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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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Special counsel witness says he expects to be charged in Mueller probe

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abcnews.go.com - The former Infowars Washington bureau chief, who recently testified before a federal grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elect…

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Jurassic World VR Is Dave & Buster's Biggest Launch Ever Shared by Yu-kai Chou uploadvr.com - The location-based Jurassic World VR Expedition appears to have been a hit for arcade chain Da…

Airbnb ends forced arbitration days after Google, Facebook did the same

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techcrunch.com - The Google employee walkout on Nov. 1 is leaving a lasting impact on the tech industry. In the immediate aftermath of the walkout, which saw thousands of Googlers across the globe protest the company…

Five reasons why you should be at Disrupt Berlin this November

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techcrunch.com - Are you ready to experience Disrupt Berlin 2018? Our premier tech startup conference takes place on 29-30 November and draws international participants from more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia…

The Ceph storage project gets a dedicated open-source foundation

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techcrunch.com - Ceph is an open source technology for distributed storage that gets very little public attention but that provides the underlying storage services for many of the world’s largest container and OpenSt…

Framer, the interactive design platform, scores $24M Series B led by Atomico

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techcrunch.com - Framer, the Amsterdam-based startup behind interactive design platform Framer X, has raised $24 million in Series B investment. The round is led by European VC firm Atomico, with participation from A…

Chappy, the Bumble-backed dating app for gay men, inks partnership with GLAAD

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techcrunch.com - Chappy, the dating app for gay men, has today announced a partnership with GLAAD. As part of the partnership, Chappy will make a donation to GLAAD for each conversation initiated on the dating app, f…

Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothing

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techcrunch.com - Just a few years ago, Li Mengqi could not have imagined shopping on her own. Someone needed to always keep her company to say aloud what was in front of her, who’s been blind since birth. When smartp…

These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels

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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timer…

GM is going to allow Ford vehicles and other competitors on its Maven car-sharing platform

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techcrunch.com - GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion. This time, it’s not just to a new city. Maven plans to open up its new peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to rent out n…

Alibaba rival JD sees Singles’ Day revenue jump 27% thanks to offline push

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techcrunch.com - Alibaba may have pioneered the concept of Singles’ Day, the world’s largest shopping day based on sales, but it very much not the only e-commerce giant involved. JD.com, Alibaba’s biggest rival in Ch…

What’s next? The top media executives on the job market

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techcrunch.com - Keep an eye out for the next moves by these entrepreneurs and executives. A number of the biggest names in media left their jobs over the last year (or announced they will be leaving soon), including…

Tinder to roll out expanded set of gender options in India

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techcrunch.com - Tinder is preparing to roll out more gender options in its app in India. The company will announce shortly that users will be able to edit their profile in order to choose a different option for thei…

Analysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal don’t see a game changer

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techcrunch.com - SAP CEO Bill McDermott was jacked up today about his company’s $8 billion Qualtrics acquisition over the weekend. You would expect no less for such a big deal. McDermott believes that the data that …

Twitter, those ‘verified’ bitcoin-pushing pillocks are pissing everyone off

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techcrunch.com - When he’s not accusing actual heroes of sex crimes or trolling the federal government, it’s what comes after that drives me batshit. The top reply to most of his tweets is some asshat impersonating h…

Tinkerers, repair shops will have mixed feelings about this iPad Pro teardown

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arstechnica.com - Following the controlled destruction of the Mac mini and the MacBook Air, iFixit turned its gaze to the new 11-inch iPad Pro. Its teardown reveals lots of adhesive, even more magnets, and only a few …

Comcast uses NBC to harm other cable companies, rivals say

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arstechnica.com - Comcast's smaller rivals in the cable industry have called on the Department of Justice to investigate whether Comcast uses its ownership of TV programming to harm competitors. The American Cable Ass…

How bicycles have changed in the last 25 years

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arstechnica.com - We tend to think of technology as something that moves electrons around. But I'm going to take a little diversion into technology that is used to move us around (and yes, our electrons as well, you p…

Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app

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arstechnica.com - Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption that was endorsed by National Security Agency leaker Edw…

Nine things I learned from driving a supercar for three days

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arstechnica.com - The email arrived unexpectedly. "I don't think we've ever met, but I'm the PR Manager for McLaren in North America," it began. My pulse quickened as I continued reading. "We've got a 570S Spider that…

Dems to probe whether Trump retaliated against CNN, Washington Post

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arstechnica.com - Democrats in Congress are planning to probe whether the Trump administration improperly used its regulatory powers to punish the owners of CNN and The Washington Post—two high-profile media outlets t…

Samsung’s foldable phone is real, and it launches next year

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arstechnica.com - There are two displays on Samsung's phone. One static phone-style display on the outside and the folding display on the inside. Putting the folding display on the inside of the device means putting a…

A 100,000-router botnet is feeding on a 5-year-old UPnP bug in Broadcom chips

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arstechnica.com - A recently discovered botnet has taken control of an eye-popping 100,000 home and small-office routers made from a range of manufacturers, mainly by exploiting a critical vulnerability that has remai…

Crypto Exchange Gate.io Removes StatCounter Service Following Report of Security Breach

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cointelegraph.com - Crypto exchange Gate.io has removed web analytics tool StatCounter from their website following a breach report by cybersecurity firm ESET, according to an official blog post published today, Nov. 7.…

Unique Ways to Integrate Social Media into Web Design | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - There’s something very special about social media marketing and how it compels consumers to engage with it. The Hootsuite 2018 Social Media Barometer says there are now over 3.2 billion global consum…

Apple Warns iPhones Have A Serious Problem

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www.forbes.com - Apple ’s decision to no longer report iPhone sales has led many to assume the iPhone XS (details), iPhone XS Max (details) and iPhone XR (details) must be in trouble. This is premature, but attempts …

The technology enabling Alibaba to sell $30.8 billion in Double 11 goods | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Alibaba chalked up 213.5 billion yuan -- $30.8 billion -- in gross merchandise volume (GMV) on Sunday through its 24-hour Global Shopping Festival. In order for everything to stay up, Tmall.com and i…

DOJ could probe Comcast as pressure mounts over alleged antitrust violations

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www.foxbusiness.com - FBN's Charlie Gasparino on the American Cable Association's concerns over Comcast's business practices. Pressure is mounting on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged antitrust violations c…

Tasker ineligible for some permissions after Play Store update

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androidcommunity.com - If you can’t do without Tasker on your Android phone, we hate to say this but a big change may happen soon. Google is believed to be taking away the SMS/MMS and Call functionality from the app. This …

Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone rolling out in Europe, here’s when

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androidcommunity.com - Back in April, Xiaomi launched the Black Shark. It’s another gaming phone that has been rumored since February, coming with a large 8GB of RAM and an 18:9 display. The Chinese OEM has started a sub-b…

Samsung unveils W2019 China-only flip phone

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androidcommunity.com - It’s not yet the foldable phone that we’ve been expecting from Samsung, but if you’ve been harkening for the days of flip phones, then the new W2019 flagship device should be the answer to your praye…

Lasso is a new short-form video app from Facebook

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androidcommunity.com - It seems like Facebook has not given up its dream of winning back teenagers to its fold. Well, at least not in the main Facebook app. The social media giant has very quietly released a new app called…

Cloudflare brings 1.1.1.1 app for faster, safer browsing

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androidcommunity.com - While connecting to public WiFi, especially if free, is very convenient for most of us who are counting our data allowance, it is fraught with “danger” as people who are interested and who have the “…

uBreakiFix can’t fix a broken Pixel 3 phone–not yet

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androidcommunity.com - Got a broken Pixel 3? We don’t understand why and how you would break a new phone but we know accidents happen. There are people who can be clumsy at times that is why it is important to test the dur…

4 Reasons Why CMOs Should Invest in Voice Marketing

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loyalty360.org - This post originally appeared on the PullString blog. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last twelve months, you’ve heard about voice assistants. They go by the name of Alexa, Google As…

5 Loyalty Trends That Are Revolutionizing the Industry

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loyalty360.org - These days, what we think of as “loyalty” is ever-evolving. While the promise of burgeoning tech is catching a lot of the noise for the marketplace, there are underlying strategic tactics that are la…

Loyalty360 Customer Expo: Award Finalist Sessions: Customer Insights, Customer-Centric Culture, and

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loyalty360.org - Day two of the 2018 Customer Expo commenced with presentations from award finalists. The first sessions featured representatives from a range of innovative brands: Canadian Red Cross, Firehouse Subs,…

More Evidence Emerges of Soft iPhone Sales - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Another iPhone component supplier has warned of softer than expected demand for Apple’s latest handsets. Lumentum, which supplies FaceID components for the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, has reduced its …

Samsung's Foldable Galaxy F Phone Coming in March 2019, Galaxy S10 in February - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Samsung’s foldable phone, which the company showed off just last week, is coming out next year. The company already announced some of the features of the device, though it has remained tight-lipped a…

Artificial Intelligence in Retail – 10 Present and Future Use Cases

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www.techemergence.com - Artificial intelligence in retail is being applied in new ways across the entire product and service cycle—from assembly to post-sale customer service interactions, but retail players need answers to…

Your Go-To Small Business Marketing Guide for 2019 (New Strategies)

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blog.bufferapp.com - According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, an incredible two-thirds of small business owners and entrepreneurs (66%) are personally responsible for three or more areas of their business, in…

Four Simple Tech Hacks That Will Make You More Productive

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www.fastcompany.com - While technology’s omnipresence in our lives affords us the opportunity to get work done from anywhere at anytime, being on devices all the time can lead us down time-wasting tunnels, making us less …

Video Marketing Tips • Attraction Marketing Profits

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Marketing is key to any and every business. You can not expect your product or service to sell itself, so you need to spread the word. That said, you should use video marketing to stick out from the …

Prospecting on Facebook: 5 Simple Steps to Attract Prospects to YOU Everyday! • My Lead System PRO (MLSP) Blog

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Are you ready to get started prospecting on Facebook to attract people to you and grow your business by leaps and bounds? Facebook is a massive pool of potential customers and clients that cannot be …

Retargeting Ad Secrets Revealed - Facebook Pixel Retargeting Ads

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Watch the “retargeting ads” video and learn how to add Facebook audience pixels to your websites today. This is the hottest (and legally) way follow your best prospects all over the internet until en…

Top Facebook VR exec may have been fired for his Trump support

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www.wsj.com - Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Cl…

Good Solid Advice About Laptops That Anyone Can Use

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Laptops aren’t too much trouble if you know something about them beforehand.This article will show you where and how to look for the best laptops. All you have left to do right now is keep reading. I…

A Quick Tutorial On Web Page Hosting Basics

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agentmonhost.com - A web page hosting provider is the bridge that allows people using the Internet to view your website. You should compare different services and select a good one before subscribing. This article has …

Expert Web Design Tips You Need To Read

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agentmonhost.com - This can be hard when there are many places you could find these. Read below for helpful tips to help you with aspects of website creation in creating great websites. Look at your site you are design…

Useful Tips And Tricks About Best Webhosting

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agentmonhost.com - You’ve probably heard the term “web page hosting” before, but haven’t the slightest clue as to what it means. Simply put, a web host provides you with a server, so that you can create your own websit…

Zip Into Hosting Success With This Advice

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agentmonhost.com - An unreliable web host is something that no one wants, you want people to be able to come to your site whenever possible. It is extremely important to choose a good host. The information provided wil…

Website Marketing Has Never Been This Simple Before!

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internetmarketinginfos.com - The tips presented below can help you how to get off to a great start in the field of Affiliate marketing. Try using product pages that have things like photos and videos to convince the audience tha…

Rokk Media Announces a Global Rebrand to Rokk

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bdaily.co.uk - Rokk Media, one of the UK’s leading software and mobile app development agencies, today unveiled it has rebranded to – Rokk. Operating in over 15 major industry sectors, the multi-award winning compa…

The Craft Beer Industry Taps into the IoT: A Supply Chain Use Case

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www.embedded-computing.com - As everyone knows, the Internet of Things has reached far and wide, into almost every known industry. Connected devices notify service personnel when it’s time to make service calls. They notify stor…

Cool Tech: Palm Tiny Smartphone, Atari Retro Handheld Console and more

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abduzeedo.com - The so-long Perfect Office series now turning into Cool Tech Series. A roundup of cool gadgets and tech for your perfect office; not necessarily for designers explicitly but for all of you tech-savvy…

How to Add Value and Not Just Check In or Introduce Yourself - Smart Calling Blog

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smartcalling.com - In my previous post I discussed calls that don’t add value, and even can be looked at as nuisance or time-wasting calls. The ones that start out with, “Just wanted to introduce myself,” Just checking…

Google My Business Reviews | What You Need to Know | Point A

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atpointa.com - Good reviews on your local Google My Business (GMB) listing are one of the most important things businesses can foster to promote their products and services. Positive reviews not only translate into…

Are Your Sales Messages Insulting? - Smart Calling Blog

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smartcalling.com - In my Smart Calling training programs with clients and sales reps we invest a lot of time ensuring that our messaging is laser-focused on the recipient and his/her world. That is the only way to carv…

How To Protect an Idea for an App

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www.shireensmith.com - The renowned inventor, Thomas Edison, famously declared, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”. His point was that hard work is required to transform an idea into a…

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