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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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21 Free Stock Photo Sites for Your Social Media Images

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blog.hootsuite.com - If you’re a social media marketer, you know how difficult it can be to find the perfect image to accompany a post. We all know that photos are one of the most important components for boosting engage…

Key Resources for Staying Ahead of GDPR

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www.egnyte.com - GDPR will provide EU residents with unprecedented access to their data, creating a major challenge for businesses to achieve GDPR compliance. Watch this video to see how we can help to simplify your …

Letter from Santa? Or is it bait from a scam artist?

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brentwoodhomepage.com - The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance’s Division of Consumer Affairs is warning consumers to be wary of holiday-themed scams during this season of giving. Because scammers use the holida…

Tech Support Scam Malware Fakes the Blue Screen of Death

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www.infosecurity-magazine.com - The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is one of the most-dreaded sights for Windows users. Adding insult to injury, a new malware is making the rounds that fakes a BSOD, and then tries to swindle …

Facebook “Messenger Kids” lets under-13s chat with who parents approve

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techcrunch.com - For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat. Rolli…

New York Attorney General joins 27 senators to call for a delay of critical net neutrality vote

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techcrunch.com - Today in a press conference, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman elaborated on his office’s efforts to investigate the FCC’s flood of fake anti-net neutrality comments while calling for a del…

Target launches its own mobile payments system with debut of ‘Wallet’

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techcrunch.com - As promised earlier, Target today launched its own mobile payments system with the introduction of “Wallet” in the Target app. Wallet, as the name implies, allows Target shoppers in-store to both che…

Auroom is an AI assistant for managers and meetings

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techcrunch.com - Thanks to technology, making an audio recording of a meeting is a trivially easy task these days. While speech to text services can help tackle the tedium of transcription, this just invites a slew o…

Apple Pay Cash starts rolling out to iPhone users in the U.S.

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techcrunch.com - Apple Pay Cash is finally starting to roll out to users in the States, bringing the ability to send other iOS users payments directly through iMessage. The update is arriving piece by piece to those …

Volkswagen’s MOIA debuts its all-electric rideshare vehicle

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techcrunch.com - Some carmakers are talking a lot about the potential of shared mobility services and alternatives to car ownership, but Volkswagen’s MOIA is actually going a step further, with a brand new vehicle it…

Onefootball has quietly raised a Series C round and added Adidas as an investor

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techcrunch.com - Onefootball founder and CEO Lucas Von Cranach, whose popular football app now has 25 million fans in 200 countries around the world, confirmed on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2017 that hi…

Broadcom piles fresh pressure on Qualcomm to talk takeover

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techcrunch.com - Last month Qualcomm rejected a $70 per share acquisition offer from Broadcom — but the rival chipmaker isn’t stepping away. Today it’s announced it’s nominated a slate of eleven directors for Qualcom…

Prisma adds to its armoury, integrating GagBot’s AI meme-generator

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techcrunch.com - Ever get stuck for that perfect gag-line on a photo of your friends? You want to turn even an ordinary photo into an internet meme, but maybe you just can’t think of that hilarious caption? Well, now…

OnePlus celebrates ‘The Last Jedi’ with a limited edition Star Wars 5T

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techcrunch.com - Star Wars has had a strange smartphone history. The franchise was a no brainer for the Motorola Droid — Verizon actually had to license the name from Lucasfilm, so it follows that a few R2D2 handsets…

Why Top Talent Are Leaving Silicon Valley for This Greener Pasture

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www.inc.com - The plant itself may be ancient and natural, but the technologies that are turning the cannabis industry into a $50B industry over the next decade are varied and sophisticated. Ryan Smith, co-founder…

FCC chair refuses to delay net neutrality vote despite pending court case

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission will move ahead with its vote to kill net neutrality rules next week despite an unresolved court case that could strip away even more consumer protections. FCC C…

Mega Man 11 marks the blue bomber’s long-awaited return next year

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arstechnica.com - The 3D-meets-2D graphics remind me of those PSP collections of revamped Mega Man games from years ago. Charge shots are back, as are enemies themed around skulls. The long-awaited return of "that seg…

Apple finally fixes SDR content on the Apple TV 4K with tvOS 11.2

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arstechnica.com - A new software update for the Apple TV, tvOS 11.2, arrived today. It adds the previously delayed sports section to the TV app and allows users to change the rules about how the Apple TV 4K deals with…

Infiniti debuts breakthrough engine technology in new QX50

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arstechnica.com - The 2019 Infiniti QX50 features a most remarkable engine. The engine can change its displacement, varying the compression ratio from 8:1 up to 14:1. Also, it can operate under the regular or Atkinson…

Updating macOS can bring back the nasty “root” security bug

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arstechnica.com - The serious and surprising root security bug in macOS High Sierra is back for some users, shortly after Apple declared it fixed. Users who had not installed macOS 10.13.1 (and thus were running a pri…

Roku Ultra and Streaming Stick+ review: High-end streaming with low-end frills

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arstechnica.com - Roku players are the most popular dedicated TV streaming devices. That’s thanks in part to Roku’s commitment to serving the low end of the market with cheap streaming boxes made for 1080p TVs that do…

Payday Loans Algorithm Update History | Search Engine Journal

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series looking back at the history of Google algorithm updates. Enjoy! In 2013, the major algorithm update that had everyone talking was the Payday Loan…

Twitter And Facebook Are Turning Publishers Into Ghost Writers

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techcrunch.com - Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The quest for smoother user experience portrays actually visiting a publisher’s site as fr…

The FCC Wants to Kill Net Neutrality and End the Open Internet. If It Does, Congress Will Pay the Price

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www.wired.com - FCC chair Ajit Pai’s plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from “common carriers” to “information services” is an unprecedented giveaway to big broadband provide…

Project Fi can’t give a Nexus replacement, gives check and credit instead

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androidcommunity.com - Google is usually generous when it comes to promos, extensions, freebies, or even warranties but there’s nothing much the company can do when a certain product is out of stock. When the Nexus 6P and …

Paper Signals moves tiny paper contraptions with voice commands

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androidcommunity.com - While it’s fun to experiment with technology and DIY digital contraptions, sometimes they don’t have any useful purpose other than proving that you can do this and that. Experiments with Google, from…

Tips For Truly Finding Customer Engagement

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www.loyalty360.org - Placing the customer at the center of a marketing strategy is a common refrain in the loyalty marketing world. Some brands execute on this key strategy more proficiently, while for others it might on…

Caesars Entertainment Dominates Loyalty360 Customer Awards

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www.loyalty360.org - Officials at Caesars Entertainment might have to consider building a dedicated wing for their impressive awards haul from Loyalty360 conferences. After Caesars walked off with the prestigious 360-Deg…

Address Link Between Brand Identity and Customer Loyalty

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www.loyalty360.org - There is a myriad of opportunities and challenges for loyalty marketers today, yet one of those that falls into the opportunity basket revolves around brand identity and customer loyalty. Loyalty360 …

What Does Amazon-Whole Foods Partnership Mean for Loyalty Marketers?

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www.loyalty360.org - When Amazon acquired Whole Foods earlier this year in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $13.7 billion, it certainly enlightened many loyalty marketers as to the clear convergence of the…

Maintaining and Bettering Customer Experience Top Priority at Rockport

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www.loyalty360.org - The Rockport Group became a standalone company in August 2015, undergoing a major transition, carving out the business from two giant athletic companies, adidas, and New Balance. Nevertheless, some t…

You Don't Need Any Other Reading Apps If You Install This One

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www.lifehack.org - With the advancement in tech, it is inevitable to avoid reading using the E-books – it is the direction that the future is taking. However, some of the applications and websites offering the reading …

Facebook Tried to Answer Some Hard Questions About Kids Being Online

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www.adweek.com - Facebook accompanied Monday’s launch of its Messenger Kids application with a look at some of its findings on how kids are using mobile technology and social media. Public policy director and global …

Artificial Intelligence Is on a Crash Course With AR and VR. Here’s What It Means for Marketers

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www.adweek.com - Like nearly everything in the world of technology, virtual and augmented reality are on a crash course with artificial intelligence. Here are some things that may unfold over the next few years, and …

Technology Isn’t Better • Jonathan Salem Baskin

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jonathansalembaskin.com - It might be time to debate our ongoing outsourcing to tech many of life’s activities that once required our active participation, or engagement with others. Already, many of the simplest ones involve…

The Coming Convergence of VR and AI Gives Brands Big Opportunities (and Potential Pitfalls)

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www.adweek.com - When car shoppers walked into a Cadillac dealership in Greenwich, Conn., this fall, in addition to the usual collection of gleaming Escalades and ATS Sedans, they found an HTC Vive virtual reality he…

How Influencers and Brands Can Steer Clear of the FTC

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www.adweek.com - As influencer marketing has seen immense growth in the past couple of years, the Federal Trade Commission has stepped in to define guidelines for how influencers and brands should disclose their part…

What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years? – Hacker Noon

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hackernoon.com - It’s so easy to be wrong and so hard to be right. But that’s exactly what we’ll do here. Since we’re rapidly approaching the ten year anniversary of Bitcoin’s whitepaper publication, I’ll attempt to …

SearchCap: Santa trackers, Google AJAX crawling & our community corner

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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. This year’s Google Santa Tracker comes with coding games, an elf filter in the Android …

How Local SEO Fits In With What You’re Already Doing

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moz.com - You own, work for, or market a business, but you don’t think of yourself as a Local SEO. That’s okay. The forces of history have, in fact, conspired in some weird ways to make local search seem like …

Swap Messages, Share Selfies: Facebook Launches Messenger App for Kids

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sputniknews.com - The Messenger Kids application is designed for kids ages six to 12. It does not require the child to have a Facebook account, as per federal law users younger than 13 cannot legally sign up for Faceb…

WATCH Stunning Supermoon Videos and Photos From All Over the World

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sputniknews.com - US TV channel ABC News has published a spectacular timelapse video of Sunday's supermoon set over the state of Rhode Island. Spectacular timelapse video captures the moon setting this morning over th…

Spreadtrum partners with LEAGOO to launch the first smartphone powered by SC9853I

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tass.com - Built on Spreadtrum 14nm LTE platform SC9853I, the LEAGOO T5c features 1.8 GHz Octa-core 64-bit Intel Airmont architecture based processor, which enable the smartphone to offer a high performance com…

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