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In its nearly four month existence, the mobile app, available on Android and iOS, has exploded in popularity. Having reached more than one million players in multiple broadcasts this year, the game is poised to reach the Vine-like success its founders are used to. That is of course, if they can effectively monetize the show and maintain the pace at which their app has taken off. But with complaints of frequent glitches and low payouts, who knows where this mobile game show will land on the great app spectrum of history....

However, if you were ever looking for an affordable Windows 10 machine, and then wanted save another couple of hundreds you’d get the VOYO VBook V3 Ultrabook. It’s neither the fastest computer nor the lightest, but it may be one of the cheapest. We tested the VBook V3 over a month, stressed tested and performance tested it, and traded in our daily Macbook pros for a week to see how it holds up....

Hannah’s (if that is her real name) tweet reverberated around Twitter, with writers such as Libby Watson saying that they were “blown away” by “the bleakest tweet on this website.” “I AM HAPPY” His assertion that “I AM HAPPY,” however, does make us wonder whether Seth is perhaps protesting too much. Sprinklr, Peeing in Bottles, and Faith For the next tweet, we head from Philadelphia to Florida. Kara works at the JAX2 fulfilment center in Jacksonville....

This belt was created by UK-based startup Nifty and it charges your iPhone 6 in about 2.5 hours from empty. It also keeps your pants from falling off. The XOO Belt is designed with a new breed of lithium ceramic polymer flexible battery; the belt is said to be safe, durable, and weather-resistant. While the flexible part of the battery lives inside the belt strap, the rest is contained in the buckle....

In this profile of #StartupsEverywhere, I talked with John Machacek, Senior Vice President of Finance and Entrepreneurial Development, the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation about the friendly startup community, job creation and emerging startups. On a macro level, one of my main responsibilities is elevating the idea of being an entrepreneur and the importance of entrepreneurs to our economy. Increasing the awareness and support of entrepreneurial development helps connect startups, builds confidence among entrepreneurs, and portrays our community as a great place to build a business....

If you have no idea what any of that means, you are definitely not alone. For the sake of simplicity, ColumnStore is a large-scale engine that helps facilitate the storage of data and the collection of analytics on big data systems. More importantly, ColumnStore is the first of its kind to allow both massively parallelized and transactional workloads for analytics through the same engine. Not many tools can operate as a database system and handle analytics....

Less than three years old, DivvyHQ has a small team of fewer than 10 people, with only one salesperson and no paid advertising. Yet they’re working with huge brands, the kind of companies whose doors you can’t just knock on. Besides the above, their content marketing tool is also used by the National Geographic Channel, QVC, Ocean Spray, H&R Block, and tech companies like Adobe, Intel, Cisco, and 3M. How did they do it?...

According to Rick Gonzalez, Founder and Inventor of the Lock-Bot, Lock-Bot seeks to bring peace-of-mind to both owners and renters in the sharing economy. “The internet of things needs to provide real value to people. The Lock-Bot empowers both the property owner and the renter to connect in a way that’s immediate and timely, right where the communication needs to happen,” Gonzalez adds. A renter, arriving at the accommodations that they’ve reserved, may sometimes be faced with confusion at the time of check-in....

Freelancers vs. Companies When you have made up your mind to hire iOS application developers from India, you have two options: you can hire individual freelancers or you can hire companies. Though it would be a cheaper option to hire freelancers, you should be careful while hiring them. It is a safer option to hire experienced and well-established companies for your project. Hiring a company means that you would be working with expert professionals under one roof and all the aspects of the project would be handled professionally....

If marketers are not HIPAA-ready yet or are not knowledgable about compliance measures, then it’s high time that they check out these valuable tips to stay on a safer side. Sharing Patient Information is a Big No With the digital intervention, the health care industry has become vulnerable to data breaches, leaks, and unwanted disclosures leading to misuse of patient data and other medical information. In the light of such an alarming situation, HIPAA rules and regulations came into force for protecting patient confidentiality and satisfying the Privacy Rule from getting into wrong hands via digital channels and marketing campaigns....

To come up with their rankings, G2 Crowd looked at two major factors: market presence and customer satisfaction. Using their own data of product reviews left by users, they were able to pin down the 19 companies that reached their minimum data requirements (only companies whose products had ten or more validated reviews on the G2 Crowd platform were included in its rankings). They then plotted these 19 companies per that market presence and customer satisfaction....

TopTracker is available for Windows, OS X, and is coming to Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems. The application is completely free, and one would assume Toptal is using it as a way to drive new customers to their services. That being said, TopTracker is a robust app with all the features one would expect to find in employee tracking software. During the creation of TopTracker, Toptal’s main goal was to offer non-intrusive time tracking for freelancers....

The paper, which sets forward a plan for the UK government to adopt, make suggestions that include a tariff on companies to fund further social media research, as well as a compulsory duty of care that must be followed. The suggestions are based on the committee’s findings that platforms are failing their younger users, and proliferating poor mental health and self image. What was the Aim of the Report? The UK government report, which was commissioned and overseen by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Media and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing, aimed to uncover the risks of social media to young people....

Don’t treat incoming queries like “tickets”, instead focus on making your users feel involved in a one-on-one conversation. If you need some direct tips for pulling that off, here are few to get you started: Talk Like Humans The problem with most customer service is that the reps sound faceless and overly professional. Canned replies and duplicate messages make customers doubt whether they are speaking to another human being or an auto-reply bot (and there’s nothing worst than the latter)....

The international education company will welcome 10 new companies to their downtown office, where they will receive a $25,000 no-equity grants, as well as, mentoring and free workspace for six months. The 10 new accelerator companies selected include: Clicky, (Argentina) An online booking platform for sports facilities. FanJam (Tennessee): Fantasy basketball contests for cash. Paganza (Uruguay): A bill-paying app for the Latin American market. PRX Control Solutions (Venezuela) Solutions for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, reducing the expense of pharmaceutical treatments in health plans....

In 2015, Verizon took a big leap into the media and advertising industry with the purchase of AOL and Yahoo. Since then, however, the company has struggled to utilize the once-grand business entities to their full potential. Now, with the massive sale, Verizon closes the book on the company’s era in media, opening the door for a new company to make waves in tech. Verizon will still retain a 10% stake in the company — though the name will be changed from Verizon Media Group to simply Yahoo — and will be led by CEO Guru Gowrappan....

In addition to the current $40 million, Vox Media has already raised $35 million. Once the funding from Accel is complete, Vox Media will be one of the most well-funded independent content creators on the Internet. The Washington, DC-based media company has well-known brands ranging across sports blogging, web and tech, and gaming with SBNation, The Verge, and Polygon, respectively. They will put this new funding to good use in an effort to broaden their editorial coverage across these sites....

But it quickly became clear that the lawyers were wrong. UHaul filed a handful of claims against HireAHelper, including for infringing their trademark on “moving help” and stealing trade secrets (they would never divulge exactly which ones – only the lawyers were allowed to know). UHaul has a marketplace for people to load and unload UHauls, and HireAHelper’s marketplace for moving labor posed a threat. “After two or three months, it became really, really obvious that they had no interest in settling....

Here is how you can tell that it may be happening to you: The list can go on, but you get the point. You are wasting your time because you aren’t prepared and the timing is likely off. Please go and read my popular post about “9 Seed Funding Gotchas’ and I will be right here when you come back. Disorganized, prolonged fundraising is exhausting and harmful for your company and your personal brand....

She met her future husband, made new friends, and stumbled into a career. Somewhere deep in her heart she knew there was no way she would be leaving and began the laborious process of making America her home. Finally on February 23, 2010, she became a citizen of the U.S. The whole process had cost her hundreds of dollars and required many journeys to the immigration office where she filled out globs of applications....