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Unsurprisingly, the Charge 3 will be replacing the Charge 2 and promises improvements to both the number and accuracy of the sports and activities that it can track. The Charge 3 is also something of a hybrid device, blurring the lines between a smartwatch and a fitness tracker. It’s entering a competitive market, with Garmin having just unveiled its own Vivosmart 4 fitness tracker, too. The Charge 3 is currently available to buy now, with prices starting at $149....

The law, sponsored by chairman of the Senate budget committee Sen. Paul Sarlo, is just the latest example of how state law is adapting to the surging interest in private and commercial drone use over the past few years. The Usual Suspects The law includes plenty of additional regulations. One big one that might stir up pushback from the local hunting community: Under the new drone law, drones can’t be used to hunt animals....

Nina started Pinnacle Group on the floor of her apartment. Today, it’s a billion-dollar-plus workforce solutions provider. Her growth is a big deal for any women business owner where less than 2 percent of women-owned businesses in the U.S. surpass $1 million in annual revenue. At Startup Week Dallas, powered by Chase for Business, Nina Vaca will keynote the Women Who Lead session on Tuesday, April 3 at 1:00 p....

The recent rankings by Black Enterprise is an annual list- with this list appearing in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of the magazine. To gather the best companies for diversity, the magazine sent surveys to 1,000 publicly-traded U.S. companies and 100 global companies with significant operations in the U.S. Despite the four-month period provided to the companies to fill out the diversity survey, hundreds either failed to respond outright or claimed to not have any time to provide that information....

Listen in on the Sounds of New York Workspace startup Breather is offering a web app that curates the sounds of New York City: The online app Sounds of New York holds mastered clips recorded in 27 neighborhoods, from Times Square to Chinatown. It’s an immersive example of the unique aspects of the city: Harlem has notes of jazz, while parts of Nolita were recorded at the Supreme store. Better yet, it’s an interesting look at the creative storytelling that a startup can lean on in order to call attention to their services....

This is obviously just another Easter Egg that Google has hidden in its tools. According to a report by TechCrunch, the infamous Konami Code can also unlock an achievement in Google Play. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, the Konami Code was used in several classic Konami games, like Contra and Castlevania, to unlock actual in-game cheats – say, unlimited health. Traditionally, the code in its entirety is “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A....

Content As more marketers invest in content marketing in 2014, it becomes even harder for brands to stand out. We recommend setting specific goals for your content strategy and reevaluating the metrics you use to track its effectiveness. We also encourage brands to invest more in better understanding their target customers to produce content that will interest them and across the mediums they frequent. Don’t get stuck using the same channels all the time and explore new content experiences to attract and engage your customers....

OpenInvo is a New York based startup that provides companies access to a vast pool of creative ideas and uses their own system to determine the value of these ideas, thus compensating creatives for their innovations. Pricing is based on how developed the idea is, market size potential, and what the retail price may be for the end product. Once someone uploads their idea for a new product or service, OpenInvo acts as an agency to find potential buyers for the various concepts, being very conscience of the creators’ intellectual property and protecting it throughout the process....

A study from the Pew Research Center revealed that parents would prefer to simply “check up” on their teens online and smartphone activity rather than implement parental controls in place. More specifically, 61 percent of parents said that they checked which websites their children (ages 13-17) were visiting, while 60 percent monitored their teens social media profiles in order to keep tabs. Comparatively, only 39 percent admitted to using parental control technology for online use and even fewer (16 percent) used it to monitor smartphone usage....

One of those vets, Josh Anderson, was back home in Colorado in the winter of 2006 visiting family for the holidays when a Marine Corps buddy called and delivered the sad news: a friend of theirs had been shot down in a chopper over Baghdad and drowned. When Anderson heard what had happened, his mind skipped back to a moment several months earlier. Anderson had initially selected those orders for himself, but at the last minute traded with his friend for an assignment in Quantico, Virginia....

According to Singh, he has spent the past five years honing his public speaking skills. In 2010 – before he became a partner at 500 Startups alongside Dave McClure, a notoriously vulgar yet entertaining public speaker – he started booking speaking slots once a month just to practice. Since then, he joined and left 500 Startups, launched his own company (Disruption Corporation) and started investing in startups (through Crystal Tech Fund), got acquired by the incubator 1776, and then served as its managing director until July....

In a recent company-wide email penned by Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy, he explained that this return to the office will be mandatory and that the company will ‘respect the choice’ of anyone who chose to leave as a result. With shares for the company plunging 90% over the past year, phasing out remote working isn’t the only measure Peloton is taking to remain competitive. The company has also let go of almost 800 workers and hiked the prices of its products to reduce further cash loss....

Welcome to the age of the podcast. A Brief History Podcasts – that is, audio-only shows that range from fifteen minutes to two hours – have been steadily rising in popularity over the last few years. But in that short amount of time, they’ve become something of a quiet mega-storm for digital media. Now, podcasters have created a new genre within digital media that fills the gaps between Youtube videos and reading....

PowerToFly is helping more women find career opportunities in major companies and fast-growing startups, including the likes of Hearst, The Washington Post, and BuzzFeed. The company’s online platform allows women with backgrounds in tech, design, sales, marketing, and editorial to find new work at any of these great companies. PowerToFly is unique, though, in that it not only aims to match women with companies, but is focused on helping women find remote work with these companies, giving them the flexibility to focus on both life and work....

Just yesterday, it was reported that venture capital in the US totaled $9.47 billion for the first quarter of 2014 – a 57.6 percent increase from the $6.1 billion raised in the first three months of 2013. This is the highest figure we’ve seen in venture funding since Q1 of 2001, yet the DC region failed to live up to the national trend. With these in mind, should the DC region be worried about prospects for the remainder of the year?...

The impact that a ransomware attack can have on a school or college should not be understated: One college closed its doors permanently this year after a cyberattack. Educational institutions often operate on tight budgets, but findings like this illustrate the importance of maintaining a working cybersecurity infrastructure and ensuring students are equipped with password managers. US Schools and Colleges Targeted According to the research conducted by Comparitech, 67 individual ransomware attacks took place in 2021, potentially impacting almost one million students....

To that end, Coombs and his team have officially rolled out a complete update to the Rover open source SDK and content management tool. With Rover 2.0 (as they’re calling it) you can now: Set up design templates with significant flexibility to fit the look and feel of your app and brand guidelines;Build a number of “call to actions” into your content, including deep-linking into your app;Set up touchpoints or “sub locations” within your venues; andTrack visitor and content analytics to see how your beacon content is performing....

Prior to this announcement, Salesforce’s remote work option was set to end in August 2021. Like dozens of other major tech companies, it introduced flexible work options last year in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But relatively few of those companies immediately opted for permanent remote work policies. Now, a year in — they are. The Salesforce shake-up Salesforce is updating their policy after an employee wellbeing survey found that 80% of their employees still wanted to maintain a connection to a physical space, but about half of them only wanted to come in a few times a month....

The Panamanian startup, Criptext, is a secure enterprise messaging and email platform that offers an unparalleled level of security that decreases the risks of information leakage. The cost of data breaches to US companies is $120b per year and due to IOT and BYOD that number is expected rise 10 times in the coming years. While many companies that offer similar services focus on thick layers of encryption, Criptext’s security goes beyond encryption by offering an unprecedented level of control....

Less than a week later, the Seattle startup raised $400,000 – from an investor they met on the app. Talk about some great validation. When you log into Founderfox, the iOS app prompts you to create a short video pitch. You can record one right within the app, or upload a file from Dropbox. Then, you enter your cofounders and whether you’re trying to raise funding – and hit Post....