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Google Wants To Eliminate Passwords

Google Wants To Eliminate Passwords Android users can forget all their passwords with Google’s most recent project. Project Abacus is Google’s new thing to reinvent security and eliminate passwords. Project Abacus works by using sensor data from your phone to verify security. Working with a developer API called Trust API, they want to verify your […]

The All-Encompassing Role Of Social Media: Why Should Web Hosting Companies Embrace It?

Since its inception, social media has continuously played a vital role of helping people interact with each other. From the viewpoint of businesses, it changes the way in which companies interact with their potential customers. In fact, the social media has become an extremely powerful platform for business organizations to reach out to their target […]

6 Great B2B Marketing Ideas To Turn Your Startup Into Success

Business-to-customer relationships are almost always the center of attention when you talk about marketing. There are huge amounts of data available online to help you understand how your business should be targeting the customers. It will guide you on how you need to find your target market and then target it properly. Contrary to that, […]

Facebook to Retrain Employees

Facebook to Retrain Employees Yesterday, Facebook announced they will be retraining employees and implementing new “controls and weights” to eliminate any chance of displaying biased news in the site’s “Trending Topics” section. Even further, the site will no longer be using sources like BuzzFeed, The New York Times, Washington Post, and more to judge a […]

The Integration of Social Media Marketing and the Travel Industry

Social media has altered the landscape of almost every single industry, but something extra special has been happening with the travel industry. The travel industry has been completely revolutionized by social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Social media has allowed travelers to provide an almost interactive experience with their followers. They do this […]

Investing in Social Media is Financially Sound

No matter what the size of your business, social media definitely has a place for you. With that being the case; what are you doing to take advantage of all social networking has to offer? Most importantly, what are you doing to protect your investments in social media. Specifically, making sure you’re not opening the door […]

Google Lego Phone

Legos for Adults Google is building a smartphone that allows you to swap out its parts like Legos. The phone, Ara, contains six module slots that are all interchangeable. When the Developer Edition ships out in the fall, it will have four starting modules: a camera, an E-ink display, a speaker and an expanded memory […]

How the Auto Industry Drives Sales Online

Like many industries, the automobile sector has changed dramatically in the last 15 to 20 years due to the impact of digital. If you needed a new car in the early 1990s, most people would either check their local newspaper for car sales ads or head down to a local dealer. Today, the first port […]

7 Tips to help you SEO-Optimize your Pinterest Pins

Pinterest has undergone significant evolution in the last few years, becoming more than just a social network. It is now a powerful visual content search engine, and businesses can optimize their presence on the network to make themselves discoverable to their audience. Pinterest has over 100 million subscribers on the platform who search for and […]

Three Ways Every Business Should Be Using Social Media

Social media may have started off as a method of communicating with friends and family members, but today it has developed into so much more. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are crucial advertising platforms for a whole range of businesses including global corporations and small, local startups. Advertising online has always […]