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Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Facebook tests canned messages. Facebook announced today it is testing “Saved Replies.”Here’s the problem: millennials views on customer service are different from boomers. You’ve heard millennials are not brand-loyal but experience-loyal, this is true. An example: “Generation Y views business travel not as a necessary evil but…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech If you’re reading this, it’s not too late. Rumor has it, millennials’s favorite emo rapper has been offered $19M to DJ Apple’s new music streaming service. Apple’s move to on-demand music streaming this month has been prompted by declining iTune song sales. After…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today   Tech   Should you trust UberEATS? Yes. Here’s why: UberEATS is just the tip of the iceberg for what Uber can do. Having a smoked meat sandwich delivered to your office within 4 minutes, sounds like a horror story waiting to happen, but…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Google is testing our trust. “…you’re the product if the product is free.” (The Verge). Yesterday, Google announced free unlimited storage of photos at its I/O event. Your reaction to Google’s tempting offer says a lot about your trust in the company, says…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Google, Google, Google…Google’s I/O event kicked off today in San Francisco, the agenda runs until 5:30 PM PDT. Earlier this month, I shared a rumor about Google adding “buy buttons” to search results. This rumor has been confirmed by one of Google’s chief…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech “At worst, they are the next-generation MTV. At best, they are the next-generation Viacom,” says Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive and high-tech investor talking about Snapchat’s “real” business plans. Snapchat co-founder and CEO, Evan Spiegel held a rare press conference yesterday, where he…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Time Warner’s grade school problems could end soon. When the teacher calls on Matthew and three Matthews in the class stand up…this is how Time Warner feels almost every day. “Time Warner Cable is not Time Warner, which – believe it or not…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Mark Zuckerberg’s sister wrote a book about unplugging. Randi Zuckerberg just released a book titled Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives. Surprised? Here’s the truth: the “Zucks” know you make money through technology, not by being addicted to it. Interview highlights with Randi…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech “When you think about things women like, you think about…fashion, or fortune-telling, or food or dating boyfriends. So I decided to theme the game around “eating” — after eating dinner, women like to have dessert. If you take a pizza and remove one…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Why you should care about Obama breaking the Guinness World Record. Barack Obama last night shattered the record for fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter, after his new verified account @POTUS reached the figure in less than five hours. (GuinnessWorldRecords).…

Good evening, Early Risers Tech Pinterest unveils new ad tools. “Pinterest is rolling out several new tools and pricing options for advertisers today. Perhaps the biggest of them is Pinterest’s take on a new video-like Promoted Pin — but, not in the way you might expect.” (TechCrunch). Read more here… Career The future of college…