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Social Media Users Post About Their Dogs Six Times Per Week

Social media has gone to the dogs. According to a new study by BarkBox, adult dog owners post a picture or talk about their dog on social media six times per week. They also watch dog videos or check out dog pics about three time a week — and one in ten has a social media account exclusively for their ... Read More »

What Changing Airline Phone Policies Can Teach You About Customer Experience (Watch

In-Flight Phone Calls May Be The Next Annoying Thing On Planes Disney Is The Undisputed King Of The 2016 Box Office Uber Updated Its Terms To Ban Flirting Between Drivers And Passengers So The US Is Almost $20 Trillion In Debt; Who Do We Owe? Your next airline flight could feature a whole new set of annoyances. U.S. aviation regulators ... Read More »

10 Most Important Things to Know About Using Apple Pay

In 2014, Apple Inc. announced its new mobile payment and digital wallet service, Apple Pay. It allows users to make payments through mobile devices at contactless points of sale and in iOS apps. Through a near field communication (NFC) antenna, a chip storing encrypted payment information, and Apple’s Touch ID and Wallet, Apple devices are able to communicate wirelessly with ... Read More »

Apple Said to Hold Talks With Government About Retail Stores in India

Apple Inc officials on Tuesday met Commerce Ministry top brass amid its plans to open stores in India without initially having to source components locally. According to sources, the meeting chaired by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary Ramesh Abhishek lasted for almost an hour with senior officials from Apple discussing details of the new Foreign Direct Investment ... Read More »

Jim Fowler of Owler: Even as Tech and Data Grows in Importance, Crowdsourcing Is Still About People

Small Business Trends: Before we jump on full bore with that maybe give us a little bit of your personal background leading up to what you were doing with Jigsaw. Jim Fowler: After college I was a diving and salvage officer in the United States Navy doing salvage operations and paid back Uncle Sam for my college tuition. Then when ... Read More »

Jim Fowler of Owler: Even as Tech and Data Grows in Importance, Crowdsourcing Is Still About People

Small Business Trends: Before we jump on full bore with that maybe give us a little bit of your personal background leading up to what you were doing with Jigsaw. Jim Fowler: After college I was a diving and salvage officer in the United States Navy doing salvage operations and paid back Uncle Sam for my college tuition. Then when ... Read More »

Here’s What Every Solopreneur Should Know about Social Media

Aren’t you sick and tired of trying to figure out this social media stuff? I can’t say I blame you. Social media for solopreneurs can be quite a challenge. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably tried tons of different advice. You might have even had some success. But then you hit a wall. It’s like you’re hitting your Twitter ... Read More »

Facebook Messenger Testing ‘Conversation Topics’ You Can Talk About

HIGHLIGHTS Feature suggests topics on the basis of friends’ activities Feature has been named “Conversation Topics” Messenger app on Android recently introduced data saver option Facebook Messenger has introduced a new feature called “Conversation Topics”, which is likely to be a conversation topic in itself. As the name suggests, this new feature essentially suggests topics for conversation to the app ... Read More »

7 Regrettable Things About LinkedIn Ads

Like a lot of marketers, I find LinkedIn Ads frustrating. The thing is, by making just a few needed improvements, both LinkedIn itself and advertisers could greatly benefit. For LinkedIn, advertising could be bringing in much more than a meager $181 million in revenues, as it did during the second quarter of 2016. Compare that to the advertising revenues of ... Read More »

20 Things You Should Know About Tumblr’s New Live Video

These days, it looks like just about every other social networking site under the sun owns a livestreamingplatform. Google has YouTube Live, Amazon has Twitch, Facebook has Facebook Live, while Twitter hasPeriscope, but even with all that competition the social networking and microblogging website Tumblr recently joined the livestreaming arms race, teaming up with existing platforms like Kanvas, Upclose, YouNow, ... Read More »