Category Archives: Tech Economics

How to Enable/Disable ‘Location Tracking’ on ‘Opera’ browser? by https://is.gd/1vhof9

Opera Browser

A brief but effective tutorial about Enabling and/or Disabling ‘Location Tracking’ on ‘Opera’ browser.

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No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car by https://is.gd/XaHLkS

The tech industry, as we are often told, is fond of disrupting things, and lately the automakers have been a big target. Cars that use artificial intelligence to drive themselves, for example, have been in development for a few years and can be spotted on roads in a number of cities. And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father’s Buick with wings.

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Instagram powers Taco Bell’s innovation machine — and it’s completely changing the fast-food menu as we know it by https://is.gd/QDjoZN

The company’s social media team closely watches the brand’s Twitter to keep an eye out for customers who are disappointed by cheese that isn’t as stretchy as what is portrayed in ads. n many ways, social media platforms like Instagram are also powering Taco Bell’s innovation engine and determining what’s on the fast-food chain’s menu.

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Click fraud, ad blockers and fake news: How programmatic became problematic by http://bit.ly/2oq3QHF

If the programmatic advertising ecosystem were a terrarium, automation and data-driven audience targeting would be the fertile loam from which the promise of digital sprouts.

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Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network, of Course by https://is.gd/NkBZQR

The tech world just witnessed a robbery. The heist was so brazen you kind of had to admire it, even if it was pulled off with all the grace of a gas station stickup. Facebook barged into Snapchat’s happy Venice Beach, Calif. mansion, took a solid inventory of the goods, then lifted the crown jewels. First a version of Stories, the fun slide-show format that Snapchat created, appeared last year on Instagram, owned by Facebook. Then Snapchat’s features made their way to WhatsApp and Messenger, Facebook’s chat apps. A couple of weeks ago they got to the big leagues — Facebook’s main app — and the heist was complete.

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What’s keeping cryptocurrencies from mass adoption? by https://is.gd/qRDGP8

Speculators flocked to Bitcoin and many of the alt-coins in hopes of getting in early and making a big exit, but everyday users haven’t warmed to cryptocurrencies. There are many reasons why, but one of the largest barriers to mainstream adoption is the price volatility of cryptocurrencies.

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