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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Inside Facebook
If you’ve got a product-based page on Facebook (but haven’t entered your physical address), you might have noticed recently that your page ratings are no longer showing. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Facebook co... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comRidesharing is its own new market economy thanks to Uber, Lyft and many other startups. It’s a rewarding way to engage and exchange services with strangers, but it can also create intense personal interactions. That’s why thi...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialAdvertisers on Twitter can now create campaigns focused on specific marketing goals, and pay only when people take desired actions as a result. Marketers can choose from a range of key goals; Twitter's self-serve ads tool will suggest th...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook announced two changes to its platform policy for developers that will go into effect Nov. 5: Games that include mandatory or optional in-application charges must disclose those charges in their app descriptions, and users must...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TechCrunch » SocialPhoto-sharing service EyeEm is announcing today that it is partnering with Foursquare and The Huffington Post to get photos taken by its users in front of more people with the introduction of two new competitions in its iOS and And...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comIn recent years, the term Big Data has come to the fore, with businesses trying to use the huge stores of data to solve the world’s problems. While Bill Gates thinks analytics can be used to improve American schools , tech companies use ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Inside Facebook
Inside Facebook has been covering the Facebook platform since 2006, when Facebook was still in its infancy. We’ve also been an early adopter of Facebook. Our fanbase has grown incredibly fast in the past year, as... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from WebProNews » Social Media
Who’s up for a little taxonomy? Let’s take a quick look at what ‘karma’ means to different subsets of redditors. The first distinction is obviously whether or not said user cares about karma (reddit points) at all... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaFacebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR is seen as a long-term play for the future that naturally includes much more than just video games. It should thus come as no surprise that Facebook is reportedly in talks with executives at...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
A year into his tenure, CEO Don Mattrick is having a hard time growing revenues, but he remains an optimist about investing in social mobile games. -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
Twitter revealed several new ad tools today that give marketers better control over their campaign objectives. -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Forbes - Social MediaVideoIf you look at the web address of any financial site and most e-commerce sites, you'll find the letters "HTTPS" in front of the site name. HTTP, which is on all websites, stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and S stands for "Secu...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookLos Angeles Galaxy and Team USA soccer legend Landon Donovan used a Facebook post Thursday to announce his retirement at the conclusion of the Major League Soccer season. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsFacebook announced Thursday it was buying California-based cybersecurity startup PrivateCore, in a move to boost defenses of its vast server network. "I believe that PrivateCore's technology and expertise will help support Face...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comGoogle transformed online search to build its brand, prioritizing digital access for consumers across the globe. Then came Google Glass , which according to BetaBeat , “dropped on the world in a kind of public beta.” Google ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Google Plus DailyIn what seems like the first update to Google+ in a long while, the development team has announced an updated version of the Android app with performance boosts and UI tweaks. Performance is the main focus on this update, and according t...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Growing Social Media
Looking for love is no longer what it used to be. The proliferation of social networks such as Facebook and online dating sites has changed the game tremendously. More and more people are going online to look for a mate. But how do you e... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaThis post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Awesome news: 490 people saw a tweet I sent out this week! Awesomer still, 16 people either clicked the link, left a reply, or favorited the tweet. And as for the other 474 people? I coul...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comChances are, you’ve spent some time today communicating with friends and colleagues using one of the many services for sending words. Whether those words were sent via email, SMS or chats, they have an impact on your psychological ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialMason Jar Cookie Company, a gourmet ready-to-bake cookie mix, named The O'Hara Project as its agency of record to handle social media efforts and public relations duties. The brand is expanding to offer additional pre-mixed treats, along...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaIn less than 24 hours, the new Foursquare app’s “Tastes” has already acquired over 15 million user-generated recommendation items. The Tastes feature acts like tags for your personal preferences. If you like tacos, you can search and add...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Inside Facebook
Facebook announced today that it has acquired PrivateCore, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based secure server technology company. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, both companies say they are aligned with the same vision of security... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaIn addition to releasing Graph API version 2.1 today, Facebook also announced two important changes to its Platform Policies under games and proper use. Developers have 90 days (until November 5, 2014) to comply with the new rules. Here ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsNEW YORK (AP) — If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country marks the 40th anniversary of his resignat...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook announced the acquisition of secure server technology provider PrivateCore Thursday in a post by Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan , in which Sullivan said PrivateCore’s vCage technology will eventually be incorporated int...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: social"Fish where the fish are," the saying goes, but apparently no one shared this wisdom with big retailers, who are lagging behind when it comes to promoting and selling their products on social platforms. That's according to finds from Ken...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comTwitter’s recent growth has been a cause for celebration across the tech industry, and the finance industry is pretty happy too. However, there’s still a major problem with bots online — and on Twitter especially. Scientists from t...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaFacebook today released Graph API version 2.1, as well as updated Android and iOS SDKs that work with it. For those who don’t know, the Graph API is the primary way for apps to read and write to the Facebook social graph. The release mea...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Next Web » Social MediaFacebook will now let you track engagement data on an Events page with Insights. Now you’ll be able to see how well your posts are trending for your upcoming birthday party. First noticed by AllFacebook, Insights adds a week’s reach, vie...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialPinterest is breaking into mobile messaging with a new feature for users to chat about particular Pins, or anything else that comes to mind. Encouraging broader interactions, Pinterest has also made it possible for users to send Pins -- ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Social MediaFacebook will acquire PrivateCore, a firm that 'validates and secures' server data and protects servers from breaches.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Ignite Social Media
Although I'm considerably biased, the North Carolina food trucks scene around the Triangle is one of the best. I figured I'd combine my two loves of social media and food trucks into one blog post. Here are 10 North Carolina food trucks ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook users often see their Timelines flooded with well wishes from friends on their birthdays , and now Facebook itself is apparently contributing to the merriment with emails to users on their special days. (more…) New Care...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookSome Facebook users are starting to see the availability of insights for events they have created. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SocialTimes.comA new infographic by U.K.-based SEO agency High Impact provides 10 tips for getting the most out of your infographics. Beyond well-crafted content and graphics, there are many things you can do to boost your infographic to ensure it̵...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top Ten Social MediaTop Ten Social MediaTen Must Attend American Marketing Conferences Advertising conferences are a great way to network and expand your knowledge. Certainly nobody knows everything but we can all learn from each. The...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialMarketing tech company Unruly, which has a focus on social video, on Thursday announced it has partnered with Nielsen to bring the Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings (OCR) to its ad platform. The ratings allow advertisers to target specific...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookSmall business advisor and USA Today columnist Rhonda Abrams , who participated in the Facebook Fit series of events for small and midsized businesses , urged SMBs to focus on finding their best customers in a post on the Facebook for B...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookFacebook giveth, and Facebook taketh away? The social network appears to have removed information on the average ratings for pages in its five-star ratings system from pages that are not places . (more…) New Career Opportunities...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top Ten Social MediaTop Ten Social MediaWhen it comes to operating an online store, don’t be fooled into thinking that it’s a one-man job. Sure, you might be a sole proprietor, but you’ll need lots of...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MediaPost.com: socialConsumers may soon have an option to search and purchase tickets for live events from a search engine if Live Nation EVP of Digital Marketing Ryan Okum gets his way. "I will not be surprised if a lot of the data gets pulled in to search ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Ignite Social Media
This week, #NationalIceCreamDay made way for #NationalVanillaIceCreamDay, which lead to #NationalMilkChocolateDay, #NationalCheesecakeDay, #NationalLipstickDay, and #NationalMuttDay. Every day so far this week, there has been something t... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from AllFacebookAndrew Bocking, who led the BlackBerry Messenger effort for BlackBerry before leaving that company in February, joined Facebook as product manager for its recently announced Internet.org application , Re/code reported. (more…) N...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Inside Facebook
While King’s Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga remain the most-used apps by Facebook users — according to AppData’s daily active user (DAU) estimates, the music app Spotify is growing. Spotify has surpassed Microsoft Live... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
Facebook has acquired PrivateCore, a security startup focused on encryption and malware prevention, according to a blogpost by PrivateCore chief Oded Horovitz. -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from HootSuite Social Media Management
Choosing the right social media metric to track is a daunting task for any social media professional. With numerous social media metrics available, it can be difficult to... Read More The post The Social Media Metrics That Should Matter ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Commerce Times
Google on Wednesday announced that it has begun factoring websites' use of HTTPS into its search rankings, resulting in more favorable results for those that use the security-minded protocol. Use of the protocol still is considered just ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
In a study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of RetailMeNot, the majority of consumers said digital coupons were more likely to influence their purchase decision than any other type of promotion. Note that coupons are way more ... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine JournalWordPress 3.9.2 has just been rolled out as a security release for all previous versions. WordPress strongly recommends that you update your sites immediately. This release fixes a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TechRadar: Internet newsGoogle may have gotten there first, but Nvidia could wind up having the last laugh when it comes to improving head-mounted displays with new technology that takes the bulkiness out of eyeglass wearables. SlashGear reported Wednesday that...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine JournalGoogle wants to make the Internet a safer place and has worked hard to improve their own security over the years. Today Google announced they’re taking their dedication to security a step further by making HTTPS a ranking signal. Google ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from TorrentFreak
The newly launched torrent search engine BTindex crawls BitTorrent's DHT network for new files. It's a handy service, but one that comes with a controversial twist. In addition to listing hundreds of thousands of magnet links, it also ex... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Retailers ArticlesCVS offers an attractive carousel of rotating images on its m-commerce site home page. Dropping just one of the promotional images reduced page load time from 13.67 seconds to 9.67 seconds, according to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Perfor...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, p... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
We asked 100 people, top 3 answers on the board to this question. Name the best website for digital advertising. Ding! Google! Ding! Facebook Ding!. . . . Twitter? Twitter is working hard to become your number three choice. They’re... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet NewsFacebook announced Thursday it was buying California-based cybersecurity startup PrivateCore, in a move to boost defenses of its vast server network.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from InternetSome say Dish Network might be looked at as a buyer now that Sprint's not acquiring T-Mobile. Discussing the best scenario for Dish, with Jason Bazinet, Citigroup media analyst, and Matthew Harrigan, Wunderlich Securities senior ana...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from InternetDish Network plans to launch its streaming service by the end of the year. CNBC's Morgan Brennan reports one analyst says investors might need to start looking at the company as a buyer soon.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from CircleID
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianCharles Leadbeater hopes tech firms will stop focusing on getting big and selling out, and devote themselves to doing good While Charles Leadbeater's report worries about whether the internet is living up to its potential, both his Bette...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Commerce Times
Google is hosting a conference in Sicily this week called the "Camp." This is a different kind of conference. It's not just about business. Attendees are from business, politics and entertainment -- they bring their families. I have been...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from My Blogger TricksIf you ever thought about making your website secure by going HTTPS , now is the time to actually do it. In a bid to make the internet 'more secure', Google has officially announced that sites secured with HTTPS and SSL will now ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from InternetDiscussing how cybersecurity may evolve beyond passwords, with Arik Hesseldahl, Re/code senior editor, and CNBC's Eamon Javers.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianFormer Labour policy adviser says abusive web culture, like that suffered by Mary Beard, shows internet has lost promise of mid-2000s as route to collaboration for the better A pervading online misogyny is the most visible reason why the...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianThe open-access online encyclopedias fans are in London considering its future The Wikimedia Foundation meets in London this weekend to look over an apparently thriving institution. Wikipedia has revolutionalised our approach to knowledg...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet NewsMonkey see, monkey do. But when a monkey takes a selfie, who owns the copyright?
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianThe millennium generation have the most digital confidence and knowledge say Ofcom in its latest communications market report. What else does it tell us? Ofcom: six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults An average si...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ExtremeTechInternet Technology News & Trends | ExtremeTechIn the wake of its rumored YouTube acquisition, Twitch.tv is making numerous significant changes to its content and copyright policing. The results are anything but positive.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet NewsGoogle is wielding the power of its dominant Internet search to push more websites into protecting the people using their services.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Hashtracking Blog
Our crowdsourcing #HashChat on August 6th included special guest Aliza Sherman who wrote the book on crowdsourcing. We had a great discussion on crowdsourcing with a focus on how and if brands should do so on twitter. Some highlights ar... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine People Blog
Has your long-drawn-out and painstaking research finally led you to the Holy Grail of landing page knowledge – the best colour for a form button? Red? Green? A risque yellow? Another blog post on proposing the best colour for call-... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Retailers ArticlesConsumers in Manhattan, San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles can order items from the chain through Google Shopping Express.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Creative Bloq Web designRead more about 13 great text editors for web designers at CreativeBloq.com We're sure at some point, a visually-oriented app will come along and make text editors obsolete overnight. But people have been gleefully predicting the demise ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Retailers ArticlesTaking a cue from the Tinder app, eBags developers have debuted a fun tool for women on mobile devices to sort through handbags as quickly as they’d sort through men, leading to a whopping 10% mobile conversion rate.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS FeedA new vulnerability is affecting the two most widely used open-source content management systems.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from InstantShift
Lamps and lights are indispensable items of any room or house or office. Lamps and lights are used very commonly to lighten up the darker corners of the rooms and also to add atmospheric lightning to your living room. Though, there are s... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BizReportWith the move to digital, many companies are rushing to keep ahead of the curb with the content that they publish; however, with the expanding digital landscape, doing this can sometimes be a challenge. However, with the right content hu...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from E-Retailers ArticlesIts Q2 e-commerce revenue grew 14.9%, while total revenue rose 9.6%.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Internet | The GuardianIm glad my sons aged six and eight are digitally literate and handy with a tablet. But I dont want the tablet to use them As a tech-savvy parent ( I write about video games , for heavens sake), I was probably slightly less perturbed by t...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS FeedThe Pwnie Awards show is one of the highlights of the annual Black Hat security conference.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Domain Name Wire.Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ExtremeTechInternet Technology News & Trends | ExtremeTechA new augmented reality approach from researchers at UNC and Nvidia could revolutionize the industry -- and make advanced AR interfaces a reality.
