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5 Tactics to Supercharge Your Website Conversion Rate

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www.entrepreneur.com - Online marketing conveys a perception of being relatively straightforward. Unfortunately, however, most businesses have a hard time converting their visitors to sales. Still, they may see some real i…

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16291 for PC - Windows Experience Blog

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blogs.windows.com - UPDATE 9/22: We have released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16291 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Slow ring. Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16291 for PC to Windows Insid…

Alternatives to Uber: The best alternative ride-hailing apps

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www.techworld.com - 2017 has been a horror show for the world's most valuable startup — the ride-hailing app Uber — and its former CEO Travis Kalanick. Today, Transport for London announced that Uber will not be issued …

Product Evangelism: How to Evangelize and Create Advocates

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to create an intensely loyal fan base for your product? Wondering how a product evangelist can help? To explore how product evangelism supports the sales process, I interview Guy Kawasaki. The S…

Facebook To Turn Over 3,000 Ads To Congress In Russian Election Interference Probe

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www.npr.org - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen here in May, has announced new rules intended to remove ads that interfere with the integrity of elections. Steven Senne/AP hide caption Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerber…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: September 22 - Petri

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www.petri.com - This would be more impressive if it were underwater. Just saying. Because it’s that time of the year again—by which I mean Microsoft Ignite—this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s first stor…

Preschoolers get their own Pokémon game with launch of Pokémon Playhouse

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techcrunch.com - A new app called Pokémon Playhouse from the Pokémon Company, released this week, is bringing Pikachu and friends to preschoolers. Unlike the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, a collaboration between…

Google launches crowdsourced TV show and movie reviews, but only in India

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techcrunch.com - Google has added a new feature that allows web users to contribute their own movie and television reviews right within Google search results – a step towards the possible implementation of Google’s o…

Startup Battlefield applications for Disrupt Berlin close this Monday

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techcrunch.com - Ach du lieber, menschen! The application deadline for your chance to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin is this Monday, September 25 at 5 p.m. PT. It’s time to cancel you…

Ford is now designing cars in mixed reality using Microsoft HoloLens

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techcrunch.com - Ford is making cars using Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset, as part of a new test project the automaker is rolling out globally. The mixed reality design trial allows for rapid prototyping …

How TBH hit #1 by turning anonymity positive

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techcrunch.com - “If we’re improving the mental health of millions of teens, that’s a success to us” says Nikita Bier, co-founder of tbh. His team has scored a surprise hit, rocketing to the top of the App Store by l…

Target expands its next-day delivery service, now reaches 70+ million customers

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techcrunch.com - Target’s next-day delivery service focused on everyday essentials, which has been in testing over the summer, is now expanding to eight major metros, making it available to over 70 million people, or…

The PocketBeagle is the tiniest and most whimsically-named single-board computer on the market

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techcrunch.com - Do you need a Linux machine about as big as a few quarters? Man, have I got something for you. It’s called the BeagleBoard PocketBeagle and it’s the smallest Linux computer you can buy for $25. I’m a…

iPhone 8 and Apple Watch Series 3 hit stores today

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techcrunch.com - A week and a half after being unveiled on stage at the new Steve Jobs Theater, the iPhone 8/8 Plus and Apple Watch Series 3 have hit just hit store shelves. As ever, eager fans were queued up at stor…

Another Verizon leak exposed confidential data on internal systems

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www.zdnet.com - Security researchers have found yet another data exposure at Verizon. Confidential and sensitive documents, including server logs and several instances of credentials for internal systems, were found…

Machine-learning cloud platforms get to work

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arstechnica.com - The machine-learning smarts that help Google know what’s in a photo and let Amazon’s Alexa carry on a conversation are getting a real job. “ML” platforms from vendors like Amazon, Google, IBM, Micros…

Report: Tesla snubbing Nvidia, developing its own self-driving chip

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arstechnica.com - Tesla is working on custom silicon for its self-driving software in partnership with AMD, CNBC reported Wednesday. "The carmaker has received back samples of the first implementation of its processor…

Tales of an IT professional sailing around the Antarctic loop

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arstechnica.com - International (waters) IT man of mystery, Carles Pina i Estany. This uniform is more functional (and aesthetically bad ass) than the standard IT pro garb of khakis/polo or jeans/graphic tee. Carles P…

iFixit’s iPhone 8 teardown finds a smaller battery and lots of glue

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arstechnica.com - There’s a new iPhone out in the wild, which means there’s a new teardown from iFixit showing everything that’s going on inside Apple’s latest handset. The teardown does confirm a few things that Appl…

If Bill Gates really thinks ctrl-alt-del was a mistake, he should have fixed it himself

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arstechnica.com - An IBM keyboard signed by ctrl-alt-del inventor David Bradley. Speaking at Harvard earlier this month, Bill Gates was asked why you have to press ctrl-alt-del before you can enter your password and l…

The World's 200+ Unicorns, in One Giant Map

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www.visualcapitalist.com - Today’s infographic comes to us from cost information site HowMuch.net, and it shows the hundreds of unicorns around the world. The special “unicorn” moniker, of course, is reserved for privately-hel…

Codekeeper - Source Code Escrow - Software Escrow

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www.codekeeper.co - Can you also support other source code deposit methods? Yes, we also support SFTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, email and others. Let us know your needs and we’ll see how we can make that work. Can you…

How Microsoft’s secret user onboarding process fooled us all

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www.process.st - What happens if you make software too difficult to use? Probably the same thing that happens if you never made it at all — no one uses it. It’s easy to get users to adapt to familiar concepts like dr…

A Super-Easy GIF-Maker and Other Essential New Apps

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www.wired.com - Google’s “do no evil” motto is being challenged this week in a complaint charging the company with secretly collecting and storing data on school children through its Chromebook and Apps for Educatio…

How to Promote Your Business With Personal Social Profiles

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you want to expand the online visibility of your business? Have you thought about leveraging your personal social media profiles? Optimizing your personal profiles to highlight your business is a …

Android's zero-touch enrollment brings seamless, secure device rollouts - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a company that provides smartphones or tablets to your employees (and if you have a lot of employees), you probably find it hard to format and adjust each device according to company privac…

Bose QuietComfort35 II launches with Gooogle Assistant - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We learned about this one last week when a new pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones was leaked. It was believed to arrive with Google Assistant and now the product is made official. Both Google and B…

Google Project Fi, Google Store brings trade-in program - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re already pretty excited for the upcoming Pixel 2 launch, then you also better start saving up for it. But if you’re aiming for one of the current Google devices, then you can save a little m…

What Do Most Trustworthy Brands Have in Common that Sparks Customer Loyalty?

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www.loyalty360.org - All brands want to be viewed as trustworthy. A new national survey from The Values Institute revealed its most trustworthy brands. Amazon is America’s most trustworthy brand following by Marriott, Mi…

Can Handwritten Notes Drive Customer Loyalty?

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www.loyalty360.org - Making emotional connections are more important than ever for brands to acquire and retain customer loyalty. But can handwritten notes resonate with customers and have a far-reaching impact in this d…

5 futuristic advertising channels and the first rule of advertising dynamics

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marketingland.com - The average American sees several hundred ads a day (PDF) as they peruse the internet, watch TV or consume other ad-supported media. Surprisingly, this number has remained fairly constant since the e…

ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy…

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 you…

CUBICUS SMART TOYS : Child's Daily Activities - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Gema Parreño Piqueras”, CEO of the Madrid – Spain based start-up “CUBICUS SMART TOYS SL” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that …

SPI 244: Bootstrapping a Startup with Nathan Barry from ConvertKit - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Nathan Barry is back, and in this episode, he’s giving you a look under the hood at his own email marketing company, ConvertKit. If you’ve ever wondered how to bootstrap a business, this is the episo…

PWAs are Coming to Windows Store in Windows 10 Version 1803 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft will begin providing Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) via the Windows Store beginning in Windows 10 version 1803. Here’s how it will happen and what I think this will mean for Windows 10 users. …

How to Get Your Content Published on Forbes and Huffington Post

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www.jeffbullas.com - Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman is an expert in the psychology of judgment and decision, and his research has challenged assumptions of human rationality as a driver in economic decisio…

Panamax BlueBOLT-CV2 Provides Local IP Control, Recurring Revenue Opportunity

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www.cepro.com - Panamax, a Core Brands manufacturer of power protection and power management solutions, introduced a new IP control option called BlueBOLT-CV2 that is compatible with several of its products at CEDIA…

Facebook's Election Ad Overhaul Takes Crucial First Steps

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www.wired.com - Facebook has agreed to give Congressional investigators roughly 3,000 political ads it found linked to Russian accounts that ran during the 2016 election. The company will also overhaul the way it ap…

16 Creative Ways To Use Visuals In Your Landing Pages

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bloggingwizard.com - Visuals are the emotional foundation of your landing pages. They have the power to make your visitors walk away feeling happy, informed, motivated or reassured. And most importantly – they have the p…

10 Things that DO NOT (Directly) Affect Your Google Rankings - Whiteboard Friday

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moz.com - What do the age of your site, your headline H1/H2 preference, bounce rate, and shared hosting all have in common? You might've gotten a hint from the title: not a single one of them directly affects …

Mark Zuckerberg is gifting as much as $12.8 billion to his own foundation in 2018

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mashable.com - Just a day after he somewhat apologized for somewhat undermining democracy, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared Friday he would be fueling his own philanthropic organization with about $12.8 billion …

No rush! AP takes its sweet time correcting B.S. tweet about Betsy DeVos

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twitchy.com - As Twitchy told you yesterday, The Hill sent out this tweet about Betsy DeVos’ penchant for private jet travel: DeVos uses private jet for work-related travel https://t.co/xvdnGmDo2c pic.twitter.com/…

Everyone's waiting for the iPhone X, and that may be bad news for Apple

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mashable.com - Today’s retail launch of the Apple iPhone 8 and 8 Plus is a crucial test for Apple's riskiest iPhone strategy. For the first time, Apple introduced its latest iPhone upgrades while simultaneously tea…

What the Facebook/Russia controversy is actually about

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mashable.com - Mark Zuckerberg is in damage control mode like never before because Facebook is facing the only real threat to its dominance: U.S. government regulation. Zuckerberg's video on Thursday told the story…

Several Reasons To Go Get An Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - There is a lot of information available to help anyone new to the iphone. The article below has some excellent tricks to using your iphone. If you get your iPhone wet, try to use rice when drying it …

Make Your Business Stand Out From The Rest Using Facebook Marketing

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duracmarketing.com - There are no miracle methods you can use to develop a successful social media marketing campaign. No matter your business, you have a target market that wants and likes different things from every ot…

Make Friends And Influence People With Social Media Marketing

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marketingpromotion.biz - Social media is one of the newest venues to advertise your business today. It is not hard to start out, particularly if you do a bit of research in advance. Take some time to understand the following…

Gamified Training in the Corporate Workplace

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yukaichou.com - The corporate workplace is a harsh place. Well, harsh as in very few employees wake up every morning excited to go to work. More often than not, employees simply attempt to survive through the dreadf…

Facebook: We don’t always 'get things right the first time'

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www.cnet.com - Facebook's head of design on Monday talked about trying to prevent misuse of its products. Facebook has been in hot water lately for people misusing its products. Some have spread false news on the s…

Jailbreaking your connected coffee machine: The idiocy of things | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - The Internet of Things (IoT) is awesome. I love my smart devices when they make my life easier. Harnessing IoT in the Enterprise The tech revolution is spreading to every corner of the earth with the…

Improve Your Content Strategy with These 4 Proofreading Tools

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susangilbert.com - Monday Tips is a short list of the best finds across the internet to start your week off right. Today I have some proofreading resources to help you improve your content. Here’s four links with tips …


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