What You Need to Know Today: January 28

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH FaceTube coming soon… “Video ad spend is not all incremental. Whenever we introduce a video ad format in news feed, it replaces another ad,” says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. While that’s an important point to make, investors still want to see incremental ad spend. So…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 27

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Affiliate marketing lesson from Snapchat. Let’s pretend for a second that YOU are Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel (sans smoking jacket). You’ve built a great product that you know a lot of people find value in. But you’re struggling to monetize your awesome product. You have…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 26

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Facebook’s best-kept secret is a second website. You know your friend who’s been threatening to delete Facebook since 2008 but never does? Well, your friend is running out of excuses. The, I would delete Facebook but I still want to keep in touch with friends,…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 25

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Why a lime in a bottle could predict iPhone 7 sales. A lime?!? Yes, that little green, sour fruit might predict the success of Apple’s next iPhone. “There is no reason for a lime to be in the top of a bottle of Corona,”…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 22

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The guy who brought you The Jinx created a new storytelling app. People are desperate to tell their story. Not because they want to be famous, but because they want to be known for who they are, says Andre Jarecki, Emmy Award-winner of the docu-series The Jinx.…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 21

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “People are not really into using products,” says Goran Peuc, “Any time spent by a user operating an interface, twisting knobs, pulling levers or tapping buttons is time wasted. Rather, people are more interested in the end result and in obtaining that result in the…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 20

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Who’s losing: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, or Google? If you follow the news, you’d be right to guess Apple is in trouble. iPhone sales have been anything but spectacular.  But losing, in this case, is all relative — especially for these five companies. So who’s…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 19

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Better than ‘Inbox Zero.’ You’ve heard about it. Some people claim to achieve it every day. I’m telling you these people are NOT pulling your leg. Inbox Zero is doable. No doubt. BUT here’s what those people won’t tell you. Cal Newport’s latest blog post discusses…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 18

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH What Bitcoin, Nixon and Warhol have in common. “Bitcoin is the currency equivalent that is underpinned by mockery. Bitcoin is mocking central banking the same way Marcel Duchamp mocked art, the same way This is Spinal Tap mocked rock band tours, and the same way Jon…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 15

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Esports is having a moment. “Former NBA player Rick Fox is on the phone when he receives another call: It’s from Denmark. ‘I have to take this,’ Fox says. When the three-time NBA champion clicks over, the voice on the other line is of…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 14

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Inside the world of re-commerce. It’s 2:30 a.m., you just got home from a late night on the town. You turn on your laptop and start browsing Amazon. “Yoga Kittens 2016 would make a great office calendar.” 1-Click and two days later, you’re opening a…

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What You Need to Know Today: January 13

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Stop whining about Apple ditching the headphone jack. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”  — Benjamin Disraeli. Hundreds of thousands of people are against Apple ditching the headphone jack. “It will screw the planet.” Out of all the Apple rumors this has ruffled the most feathers.…

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