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Guidemaster: Want an Alexa device? Here’s every Amazon Echo, compared
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arstechnica.com - Amazon debuted the original Echo a few years ago, and it raised eyebrows in the tech industry. The Echo is a smart home speaker that houses Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant, an AI helper that helps y…
The best Amazon Prime Day deals guide isn’t a buy list
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www.slashgear.com - Today we’re investigating the best way to work with Amazon Prime Day. As a consumer and a reader of tech blogs, you might be looking for the best deals that’ll appear on Amazon Prime Day. As a writer…
Developer faces prison after admitting admin software was really a RAT
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arstechnica.com - A Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to federal charges he developed, marketed, and provided technical support for software he knew customers used illegally to take control of other people’s computers. …
Kapwing is Adobe for the meme generation
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techcrunch.com - Need to resize a video for IGTV? Add subtitles for Twitter? Throw in sound effects for YouTube? Or collage it with other clips for the Instagram feed? Kapwing lets you do all that and more for free f…
Skype launches a new desktop app with HD video, improved chat and soon, encryption and call recording
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techcrunch.com - Skype’s redesign launched last year was met with mixed reviews, but the company is forging ahead by rolling out a number of its new features to other platforms, including the desktop. Microsoft today…
Fastly raises another $40 million before an IPO
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techcrunch.com - Last round before the IPO. That’s how Fastly frames its new $40 million Series F round. It means that the company has raised $219 million over the past few years. The funding round was led by Deutsch…
Klang gets $8.95M for an MMO sim sitting atop Improbable’s dev platform
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techcrunch.com - Berlin-based games studio Klang, which is building a massive multiplayer online simulation called Seed utilizing Improbable’s virtual world builder platform, has just bagged $8.95M in Series A fundin…
Living with the new 15-inch MacBook Pro
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techcrunch.com - When reviewing hardware, it’s important to integrate it into your life as much as possible. If you can, swap it in for your existing devices for a few days or a week, to really get an idea of what it…
Amazon puts its own devices on sale early for Prime Day
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techcrunch.com - Amazon is kicking off today’s Prime Day a bit early. Although its annual sale technically begins at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET this afternoon, it put its own devices on sale 12 hours early. The company is ma…
Essential Phone fire sale is the best way to spend $250 on a smartphone
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arstechnica.com - The screen goes all the way to the edge, but there's that camera notch. On the back, you've got the LED flash, a dual-camera setup, two contact points for the modular system, and a fingerprint reader.
What's New for Designers, July 2018 | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - What kind of projects are you working on? It might be the hotter days (with more time at a computer) that have me focused on ways to enhance productivity. In this month’s roundup of new design tools …
Redesigning the MacOS desktop experience — UX case study
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uxdesign.cc - This story is part of a serie that focuses on improving the user experience on existing platforms. The last one was about Youtube and can be found here. This one is about macOS. I love the Mac. When …
5 Ways to Move Your SEO Programs to Target the Top of the Buying Funnel
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www.searchenginejournal.com - For years, SEO professionals have been tackling the bottom of the sales funnel. We’ll give lip service to branding and content marketing targeted at consumers higher in the funnel – those just starti…
Node JS vs PHP Performance - a Parallel Comparison
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www.motocms.com - Choosing the right technology for your backend is quite a laborious task. There’s plenty of technologies with tons of frameworks, each specializing in certain tasks, and you’d be unable to wrap your …
The 6 Types of Product Teams You’ll be Working In – The Startup – Medium
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medium.com - When I get an offer to join a product team, I spend the following days or even weeks considering many different parameters. I see it as a really important decision, which will greatly affect my life.…
Microsoft reportedly building a new phone: Would you give them a chance?
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androidcommunity.com - Hold your horses, don’t go just yet. This will probably require even the most apathetic tech reader to give his/her attention for even just a few minutes. We know that Microsoft has declared itself o…
How to Start a Podcast in 2018: Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting Tutorial – UPDATED!
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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Before you start recording, and even before you dive into the tutorial videos below, there are five things you need to prepare. Have all of this stuff handy for later—you’ll thank me for it. You’re g…
We Analyzed 752,626 Facebook Ads, Here’s What We Learned (2018 Update)
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adespresso.com - In 2015, we analyzed the text from 37,259 ads from our Facebook ad examples gallery to find out exactly how the best Facebook advertisers are piecing together their ads. Today — nearly three years la…
Ask an SMXpert - Google Tag Manager - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - The Ask an SMXpert series continues the questions and answer (Q&A) segment held during sessions at SMX London. Today’s Q&A is from the Google Tag Manager Can do WHAT session with Stephanie Wallace an…
Spaceport receives go-ahead on Scottish peninsula
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www.theguardian.com - A peninsula on Scotland’s north coast has been chosen for the site of the UK’s first spaceport. Vertical rocket and satellite launches are planned from the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland which the …
25 Key Advertising Metrics All Digital Marketers Should Track
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instapage.com - Whether you’re running paid ads on Google and Facebook or creating email landing page campaigns, without collecting and analyzing advertising metrics you’re essentially running your campaigns with bl…
What to Expect From the Instapage Enterprise Plan Onboarding Process
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instapage.com - Our sales and customer support teams often receive questions about the differences between our self-serve versus Enterprise plan. If you’re on the fence deciding if the Instapage Enterprise plan is t…
3 Ways to Curb Your Post-Interview Anxiety - WorkMonger
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workmonger.com - We all know it doesn’t do us any good to worry about things we cannot control, yet we do it anyway. This is especially true when we’re waiting to hear back from an employer after a job interview. Tho…
Renters can have security cameras too, with these landlord-friendly options
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www.gearbrain.com - Home security cameras have been around for a long time, but the recent boom in the smart home market means they are simpler and smarter than ever. Being 'smart' means they connect to your home's Wi-F…
All You Need To Know About Magento 2.2.2 - Magento Monkeys
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www.magemonkeys.com - Magento released 2.2.2 version of its Commerce and Open Source platforms on 12th December. It comes with a unique feature and great performance New Features included in Magento 2.2.2 are: Email marke…
The Washington Post is starting a channel on Amazon-owned Twitch - Digiday
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digiday.com - The Washington Post is looking to Twitch’s livestreaming gamers of all places to reach new video audiences, with a new channel starting this week. The channel will kick off with two shows. One is liv…
MacBook Pro Performance (July 2018) - Geekbench
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www.geekbench.com - Apple announced updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros last week. Let’s take a quick look at the performance of these new laptops using Geekbench 4 results from the Geekbench Browser. For those unf…
5 ways to hack blockchain in the enterprise
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www.csoonline.com - One of the hottest topics in cybersecurity circles is the enterprise blockchain. This is the same technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Simply defined, blockchain is a list of tran…
Don’t Forget The Right to be Forgotten
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www.egnyte.com - When Catwoman battled Batman in the Dark Knight Rises, all she wanted was her digital data to be erased so she could be “forgotten”. Little did she know that had she simply become an EU resident, the…
Cybersecurity field needs women to close skills gap: study | Channelnomics
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www.channelnomics.com - The growing skills shortage in the cybersecurity industry could pave the way for increasing the number women in the field, according to a study by InfoSec Institute. As noted by the title of the stud…
How to Manufacture Sales Urgency (Without Sounding Like a Scam Artist)
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www.entrepreneur.com - We’ve all seen those infomercials -- the ones that urge us to call in to buy a blender or a mop or some other kind of gadget. If we call in the next 20 minutes, we’ll receive two for the price of one…
SEC’s FCPA Action Time Barred | JD Supra
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www.jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…
What gives you the right to be a retailer? Ask your customers!
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www.cio.com - Companies of all types, sizes and flavors—from utilities to hotel chains—are more deeply exploring their roles in retail. While these companies are already customer-facing organizations, as retailers…
How to Harness the Power of Authenticity and a 'Relationship Funnel' to Explode Your Brand
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www.entrepreneur.com - In this interview, Emily Richett talks with Rachel Pedersen, a college dropout turned entrepreneur who has been named one of the most influential online marketers by the Content Marketing Institute. …
Small Business SEO Checklist: 11 Ways to Improve Rankings Today
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www.searchenginejournal.com - But SEO is especially complicated when you have limited time, money, and other resources. For small businesses, it boils down to one question: What can we do today to help improve our rankings? Great…
It's Okay to Promote Yourself -- in Fact, It's Necessary. Here's How to Do It Better.
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www.entrepreneur.com - If you ever heard the expression "Pride goeth before a fall" or you were ever scolded by a teacher or a parent for "thinking too much of yourself," chances are promotion of yourself and your business…
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