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Inside Amazon’s plan to dominate advertising business in 2019

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by on July 1, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Entrepreneur, Marketing and SEO


Amazon’s unrelenting efficiency, obsession with automation, and brutal pricing strategies have helped it disrupt or dominate industry after industry, which began with books way back in 1997. Over the next year, it’s bringing those tactics to bear on the organization’s latest target: the advertising industry. To thrust its way into a sector that is overwhelmingly controlled by Google and Facebook, Amazon is making brazen new moves into self-serve programmatic advertising. They are planning to spend the next year aggressively expanding their infrastructure that is hoping will get more brands to purchase ad space on its websites (such as IMDb) as well…

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Eight ethical questions about exploring outer space that need answers

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by on July 1, 2018 at 10:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, syndication


Metallic shrapnel flying faster than bullets; the Space Shuttle smashed to pieces; astronauts killed or ejected into space. The culprit? Space debris – remnants of a Russian satellite blown up by a Russian missile. The one survivor, Ryan Stone, has to find her way back to Earth with oxygen supplies failing and the nearest viable spacecraft hundreds of miles away. Over on Mars, 20 years in the future, an exploration mission from Earth is going wrong. An epic dust storm forces the crew to abandon the planet, leaving behind an astronaut, Mark Watney, who is presumed dead. He has to…

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An entrepreneur’s guide to Aruba’s startup scene

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by on July 1, 2018 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Entrepreneur


Many people dream of building a business. Many others dream of living on a sunny island. But those who dream of doing both need look no further than Aruba. Located just 18 miles off the coast of Venezuela, the tiny Caribbean island has been making serious waves over the past few years. But unlike its neighbor which has made headlines for its economic, political, and social crises, Aruba has been in the spotlight for a different reason: innovation. It might be tough to imagine the island providing fertile ground for anything other than palm trees, but if you dig a…

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Astronomers watch as black hole drags an exploding star to its death

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by on July 1, 2018 at 7:09 am
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Astronomers searching for supernova explosions accidentally stumbled upon a supermassive black hole recently as it devoured a wandering star that had fallen into its grasp. It is now hoped that this amazing discovery – captured for the first time – will help scientists understand the environment in which galaxies developed billions of years ago. Some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the Universe are powered by the gradual build-up of matter onto supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. When consuming matter, these black holes can shine brightly across the whole electromagnetic spectrum and in some cases…

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