashboard creation, BlackBox-BI focus is to make each step as easy as possible without compromising on functionality. “BlackBox-…

SmartUse: Mobile Application To Handle Construction Projects - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Ms. ‘Lucie Perrier'; Marketing Director of the New York-based start-up “SmartUse”. Below, is the full interview that we have condu…

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 s…

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 develop…

Xerendi Initiative : Educational Learning For Kids - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Uchenna Ibekwe”, Principa and Founder of the Virginia – United States based startup Xerendi_Initiative” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What …

Hinge Created Snapchat Geofilters to 'Crash' 25 Weddings Across the U.S.

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www.adweek.com - Only two people plan on getting hitched at a wedding. However, one dating app is hoping all the single friends of the happy couple might want to get hinged. With a Snapchat campaign deployed to 25 we…

Big Social Media Villains and How to Fight Them

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www.adweek.com - Late on a Saturday night in October 2016, hackers unlocked the Twitter account of Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes. Under the cover of night, they laid a trap for unsuspecting contacts, posting “Hey, it’s O…

Stop Making These Mistakes So Your Website Won’t Suck

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www.shoemoney.com - There are over 1 billion websites out there today. Visual representations of this are astonishing. But this also means that there are millions of websites that suck. Really. And it also means there a…

How a founder went from being worth millions to -$10,000 almost overnight — then rebounded to a $100 million fortune

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www.businessinsider.com - Jason Calacanis is an investor and the author of the new book "Angel." Flickr/Joi Ito When Jason Calacanis was just a scrappy kid from Brooklyn in the late 1990s, he built a thriving magazine called …

Opinion | The Kronos indictment: Is it a crime to create and sell malware?

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www.washingtonpost.com - The Justice Department has indicted Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher, for creating and selling malware. The Verge explains: A noted security researcher has been arrested by the FBI, as first re…

A guy flying in a hammock attached to his drone • r/videos

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www.reddit.com - Political videos—including content relating to social issues which have a clear political element—should be submitted to /r/PoliticalVideo. This includes submissions of current or recent political fi…

Irrelevance, Excruciating Painful Decline & Death - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos constantly reminds his people of the biggest enemy being irrelevance, then excruciating, painful decline and death. So when the CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing, disrupti…

7 Hacks for publishing on LinkedIn [reading time: 4.5 min] My longest piece

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petrafisher.com - Hacks, who am I kidding? Hack seems to be the word people use instead of tip these days. Like a workshop is called a master class. And the 14-year-old teenage horror in my home is called a sweet, cut…

Everything you need to know about Omni-Channel marketing

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www.lilachbullock.com - Omni-channel is one of the latest buzzwords to take the marketing world by storm. It’s been around for a while now, but only recently have we really started to see more businesses using it. In this g…

Landing Page Contact Forms: How Many Form Fields Are Enough?

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instapage.com - A landing page contact form is one of the most important items used to convert leads, and yet so many marketers fail at designing them correctly. Forms are often subject to the “Goldlilocks syndrome:…

Free YouTube Advertising: How To Advertise In Youtube And Get Free Clicks Through YT Loophole

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durac.info - Make lifetime commissions from Clickbank? Clickbank has thousands of affiliates making commissions every day. Today, you can be one of them too… Click Here! Free YouTube Advertising: Free clicks from…

Affiliate Promotion Strategies From The Pros

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duracmarketing.com - This article will be a great asset when you may have about how to get started. The tips below provide some great advice that will give you lots of assistance to help you succeed in your web marketing…

Effective Tips For Marketing On Facebook's Website

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duracmarketing.com - Do you want to market a service or product but lack the knowledge to start? Facebook marketing could be the answer you are looking for. There are millions of users there waiting to hear from you. If …

Learn About The Power Of Social Media Marketing

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marketingpromotion.biz - Social media sites started as places where people could chat about their day or post funny pictures or family photos. While all that still goes on, these sites have also become very effective marketi…

Quotient Retailer iQ™ Wins Digiday Signal Award for Best Retail Technology

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www.businesswire.com - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quotient Technology Inc. (NYSE: QUOT), a leading digital promotions, media and analytics company that connects brands, retailers, and shoppers, today announced…

Automotive ECUs: Architecture considerations to implement secure software updates over the air

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www.embedded-computing.com - With increasing recognition that our cars are evolving into rolling data centers, manufacturers are faced with the challenge of keeping software current. Part of the demand is driven by economics; th…

Cerber Ransomware Now Capable of Stealing Bitcoin Wallet Files

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www.tripwire.com - The developers of Cerber ransomware have equipped their creation with the ability to steal victims’ Bitcoin wallet files. Security researchers first discovered Cerber in early 2016. Since then, the c…

Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

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www.bloomberg.com - Apple Inc. is planning to release a version of its smartwatch later this year that can connect directly to cellular networks, a move designed to reduce the device’s reliance on the iPhone, people fam…

How To Block Super Annoying Website Notification Requests In Chrome

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fieldguide.gizmodo.com - Nowadays every other goddamn site does it. You’re browsing the web, open a tab here, click a link there, and wham: Watchcartoons wants to 🔔! show notifications. YouTube wants to 🔔! show notificatio…

Parents charge Disney with slurping kids' info through mobile games

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www.theregister.co.uk - Disney has been sued in America for allegedly collecting children's personal information without getting parents' approvals. A class-action lawsuit [PDF] filed Thursday in northern California accuses…

Mozilla sets up private, encrypted file sharing service for large files - Help Net Security

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www.helpnetsecurity.com - Mozilla has launched an online service for private sharing of encrypted files between two users. It’s called Send, and it’s meant to ensure users’ shared files do not remain online forever. Send allo…

News in brief: Wikileaks’ Dumbo flies; off-script chatbots; Google down-votes duff apps

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news This week’s Wikileaks revelation, the latest in its drip-feed of stolen CIA hacking tools, is known as Dumbo. The Dumbo tools are rather o…

Uber drivers game the system – force up fares

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - You really want to get home during rush hour, your phone’s nearly dead, and/or it’s raining. Uber can get you there, though it might sting a little. Or a lot: surge pricing could multiply your fare x…

Cyber bodyguards in high demand, recruiters say

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hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - The job market is booming for professionals with cyber skills that can protect a business from cyber espionage, data leaks, and hackers. Cyber security specialists are in high demand because all indu…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition July 2017 update

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community.dynamics.com - As Alysa outlines in her blog post, the release of the July update marks the availability of several new applications as well as important updates to many of our existing Dynamics 365 Cloud Services.…

Chatbots for Enterprise Customer Service

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www.entrepreneur.com - Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » Chatbots have proven to be an extremely versatile tool. They'…

How Small-Business Owners Should Be Using IoT

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www.entrepreneur.com - Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » By 2020, there will be more than 24 billion connected devices…


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