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Friday, September 8, 2017

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FX-Sport Wireless Sport Headphones with Integrated Customizable Personal Trainer and Premium 8GB Mp3 player

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www.fx-sport.net - The “Race a Virtual Athlete” functionality is great fun, but can also be a serious training aid. The parameters of the race are set using the easy to use PC software [see tab at the top of the page].…

Google Maps marks real-time Florida road closures during Hurricane Irma

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thenextweb.com - Google Maps is running point in Florida’s attempt to evacuate before Hurricane Irma makes landfall. As the Category 5 storm prepares to huff and puff and blow the Caribbean’s collective house down, s…

3 Ways to Improve How Your Personal Name or Brand Look Online

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zacjohnson.com - When someone wants to find information about anyone or anything, they head to Google. Without hesitation, whatever information Google provides the end user with, it’s usually trusted and accepted wit…

Stand up who HASN'T been hit in the Equifax mega-hack – whoa, whoa, sit down everyone

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www.theregister.co.uk - Vid Global credit reporting agency Equifax admitted today it suffered a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population. In a statement, the biz confessed that hackers m…

How to Manage Blog Content With Trello

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you need a better way to manage your blog content? Looking for a tool to outline your blogging workflow from beginning to end? In this article, you’ll discover how to effectively organize how you …

Job-Seekers: There's No Reason to Fear AI -- If You Use it the Right Way

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www.entrepreneur.com - The hiring process is becoming more sophisticated, thanks in large part to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. In fact, many companies are moving toward full implementa…

Jaguar Land Rover to electrify all its cars by 2020

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arstechnica.com - Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has pledged to stop building cars powered solely by petrol and diesel. The company hopes that every car built after 2020 will either be fully electric, or a hybrid that makes …

Straight outta Siberia — inDriver raises $5M for its flat-rate ride-hailing app

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techcrunch.com - You’d think all the business models around on-demand taxis and cars had been invested, but straight out of Siberia comes another one. Ride-hailing app inDriver has raised a $5 million Series A round …

Reddit teams with LucidWorks to build new search framework

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techcrunch.com - Reddit revealed today that it has teamed with LucidWorks to provide a long-needed, modern search tool for the immensely popular online discussion platform. When you face the kind of scale that Reddit…

Microsoft and Adobe announce an expanded partnership around Adobe Sign and Microsoft Teams

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techcrunch.com - Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft and Adobe announced a strategic partnership around Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Adobe’s Marketing Cloud. That, however, was only a first step for the two companies…

Former GrubHub employee testified drivers often complained about ‘ghost orders’

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techcrunch.com - GrubHub was back in court today in San Francisco over its use of 1099 independent contractors for food delivery. Tj O’Shae, a former GrubHub W-2 employee who worked as a driver care representative fr…

Amazon files for arbitration against Kindle Direct authors and publishers

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techcrunch.com - Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration against them.…

Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

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techcrunch.com - Atlassian, the company behind popular tools like Jira, Trello and Bitbucket, has also long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat. Over the last few years, Slack has had an outs…

Maestro gives gamers and big brands new tools to manage and control their live streams

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techcrunch.com - From Twitch to Facebook to Periscope, live streaming is a growing phenomenon that’s making some decent money for the people who own the platform. For the actual people recording the streams and makin…

Teralytics wants to tap telcos’ big data to help cities get smarter about Uber and Lyft

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techcrunch.com - Big data is an expansive umbrella with startups of all stripes squatting under it. Even as the most successful and powerful data miners of the modern web are undoubtedly the dominant consumer platfor…

Lyft and Drive.ai partner on Bay Area self-driving ride-hailing pilot

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techcrunch.com - Lyft is teaming up with autonomous driving startup Drive.ai to deploy self-driving cars in and around San Francisco with a new pilot project. Drive.ai is a startup that has deep roots in Stanford Uni…

Speakable’s Contact Your Rep button lets users take a stand directly from a news article

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techcrunch.com - As we move deeper into the Trump presidency and these turbulent political times, folks are more engaged with the news than ever. But many leave their news binge feeling helpless, without much they ca…

Spotify and Hulu partner on a discounted entertainment bundle, first aimed at students

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techcrunch.com - Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering both services which will be jointly sold through a single subs…

Final days to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia

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techcrunch.com - What could you do in the next three days to change your startup’s trajectory? Apply to Startup Battlefield Australia! Taking an hour today to apply could result in 25k AUD to extend your startup’s ru…

I called Equifax to find out if I’d been affected but it just hung up on me, three times

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techcrunch.com - People haven’t had much success online trying to find out it their social security number was included in a massive Equifax breach affecting possibly half the U.S. reported earlier today so I called …

Google Fiber shut off customer’s service because she owed 12 cents

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arstechnica.com - One day last month, Kansas City resident Victoria Tane's Google Fiber Internet service stopped working. It turned out that Google Fiber cut off her Internet access because she owed 12 cents after an …

Apple Music to get Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and others with Warner Music deal

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arstechnica.com - A catalog of music from high-profile artists including Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others will populate Apple Music. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple has struck a dea…

Coming South Park game is harder for black characters

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arstechnica.com - Writers from John Scalzi to author Shannon Sullivan have called being white living life in "easy mode" when compared to the treatment that people of color receive. The upcoming RPG South Park: The Fr…

Stream Seeks To Use Blockchain Tech To Decentralize Livestreaming Payments

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www.forbes.com - When YouTube was birthed above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant over a decade ago, the opportunities for monetization were quickly capitalized upon. When Google purchased the platform in 2006, it w…

25 Illustrated Ideas That Could Change Your Life – The Blog Of Darius Foroux – Medium

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medium.com - Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When Socrates heard that the oracle had made such a comment, he beli…

EY To Use Blockchain For Ridesharing Industry | PYMNTS.com

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www.pymnts.com - Blockchain, the technology that makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, is moving into the auto and ridesharing markets. According to a news report in Reuters, EY, the consulting unit of Ernst & …

How to Start a Blog In The Most Cluttered Marketplace In History

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growthsupply.com - In his outstanding analysis, Tomasz Tunguz suggests that marketers publish more evergreen than temporal content if they are after compound return: “While it may not generate long term returns, tempor…

Best UI libraries and frameworks for ReactJS

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thedevs.network - Since React has been introduced dozens of UI libraries and frameworks started to come out one by one and it's continuing. All of these tools, boilerplates and UI components are here to save your time…

4 Mobile Image Apps That Create Amazing Visuals

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you use your smartphone or tablet to post images to social media? Looking for mobile image apps to enhance your visuals? In this article, you’ll discover four mobile apps to help you create and pu…

Nokia 8 now available in Germany, Australia, soon in other markets - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Nokia 8, the only high-end Android smartphone from the former mobile giant, is now available to buy in several markets around the world. For now, Germany and Australia are the only ones where the…

Essential Phone undergoes Durability Test - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Essential Phone is definitely the kind of phone we want to see undergo Zack Nelson’s Durability Test. We want to see it scratched, burned, and bent just so we’ll know if the device is worth its $…

Samsung confirms Galaxy Note 8 already compatible with Daydream - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - While Samsung chose to highlight a lot of the great things about their newly-announced Galaxy Note 8, one thing they did not really talk that much about was its compatibility with other virtual reali…

Lenovo K8, K8 Plus launch as new mid-range Android phones in India - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo may already have the Motorola brand but the company still hasn’t stopped coming up with its own-branded smartphone. The Lenovo K8 Note was recently launched in India with dual cameras and now …

Google Maps encouraging local guides to add accessibility information - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - When you have fully functional legs and feet, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are more than 65 million people around the world that do not have that luxury and are actually dependent on whee…

Is Your Loyalty Program Worth It? 5 Ways to Ensure Your Program Makes the Cut

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www.loyalty360.org - Now in its seventh year, the Loyalty Report 2017 reveals that consumers have reached their Program engagement threshold despite an upward trend in new Program memberships. Our research finds that new…

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…

Textr : Group Messaging App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam Getty”, Founder of the Atlanta, Georgia – USA based start-up “Textr” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what …

BunchCut : Sort Large Volumes of Images Fast - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Nathalie du Preez”, CEO and Co-Founder of the London and New York based start-up “Bunchcut” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly th…

Musistic : Music Technology Company - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jimbo Lattimore”, CEO of the Memphis USA-based start-up “Musistic” about his Company. Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and …

Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Brian Zuercher had a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has beck…

Classified Post : Online Classfied Ad Website - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Robbie Alvarez”, CEO of the US based start-up “The Classified Post” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1-What is it exactly that you do and what your s…

Plink.com: A Facebook Credits-Based Loyalty Program - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Plink is a Facebook Credits-based loyalty program that rewards Facebook members for dining and making purchases at their favorite restaurants and stores. As per Mr. Stratz; Plink is a Facebook Credit…

Mangomolo : Stream Personlized Live and On-Demand Content - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Wissam Sabbagh”, CEO of the Beirut – Lebanon based StartUp “Mangomolo” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what yo…

Soundest : App For E-commerce Email Marketing - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rytis Lauris'; C0-Founder and CEOof the UK- based Start Up “Soundest”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted :…

Here@ : Find New Friend, Love Interest, or Find a Job - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam McCaa”, CEO of the US based start-up “Hereat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all…

ARM-Based Always-Connected Windows 10 PCs Approach the Finish Line - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is claiming this week that its hardware partners are “on track” to deliver the first ARM-based Always Connected PCs by the end of the year. Like many of you, I’m looking forward to this. An…

Hands, Er, Off with Google Home Hands-Free Calling - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google recently announced that hands-free phone calling had come to Google Home, its Google Assistant-based smart speaker. I spent some time using it to place test phones calls to my other phone this…

This Startup Just Acquired 8 Game Apps to Build a Mobile Ad Network

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www.adweek.com - Maple Media raised $30 million in funding last February and probably just spent a decent chunk of it, acquiring eight mobile game apps from Quebec, Canada-based Ratrod Studio for an undisclosed sum. …

Sleek and Sexy: Five Facts About Owning An Awesome Sports Car

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www.dumblittleman.com - Most of us dream of owning a sleek, sexy and fast sports car. We see these amazing machines in movies, such as in Fast and the Furious, The Transporter and, most recently, Baby Driver. With movies li…

Lowe's Hacked Instagram Stories With Fun Microvideos of DIY Jobs in Tiny Vertical Rooms

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www.adweek.com - Lowe’s and BBDO have long teamed up for some of the most enjoyable and innovative social video content, most famously the brilliant “Fix in Six” Vine videos. Now, they’ve hacked Instagram Stories in …

How to charge your phone when there's no power

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www.dailymail.co.uk - As extreme weather events have left thousands without power, the question of how to keep your phone fully charged is more important than ever. From battery packs, solar panels and hand cracks to DIY …

Google rolling out support for AMP landing page in AdWords search campaigns globally

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searchengineland.com - In May, Google announced it was running a beta test with advertisers to test driving traffic from mobile search ads to AMP landing pages. On Thursday, the company said all advertisers will be able to…

E-Commerce Benchmark KPI Study 2017: 15 Essential Takeaways

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moz.com - Is your website beating, meeting, or behind the industry average? Wolfgang Digital’s 2017 E-Commerce Benchmark KPI Study is out with an even bigger sample size than ever before. Analyzing 143 million…

The video chat app that should scare the hell out of Facebook and Snapchat

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mashable.com - It's rare that a small startup is able to challenge the likes of Facebook and Snapchat in a meaningful way. But Houseparty, a teen-centric video chat app is managing to do just that. One year since l…

US Officials to Unveil Autonomous Vehicle Regulations Next Week

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themerkle.com - Most consumers are well aware of how US legislators are looking to revise self-driving vehicle regulations. Without proper regulation, this technology will not go very far, as it still technically oc…

A Beginner’s Guide To | Must Have Man Cave Essentials

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stupiddope.com - Looking to build the perfect area to harbor your sanity and privacy? Fellas, we all need that space we can go to in or to do what we want, relax, kick back and enjoy what we deem the finer things in …

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…

Now You’re Talking! What’s the Best Virtual Personal Assistant?

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stupiddope.com - What would be better than our own assistant to keep us on track and task? Well thanks to technology, we all have the option to get used out of a wide range of virtual personal assistants that let us …

Native Video Advertising: How to Make Your Brand More Engaging

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instapage.com - Many internet users can recall the days of irritating pop-ups bouncing around their screens or even taking over the screen entirely. While those annoying pop-up ads haven’t completely gone extinct, a…


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