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Saturday, September 16, 2017

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Democratic senators are introducing a bill that would let people freeze their credit for free

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www.theverge.com - Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and 11 other Democratic senators introduced a bill this week that could give people the ability to freeze their credit for free. Warren also announced that she'…

5 Customer Retention Strategies That Work | Aimtell | Website Push Notifications

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aimtell.com - Let’s face it: you say that you value your customers, but do you really? If all, or most, of them make one purchase from you and never return, do you think you did a great job convincing them how gre…

Equifax CIO, CSO Step Down

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www.darkreading.com - Equifax late today announced that its chief information officer and chief security officer were "retiring" and "effective immediately." While the credit-monitoring firm did not include the executives…

Oracle's Q1: Cloud, great. Hardware, meh. Mergers, unlikely

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www.theregister.co.uk - Oracle kicked off its 2018 fiscal year by reporting more than $9bn in total revenues. The enterprise software giant talked up its cloud business Thursday while CEO Larry Ellison made a point of needl…

‘Alt-right’ figure who set up Assange meeting refuses to cooperate with Senate intel probe

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www.yahoo.com - A controversial “alt-right” journalist and provocateur who met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London this week says he is refusing to turn over documents and emails requested by the Senate …

Why Dropbox decided to drop AWS and build its own infrastructure and network

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techcrunch.com - There is always a tension inside companies about whether to build or to buy, whatever the need. A few years ago Dropbox decided it was going to move the majority of its infrastructure requirements fr…

Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi answers some burning questions about Face ID

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techcrunch.com - Face ID is easily the most hot button topic to come out of Apple’s iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just now serious Apple is about it, questions have rightly begun to b…

Apple defends new ad-tracking prevention measures in Safari

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techcrunch.com - Apple isn’t backing down from a new approach that limits how web visitors can be tracked by online advertisers. The new feature in Safari, called Intelligent Tracking Prevention, was first announced …

A look back in IPO: Apple, the early PC purveyor

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techcrunch.com - Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast. To wrap up our series of looks into the IPOs of tech’s Big 5, we turn to Ap…

The iPhone lineup just got really compleX

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techcrunch.com - Steve Jobs said “Simple can be harder than complex,” so it looks like Apple is taking the easy route. Customers will now have to choose between 8 different iPhones with today’s addition of the iPhone…

WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk

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techcrunch.com - Automattic, the company behind the popular open source web publishing software WordPress, has said it will be pulling away from using Facebook’s React JavaScript library over concerns about a patent …

Tencent tried to buy Spotify earlier this year

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techcrunch.com - Spotify has long been linked with going public in the U.S. — it is speculated to be preparing for an IPO-less listing next year — but it has emerged that the company rebuffed the opportunity to sell …

Alphabet reportedly in $1 billion investment talks with Lyft

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arstechnica.com - Last week, my colleague Tim Lee explained why Lyft is going to be like Android, licensing and partnering with others rather than doing everything in-house. On Friday, Reuters reported on a notable de…

A Comcast data cap tale: Unexplained overage drives man to cancel service

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arstechnica.com - Longtime Comcast customer Drew Weaver was surprised in mid-May of this year when he got an automated call notifying him that he’d gone over his 1TB monthly data cap. First of all, Comcast alleged tha…

The near-final macOS High Sierra golden master has been seeded to devs

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arstechnica.com - The golden master (GM) candidate of macOS High Sierra was released to developers today. The GM doesn't add any significant new features over the previous beta version, but it can be helpful for QAing…

Original iPhone Developer Explains Why You Should Shut Down Your Background Apps

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www.inc.com - When we were kids, we were all told to put away our toys after we've finished playing with them. It takes time (and a lot of nagging) but eventually the message gets through. We still hear it when we…

How to Use Social Media Insights to Improve Your Marketing

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are you marketing on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest? Do you know which type of posts your followers prefer? Social media analytics let you see who your followers are and what they like. In this artic…

Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers

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arstechnica.com - Google has quietly stopped challenging most search warrants from US judges in which the data requested is stored on overseas servers, according to the Justice Department. The revelation, contained in…

How to Create Instagram Ads Using Facebook Ads Manager

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Would you rather use Facebook Ads Manager instead of Power Editor? Now that Instagram ads are available to most advertisers through the Facebook Ads Manager, they’re easier than ever to create. In th…

Blinkist, Eventbrite among winners of Google's Material Design Awards - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - It’s only the third year that Google has been recognizing the best apps that use Material Design, but already they’re trying to shake things up with this year’s edition. They have now opened the nomi…

BlackBerry Krypton reaches the FCC, launch expected soon - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - BlackBerry is getting busy again prepping for its next Android device. After the much talked about KEYOne, we can expect the BlackBery Krypton to be announced in the market soon. This Krypton is said…

Always On Ambient Display available on Pixel 2 Android Oreo - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We just confirmed the next-gen Pixel phones’ launch date and anticipation for October 4 is building up. We’re certain two new smartphones will be revealed but we’re also expecting other products or s…

7 Tips to Get The Most From Your Marketing Efforts on Twitter

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www.binkd.com - Many brands are now using social media as a medium to share and broadcast their messages and promotions to a larger audience and; why not, as most people are now getting their news and information ab…

A Loyalty Experience

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www.loyalty360.org - How great UX engenders brand loyalty I’ve been working on a deck for my executive team that talks about user experience. In it, I discuss what it actually means to work as a User Experience professio…

CMO Challenge Report: Aligning Customer Loyalty with Brand Identity

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www.loyalty360.org - To be presented on October 3rd, 2017 at 1PM EDT In the last few decades, especially the last 15 years, incredible advances in computer and networking technology have provided easy access to an expon…

Stores.Miscake.com: A Web-Based Service for Creating Online Stores - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Miscake Stores is a service for creating online stores. It is designed both for small merchants and big resellers. Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mrs. Richardson regarding h…

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…

Render.st: An Easy to Use and Affordable Online Render Farm, with a Great Customer Support - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Render Street is an easy to use and affordable render farm for 3D projects with very good customer support. “Render Street” is a global provider of rendering services. Below is the full interview tha…

Bitrix24: A United Work Space which Handles the many Aspects of Daily Operations and Tasks that Allows you to Create your Own Social Intranet in Minutes! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Bitrix24 is a comprehensive business collaboration platform. It contains robustly constructed tools like a CRM, calendars, file sharing, tasks, and project groups that are enhanced and unified by an …

Cheekd : Mobile Dating App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Lori Cheek”, CEO of the USA based start-up “Cheekd” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all …

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 not …

Pampered Teacher : Sends Teachers a Subscription Box Filled with Hand-Selects 4-6 Teacher Gifts - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Cristin Frank”, Owner Of the NY – USA based startup “Pampered Teacher” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what …

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,…

How to Make an Electronic White Board for Your Videos

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - A lot of people have been asking me for a more detailed explanation about how I create my electronic white board videos, so I decided to create a video that explains it better than any blog post or p…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: September 15 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because it’s ides of September, this edition of Short Takes looks at Project Honolulu, new Surface rumors, Azure confidential computing, supposedly high Microsoft Edge usage, and much, much more. Loo…

UWP Games to Get More Powerful with Fall Creators Update - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft revealed today that UWP games will gain access to expanded system resources with the release of the Fall Creators Update. The net result? These Store-based game titles should be more full-f…

What Product Launch Formula Is Really Like (My Candid Insights) - Steve Pavlina

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www.stevepavlina.com - Today is the last day of Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula sale, which itself is a 7-figure launch. Since I bought this program last year and have been involved in the PLF community for almost a y…

These 8 New Digital Stats Show Social Networks' Growing Pains as the Industry Booms

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www.adweek.com - The digital ad industry is both maturing (social networks are exploding) and experiencing growing pains (viewability issues and brand safety problems) like never before. This week’s version of Adweek…

Google Sued by Women Workers Claiming Gender Discrimination

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bol.bna.com - Google Inc. was accused in a class action of systematically paying male employees more than females, adding the internet giant to a growing list of technology companies sued for gender discrimination.

How To Develop A Solid And Successful Networking Plan

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www.bitrebels.com - The process of finding a job has changed significantly over the last few decades. In the past, applicants mailed cover letters and resumes to potential employers in response to newspaper ads. Now mos…

11 Legal Apps To Watch Movies On Your Android Smartphone

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www.bitrebels.com - People love watching movies or tv series and it is their favorite hobby. Earlier days we used to buy CD or waited for the movies to be aired on the channel but now the entire process has been changed…

Amazon Web Services Can Now Host the Defense Department’s Most Sensitive Data

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www.nextgov.com - Amazon Web Services has a new market for its cloud computing, analytics, and storage services. This week, the Defense Department granted the cloud computing giant a provisional authorization to host …

Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - SiliconValley.com reports that three female former Google employees have filed a lawsuit against the tech giant alleging gender pay discrimination within the company and a “sexist culture.” These all…

Former Facebook Exec: Tech Companies 'Surveillance States' that 'Invite Regulation' - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - CNBC reports that Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive and current CEO of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, has stated that he believes e-commerce giant Amazon to be a better investment …

How to Work With YouTube Influencers

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want your ads to reach an enthusiastic niche audience? Have you considered collaborating with YouTube video influencers? To discover how to work with influential YouTube creators, I interview Derral …

How Many Apps Does Your Workplace Really Need? - Future Of Work

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fowmedia.com - It was the best of times—it was the worst of times. It was the new generation of app sprawl. IT teams have long dealt with the issue of outdated software and unnecessary programs clogging the enterpr…

Ballin’ On A Budget! Five Ways To Save Cash With Modern Tech

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stupiddope.com - Technology is constantly changing, and it is also changing the way that we live our lives. Technology has completely changed the way we stay connected and communicate with our friends and family; whi…

Unlimited Data Customers Report Fewer Network Problems Than Capped Users

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www.techdirt.com - Back in 2011, you might recall that AT&T and Verizon stopped offering users unlimited wireless data plans. Taking advantage of a lack of competition at the time, the duo worked in concert to shove us…

Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

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www.theregister.co.uk - It has long been a frustrating marketing ploy pushed by mobile phone operators: claiming that they offer better network coverage and speeds than their competitors. But someone has finally gotten fed …

The Basic Steps To Better Affiliate Marketing

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firstadsense.com - There is no way around it. Internet promotion can be the difference between your entire business. The following are ways you market your business into a success through Internet marketing. Create an …

Oh Man, You're Gonna Hate What Equifax Just Admitted About That Security Breach

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gizmodo.com - Equifax, the major credit reporting agency which collected extensive financial data on hundreds of millions of Americans before losing said data on 143 million of those people to hackers, has finally…

Facebook Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know

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duracmarketing.com - Does reaching millions of people with a marketing campaign sound exciting? Are you aware that Facebook is a great way to accomplish that? Millions of people are on Facebook and can potentially be you…

Why won't enterprises take IoT security seriously?

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www.techrepublic.com - As connected devices permeate homes and offices worldwide, consumers and enterprises tend to overlook the serious digital and physical damage that cybersecurity failures in these devices can wreak. "…

Google Adds Ranking Signal to Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites - Mark Dulisse Blog

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www.markdulisse.com - Google has announced that HTTPS is a new ranking signal in its SERP algorithm. Adding the “S” at the end of HTTP is a signal to the search engines (and to everyone else) that your website is secure w…

Apple insider sheds light on iPhone X’s Face ID and the lack of Touch ID

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bgr.com - In the weeks and months leading up to Apple’s iPhone X unveiling, it was never entirely clear what Apple was planning to do with Touch ID on its flagship 2017 iPhone. While some reports indicated tha…

Lomography's new instant camera looks like it's straight outta the '80s

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mashable.com - It's a really great time to fall in love with instant cameras. Lomography, best known for its "toy film cameras," has a new instant camera called the Lomo'Instant Square that shoots Fujfilm's new Ins…

How The New Egnyte University Boosts Your Productivity

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www.egnyte.com - We’ve been doing some major spring cleaning and we’re excited to bring you a whole new platform for learning about Egnyte! Egnyte University makes it easy for all your users to learn the ins and outs…



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