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A look at a Facebook ad campaign for MegaRed krill oil, from conception to measured results, done through Facebook's “publishing garage” program — How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil — Joao Rodrigues had been listening and holding his tongue. For a day and a half, brand managers …
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
NFL teams will use heavily modified Surface tablets on the sidelines to view and annotate photos of opponents' formations — NFL players to use tablet computers during games — NFL adds tablet computers, secure wireless networks to assist players, coaches and officials during games [ …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Carriers not charging for data on select apps could lead to an exclusive, cable TV-like mobile internet — The Scourge Of Zero Rating — It seems like every week I read another article about a mobile carrier offering some incredible deal to eat the mobile data costs you rack up using certain apps.
| Tim Carmody / kottke.org: |
The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web — Hi, everybody! Tim Carmody here, guest-hosting for Jason this week. — On Monday, I tried to list some reasons why OKCupid's self-acknowledged experiments on its users didn't seem to be stirring up the same outrage that Facebook's had.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Evan Blass explains why he's leaving tech news and retiring @evleaks, a source of phone scoops — Evan Blass explains why his @evleaks Twitter account will stop reporting phone scoops — Sunday is the quietest news day of the week for the tech industry, but Evan Blass — the man behind @evleaks … | Rebecca Flint Marx / San Francisco magazine: |
The Toxic, Abusive, Addictive, Supportive, Codependent Relationship Between Chefs and Yelpers — For 10 years, the citizens reviewers of Yelp have showered restaurants with praise—and pummeled them with abuse. Now chefs are showing the psychological effects.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google Spotted Explicit Images Of A Child In A Man's Email And Tipped Off The Authorities — A Houston man has been arrested after Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying the man had explicit images of a child in his email, according to Houston police.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Share of Twitter users who don't use the official site or app, and thus don't see ads, grows to 14% — Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads — Investors who drove up Twitter Inc. 's market value by more than $3 billion this week might want to read the fine print.| New York Times: |
Alibaba Is Investing Huge Sums in an Array of U.S. Tech Companies — Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet retailer, is coming to America with its checkbook wide open. — In March, Alibaba made a $215 million investment in Tango, a messaging app. It recently contacted Snapchat … | Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
Leak lets you easily send anonymous emails — “I Lied To You A Few Days Ago”: The Leak Messaging App And Anonymous Honesty — The tool for sending anonymous messages is gaining traction. But is it really the truth we're after? — “I lied to you a few days ago. Telling you anonymously makes me feel better.
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
LG Issues G Watch Update In Response To Complaints About Corrosion And Skin Irritation — Reports began circulating over the last couple of days about an OTA update making its way out to owners of the LG G Watch, bumping the build number from KMV78V to KMV78Y.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
San Francisco Airport testing beacon system for blind travelers — App will tell visually-impaired travelers, and eventually everyone, what's around them at all times — San Francisco Airport is testing out location-aware beacons to help visually-impaired people navigate around …
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