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Watch now: The future of advertising

May22
by on May 22, 2015 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The rules of engagement are changing. Picture this scene: The whole family is sitting on their couch and everyone is watching the same TV show. One person is controlling the remote control, so the other people cannot really choose what to watch. The world has changed a lot since then. In today’s families, everyone has their own screen and decides what content they want to consume. We’ve just added Daniel Alegre’s talk from the TNW USA Conference 2014 to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for free. Alegre, the president of global partnerships at Google,…

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How to handle new customers

May22
by on May 22, 2015 at 8:34 am
Posted In: Acquisition, Around the Web, customers, Insider

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When a new prospective customer calls your startup for the first time, who answers the phone? Many companies have put their process on autopilot for responding to inbound sales inquiries – they might have an administrative assistant who answers the phones, or they might have a simple e-mail capture form on a website. But when a prospective customer contacts you for the first time, that’s a powerful chance to make a good first impression. It’s your first opportunity to either start to build a long-lasting business relationship, or (if not handled properly), lose out on thousands of dollars worth of…

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Of course the NSA planned to exploit Android apps, that’s what it does

May22
by on May 22, 2015 at 8:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Opinion, The Intercept

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The Intercept and CBC News report that back in 2012, the US National Security Agency (NSA) along with allies from the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ alliance (which also includes Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Australia) developed a plan to hijack data links in the Google Play and Samsung app stores: As part of a pilot project codenamed IRRITANT HORN, the agencies were developing a method to hack and hijack phone users’ connections to app stores so that they would be able to send malicious “implants” to targeted devices. The implants could then be used to collect data from the phones without their users…

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PayPal’s installment-based Easy Payments program and One Touch checkout service are coming to more places

May22
by on May 22, 2015 at 7:22 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, mobile payments, paypal

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PayPal announced a bunch of new rollouts and services at an event in San Francisco today, including Easy Payments and a simpler One Touch checkout experience. The company trialed its Easy Payments monthly installment program with Apple in January and is now launching the service with more partners like Shop.com. It’s also extending its One Touch checkout service to all 90,000 merchants on Bigcommerce’s online store platform. In addition, mobile users can now pay for their purchases in a range of shopping apps with just a tap, if they’ve signed into PayPal at least once on their device. If you’re…

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