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Amazon Spent Years Learning What It Takes to Do Great Work. These 4 Steps Contributed Most to Its Success

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www.inc.com - Yesterday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos published his annual letter to shareholders, and it's got some great advice for anyone who is striving to do great work. After commending Amazon employees for the…

Amazon and Best Buy team up to sell TVs, but it’s a risky move for Best Buy

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arstechnica.com - Amazon and Best Buy today announced a partnership that will see Best Buy selling smart TVs running Amazon's Fire TV software and Alexa in its physical stores. The deal will begin with "more than 11" …

Google confirms some of its own services are now getting blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban

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techcrunch.com - A shower of paper airplanes darted through the skies of Moscow and other towns in Russia today, as users answered the call of entrepreneur Pavel Durov to send the blank missives out of their windows …

Amazon’s next conquest will be apparel

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techcrunch.com - Late last year, after Amazon announced it had acquired the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic “Lord of the Rings” saga for $250 million, I wrote how the move underscored Amazon’s relentless pursuit to b…

How to price cryptocurrencies

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techcrunch.com - Predicting cryptocurrency prices is a fool’s game, yet this fool is about to try. The drivers of a single cryptocurrency’s value are currently too varied and vague to make assessments based on any on…

Proxeus wants to be the WordPress of blockchain

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techcrunch.com - Can blockchain technology fix the soul sucking tedium and cost of back-and-forth bureaucracy? The Swiss team behind a blockchain-based platform, called Proxeus, believes it can — and that that will b…

Apple’s TV Plans and & List of Shows

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om.co - Apple is competing with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Hulu to become a streaming entertainment company. Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, former Sony bosses head up Apple’s TV efforts. The team is sa…

G.P.S. Directions for Adulthood

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www.newyorker.com - In half a mile, make a right onto Employment Street. You majored in philosophy and passed Employment Street. In five hundred feet, make a U-turn onto Grad School Boulevard. You missed the U-turn and …

Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

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arstechnica.com - Production had been halted for much of last week in Tesla's car factory in Fremont, California, and its battery factory near Clark, Nevada. In a Tuesday note to employees, CEO Elon Musk said that the…

2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid: Put simply, it’s complicated

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arstechnica.com - It's a bit bigger than an Accord but will seat five proper adults. Under the hood there's a 181hp (135kW) electric motor and a 103hp (77 kW), 1.5L four-cylinder gasoline engine. The rear conforms to …

Jeff Bezos Absolutely Killed It With this Brilliant Customer Support Hack

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www.inc.com - I don't know about you, but I dread calling customer service, regardless of the company I'm calling. Most of the time, I end up on hold for what seems like forever, listening to music that's intentio…

How to Tell Legit Chrome Extensions From Malware

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lifehacker.com - We all fall victim to the dangerous belief that if an app or extension is listed in an official repository—be it the App Store, Google Play, the Microsoft Store, Mozilla’s Add-Ons directory, et ceter…

How to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

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www.engadget.com - If your iPhone or MacBook is still in good shape, you should consider selling it, but if it's old or beat up you can still score a gift card by turning it into Apple's recycling program. For iPhones,…

AT&T, Verizon reportedly being investigated for supposed collusion

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androidcommunity.com - Several sources are saying that the US’ two biggest carriers are now facing an antitrust investigation from the Justice department. A couple of complaints have supposedly been filed claiming that AT&…

Digging into Data Can Elevate a Brand’s Omnichannel Loyalty Program

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www.loyalty360.org - Like most everything else today, omnichannel loyalty is evolving rapidly. Customers are engaging with brands on various platforms, channels, and devices, which requires loyalty marketers to provide…

Express Mart Hopes Loyalty Program Will Spark Enhanced Brand Advocacy

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www.loyalty360.org - Officials for Express Mart are very excited about its new loyalty program, Around the Clock Rewards, that launched last month. Petr-All Petroleum Consulting Corp. launched a Paytronix-powered loyal…

Canadian Tire Evolving and Expanding its Iconic Rewards Program

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www.loyalty360.org - Canadian Tire began issuing cashback rewards back in 1958—long before reward programs were popular and way before it became the retail giant it is today, with its interest in everything from sports t…

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2018) Review - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The 6th generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon offers up no surprises, and that’s mostly a good thing: This business-class Ultrabook is on a very short list of truly excellent portable PCs. That I am a…

Behold the April Update. Sorry. - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft has had a problem naming its Windows 10 feature updates for the past few years. And while I can now confirm that the real name of the “Redstone 4” update is not the Spring Creators Update, …

App Developer: I Didn't Steal Data; Facebook's Policies Were Flawed

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www.newsmax.com - The app developer whose work is at the center of the data privacy controversy currently engulfing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica told CBS’ “60 Minutes” he didn’t steal data and blamed the social me…

Auto Affiliate Machine Review & Bonus Offer – Watch Auto Affiliate Machine Review & Get 100+ Bonuses

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duracmarketing.com - Anyone Who Has Tried to Generate Huge Profits from Amazon… http://samuelmarco.com/auto-affiliate-machine-review-and-bonus/ Auto Affiliate Machine Review & Bonus Offer: easily create an affiliate PDF …

Techniques To Help You Market Through Facebook

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duracmarketing.com - Many communication opportunities await you on Facebook, both with customers and people within your niche. There is nothing people like to do more than connect with each other and that is why social m…

Deriving Value from the Internet of Everything - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - The Internet of Everything is connecting people, processes, and data in ways that we couldn’t do before, enabling us to see data and respond in different ways, access things in different ways, and in…

7 Ways to Create Better Content Simply By Understanding Your Customers

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www.jeffbullas.com - I’m going to start this blog by saying something that may shock you. Everyone does content marketing these days, but not everyone does it well. A successful content marketing strategy is one in which…

The Biggest Mistake Digital Marketers Ever Made: Claiming to Measure Everything

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moz.com - It’s probably the single most common claim everyone hears about digital, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen conference speakers talk about it (heck, I’ve even done it myself). I mean, lo…

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