Ricci started using social media five years ago for creating various accounts – parody accounts, anonymous accounts – and posting content. One day, he wanted to post a video on Twitter using then-recently released Vine. He used Vine to post a video on Twitter of himself removing a yolk from an egg using a water bottle: Since then, Ricci has made the right connections with account owners on Twitter, Instagram and more....
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. is finally going digital. The group’s national organization has approved their digital Girl Scout selling program, Digital Cookie, for Scouts to sell and ship their cookies to friends and relatives around the country. Under the program, each Scout has her own cookie website, to which customers can gain access through email invites only. No identifying information about the Scout may be posted so that it is visible publicly....
The tech giant is rolling out client-side encryption — Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers can all apply now for the beta version of the function. Google has limited the new security feature to web browser use for now, but given how many companies operate remotely and from the cloud, that’s a big boon for workforce security for everyone using Google’s professional services. What Is Client-Side Encryption?...
Happy Toy Machine allows customers to design their own plush, stuffed toys online using a 3D toy designer application, and then have them created and delivered directly to their doorstep. The app lets users choose their own colors, body parts, facial features, decorations, and text for their own creation, and choose from a small size (10-15 inches tall) to larger size (20-26 inches tall). The toy is then made to those specifications at their factory in California and shipped to your door....
A patch has been released, so anyone using the the FatPipe WARP, MPVPN, or IPVPN software should update immediately in order to protect themselves moving forward. No company is infallible when it comes to zero-day vulnerabilities, from Apple to Google, but it’s always sad to see in a VPN, a service explicitly designed to keep its users safe. What to Know The attackers are a group sophisticated enough to be labelled an “advanced persistent threat,” or APT, and have been using the flaw to gain access to companies’ internal networks for months, according to the FBI’s forensic analysis....
The updated browser, which requires a browser refresh to activate, is available to Android and iOS devices but will predominantly impact desktop users. Aside from fixing security bugs, the version offers faster loading times and cropping features for self-captured videos. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Chrome update, including how to activate it on your PC. Chrome 104: A Major Security Update The US’s most popular search engine, Google Chrome, has just released a newer version, and it’s already available to Windows, Mac, and Linux users....
The most infuriating aspect of this unfortunate issue is that diversity is good for business. Not only have numbers shown that having minority and women employees improves productivity, but the simple fact is that the world is not made up of exclusively white men. Having a natural path to different demographics is an obvious advantage of diversifying your company that people seem to be plainly ignoring. Fortunately, Lance Surety Bonds created an infographic that gives us a better idea of the diversity present in the entrepreneurial ecosystem....
Social media has also become an increasingly popular channel for art enthusiasts. Instagram, in particular, has emerged as the platform of choice for many artists, collectors and galleries. With more focus on visual experience, the photo sharing site is being used to promote artwork and exhibitions within the online community. Instagram Enables Up-and-Coming Artists to Gain Exposure Before the rise of social media, artists had to go through the lengthy and often fruitless process of getting the support of critics, galleries and big name collectors....
Camera phones were a genius-level innovation when they hit shelves in 2000, and they’ve only become more popular over the past two decades. The smartphone camera boom, however, has led to a lot of oneupmanship between the main brands. Features such as portrait mode and high resolution zoom became near standard, seemingly overnight. With the ability to post ever-better (or instantly touched-up) pictures on social media, consumers have started to treat phones as a camera first, telephone second....
The real growth of the Internet of Things will occur with businesses, where it can work together with big data to make things more efficient. A basic example of the Internet of Things comes from British Petroleum, which for years has distributed thousands of wearables as part of its corporate wellness program to have a better idea of their employees’ health and thus reduce health insurance costs. Small businesses stand to be the biggest beneficiary of the IoT, as it will let them catch up with many of the advantages which a large corporation have dominated until now....
Though the new feature is beneficial for Facebook’s ad clients, many Facebook users have found this autoplay update distracting. Users with limited data plans were troubled for different reasons. The automatic video streaming can use a high amount of data, which means users need to upgrade to a higher data plan to use Facebook. The only relief is that the video autoplay doesn’t have sound. If you want to watch any specific video, you can just click or tap on it....
There are many benefits to setting up a business in an emerging country: a low price of living matched with a strong dollar; a young workforce; and an abundance of cheap, raw materials and natural resources that aren’t available in the U.S, to name a few. However, as my company learned from basing our headquarters in Medellin, Colombia (pegged by TechCrunch as an up-and-coming tech hub) the mirage of the startup hub in the emerging economy may only be skin deep....
As a young kid, New York Times Bestselling author and Veteran J.D. Vance moved from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio where his grandparent’s, aunt, uncle, sister, and most of all his mother, struggled with the upward mobility to a middle-class life and was never fully able to escape the history of abuse, alcoholism and poverty. The thought of becoming a tech icon was far from a realism for Vance. It wasn’t until he entered the Marine Corps after high school and went on to graduate from the Ohio State University and Yale Law School that he saw the world in a different light....
The answer is eight years. Trammell explained that promises of quick revenue or outstanding growth have no place in an early business. You must be honest with your team about the growth you are achieving and exactly what plans you have to expand. If you keep overselling and underdelivering, people will lose confidence in you. You must produce a reasonable plan. Will you likely hit $500 million in revenue by year three?...
Kaptivo, a Kickstarter success story, has created a solution to each of these problems, and it’s less than half the cost. Using a camera-based device installed over a whiteboard, it easily captures everything on the whiteboard and seen by anyone with a link to the platform. To see if the system lived up to the concept, we gave it a whirl for a month or so to see if it’s worth the business expense....
So van der Ploeg decided to just avoid that massive amount of work and focus on speaking. The problem was, he couldn’t read menus and bus signs. And when he moved to Taiwan, he had to retake Chinese class twice because everyone else was ahead of him. To help foreigners the world over avoid his fate, van der Ploeg and Victor Chen started Duable to teach Chinese reading. (“Duable” is a play on words: the name reads like “doable” in English, but the Chinese character 讀 [“du”] means “read....
Lover.ly, the online wedding planner guide for the working bride, unveiled today the “The Loverly Collection.” A curated line of branded wedding products created based on Loverly’s proprietary data. The company partnered with fashion designers to put that data to good use, and create products that are commonly searched for. The Collection will include products in the fashion, accessories, decor, gifts, and stationery categories throughout the year. The first collection is “Eva for Loverly,” a line of dresses for brides and bridesmaids co-designed by top Anthropologie seller, Eva Franco....
HealthCare.com has just launched The CheckUp, a new online publication designed to help people figure out what kind of coverage they need and why. It will instill in Americans the knowledge required to make informed decisions when it comes to their health, an important mission that needs undertaking in this complicated health insurance landscape. The publication will cover a wide range of topics in regards to health care. From the discussion in Washington about the future of your coverage to a thorough analysis of available plans, you’ll be able to stay informed about your health insurance items like only your parents are....
Site builders like Wix, IMCreator, Weebly, and Jigsy have helped millions of people create sites with ease, without having experience using Photoshop or programming knowledge. For people with small site needs, these tools are very helpful. There are many site builders, most of which emerged in the last years, where people can build a site simply by dragging and dropping things, publishing their websites within a day. Similarly, there are literally millions of talented web designers out there, and their numbers are growing every day....
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2022, at which point shareholders will receive a cash sum for their stock. Anti-virus software like McAfee can protect against the rising number of cyber attacks on individuals and businesses, notably the threat of ransomware, which many high profile companies have fallen victim to. Details of the McAfee Deal The purchase was announced on the 8th of November, and the purchases are a group are an investment group made up of several companies, namely Advent International Corporation, Permira Advisers LLC, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC Private Limited, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority....
