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YouTube to Enforce Broad Ban on Gun-Related Videos

YouTube this week announced that it will ban videos related to the sale or assembly of firearms, as well as certain gun accessories, including bump stocks. The new rules will take effect in April. YouTube is a division of Alphabet-owned Google Under the new rules, all videos that show how to construct or even repair a firearm are banned -- even tho...

Google Makes It Super Easy to Subscribe to Premium Content

Google on Wednesday launched Subscribe with Google and several other journalism-related initiatives Subscribe with Google lets consumers store credit card information with Google, which can be used to access participating publishers' subscription services. Google takes care of billing, payment security and account management....

Researcher Cracks 'Hacker-Proof' Crypto Wallet

A hardware wallet for virtual currencies with millions of users has been compromised by a 15-year-old security researcher Saleem Rashid explained how he cracked the firmware on the wallet produced by Ledger in an online post Tuesday....

Facebook Swelters in Cambridge Analytica Heat

CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday broke Facebook's mysterious silence following news of several investigations into Cambridge Analytica's access to personal data belonging to 50 million Facebook users Facing the wrath of everyone from U.S. and European regulators to shareholders, customers, and employees, Zuckerberg conceded that Facebook must make ...

Accent Launches CRM Supercharger Application

Accent Technologies this week announced the release of its new CRM Supercharger application, which guides selling and sales performance by applying intelligent data analytics to sales and buyer engagement data Like all of Accent's products, the Supercharger application is based on the Software as a Service model. It targets mid-sized to large busin...

ANALYST CORNER

Squandering Customer Loyalty Is Risky Business

Customers often make investments in their relationships with the businesses they choose to patronize. There is plenty of competition, so companies must pay attention to this. It's only when a company respects and wants a customer as much as the customer wants the company that things will go well, and a long-term brand relationship will be created ...

5 Steps to a Painless Checkout Process

Checking out is the heart and soul of the e-commerce experience. When it goes well, you've got happy customers who are likely to return. When it doesn't, your business can suffer "Checkout is not only key to driving revenue -- it's key to user satisfaction, order size and retention," said Zephrin Lasker, head of ecommerce at Viber....

#DeleteFacebook Movement Gathers Steam

Many Facebook members reportedly have shuttered their accounts in the wake of reports that Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling company working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, harvested data from 50 million users, unbeknownst to them The data firm used the information to develop techniques that formed the basis of its work for Trump's ...

LG Offers Open Source webOS to Spur Development in South Korea

LG on Monday announced a plan to release a new open source version of its webOS platform as part of a deal with South Korea's government to encourage startup initiatives. LG entered an agreement with the National IT Industry Promotion Agency -- part of the Ministry of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), which is responsible...

Nest Builds More Security, Flexibility Into Smart Home Products

The Nest Hello video doorbell and the Nest x Yale Lock became available last week, and the company announced its new Nest Temperature Sensor as the latest addition to its smart home lineup Owners of the Hello video doorbell can use the Nest app for iOS or Android to see and converse with people without opening their door. The x Yale Lock -- a tampe...

Facebook Faces Multiple Government Probes in Massive Data Scandal

The European Union, the UK Information Commissioner, and United States lawmakers have ratcheted up the pressure on Facebook over a user data scandal that threatens to engulf the company The president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, summed up the stakes in a tweet on Tuesday:...

INSIGHTS

Managing in Mature Markets

Markets and companies change as industries grow and as a disruptive innovation commoditizes. Generally, prices come down because the innovation becomes commonplace and competitors fight for every scrap causing margin erosion. Eventually markets equilibrate, and a monopoly or small oligopoly sets in. Typically, as Geoffrey Moore pointed out, mature...

California Weighs Tough Net Neutrality State Law

A California legislator has fleshed out the details in legislation that would provide comprehensive Net neutrality protection for consumers, content providers and others. The move may reflect a trend: A number of states have taken steps to counter the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's rollback of federal regulations governing broadband Internet traffic...

OPINION

Fake News Has Become an Existential Threat

The scene in A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson going off on handling the truth has been coming to mind way too often of late. Sadly, this is the world we are living in right now, and social media is at the heart of it. I recently noticed a headline that implied a lot of people had taken exception to something Gal Gadot, the woman who impressive...

Google Opens Maps APIs and World Becomes Dev Playground

Google this week announced that it will open its Maps APIs to video game developers, which could result in far more realistic settings in augmented reality games. With access to real-time map updates and rich location data, developers will have many choices of settings for their games The APIs will provide devs with what Google has described as a "...

Walmart-Amazon Rivalry Turns Into Food Fight

Walmart on Wednesday said it would expand its Online Grocery Delivery service, currently available in six markets, to more than 100 metro areas across the United States. Its plans call for covering more than 40 percent of U.S. households by the end of the year Walmart will use more than 800 of its stores to fulfill orders, and it will add thousands...

YouTube Aims to Put the Brakes on Online Conspiracies

YouTube intends to ramp up its efforts to combat conspiracy mongers, perhaps in response to the rash of conspiracy videos that trended following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last month Among other things, YouTube will supply links to relevant Wikipedia pages and other credible websites to provide viewers with a counter narrative, accor...

Salesforce Offers SMBs a Bunch of Essentials

Salesforce this week launched Salesforce Essentials, a collection of intelligent apps targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Built on the Salesforce Lightning framework, Essentials offers a consumer-like experience optimized for any device. Relevant information is displayed on one unified console, and Lightning enables drag-and-drop customizati...

Google to Weed Out Cryptocurrency Ads

Google on Wednesday said it will stop serving ads for cryptocurrencies and related content in June The ban includes but is not limited to initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency trading advice....

Larry Page's Self-Flying Taxi Set for New Zealand Test Runs

A new air taxi service financially backed by Google cofounder Larry Page is set to take off in New Zealand, thanks to an agreement announced this week. Page's Kitty Hawk company, the developer of a new autonomous flying machine called "Cora," will begin testing the service in rural Canterbury, a region in the South Island, according to Hayden Mun...

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