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Aside from antivirus software with spyware-blocking features, there aren’t many ways for users to protect themselves against the insidious technology – which is often deployed by government entities – so Apple’s new feature is significant in the fight against it. The tech giant – which recently sued a spyware company for allegedly damaging its business – has also set up a Dignity and Justice Fund to provide a cash injection for companies battling spyware and forge closer bonds between security organizations and device markers....

We need to brainstorm new ideas? Meeting. We need to give feedback for employees? 1 on 1 meetings with everyone. We need to decide what brand of coffee should be in the office? That’s right, we need a meeting. We have all sat in those long pointless meetings from which we leave only with a sense of a wasted time. You sit there listening to something you don’t need to know and don’t care abut with only one thought in your mind: when will it end so that I could actually, maybe, get something useful done....

Yet there is one major opinion that at least eight out of 10 Americans can agree — across political affiliations, shockingly — that they wholeheartedly support: An increase in green energy. America’s 83 percent agreement puts them smack dab in the middle of the 13 different countries surveyed in the Green Energy Barometer, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, which was based on interviews with more than 26,000 people across the aforementioned countries....

Thanks to a series of mobile apps, taking from a platonic tinder method of “matching,” everyone can be armed with the tools to make amazing connections at palm of their hand. These three apps make it easy and fun to meet people in your area and to find great events and activities and to help you make a home in any city. 1. Friendable Friendable is the only app that has been designed from the ground up to help you make friends in your area....

HacksCybersecurity has been in the news a lot lately. On an almost monthly basis, a large organization gets hacked or accidentally leaks data. Just recently, for example, we have seen the hack of the affairs website Ashley Madison. A hacking team and an inside party got access to the company’s entire set of user information. Before that, the Office of Personnel Management of the US federal government fell victim to a massive Chinese hacking assault that saw the theft of twenty million people’s personal information....

Since BitTitan is based out of Kirkland, WA, it’s no wonder that Geeman wound up at the Seattle Startup Week, an event taking place up and down the seagull-packed 2nd Street at the heart of Seattle. I caught up with Geeman to ask him a few questions about his grueling bootstrapping past and the future of his industry, cloud services. When I made that first dollar on my first sale, it was one of the highest points in my life....

One of the most iconic scenes was when Wayne, Garth and three buddies driving along in their Mirth Mobile started belting out the lyrics to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” This head-banging, air drumming, party scene launched Bohemian Rhapsody to number two on the Billboard singles charts 17 years after its first release. Admittedly, it’s hard not to listen to this song without the vision of these characters in my head....

Nevertheless, there are no sales without prospecting. It would be great to sell only to clients already in your client list, but this is not always feasible. In order to get some new clients, one needs to use prospecting – there are several ways to do so, including lead generation. If it is not possible to achieve results just by relying on “known” clients, how can you feel more comfortable convincing new clients to try out your company?...

But has the hustle mantra gone too far? What’s the price of dedicating your life to hitting it big? For Brad Feld, noted venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author, and Tech Stars co-founder, it nearly cost him his marriage, again. The Boulder-based Renaissance Man has since focused on constructing rules to ensure the work-life balance doesn’t get too far out of whack. In an attempt to share the work-life gospel with fellow entrepreneurs, Feld and his wife, Amy Batchelor, recently co-authored Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship With An Entrepreneur....

The new taco emoji and middle finger emoji will come on the new iOS 9.1, set to be released to the public on September 16th (a day after my birthday). If you’re lucky enough to have a paid Apple Developer Program account, then you already have access to these magical things through the special iOS 9.1 beta. The middle finger emoji can even have its skin tone changed! The final hope, now, is that Apple will ultimately decide to keep it all the new emoji additions in the public release of iOS 9....

E-scooters have taken the country by storm in recent years. From Austin to Portland, the motorized scooters have provided an easy, affordable means of transportation for anyone with a smartphone and a proclivity for fun. Unfortunately, programs across the country have seen widespread complaints concerning the cluttered sidewalks and vandalized scooters that, as far as anyone can tell, are inherent in the system. But Chicago is taking action, as one of the first cities to implement specific measures in their second pilot program that could solve the infamously controversial e-scooter’s most vexing issue....

To say Google Chrome is popular would be a dire understatement. The browser boasts 66% of market share, making it twice as popular as all of its competitors combined. Yes, all of them. Apparently though, the lead can’t be big enough, as a recent update to Chrome will, according to Google, make the browser significantly faster, even faster than Safari when being used on Apple devices. Google Chrome hasn’t only made strides on Apple devices obviously....

Each LED screen is choreographed to match the advertisement on display, which in turn should draw the attention of the 300,000 or office workers and tourists who pass by the intersection. During the reveal, Guinness World Records was even onsite and awarded Coca-Cola two new records, one for the largest 3D robotic billboard and the other for it being the first 3D robotic billboard. More than just a random assortment of ads on display, the billboard programming will be based on the time of day and day of the week, with all programming catering to both commuters and tourists....

Small businesses represent a tremendous opportunity for app developers who are looking to tap into a market that includes nearly 30 million small organizations and nonprofits. As a result, integrations with small business platforms are a great way for app developers to increase exposure and drive sales for their tool or service. Many established software providers in the space are opening their doors through APIs to make it easier for app developers to access their functionality, and potentially access their installed customer base....

Over the past few years, a new channel emerged and has taken the online world by storm: content marketing. Exactly as it sounds, content marketing enables businesses to market through the use of content rather than traditional display or search ads. The ability to leverage content as a form of advertising is incredibly powerful. Here’s a few reasons why and how to best capitalize on this opportunity: Why Content Marketing Is Powerful Unlike display or search ads, content marketing is a unique and powerful opportunity to share you story with the world....

Whether you’re a freelance writer, graphic designer, programmer, musician, voice over artist, or translator, you can use the following strategies to increase your income potential—and to stay out of your parents’ basement. Cast a Wide Net Freelancers can’t rely on a single source of income even if that source seems lucrative for the moment. Gigs dry up all the time, leaving freelancers desperate and frustrated. However, if you have multiple revenue sources, you never have to worry about hustling....

CrowdOptic‘s Field App is one of those apps. It enables a team of agents in the field to triangulate on a point of interest and broadcast its GPS location to a command center with live video verification. Each device running CrowdOptic software connects to CrowdOptic servers in the cloud and streams GPS location, compass and live video to police officers, firemen, and other emergency response units. CrowdOptic’s Field App is the business-to-consumer version of its high-tech military technology, which enables ordinary citizens to wield crime-fighting power by policing their neighborhoods with AR....

There is a good amount of these tools available at the moment, but there are not many doing what Handbook can do. It has been in Europe for a while, but is now being launched in the US. Developed by Infoteria Corporation, Handbook is actually more of a suite than an app, and aims to become the to-go toolset in terms of customer engagement. Handbook is available for free from the three main mobile app stores (iOS, Android and Windows), but requires users to sign up for an account on its website....

For many months, I worked at a consumer electronics store. While there, I learned some important lessons from the owner, who we will call Jason. Jason was a nice guy to me, but carried out some less-than-ideal business practices. He rarely told us to do any of the following things directly, but he always set the example that we should handle the floor just like he did. I can’t stress this enough: You should take all of the following rules and do the opposite....

I sat down last week with the two founders of a new DC startup focused on solving this problem. OpBandit‘s Blaine Sheldon and Brian Muller both have a background in news organizations (having worked at The Slate Group, Ojo Gringo, and Foreign Policy magazine) as well as a background in technology (Sheldon is an expert in UX, UI, interactive media, and data visualization, and Muller is an engineer and data scientist who built and led the data science team at LivingSocial)....