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Google redesigns mobile search app with personalised 'feed'

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Google stated, notwithstanding, that it was not endeavoring to copy Facebook Inc.  Google on Wednesday declared a redesign of its pursuit application on cell phones to incorporate a customized nourish of connections about leisure activities, travel, sports and different themes, a move that puts the inquiry organization into more straightforward rivalry with interpersonal organizations, for example, Facebook.  Google, the world's biggest web index and a unit of Alphabet Inc, said the progressions would start taking off in the United States on Wednesday and different nations in the coming weeks.  The new offering is called "Google Feed," a name that may summon correlations with Facebook's "News Feed," an element on Facebook used to peruse refreshes from companions, family and different sources.  Google stated, be that as it may, that it was not attempting to copy Facebook Inc, the world's biggest informal organization. Rather, the organization...

WhatsApp hits 1B day by day clients while its Snapchat clone rockets to 250M

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Facebook is winning the race to convey Snapchat's Stories organization to whatever is left of the world before its originator. WhatsApp Status, its form of Snapchat Stories, now has 250 million day by day dynamic clients. That is in spite of it being consigned to an auxiliary committed tab in the application, restricted to being up front on the home screen like Instagram Stories which additionally now has more than 250 million clients. Snapchat by correlation just has 166 million every day clients of its whole application. That incorporate Snapchat's private informing highlight that advantages from "Streaks" which utilizes gamification and emoji identifications to boost companions to send no less than one Snap forward and backward every day. All that engagement with Stories, voice and sound calls, and its center of content informing has driven WhatsApp to 1 billion aggregate every day clients and 1.3 billion month to month clients. That implies a strikin...

How Not to Turn a Warm Lead into a Cold Call

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When it comes to job security, the TV news business these days is about as stable as the San Andreas Fault. If you are between 45-50 years of age, you’re walking around with a big bulls-eye on your back. You probably cost the network too much in salary and benefits (if you even have those) and you complain too much about hopping on the next plane to the breaking story that will blow out your weekend beach plans.  So it should come as no surprise that our firm, a collection of TV news alumni, has received a flood of calls recently from network TV producers looking to transition to the world of communications coaching.  If they have someone advocating on their behalf, that can help. When that go-between is a friend or a valued client of ours, then it really helps. In those situations I do everything possible to find time to set up an in-person or phone meeting. Sometimes the candidates are up front about their desire to join our firm, and sometimes th...

Sindh needs more moringa trees to cope with malnutrition, drought

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HYDERABAD: Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam has as of late disseminated more than 5,000 seedlings of the nutritious and dry season safe moringa tree (suhanjana) to various ranchers and associations working in the rain-nourished and farming zones of the territory.  Advancing moringa development, particularly in the parched and semi bone-dry zones of Thar and Kachho amid the new storm season, could turn the scene dry spell safe and enable the nearby masses to adapt to environmental change.  Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam bad habit chancellor Dr Mujeebuddin Sehrai said they have a far reaching intend to present moringa tree development at mass level, particularly in Thar betray and Kohistan to adapt to dry season and environmental change impacts.  SAU has intends to include scientists by reinforcing coordinated effort with nearby ranchers to see the open doors for economical sustenance creation in the nourishment uncertain ranges. "It is a ...

Bharti Airtel to takeover Telenor Communications India unit

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Mumbai, Feb 24 :  In yet another merger in the country's telecoms sector, India's top telecoms network, Bharti Airtel is buying Norwegian Telenor's India unit. Bharti Airtel said that it will buy Telenor (India) Communications Pvt Ltd, as part of which it will acquire the Norwegian company's operations in six Indian states. A Telenor spokesman said Bharti will not pay any cash under the deal but will instead take on the Telenor unit's commitments to pay for licenses and phone towers. The acquisition, which also includes Telenor's India employees and its 44 million customers, will not lead to any impairment charges for Telenor. The deal highlights how the entry late last year of Reliance Industries' wireless carrier Jio is shaking up India's crowded telecoms sector. With its free voice and deeply discounted data plans, Jio has pushed rivals to slash rates, sharply eroding their profits. Britain's Vodafone Group is already in talks to merge ...

BULGARIANS CELEBRATE TAX FREEDOM DAY… 136 DAYS INTO THE YEAR

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In 2011, Bulgarian citizens had to work 115 days before being able to pay off their taxes. This year, that number jumped to 136 days (May 16). Hundreds of Bulgarian taxpayers turned out for an event celebrating this year’s Tax Freedom Day. Celebrated in countries around the world, Tax Freedom Day marks the day that citizens have earned enough to pay off their taxes and start earning for themselves. The  Bulgarian Libertarian Society  (BLS), along with the  Institute for Market Economics , both Atlas Network partners, hosted the country’s largest ever Tax Freedom Day event in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 16. The outdoor event, attended by more than 400 people, was held in Sofia’s central City Garden, on the ruins of the socialist mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov. The Society sought to  “make this a ‘popular’ holiday, something more imaginative and captivating a wider range of people.”  The end result was a beer festival that showed attendees just how much of...

FMF OFFERS POLICY ALTERNATIVES FOR RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

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What does ‘radical economic transformation’ (RET) mean? It depends on whom you ask. The  Free Market Foundation  (FMF), an Atlas Network partner based in Johannesburg, is attempting to reclaim the term and make it a reality for South Africa. Through  a campaign of 10 press releases , FMF is providing policy alternatives “to effect real economic transformation,” according to Gail Day, executive manager of FMF. In the press releases, FMF tackles issues discussed at the 2017 African National Congress’ (ANC)  National Policy Conference  in early July, including communications, economic transformation, social transformation, education, health, science and technology, legislature and governance, and peace and stability. The articles challenge  the definition of RET that South African President Jacob Zuma and the ANC have been promoting. The campaign also throws into question the current form of centrally planned economic policy, which hinders economic g...

Meet The App That Revolutionized Book Reading For 2 Million People (Page no 3)

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4. Real People Do you wish that you had a super smart friend who’d share the fascinating things they read about with you? Now you do! We come from 21 countries and have a collection of degrees and experience that runs the gamut from former hadron collider operator to literature professor to museum docent to mathematician. We’re people who care deeply about learning and getting to the bottom of the big ideas that matter—in every subject. We read every book ourselves, we write every book-in-blinks, we edit and record every single pack of key insights. We’re people—not bots—and we like to think that this shows in the care we put into our work and how much our community trusts us. It takes a minimum of 7 people to make a book-in-blinks, which means you never have to question its quality, or whether it’s been carefully vetted. 5. The Innovation Blinkist makes it possible to discover new thinkers and ideas that matter, keep learning every day, and take some of the pressure off your q...

Meet The App That Revolutionized Book Reading For 2 Million People (Page no 2)

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2. The Learners We recently reached 2 million in our community of learners, and they amaze us. They’re grandmothers in Northern England and entrepreneurs in Brazil; they’re students in Finland and HR managers in Southeast Asia. They’re entrepreneurs (and moms!) in New York City and they’re teachers perched on Himalayan mountaintops. All kinds of people use the Blinkist app to become their best selves, so when you sign up for Blinkist, you’re joining an invisible network of people around the world who thirst for knowledge and are committed to making the most of their time and talent by bettering their minds. And you can meet each other, too! We now have a Facebook group of smart, curious Blinkist learners suggesting books, sharing advice, and swapping their success stories and advice for when the going gets tough.  3. Audio Do you learn best when someone talks you through it? Turns out that today, most other busy, bright people do, too! During our first two years of ...

Meet The App That Revolutionized Book Reading For 2 Million people ( Page no 1)

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A Gallup poll conducted in 2015 found that a work week for the average full-time American employee is 47 hours (or nearly 6 days a week), and they usually have only 19 minutes to devote to reading. So imagine this: what if it were possible to take those 19 minutes of reading time a day and deliver people the kind of knowledge they need to be their best? Could a digital publishing company, by devoting all of its skills and heart to finding a solution, crack this problem? The Blinkist app does exactly that. Founded in 2013, the app offers short versions of bestselling books that can be read in 15 minutes or fewer. Blinkist has high-powered summaries of insights from over 2,000 must-read nonfiction books. 2 million people are reading every day with the Blinkist app, and more are discovering it every day. Why are so many people in love with this little reading app? Here are 5 of our favorite reasons. 1. Backed By Science: The Product & The Service We filter through the ...

Jodie Whittaker: Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord to be a woman

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Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to get the role. She was revealed in a trailer that was broadcast on BBC One at the end of the Wimbledon men's singles final. The Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in this year's Christmas special. Whittaker, 35, said it was "overwhelming, as a feminist" to become the next Doctor. All the Doctors so far, from Hartnell to Capaldi She will make her debut on the sci-fi show when the Doctor regenerates in the Christmas Day show. The Huddersfield-born star had become a late favourite to become the Doctor. There will be a familiar face for her on set - Doctor Who's new showrunner is Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall. Whittaker said: "I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet. "It's more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering ev...

When your body becomes eligible for an upgrade

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We all like to joke about what might happen if robots, powered by artificial intelligence, decide they want to overthrow humans. That scenario is, at best, decades away. But this week I’ve been pondering something much more immediate, and in my view, more likely. What will happen when humans decide to become robots? "We’re at a key transition in human history,” says Prof Hugh Herr, who heads the  Biomechatronics Group at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He says the group’s aim is to establish the scientific and technological conditions that will eventually eliminate disability, whether through paralysis or amputation. But when that incredible goal has been achieved, then what? "We’re fusing the nervous system with the built world,” he says. "We’re transitioning from a relationship where we use technology that is separate from our nervous system, to a new epoch of integration, of human physiology." Simulating ankles Prof Her...