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Loyalty360 Reads: May 7, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Programs Ford Revamps Customer Loyalty Points Program Ford has unveiled FordPass Rewards, an app-based loyalty program that awards points for spending money on vehicle maintenance. “Our old program w…
Surviving the Technology Economy - How to Keep Up With Change - The Digital Transformation People
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www.thedigitaltransformationpeople.com - There’s a wealth of information available that reinforces the increased rate and pace of innovation we enjoy today. Words like ‘exponential’ and ‘pervasive’ are used, now that computing power and tec…
Cisco releases a critical security patch for a virtualized automation tool
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www.networkworld.com - Cisco has released a patch for a critical vulnerability in software used to control large virtual environments. The weakness gets a 10 out of 10 severity score and is found in Cisco’s Elastic Service…
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Implementing a Mockup: CSS Layout Step by Step Shared by Webdesigner Depot daveceddia.com - Creating layouts is one of the hardest parts of front end development for a lot of people. You c…
Google to allow users to pay for Android apps using cash – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Today, the Android platform sees more app downloads than iOS, but Apple’s App Store continually dominates in terms of revenue. Now, Google is aiming to narrow the revenue gap by introducing a new way…
Iguazio brings its data science platform to Azure and Azure Stack – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Iguazio, an end-to-end platform that allows data scientists to take machine learning models from data ingestion to training, testing and production, today announced that it is bringing its solution t…
Reserve your student ticket to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The future of mobility is the big topic driving TC Sessions: Mobility 2019, which takes place July 10 in San Jose, Calif. Will it include flying cars? Space tourism? Transporter beams? Before we can …
Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In a surprising turn of events, TechCrunch has learned that Docker CEO Steve Singh will be stepping down after two years at the helm, and former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden will be taking over. An em…
Google Play is changing how app ratings work – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Two years ago, Apple changed the way its app store ratings worked by allowing developers to decide whether or not their ratings would be reset with their latest app update — a feature that Apple sugg…
Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private.” Sundar Pichai: “The present is private.” While both CEOs made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s produc…
#1 app YOLO Q&A is the Snapchat platform’s 1st hit – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - There’s a new teen app sensation. Anonymous question-asking app YOLO has rocketed to the #1 US app position with the help of Snapchat. Built on top of the Snap Kit platform, YOLO uses Snapchat for lo…
Non-invasive glucose monitor EasyGlucose takes home Microsoft’s Imagine Cup and $100K – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Microsoft’s yearly Imagine Cup student startup competition crowned its latest winner today: EasyGlucose, a non-invasive, smartphone-based method for diabetics to test their blood glucose. It and the …
Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform, a security resear…
Is your startup TC Top Pick material? Apply today. – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - We’re hunting for a cadre of exciting early-stage startups to attend and exhibit at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 as part of our TC Top Pick program — for free. Not only that, if your company makes the …
Pandora expands its music-and-podcasts product Pandora Stories with help from SiriusXM’s guests – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Pandora’s integration with new owner SiriusXM continues today, as the music streaming service will now benefit from the numerous SiriusXM guests and artists who come through its New York studios on a…
Daily Crunch: We round up all the Google I/O news – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google unveils new Pixel 3 phones, Bird will start selling directly to consumers and PUBG takes a hit in China. Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 8, 2019. 1. Here’s everything Google announced today a…
Google unveils auto-delete for location, Web activity, and app usage data
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arstechnica.com - Google will soon let users automatically delete location history and other private data in rolling intervals of either three months or 18 months. "Choose a time limit for how long you want your activ…
VW’s record-breaking electric car takes on world’s scariest racetrack, Nürburgring
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arstechnica.com - Although we make every effort to cover our own travel costs, in this case Volkswagen flew me to Germany and provided two nights in a hotel. NÜRBURG, Germany—What do the race cars of Formula 1, the Wo…
Ajit Pai refuses to investigate Frontier’s horrible telecom service
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arstechnica.com - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has rejected a request to have the FCC investigate Frontier Communications' business practices in Minnesota, despite evidence that the company has …
Google renames Assistant home devices, debuts $229 Nest Hub Max
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arstechnica.com - At its annual developers conference, Google expanded its line of Assistant home devices and renamed the entire family. The new Nest Hub Max is the 10-inch version of the existing Google Home Hub with…
Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government
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arstechnica.com - AMD and Cray have announced that they're building "Frontier," a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal is to deliver a system that can perform 1.5 e…
Why a Republican senator wants the FTC to throw the book at Facebook
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arstechnica.com - Two senators—one Republican and one Democrat—are urging the Federal Trade Commission to take a hard line against Facebook in its ongoing negotiations over a privacy settlement. "The FTC must set a re…
Video: Slay the Spire is a friendly game of death, but it was hard to get it right
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arstechnica.com - Normally, we devote our "War Stories" videos to established and classic games of old. So what is a 2019 video game doing here? Anyone who asks this question about Slay the Spire, made by a three-pers…
Waymo expands Phoenix self-driving service by putting 10 cars on Lyft
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arstechnica.com - Alphabet's Waymo announced on Tuesday that it was expanding its commercial self-driving car service by adding 10 vehicles to Lyft's network in the Phoenix area "over the next few months." The small s…
Baltimore city government hit by “RobbinHood” ransomware
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arstechnica.com - Systems at a number of departments of Baltimore’s city government were taken offline on May 7 by a ransomware attack. As of 9:00am today, e-mail and other services remain offline. Police, fire, and e…
A mysterious hacker gang is on a supply-chain hacking spree
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www.wired.com - A software supply-chain attack represents one of the most insidious forms of hacking. By breaking into a developer's network and hiding malicious code within apps and software updates that users trus…
Lenovo adds AMD Ryzen Pro-powered laptops to its ThinkPad family
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arstechnica.com - Lenovo's new ThinkPad laptops with AMD processors. The 14-inch and 13-inch models will have FHD displays with touch and non-touch options, as well as FreeSync technology. All models have that signatu…
6 ways to improve your email campaigns
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thenextweb.com - Want to communicate about a new product to your customer or, want them to opt for your services? An email is not just an excellent way to communicate with your customers, but also a medium of convers…
One of the world’s largest retailers just debuted its own shape-shifting typeface
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www.fastcompany.com - In 2018, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raked in $30 billion in a single day–breaking a global sales record. As Alibaba continues to grow, the company is turning to design as a way of supportin…
The Firefox EU Elections Toolkit helps you to prevent pre-vote online manipulation – The Mozilla Blog
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blog.mozilla.org - What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘online manipulation’? In the run-up to the EU parliamentary elections at the end of May, you probably think first and foremost of disinformation. But w…
Replacements for Adobe apps
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boingboing.net - Thieves in Dungiven, Northern Ireland, figured out a clever way to get cash at an ATM without having to install skimmers and wait for punters to come along: tear the entire thing out with a fourteen-…
How to Quickly Free Up Space on Your Windows PC
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lifehacker.com - Windows: The concept of “spring cleaning” fills me with dread. Organizing your archives of stuff—physical or digital—is a lot easier to do as a year-round activity, rather than on one terrible day (o…
Google Assistant to become smaller, faster; Driving Mode to come soon
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androidcommunity.com - Obviously, we expected Google to make some big announcement about the Google Assistant during the opening of the I/O developer’s conference. The CEO himself, Sundar Pichai, shared the newest innovati…
Motorola One Vision set in blue and brown color options surface
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androidcommunity.com - Even before the Moto Z4 and Moto E6 are revealed, Motorola is set to launch an addition to the Motorola One phone series. After the Motorola One and One Power, the Motorola One Vision is expected. It…
Google Assistant brings Duplex on the web
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androidcommunity.com - One of the many new things Google is introducing this week at the Google I/O conference is the Google Assistant on Duplex for the web. The Google Duplex was announced around the same time last year b…
Honor 20 Pro promo images appear before launch
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androidcommunity.com - The Honor sub-brand is doing well. There is no mention how many units the company is selling but there are several models available in the market. A couple of days ago, the Honor 20 Lite launched wit…
SAP Announces New Solution for Customer and Employee Experience
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loyalty360.org - SAP has just launched a new way for consumers to interact with businesses. enterprises interact with each other. Three months after its acquisition of Qualtrics, SAP has rolled out 10 new offerings t…
Progress on the Retirement Backlog, and a Panel Appears Set to Consider Shutdown Bills
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www.govexec.com - The Office of Personnel Management brought its backlog of pending retirement claims below 18,000 last month for the first time since September 2018. According to statistics released by OPM this week,…
Android 9 Pie Adoption Up 250 Percent Over Previous Version - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Citing the success of its Project Treble technologies, Google this week said that adoption of the latest Android version has skyrocketed compared to the previous version. “Thanks to Project Treble an…
Sidestepping Apple: the third-party tinkerers fighting for your right to repair
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www.theguardian.com - When Jessa Jones’s twin daughters flushed her iPhone 4S down the toilet, she decided that she was going to fix it herself. She took the toilet apart in her backyard, retrieved the device, and then se…
What defines high-quality links in 2019 and how to get them?
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searchenginewatch.com - Links are a way for users to get relevant information on the internet. They are also a ranking factor for your pages. Of the 200+ ranking factors, Google is known to use, links share the top three sp…
Huawei Says Detained CFO to Seek Extradition Stay, Rights Violated
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www.newsmax.com - Meng Wanzhou, 47, the daughter of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at Vancouver's airport in December on a U.S. warrant and is fighting extradition on fraud…
Microsoft Employees Demand Company End $480 Million Contract With US Army
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gizmodo.com - Ahead of Sunday’s rumored announcement of the HoloLens 2 headset at Mobile World Congress on Sunday, a group of concerned employees at Microsoft have begun circulated a letter demanding the august te…
3 Ways to Use Facebook Ads to Promote Your Products
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to run Facebook ads to promote your products or services? Wondering which type of Facebook ad campaigns to start with? In this article, you’ll discover three types of Facebook advertising campai…
How to Run a Native Advertising Campaign from Start to Finish
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instapage.com - What is native advertising? Native advertising examples Example 1: the open web Native advertising vs sponsored content & content marketing Example 2: social media Example 3: search The steps to mana…
Tricks And Tips On How To Get Great Looking Photos
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slr-digitalcamera.com - You will ruin your photographic reputation if you take poor photographs.There are a few tips in this guide that can help you start bettering your photography techniques. Get closer to the subject to …
Affiliate Marketing Advance ( keyword final last class 2) Paid Course FREE Step by Step [Part 10]
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duracmarketing.com - eshikhon Affiliate Marketing Paid Course free here. Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate digital marketing, Affiliate Marketing eshikhon course, Eshikhon Affiliate marketing All course, Affiliate marketing…
Lost When It Comes To Facebook Marketing? These Tips Will Show You The Way!
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duracmarketing.com - Have you been considering using marketing to sell a service or product? If this sounds like you, Facebook is an easy way to get started. Through Facebook, you can share your message with a global aud…
Take SEO To The Next Level With These Great Tips
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firstadsense.com - You have made the decision to learn to master SEO. But, since there is so very much to learn, finding a good place to begin can be difficult.Below are a plethora of techniques that you can implement …
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