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ELECTRONICS 
December 16, 2016 PlayStation VR Works With Steam VR, but There’s a Catch
HIGHLIGHTS Steam VR is now usable with PS VR via third-party drivers Games that use Vive motion controllers will not work Games that use a keyboard and mouse or conventional controllers work Valve may have acknowledged Sony’s ascendancy by bringing support for the DualShock 4 to Steam, but if it’s virtual reality you’re after, your […]
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NEWS 
December 13, 2016 How to Dominate Local Search with Multiple Locations
Need a cup of coffee but don’t know where to find the nearest Starbucks? Search for “Starbucks near me” and Google will return search results for the Starbucks that’s closest to your current geographic location – even if there’s another one just a mile away. The same goes for other major chains ranging from […]
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NEWS 
December 12, 2016 Uber’s New Guidelines Highlight Issues With Sharing Economy (Watch)
Uber Updated Its Terms To Ban Flirting Between Drivers And Passengers In-Flight Phone Calls May Be The Next Annoying Thing On Planes Disney Is The Undisputed King Of The 2016 Box Office So The US Is Almost $20 Trillion In Debt; Who Do We Owe? Popular ride-sharing app Uber just updated its community guidelines. And […]
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ALL DEALS 
December 9, 2016 Save Your Business Some Money with These Browser Plug-ins
Driven by the pursuit of a great deal, you’ve downloaded bar code scanning apps on your phone and clipped coupons from your local newspaper. But even you — a savvy deal seeker — may not know that your computer can replace both of those money-saving activities. Browser extensions are plug-ins you can download on web […]
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NEWS 
December 8, 2016 Moovd: Create Video in Two Minutes — With Some Tweaking
0 A lot of big companies have produced attention-grabbing ads using only text. Some have even plunked down millions to run these ads during big TV events, like the Super Bowl. (Think back to T-Mobile’s text-only “We Killed The Long Term Contract” ad from the 2014 Super Bowl, for example!) Si Gornick knows that small […]
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NEWS 
December 7, 2016 Will Google Finally See Coupon Success With Latitude?
After testing it out in Austin during SXSW, Google has rolled out Google Latitude Check-In offers nationwide, teaming up with partners like American Eagle, Macy’s and Quiznos to let users “unlock” offers all around the United States. It may not seem like revolutionary news with all the activity in the offers/deals space as of late, […]
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COUPONS 
December 7, 2016 Offer Coupons and Deals to New Customers With BeFrugal
With the holiday shopping season in full swing, many small businesses are searching for ways to make themselves stand out from the competition. Online startups have offered a lot of new ways for retailers to get the word out about their products, and one of those startups is BeFrugal. 0 BeFrugal gives businesses the opportunity […]
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COUPONS 
December 7, 2016 Join me for a Webinar: Keep Customers Loyal With Coupons and Using Social Media to Spread
The cost of acquiring new customers is “typically three to six times that of retaining existing ones,” says Lawrence Friedman in his book The Channel Advantage. According to Bain & Company, just a 5% increase in your customer retention rates will increase your average lifetime profits per customer. With those kinds of numbers, there are […]
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COUPONS 
December 7, 2016 How To Keep Customers Loyal With Coupons
In yesterday’s post about how small business owners can learn social media, I noted that webinars gave business owners a great way to learn from experts without forcing them to jet across country to do so. Coincidentally, Anita Campbell was part of a great webinar yesterday afternoon put on by the Verizon Small Business Center […]
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COMPUTERS 
December 6, 2016 Tablets Are Displacing Personal Computers with Consumers
Customer interaction and payments to your website are more and more likely to be taking place from a tablet or other mobile device. A continued decline in the number of PCs being shipped and presumably bought worldwide shows that tablets are displacing them with consumers, especially in emerging markets. What the Numbers Say A recent […]
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COMPUTERS 
December 6, 2016 HP Reinventing Traditional Computers With Mini Desktop PC
What you know about the traditional desktop computer, at least on the surface — forget it. HP’s latest entries on the market aim to change what a desktop computer looks like. The company recently introduced the HP Pavilion Mini Desktop and the HP Stream Mini Desktop. Both take the idea of a desktop tower and shrink it down […]
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ELECTRONICS 
December 5, 2016 Soon You Can Have a Smartphone – With a Zoom Lens Attached
Camera phones can be an important tool for small business owners. But have you ever wished your camera phone could work just a little better, eliminating the need to carry a professional camera with you? Samsung is upping the game. The Korean company is introducing a smartphone camera hybrid that’s essentially like a phone with a […]
