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Saturday, May 19, 2018

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A leaked look at Facebook’s search engine for influencer marketing

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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s next money-maker could be this tool for connecting marketers to social media creators so they can team up on sponsored-content Facebook ad campaigns. The Branded Content Matching search en…

Facebook Stories reveals 150M daily viewers and here come ads

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techcrunch.com - After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone. And now it’s time to earn some money off it. F…

AWS adds more EC2 instance types with local NVMe storage

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techcrunch.com - AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These n…

Does Google’s Duplex violate two-party consent laws?

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techcrunch.com - Google’s Duplex, which calls businesses on your behalf and imitates a real human, ums and ahs included, has sparked a bit of controversy among privacy advocates. Doesn’t Google recording a person’s v…

MoviePass competitor Sinemia can’t keep up with demand

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techcrunch.com - A number of people are complaining about Sinemia not delivering them their movie membership cards within the seven-day timeframe the company said it would. Although Sinemia has charged people for the…

AI will save us from yanny/laurel, right? Wrong

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techcrunch.com - If you haven’t taken part in the yanny/laurel controversy over the last couple days, allow me to sincerely congratulate you. But your time is up. The viral speech synth clip has met the AI hype train…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 world’s first hands-on: Tight core, tons of questions

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arstechnica.com - LOS ANGELES—"Treyarch has never shied away from breaking away from convention." With those words, studio chairman Mark Lamia kicked off a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal event full of noisy videos a…

How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real time

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arstechnica.com - Securus’ location ability relies on other data brokers and location aggregators that obtain that information directly from mobile providers, usually for the purposes of providing some commercial serv…

John Carmack recalls “frustrating” arguments with Apple’s Steve Jobs

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arstechnica.com - How could you say Steve Jobs is not a gamer? Look at that Atari joystick he's holding! When John Carmack talks publicly these days, he's usually focused on intricate technical matters, the blue-sky p…

It has been a bad week for encrypted messaging and it’s only Wednesday

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arstechnica.com - The past three days have highlighted the potential perils that await people who rely on desktop computers to send encrypted messages. The events—which involve encrypted email and the desktop versions…

6 Pointless Design Achievements You Should Totally Go For | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Web design is a process of carefully planned and researched steps. You have a job to do, and users to satisfy. Ideally, everything you do has a purpose. There is a point to it all. But life is weird,…

What’s the Best Font for Your Resume or CV?

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designshack.net - Serif fonts are those will additional strokes at the end of each character. They can be subtle or somewhat defined. Most people associate serif typefaces with professionalism and timelessness. Serif …

Congress’s Fight for Net Neutrality Has a Long Way to Go

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www.inverse.com - If yesterday’s vote in the Senate is any indication, net neutrality is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue. Three Republican senators signed on to legislation aimed at squashing the Federal Comm…

Nine Ways To Measure Influencer ROI

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www.forbes.com - Modern companies are finding that influencer marketing is one of the fastest and most effective ways to build brand awareness, especially on social media. Although this form of marketing can be relat…

Breakingviews - Closing tech’s gender gap will take decades

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www.reuters.com - NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - About one in three employees at Google, Facebook and Apple is a woman. That’s an imbalance that tech sector executives Sheryl Sandberg and Tim Cook say they want to…

Gmail can now “Nudge” emails that you may have forgotten

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androidcommunity.com - If you receive a lot of emails on any given day, chances are you will probably forget to reply or act on some of them, even though you may have glanced at them while scrolling through your inbox. Yes…

Samsung Galaxy J, Galaxy A with Infinity Display launching in India this May 21

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy J4 and Galaxy J6 have been rumored to arrive with Infinity Display. That bit is something we’re not sure of at first because such displays are only found in premium flagship phones…

Six Simple Steps That Make Social Media Marketing Less Overwhelming

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www.forbes.com - You’ve probably heard the term “FOMO” by now. Fear of missing out is the sensation that everyone else is doing something you should be doing. And it’s a feeling that is often triggered by seeing some…

BMW i8 Roadster: The supercar that won’t cost the Earth

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moneyweek.com - Hair shirts are no longer a necessity for eco-warriors, says Sarah Moore. “As a general rule of thumb, mid-engined exotica and environmental friendliness go together like a room full of lambs and a v…

Facebook expands its list of marketing partners, while limiting what view tags can do - Marketing Land

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marketingland.com - Facebook announced today it is expanding its list of third-party solutions to measure ad effectiveness, while at the same time, it is limiting the capabilities of its view tags feature. The company i…

A leaked internal Google video shows a creepy vision of how data could be used to direct human decision-making

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www.businessinsider.com - Google created a creepy video in which it imagines a future where an evolving record of our online data could be used to direct human behaviour. The video was obtained by The Verge and was made in 20…

Website flaw exposes real-time locations of US cellphones

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abcnews.go.com - A website flaw at a California company that gathers real-time data on cellular wireless devices could have allowed anyone to pinpoint the location of any AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile cellphone i…

Microsoft has just released two big updates for older versions of Windows 10

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www.techradar.com - If you have been holding off installing the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, perhaps because of the numerous problems that have hit the latest version of Windows 10, that doesn’t mean Microsoft has forg…

500 Startups Unity + Inclusion Summit (NYC)

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www.eventbrite.com - 500 Startups, one of the most global seed fund firms in the world, is proud to be partnering with Microsoft to present this jam-packed one-day event! Entrepreneurs, investors, and the tech community …

The Dapp Store Is Where You Can Satisfy All Your Decentralized App Needs

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www.adweek.com - It’s a big week for the internet. Decentralized app protocol Blockstack has unveiled an app store for decentralized apps that, naturally, are called dapps, making this arguably the world’s first Dapp…

Gizmodo Media Group Is Starting a Dedicated Ecommerce Site

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www.adweek.com - These days, it’s not enough to be a publisher that just produces content—you also need a way to turn clicks into cash. It’s a lesson that Gawker Media (now known as Gizmodo Media Group) learned in 20…

Google Chrome Now Supports Oculus Rift VR | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Google Chrome, which by far the most popular and used web browser on the market started recently working natively with arguably the most popular VR headset – Oculus Rift, as well as Oculus Touch cont…

Best Practices In Ensuring Company Data Security | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The cybersecurity market is rapidly growing and technological improvements are increasingly becoming better when it comes to assisting cyber criminals and hackers to breach data security protocols. G…

Tips To Finance Your Mobile App Startup | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - We all live in an age where smartphones have become an integral part of our existence. We use them for a variety of things, but mainly, we use certain “apps” that can provide us with different things…

Russia Dossier Author Under Fire in British Courts

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www.newsmax.com - Former British spy and Trump dossier author Christopher Steele is under fire in a London courtroom, where lawyers are signaling they want to quiz him on the controversial document, Fox News reported.…

JMH Marketing Group - San Diego, CA

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www.thumbtack.com - JMH Marketing Group specializes in all aspects of Digital and Social Media Marketing including Instagram, LinkedIn, Blogs, Video Marketing, Twitter, Facebook, SEO, Local Search and Lead Generation. L…

Hospital 'on high alert 6 out of 7 days'

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www.bbc.co.uk - A hospital in Lancashire was at the highest level of alert 87 days out of 102 over the winter of 2017-18. The rest of the north west had 32 such "Opel 4" alerts, a potential for patient safety to be …

Using Mobile Marketing To Improve Your Business's Visibility

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firstadsense.com - Mobile marketing encompasses a phrase that can be defined several ways. The essential definition of mobile marketing is promoting business through the use of cell phones or other mobile devices.The f…

Apply These Web Marketing Tips To Your Plan

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firstadsense.com - Make sure that your web page is full of descriptive phrases. Use adjectives ceaselessly to make your product descriptions pop. Use stunning mixtures and even invent your individual adjectives. Make t…

Irrelevance, Excruciating Painful Decline & Death - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos constantly reminds his people of the biggest enemy being irrelevance, then excruciating, painful decline and death. So when the CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing, disrupti…

Social Commerce Best Practices: Optimize Mobile, Match Products To Platform Strengths - Retail TouchPoints

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www.retailtouchpoints.com - This report outlines some of the benefits retailers can expect, and pitfalls to watch out for, as they expand into leveraging social networks to increase sales. Additionally, retailers should take no…

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