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Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, says watchdog
2015-02-23

Facebook’s privacy policy violates European law, according to a study commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission, and released (...)

18 incredibly useful tools for getting to know your audience better
2015-02-22

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. You may have heard it said that understanding your audience on social media is one (...)

The 10 commandments of typography
2015-02-22

Charlotte Demonque is the community manager at FontYou, a Paris-based online co-creation platform dedicated to typography. This post (...)

Google Talk for Windows will close down tomorrow to make room for Hangouts: here are some alternatives
2015-02-22

As the search giant continues to focus on building out its Hangouts communication platform, Google Talk for Windows will be closed (...)

Goals are for losers: Why you should be building habits and systems instead
2015-02-22

This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. Even if New Year’s Resolutions aren’t your thing, a new year is always a good (...)

How I helped take a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google
2015-02-21

Dmitry Dragilev is the founder of growth hacking consultancy Criminally Prolific. He also runs JustReachOut, a service that helps (...)

How to optimize blog design to better engage with readers
2015-02-21

Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, speaker and freelance writer. For more insights on how to be a better marketer, sign up (...)

How I took a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google
2015-02-21

Dmitry Dragilev is the founder of growth hacking consultancy Criminally Prolific. He also runs JustReachOut, a service that helps (...)

Collage artist Darrel Rees shares his top tips on mastering the craft
2015-02-21

Alexander Huls is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire and other publications. (...)

Hiring a data-driven modern marketing team
2015-02-21

Nick is the founder and CEO of Delmondo. He works with brands and startups improving their digital marketing and social media strategy, focusing (...)

ZIIBRA’s online store promotes a personal link between artists and customers
2015-02-20

Sometimes it takes all your energy to create a product worth sharing. More often, it’s even harder to get the word out when you’re (...)

Superfish admits installing root certificate authority to show ads on secure sites
2015-02-20

Earlier this week it was discovered that many Lenovo PCs released between September 2014 and January 2015 shipped with an adware (...)

US government urges Lenovo users to remove Superfish, but the software maker denies security risk
2015-02-20

It’s been a rough few days for Lenovo. Now even the United States government is urging users to remove the Superfish adware. (...)

Twitch announces TwitchCon for September 25 – 26 in San Francisco
2015-02-20

Twitch announced today during a livestream that it would be holding its own conference, TwitchCon, on September 25 – 26 in San Francisco. (...)

Adobe’s ‘Dream On’ ad campaign fetes the Oscars and Photoshop
2015-02-20

As part of celebrations around the 25th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe has tipped its hat to the motion picture industry that has (...)

Healthcare.gov sends 800,000 users the wrong tax information
2015-02-20

It’s tax season in the United States. Whether you file your own taxes or use a service, it’s still a pain to round up all the (...)

Oscar Pop! The 2015 best picture nominees in Pop Art poster style
2015-02-20

Jordan Roland is a staff designer and illustrator for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock (...)

Playmoss lets you mix SoundCloud, YouTube and Vimeo in one place
2015-02-20

Playmoss is a new app and website that lets users stream music and compile playlists from numerous platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo (...)

BlackBerry OS update brings Android apps to older devices
2015-02-20

BlackBerry is rolling out an OS update that brings Android apps to its current line of devices through the Amazon Appstore. BlackBerry (...)

Dropbox users can score 100GB of OneDrive storage for free
2015-02-20

In an obvious attempt to lure users to switch to its OneDrive cloud storage service, Microsoft is giving Dropbox customers 100GB of (...)

Buzzfeed acquires GoPop because GIFs
2015-02-19

While Buzzfeed does more than just GIFs (really, they do some great national coverage), you’d be hard pressed to find someone that (...)

23andMe has passed a big regulatory hurdle to getting back on the market
2015-02-19

Back in 2013, the FDA asked 23andMe to stop selling DNA-testing kits as it was offering services that could cause customers to undergo (...)

YouTube for kids is launching on February 23
2015-02-19

USA Today says that YouTube plans to launch a new app called YouTube kids on February 23. It was reported as early as March last (...)

Meet Atomic, the missing tool for interface design that’s entirely in the browser
2015-02-19

Great interface design is quickly becoming a priority as companies everywhere start realizing that it’s paramount to their succeeding (...)

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