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Trustev hopes to rid the Internet of trolls forever

Dec08
by on December 8, 2014 at 9:50 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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A new product by Trustev has big ambitions: get rid of trolls on Internet comments. The company has developed a product for publishers to help blacklist trolls, even if they’ve changed their IP address, browser, email address or are trying to hide themselves using a VPN. Trustev says it uses a “digital fingerprint” made up of hundreds of data points like the user’s MAC address, cellphone tower, device ID and more to detect abusive behavior, then threaten users with a permanent ban. The company knows what it’s doing as it also offers a successful e-commerce product to protect against fraud.…

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New Voice Polls version, now on Android, lets you “earn” cash by answering surveys

Dec08
by on December 8, 2014 at 9:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Voice Polls, formerly known as Poutsch, has launched version 2.0 of its survey app and is now available on Android (in addition to iOS and desktop). It brings along a significant new feature too: users can now get paid for their survey answers. Now, if you access the new Coins marketplace from Explore screen, you’ll be able to see all the questions that can be monetized. I “earned” a dollar by answering 20 polls in just a minute or two. You have the option of redeeming through PayPal or Venmo. You won’t be getting a full time salary here, but it’s certainly a…

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Android studio hits 1.0, makes it easier to build Android apps

Dec08
by on December 8, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google announced Android Studio at Google I/O 2013 as a new IDE built for Android developers to make it easier to build apps. Today, the company released version 1.0 of Android studio, marking the development environment leaving preview. Android Studio 1.0 includes a number of new features like intelligent code editing, user interface design tools, performance analysis and more. Until today, Google had been encouraging developers to use the Eclipse IDE for building Android apps, but it now offers a migration path for Eclipse users into the new Android studio environment. The stable version of Android Studio is available here. Google will…

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Searching for an accelerator? Upshift will help startups scale their sales

Dec08
by on December 8, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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He grew up on a commune with no internet or TV. He dropped out of college, using credit cards and home equity lines to bootstrap his first business. And without a penny of outside funding, Gave Luna-Ostaseski scaled Calfinder to more than $20 million. But Calfinder was not without its woes. After growing his sales team to nearly 50 and closing four times the number of deals, he noticed that increasing the team had cost Calfinder $1 million – and cut the lifetime value of their customers in half. His solution? Fire 42 salespeople to focus on the six most…

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Searching for an accelerator? Upshift will help startups scale their sales

Dec08
by on December 8, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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He grew up on a commune with no internet or TV. He dropped out of college, using credit cards and home equity lines to bootstrap his first business. And without a penny of outside funding, Gave Luna-Ostaseski scaled Calfinder to more than $20 million. But Calfinder was not without its woes. After growing his sales team to nearly 50 and closing four times the number of deals, he noticed that increasing the team had cost Calfinder $1 million – and cut the lifetime value of their customers in half. His solution? Fire 42 salespeople to focus on the six most…

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