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Harsh Truths of Online Marketing -Marketers tell all | NOW Marketing Group | Marketing Agency in Northwestern Ohio

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nowmarketinggroup.com - I love marketing and since you’re reading this blog, chances are you do too. While the business of marketing is exciting, it isn’t always a bed of roses. We must be honest with ourselves and take a h…

The 7 wonders of wireframes

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boagworld.com - Quick, hand drawn wireframes can provide substantial benefits that will save you time and money. Wireframes have become an intrinsic part of the way we work at Headscape. In this post I want to expla…

How to Reinvent E-Commerce Personalization in 2019

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www.ecommercetimes.com - You'd be hard pressed to find a tactic more capable of winning and losing customers than personalization. In the past, bad personalization has cost businesses three-quarters of a trillion dollars. In…

Dynamic images in email: dos and don’ts – Econsultancy

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econsultancy.com - Everyone is familiar with the phrase, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. For marketers vying for the attention of time-poor, spoilt-for-choice consumers, this is sage advice. With a third of shop…

Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware

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techcrunch.com - Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled…

Google+ is Shutting Down: Save Your Content By March 31

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www.backblaze.com - If you’re a user of Google+, the internet-based social network, you recently received a notice that the service is shutting down on April 2. If you have any content on Google+ that you’d like to save…

A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—This year's Game Developers Conference saw two game makers emerge with a possible chapter in a future dystopian sci-fi novel: the story of making money by letting robots do the work. In…

British Microsoft, Nintendo hacker given 18 month sentence

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arstechnica.com - Two men were given suspended prison sentences in a London court yesterday after entering guilty pleas to hacking charges that saw both Microsoft and Nintendo breached. Zammis Clark, now 24, broke int…

Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas

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arstechnica.com - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a new spending cap on the FCC's Universal Service programs that deploy broadband to poor people and to rural and other underserved are…

ServiceNow teams with Workplace by Facebook on service chatbot

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techcrunch.com - One of the great things about enterprise chat applications beyond giving employees a common channel to communicate, is the ability to integrate with other enterprise applications. Today, Workplace, F…

Report: Trump “would never get in a self-driving car”

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arstechnica.com - Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has worked hard to avoid placing regulatory barriers in the way of self-driving cars. But Chao's boss is a driverless car …

Apple to close Texture on May 28, following launch of Apple News+

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techcrunch.com - A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday. As some have expected, the standalone Text…

Valve is building its own high-end VR headset called ‘Index’

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techcrunch.com - Valve is ready to sell its own full VR hardware getup. The gaming giant behind some classic titles and the ubiquitous Steam store has revealed a teaser image on its site of a VR headset called the Va…

Huawei books $8.8B profit for 2018 as consumer devices become top moneymaker

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techcrunch.com - Despite an ongoing tussle with the U.S. government, signs look positive for Huawei. The Chinese firm just released its end of year report for 2018 and profit is up 25 percent to 59.3 billion CNY, or …

Viacom-owned kids streaming service Noggin acquires educational app Sparkler

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techcrunch.com - Viacom’s Nickelodeon is doubling down on the educational aspects of its preschooler-focused streaming service, Noggin, with the acquisition of the early childhood learning platform Sparkler. Announce…

Google pulls controversial anti-gay religious app from the Play Store

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techcrunch.com - The same day the Human Rights Campaign downranked the company in its index of the best LGBTQ-friendly employers, Google decided to yank from the Play Store a controversial app accused of promoting co…

Daily Crunch: Lyft debuts on Nasdaq

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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Lyft …

Huawei’s chairman has harsh words for the US government

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techcrunch.com - The past couple of years have marked some steep ups and downs for Huawei. Just this morning, the company posted a 25 percent raise in profit, to $8.84 billion, in 2018. Yesterday, on the other hand, …

How a Google side project evolved into a $4B company

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techcrunch.com - How did Niantic happen? How did the company behind Pokémon GO and (soon) Harry Potter: Wizards Unite come to be? When anyone talks about Niantic, they generally mention that it’s “a Google spinout” a…

The next Zelda game on Switch is an indie mash-up with Crypt of the Necrodancer

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arstechnica.com - Face familiar boss characters (now with musical instruments). On Wednesday, Nintendo used the 2019 Game Developers Conference as an opportunity to unveil a litany of indie games, and like last year's…

AT&T and Comcast claim “anti-robocalling milestone” with new Caller ID tech

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arstechnica.com - AT&T and Comcast today said they have completed a successful cross-network test of a new Caller ID authentication system, and they plan to roll out the technology to consumers later this year. AT&T a…

John Oliver fights robocalls... by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC

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arstechnica.com - Comedian John Oliver is taking aim at the Federal Communications Commission again, this time demanding action on robocalls while unleashing his own wave of robocalls against FCC commissioners. In a 1…

Past its expiration date: Infiniti QX80 review

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arstechnica.com - As the old saying goes: you never get a second chance to make a first impression. When I climbed into the Infiniti QX80 for the first time, one of the first things I saw was a monochromatic LCD displ…

iFixit teardown: Apple’s AirPods are “disappointingly disposable”

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arstechnica.com - The OG AirPods and the new ones side by side. The latch is different, and Apple moved the sync button. The earbud, disassembled. Marked in yellow: probably a low-power stereo audio codec, according t…

The Design of Apple's Credit Card

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www.arun.is - Apple’s special event this week was all about software subscription services, signaling a new focus on business aside from its bread and butter of consumer electronics. Nestled among the software ann…

Planning for error: the UX of broken things

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uxdesign.cc - When I was working on creating error states, I did what any good designer does and googled the crap out of error patterns. What I found were some great articles of best practices, blogs that showed e…

Responsible JavaScript: Part I

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alistapart.com - By the numbers, JavaScript is a performance liability. If the trend persists, the median page will be shipping at least 400 KB of it before too long, and that’s merely what’s transferred. Like other …

The Good, The Bad, And The Ad: How To Deal With Bad Mobile Ads - Usability Geek

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usabilitygeek.com - Mobile ads are part of many apps’ monetisation strategy. However, there are good mobile ads, and there are bad mobile ads. The last thing you want to see over your morning cup of coffee is this type …

The Head of the FTC Just Debunked the FCC's Favorite Excuse for Killing Net Neutrality

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gizmodo.com - Two weeks before voting to rollback the net neutrality rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he laid out his case for killing off the policy that ensure…

Apple versus the privacy spiral: The business value of trust | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Tim Cook closed out the Apple services event this week by noting that the customer is always at the center of everything the company does. That's not a unique perspective; it's one we've heard many t…

Sony’s cost-cutting for mobile business leads to China plant closure

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androidcommunity.com - While Sony is still a much-revered name when it comes to electronics, one of their waterloos is their handset business. They are facing huge losses for their financial year but they’re still hoping t…

Sony doing some serious changes within the company

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androidcommunity.com - Sony has been doing major changes in the mobile business. We said this back in January right when we also said the company would announce mobile plans for the year at CES. We’ve always known about So…

One UI 1.1 on Galaxy S10 lets you have landscape Always On Display

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androidcommunity.com - While most of us probably have our devices on vertical orientation when we’re not using it, there are still those who for one reason or another would want to have another option for that. If you have…

Spotify testing out a new “Premium Duo” plan in select markets

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androidcommunity.com - If there are two people in your household who listen to Spotify but the Family plan is a bit too expensive for you, the music streaming giant has apparently heard you. They are now testing out a new …

Loyalty360 Reads: March 29, 2019

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loyalty360.org - Programs Millennium Simplifies The London-based hospitality brand has relaunched its program, with a focus on simplicity. “Millennium’s previous loyalty program used a tiered-membership approach like…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: March 29 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because I have a hard time saying no, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s latest tax problem, Windows 10 version 1809, throwing ice water on April Fools, Microsoft de-notching Minecraft,…

Drake invests in esports betting startup Players’ Lounge

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techcrunch.com - Drake’s latest collaboration isn’t with Kanye or Kendrick, it’s with Marissa Mayer. The rap superstar has joined a bevy of Silicon Valley investors, including Strauss Zelnick, Comcast, Macro Ventures…

Debunked: Nine link building myths you should ignore in 2019

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searchenginewatch.com - Almost anyone running a B2B or B2C business knows that Google and other search engines like quality links, and could consider them as one of the top ranking factors. So, if you want your website to r…

Intervista – Gerd Leonhard: «I robot e le tecnologie controlleranno le nostre vite, ma non riduciamo l’uomo a una macchina»

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www.domanipress.it - Il tuo ultimo libro “Technology Vs Humanity” esamina lo scontro tra tecnologia ed umanità. Alla luce di innovazioni sempre più pervasive come: l’intelligenza artificiale ed il cognitive computing qua…

Apple's Hollywood Plan Becomes Clear: The "Cable Box of Streaming"

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - From inside the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, on March 25, Apple's top executives outlined a vision for a future in which live sports events, breaking news, prestige hourlong dramas an…

How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability

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phys.org - "Digital ethics and privacy" shot into research and advisory company Gartner's top ten strategic technology trends for 2019. Before that it barely raised a mention. In the past year governments, corp…

Is Facebook Organic Marketing Dead?

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Have recent changes to Facebook impacted your marketing? Wondering what you should and shouldn’t be doing with your organic Facebook marketing? To explore Facebook organic marketing, I interview Mari…

Keep These Auto Repair Tips In Mind

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carshopping.biz - Most people lack expertise when it come to auto repairs, you’re not the expert you wish you were when it comes to auto repair.You need all information possible in order to better fix your car when ne…

Everything You Should Know About Online Shopping

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popularchristmas.com - One of the greatest conveniences of the world wide web is that you can shop online. However, while it is very easy to do, you have to be sure you’re aware of what goes into it first. Here are a few t…

How To Get The Best Rate On A Car Loan

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carshopping.biz - Many people avoid buying a new car. The following advice will make buying a car shopping stress-free. Keep reading to learn further details about it. You do yourself a great disservice if you fail to…

How Grindr became a national security issue

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www.theverge.com - Grindr is an app used primarily by gay men to find hookups in their immediate vicinity. With more than 27 million users, it’s so popular among its target audience that it has basically defined gay li…

Embrace Mobile Marketing Using These Great Tips

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firstadsense.com - Mobile marketing is a broad term that can contain a broad range of ideas and approaches. The essential definition of mobile marketing is promoting business through the use of cell phones or other mob…

How To Make Money In Mobile Marketing

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durac.info - Mobile marketing is very effective when used correctly, but it can be difficult to learn and create a great marketing plan. There are an abundance of options available that you must educate yourself …

Twitter Goes Dark - NewsWatchTV

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newswatchtv.com - Dimmed or dark layouts have become quite trendy over the last year or so. Apple, Google and others have started offering a dark theme that would give users’ eyeballs a rest from staring at bright scr…

Twitter Introduced An Enhanced Dark Mode Called Lights Out

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www.valuewalk.com - Following the trends of Facebook Messenger and Viber that introduced dark modes for their apps, Twitter has also introduced an enhanced dark mode called Lights Out. Although the feature was available…

Google: Don't Blindly Stuff Text into Ecommerce Category Pages - Nitro-Net Internet Marketing Company. A part of Global Marketing Group

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nitro-net.com - Google’s John Mueller cautions ecommerce site owners about adding unnecessary text to category pages. This topic came up today during a Twitter chat about ecommerce sites. There was a discussion abou…

Brace yourselves: Exploit published for serious Magento bug allowing card skimming [Updated]

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arstechnica.com - Attack code was published on Friday that exploits a critical vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform, all but guaranteeing it will be used to plant payment card skimmers on sites that have y…

7 Malware Families Ready to Ruin Your IoT's Day

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www.darkreading.com - Don't you hate it when one loud co-worker at the office takes all the credit and keeps the rest of the team out of management's eye? Welcome to the world of Internet of Things (IoT) malware, where se…

5 Tactics to Improve B2B Lead Quality on LinkedIn | KoMarketing

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komarketing.com - Generating high quality leads through LinkedIn for a B2B company can be a daunting task. With many targeting options, ad formats and goals strategies, creating a plan that is successful takes time an…

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