Google Maps. Molotov is defining the future of TV. There’s some level of excitement around Molotov right now. When the company put up a landing page last summer, they were expecting a few hundred sign-ups for the beta test. Instead, the website was flooded with tens of thousands of sign-ups. We were promised a huge library of movies and content with Netflix, and all we got was a new HBO for the Internet. It’s clear that people are anxiously waiting for a service like Molotov to save them from their own crappy TV experience. It’s also clear that Netflix and CanalPlay don’t live up to everyone’s expectations. Don’t get me wrong, I love Netflix original shows. “Netflix is like a lake. And this is smart, because Molotov is positioning itself as just a distributor. Bots may be cool, but DigitalGenius thinks it found a better way. Bots seem to be all the rage this week, thanks to the release of Facebook’s Messenger Bot program at F8, but not everyone sees bots as the way to keep up with the customer service glut.
DigitalGenius, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield finalist, thinks there’s a better way using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company released an entirely new product this week called the Human+AI Customer Service Platform that links to popular customer service platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk and Oracle. The trouble with bots is they are limited by their programmed actions, says Mikhail Naumov, chief strategy officer at DigitalGenius.
“While chat bots are cool and are getting lots of attention today — they often break once the user asks for something that has not been pre-programmed into the bot. The DigitalGenius platform, however, combines the best of human and machine intelligence in a seamless customer service experience,” Naumov told TechCrunch. The Three P's of Email Marketing. April 06, 2016 A recent report sheds light on the people, processes, and products marketers should incorporate today. Finding the right people, processes, and products to decipher the ideal email marketing strategy is like trying to crack a cryptic code. There's endless trial and error, but when marketers hit on the right combination, the results are rewarding. To shed some light on the talent, strategies, and tools marketers are leveraging today, email testing and analytics platform provider Litmus surveyed 900 email marketing professionals for its "2016 State of Email Production" report.
Here are a few key takeaways based on its findings. People Email marketers are expected to be multitalented, but specialization is still valued. Team size varies in some unexpected ways. “Team size is an indicator of how much value [and] emphasis a company is putting on their email marketing channel and how valuable that channel is to them,” he says. Agencies and freelancers are rarely used. Processes. The Three P's of Email Marketing. Twitter to Honor Those Who Master Direct Marketing Skills. April 14, 2016 In honor of the social network announcing an award that recognizes the fundamentals of effective direct marketing, here's a look at several social campaigns we consider noteworthy. Explicit cookie consent. Explicit cookie consent. Explicit cookie consent. Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule: An issue for both consumers and businesses - Microsoft on the Issues.
This morning we filed a new lawsuit in federal court against the United States government to stand up for what we believe are our customers’ constitutional and fundamental rights – rights that help protect privacy and promote free expression. This is not a decision we made lightly, and hence we wanted to share information on this step and why we are taking it. An issue of fundamental rights We believe that with rare exceptions consumers and businesses have a right to know when the government accesses their emails or records. Yet it’s becoming routine for the U.S. government to issue orders that require email providers to keep these types of legal demands secret. We believe that this goes too far and we are asking the courts to address the situation. To be clear, we appreciate that there are times when secrecy around a government warrant is needed.
The urgency for action is clear and growing. An issue with important practical consequences The same is true for businesses large and small. Apple Pursues New Search Features for a Crowded App Store. Apple Inc. has constructed a secret team to explore changes to the App Store, including a new strategy for charging developers to have their apps more prominently displayed, according to people familiar with the plans. Among the ideas being pursued, Apple is considering paid search, a Google-like model in which companies would pay to have their app shown at the top of search results based on what a customer is seeking.
For instance, a game developer could pay to have its program shown when somebody looks for “football game,” “word puzzle” or “blackjack.” Paid search, which Google turned into a multibillion-dollar business, would give Apple a new way to make money from the App Store. The growing marketing budgets of app developers such as “Clash of Clans” maker Supercell Oy have proven to be lucrative sources of revenue for Internet companies, including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. In addition to paid search, the team is trying to improve the way customers browse in the App Store. A Conversation With Asians on Race | Op-Docs | The New York Times. The Three P's of Email Marketing. Microsoft Sues Justice Department to Protest Electronic Gag Order Statute. Photo Big technology companies have usually played a defensive game with government prosecutors in their legal fight over customer information, fighting or bowing to requests for information one case at a time.
But now, in a move that could broaden the debate over the balance between customer privacy and law enforcement needs, is going on the offense. The software giant is suing the Justice Department, challenging its frequent use of secrecy orders that prevent Microsoft from telling people when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails. In its suit, filed Thursday morning in Federal District Court in Seattle, Microsoft’s home turf, the company asserts that the gag order statute in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 — as employed today by federal prosecutors and the courts — is unconstitutional. Microsoft’s suit, unlike Apple’s fight with the Federal Bureau of Investigation over access to a locked iPhone, is not attached to a single case.
But, Mr. Mr. It’s Probably Cheaper on the Web, Adobe’s Online Price Index Shows. Is the Internet making everything cheaper? Well, not everything, but a lot of things, according to Adobe, which has come up with a new index to track the price of goods. The company gets its results by crunching data on millions of online transactions it tracks through its online marketing service. The price of televisions online fell a cumulative 20.3 percent from February 2015 to February 2016, according to the latest numbers from Adobe’s Digital Price Index, released on Thursday.
The ’ , by contrast, logged a 15 percent drop in TV prices over the same time period. The same held true for the price of household appliances like refrigerators and dishwashers. Furniture and bedding prices showed less of a fall online and in physical stores, but the spread between the two was still wide: a 2.5 percent decline, according to Adobe, compared with a 0.5 decline in the Consumer Price Index.
“Large parts of the economy, a fast-growing part, is now e-commerce-oriented,” Mr. Explicit cookie consent. 1.
Google i/o. HTC 10 Commercial. DataStax adds graph databases to enterprise Cassandra product set. When DataStax acquired Aurelius, a graph database startup last year, it was clear it wanted to add graph database functionality to its DataStax Enterprise product, and today it achieved that goal when it announced the release of DataStax Enterprise Graph. The new enterprise graph product has been fully integrated into the DataStax Enterprise product set, giving customers an integrated graph option for the first time in addition to key-value, tabular and JSON/document models it offered previously. After working closely with 10 Beta customers including Kaiser Permanente, Cambridge Intelligence and Linkurious for the past couple of months, the company is ready to release the product to the world.
The new graph database is built on top of the open source Titan graph database, which was originally developed by Aurelius. Graph visualization in DataStax studio. Photo Credit: DataStax. Graph databases are different from relational in several key ways. Featured Image: ra2studio/Shutterstock. The Verge. Tested In-Depth: Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive. Cannot Backup error 0x81000019. Cannot create shadow copy... Thanks for your posting. God bless you. I was wrestling with this issue for over than 6 months now. I have followed many threads for this issue and did not find any of the remedies offered useful/practical, except yours, it worked for me. I have a PC that has a System partition of 100 MB (no drive letters) plus a 950 GB drive C: plus a 12.5 GB drive D:, all on one physical drive.
I downloaded the FREE "Easeus Partition Master 9.1.0 Home Edition" from their web site (google it to find it), as was instructed by you, and installed it. 1) I moved the beginning point of the C: partition to the right by the amount of 200 MB to make room for the System partition to claim it below. 2) I moved the ending point of the System partition to the right by the same 200 MB. 3) I Applied the changes.
The Easeus program restarts the PC and on the next boot, it shrinked the C: partition by 200 MB and expanded the System partion by the same 200 MB. Thanks for your posting. Pavel Durov of Telegram: WhatsApp Sucks.
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