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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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Anonymous-Transactions – Spectrecoin [XSPEC]

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news.spectreproject.io - Welcome again to the Spectrecoin bi-weekly newsletter and development summary. We have had a very busy two weeks and we have made some real progress both in terms of debugging the updated wallet and …

FastStart for StartUps

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fletchcreative.com - FastStart for StartUps is a streamlined version of what we have been doing for larger companies for the past ten years. It’s a marketing package that lets you enter the market with crystal-clear mess…

Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative

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www.theverge.com - As data-sharing scandals continue to mount, a new proposal in California offers a potential solution: the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies to disclose the types of information …

Google’s Datally app adds more ways to limit mobile data usage

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techcrunch.com - In November, Google introduced Datally, a data-saving app largely aimed at emerging markets where users often rely on prepaid SIM cards, and don’t have access to all-you-can-eat unlimited data plans.…

Zenaton lets you build and run workflows with ease

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techcrunch.com - French startup Zenaton raised $2.35 million from Accel and Point Nine Capital, with the Slack Fund, Kima Ventures, Julien Lemoine and Francis Nappez also participating. The company wants to take care…

YouTube rolls its music subscription services into 12 more markets

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techcrunch.com - YouTube has rolled out its music streaming service to a bunch more international markets, adding 12 new countries today, and also launching the premium music video version of the service across the f…

Execs from DJI, 3DR and Skydio to discuss drones at Disrupt F 2018

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techcrunch.com - Just how big are drones? According to Gartner, industry revenue topped $6 billion last year and is on-track to hit $11.2 by 2020. Unmanned aerial vehicles are a huge industry with a broad swath of ap…

Bag Week 2018: WP Standard built the leather messenger bag you want

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techcrunch.com - Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outwar…

Microsoft acquires social learning platform Flipgrid

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, a social education app that utilizes short video clips to create collaborative lesson plans. The Minneapolis-based startup, which began life as Vidku, has had strong …

SpeakSee makes it simple for a deaf person to join a group conversation

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techcrunch.com - There’s a great deal of activity in the fields of speech recognition and the “internet of things,” but one natural application of the two has gone relatively unpursued: helping the deaf and hard of h…

Guitar Hero Live goes offline in December, making 92% of songs unplayable

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arstechnica.com - In an unceremonious blog post this weekend, publisher Activision announced it will be shutting down the servers for Guitar Hero Live's "Guitar Hero TV" mode effective December 1. The move will effect…

Use Chrome one-handed: do it with the split toolbar

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androidcommunity.com - The Chrome browser app on Android is pretty cool, but it’s still a pain to use with just one hand. Granted, one-handed use will not be an everyday thing for most users, but there will be times that c…

PSA: Andy OS Android emulator will install a bitcoin miner on your PC

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androidcommunity.com - There are a lot of uses for Android emulators on a PC system. Some people who work on a PC most of the time but need Android functionality will find a use at one time or another for an Android emulat…

Games Roundup: Enjoy June with these Android games

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androidcommunity.com - You might be looking to update your games collection on your Android device. If that’s what you need, then we’ve got you covered. We’re taking our job seriously, and that is to give you new games for…

Mayor Liccardo announces agreement with Verizon to transform San Jose’s technology infrastructure

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www.verizon.com - NEW YORK and SAN JOSE – San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo today announced the city and Verizon have agreed to terms on a deal to improve the city’s information technology (IT) infrastructure, and support a…

Microsoft's E3 Broadcast Sets Twitch Record - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Last week, the gaming world was filled with announcements with everything from a new Halo game to Fortnite coming to the Switch. But as with every year, who ‘won’ the show is always up for debate. Wh…

Why Most Content Gets No Traffic From Google Search

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www.marketingprofs.com - Some 91% of online content receives no organic traffic from Google search, according to recent research from Ahrefs. The report was based on an analysis of more than 920 million webpages. The researc…

5 Marketing Lessons Burger King Learned From Studying Hackers

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www.adweek.com - CANNES, France—The King’s in town … and last year’s Marketer of the Year is still a big draw. The line to hear from his minions stretched literally up a flight of stairs and around several corners. I…

The Shift From 4G to 5G Will Change Just About Everything

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www.adweek.com - Telecom experts are going so far as to herald the arrival of 5G as the advent of the fourth industrial revolution. There are an ever-expanding number of high-tech devices out there trying to connect …

Verizon's Outdoor Campaign Focuses on the End of One-Size-Fits-All Family Plans

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www.adweek.com - The idea of one size fitting everyone should definitely not apply to a lot of things. Scarves and handbags, sure. But clothes, shoes and most other things? Probably not. Verizon is using its latest m…

Net Neutrality is Dead - What You Need To Know | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - On June 11, 2018, an Obama-era principle known as net neutrality ended. But the conversation, criticism, and concern around this Trump-era decision will continue well into the future. Since there are…

How social networks usurp Google’s local search dominance - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google remains at the forefront of developments in many areas that have the potential to disrupt local search. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), the internet of things (IoT), voice …

Bing Ads rolling out UI updates to make bulk analysis & changes easier - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Bing Ads is rolling out a couple of updates to the UI that make it easier to analyze and optimize campaigns. First, it is making it easier to adjust location target settings, including bid adjustment…

Head of VW's Audi Arrested in Germany Over Diesel Scandal

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www.newsmax.com - German authorities arrested the head of Volkswagen's luxury arm Audi on Monday, the most senior company official so far to be detained over the carmaker's emissions test cheating scandal. Munich pros…

Infrastructure as a Service - Everything You Need to Know

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www.neweratech.com - As companies are scaling up quickly during this time of digital transformation, many are discovering the benefits of a hefty IT department. However, they are not finding the budget to go with it. To …

Instagram will shame you when you've wasted too much time in the app

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mashable.com - If Instagram is the main cause of your phone addiction, the app may soon be able to help. We've now gotten another look at how Instagram's upcoming "usage insights" feature will help users curb their…

ACLU petitions Amazon to stop selling surveillance technology to the government

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mashable.com - The American Civil Liberties Union is delivering a petition to Amazon's Seattle headquarters today with more than 150,000 signatures. They are requesting for Amazon to stop providing the government w…

Marketer’s guide to Arm TechCon

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www.embedded-computing.com - Arm TechCon, taking place October 16-18th at the San Jose Convention Center, brings together over 4,000 engineers, architects, developers, and product engineers in a three-day experience with Arm. Ex…

Egnyte Connect – Cocoon Homecare - Success Story

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www.egnyte.com - Cocoon Homecare launched as an ambitious homecare start up offering a Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP. CDPAP helps Medicaid recipients regain control of their own home health …

23 Facebook Tools to Use in Your Marketing Strategy

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blog.hootsuite.com - Having the right Facebook tools to execute your marketing strategy not only makes your job easier, it makes your work more effective and efficient. You wouldn’t use a screwdriver to hammer a nail int…

Pew Research shows fewer than 50 percent of Americans can tell the difference between fact and opinion

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thenextweb.com - A new Pew Research Center survey found that only around one in four American adults could, practically-speaking, tell the difference between factual statements and opinion. The poll, which surveyed m…

4 Ways to Bounce Back From a Startup Failure -- Even When the Outlook Looks Grim

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www.entrepreneur.com - “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” -- Bill Gates Research by Kathryn Shaw of Stanford University and Francine Lafontaine of the University of Michiga…

Amazon shareholders call for halt of facial recognition sales to police

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money.cnn.com - Facial recognition could revolutionize public transportation In a letter delivered to CEO Jeff Bezos late Friday, the shareholders, many of whom are advocates of socially responsible investing, say t…

Meet Pulumi, a Seattle-grown cloud startup that wants to be the development platform for the multicloud era

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www.geekwire.com - When you consider the seismic shifts in computing history, there has usually been a period of adjustment during which the software development practices and techniques from the era that is winding do…

Why This Company Pays for Its Employees to Travel the World

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www.entrepreneur.com - The CEO of NodeSource, Inc., Joe McCann, explains how to attract top talent to your company, in this video with Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstars. McCann explains that it can difficult …

4 Steps to Take Your Business's Influence More Local

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www.entrepreneur.com - With the unique and boundless potential of social media marketing, it can be easy to forget the power of your local community. In order to reach this smaller, more regional circle, Entrepreneur Netwo…

A Case Study in Why Core Values Are Crucially Important

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www.entrepreneur.com - A few weeks ago, my company faced a minor crisis. I'll spare you the details, but the short story is a bad actor was doing his damnedest to damage our reputation on social media. The attack occurred …

Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast — Krebs on Security

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krebsonsecurity.com - Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products. New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that co…

How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

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hbr.org - It takes time for a big idea to make its way into business practice. Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpos…

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