Matt Drudge gave a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in 1998. He was already deemed an internet leader in both news and aggregated news distribution. His Drudge Report challenged the ethos of the newspaper society, which was just the beginning of dynamic revolutionary change in the news world order. The Drudge Report made friends, added enemies, created new futures and helped forced everyone in the industry to change many times over in order just to stay relevant.
Category: Technology
1 Million Tons of Toxic Waste, Radiated Heat Trapped: This is Solar Energy
According to the Smart Electric Power Alliance, in 2018 the solar market grew by 20.1% in total capacity. In the United States, 20 States now have community solar policies. The US ranks 2nd in the world in the use of renewable energy resources, mostly in the form of solar energy. The top 10 list is as follows:
Magnachip Semiconductor Bonds, Short Term, High Yield, Fixed Income Investment, Yielding 7.25% YTM
This week, Durig Capital takes a second look at an issuer involved in the design and manufacture of semiconductors. Magnachip Semiconductor (NYSE:MX) has been around for over three decades and is currently the largest independent supplier of OLED display drivers to panel makers for smartphones. The company is riding the wave of transition from LED to OLED in the smartphone world. This has paid handsomely as its full year 2018 results can attest (above). In addition, the company’s first quarter also posted continued wins for its Standard Products division.
Galileo Satellite System Disruption: Coincidence or Attack?
Space war, or technical warfare is silently being waged all around us. On July 13th, 2019 (this past weekend) the European Union’s (EU’S) Galileo satellite went, or was taken offline. Galileo is owned by the collective European Union, managed and operated by the European Space Agency, and is used for nonmilitary, scientific, and civilian purposes.
Become a Contributor & Submit Articles
Welcome to our very fast growing open platform of news and general articles called Communal News. We are not sure what part of our business is growing faster: our readership; the website referrals; or new contributors. Either way we’re seeing fast enterprise-wide growth of our free services.
You might ask why we take four more steps than your usual contribution services.
Recent Changes in Facebook and How it Affects Content Creators
What does it mean for content creators after the recent changes in Facebook Algorithms and the platforms itself? Considering the diverse changes Facebook is developing to the platform and the algorithm supporting organic content and Facebook Ads, the company continues to maintain dominacne to guarantee that your business can maximize its marketing campaigns.
France Approves Digital Tax on Google and Facebook
France’s parliament approved legislation to impose a three-percent tax on Internet and technology companies like Google and Facebook to re-establishing financial justice, says Justice Minister Bruno Le Mayer. The 3% tax will be levied on the sales of multinational companies in France. The French Senate passed a new tax on Thursday, one week after the National Assembly approved it.
Apple is Modernizing MacBooks While Lowering Its Price
This rarely happens: Apple has improved one of its MacBooks while lowering its price. Another was upgraded by an omission, and a third was removed from the offer.
The so-called back-to-school season is just beginning in the USA. The term refers to the time at the end of summer vacation, when students cover themselves with new material for the coming school year or semester. US corporations always accompany these times with special discounts – and sometimes with new products. Apple launches its back-to-school program this year with updates for its most affordable MacBooks.
What Kind of Kaspersky Antivirus Key is Right for You?
Are you worried about the security of your computer? Do you want to choose a secure protection software for your computer? Which kind of protection software should you choose? In the following article, we will introduce you to two kaspersky antivirus internet security software keys.
California Urges a Powerless Lifestyle For Everyone; Solar Homes Included
The Golden State of California has a beautiful yellow hue throughout unfarmed land that is caused by the extreme amount of sunlight without water. With 300 days of sunshine in many places throughout California, landscapes have turned from beautiful sun beaten land to concerning fire fuels.
Tragic fires that decimated northern and southern California communities in the last few years have commanded utilities to look out with absolute resolve for the safety of their customers, thus prompting radical change.
Russia Reverts to the Cold War – Here Come More Missiles
Keeping in the spirit of Soviet style governance, on July 3, Russian President Putin signed into law a withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The law was passed through the Duma (Russian Parliament) almost unanimously. The Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia.
GPS Systems Fuel a New Global Arms Race – Who Will Win?
GPS systems are probably the most critical systems in the world for modern logistics, industrial, and military operations. The on-demand world requires GPS to deliver up-to-date location and tracking services. They also offer the ability for smart weapons to hit their designated targets while limiting collateral damage.
Want More Reach? How to Increase Your Revenue Using Facebook Marketing
Understanding Facebook reach is important because if you are posting a lot in Facebook but you don’t have a very solid reach, nobody is noticing your content. So if you invest a lot of time and effort to make a post, you want your target audience to see it. Let’s discuss how you can properly execute that.
Amplify your user engagement with your posts. Facebook algorithm looks at this when they identify where to show your post in different people’s feeds is engagement.
Free Online Digital Content Publishing Platforms – Where Readers Have a Voice
Communal News is one of the fastest growing free online digital platforms…where the readers have access to write on our open contributor platform. Between Communal News readers, Google News distribution, and distribution on all the main social media sites where people get their news, CN is the most open content publishing platform on the internet. We have added a wide variety of contributors (well over 600!) and in a very short time have seen over 2,000 articles published on the Communal News free online digital platform– not bad for a very new product launch!
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The Best Platforms for Digital Marketing with Heavy Traffic
The internet has so many platforms that can sometimes lead you to into confusion on what to use. Of course there are some advantages and disadvantages in each platform so we are going to talk about you as an entrepreneur on how to utilize the best platform in the internet.
If you are starting your business and you are planning to get into Digital Marketing, you may ask yourself, is it much easier than it was 10 to 15 years ago? and why do you ask this? because as an entrepreneur, you are your own media company. Doesn’t matter what business you are in, you need to think like a media in this generation.
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The news, social media and internet website messaging business has become more competitive every year. To have access to a simple, free service that greatly expands your writing exposure (and number of readers!) is becoming more valuable every day.
Virtual Reality is Changing Timeshare Group Presentations
Microsoft PowerPoint is the leading presentation software by a distance and is said by Microsoft to have been installed on over a billion computers worldwide. What began as a very basic piece of software, has become an incredibly powerful design tool for storytelling and putting a guest or potential owner in the picture for timeshare developers.
Technology is most certainly changing the way we all present, providing new ways to engage audiences and interact with content, and the timeshare presentations of the future could be unrecognisable to those we sit through today.
Submit News: How to Get Your Article Listed on News Hubs Like Google News – Digital Comparison
Submitting Article to News Sites as a Contributor
This article is about how to become a contributor who gets their news articles listed on Google News. This article is not about building a website or blog business to work with Google News.
Most writers simply want to write news and don’t want to deal with all the work involved in building an internet company. If you’re a journalist, and/or a quality writer, and you want to get into the news cycle, than this article is for you.
Digital Marketing Tips for Small Business in Competitive Industries 2019
There are several reasons why digital marketing is significant these days and one is that it is less costly than conventional marketing. Second, it levels the competitive playingfield for small businesses. Third, it is where everybody’s attention is in the modern era.
One of the most important things that potential customers will look into when they notice your listing on search engines is your average star ratings linked to your reviews. The most effective ways to improve the star rating is by gaining new positive reviews coming in. Don’t be afraid to ask your customers for their names and emails upon completing the services rendered.
Is Elon Musk Juggling Too Many Companies to be Successful?
Now that Telsa’s Model 3 is having significant problems, both in production and in order rates, you would think the company led by Elon Musk would focus like a laser to get productivity and orders flowing for their products and snafus corrected. These issues are in the headlines almost daily and the stock is falling. But how can Elon focus on these problems when Musk is juggling so many other balls, with Tesla being only one of many major issues in his life?
Uber and Lyft: The Good, Bad and Future News About Their Services
BAD NEWS
First Does Uber and Lyft reduce traffic? The answer is a firm No.
In dense parts of cities, studies claim a 62% increase in congested cities like San Francisco vs 22% without them. The study claimed the ride sharing apps “are clogging roads and siphoning people from mass transit.” Surprisingly, in the more local neighbors they barely made and stastistical difference. In Denver it was claimed Uber and Lyft added 83% more driver miles than models not having them available.
Google, Chip Manufacturers Join Huawei Ban
Tech giant Google suspended all business requiring the transfer of hardware, software, and technical services with Chinese firm Huawei, Reuters reported on Sunday. New Huawei smartphones will lose access to popular Google apps, like YouTube and Maps, as well as security updates. Those publicly available, via open source licensing, would not appear to be affected. The move comes days after the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei, prohibiting American firms from trading with the company without a license.
Facebook Removes Ban on Crypto and Blockchain Ads
After one year of placing restrictions, Facebook decided to remove the ban on cryptocurrency and blockchain based ads.
In January, 2018 the social media firm Facebook decided that the ads involving blockchain technology, Educational information, industry news and event that are related to cryptocurrency must have prior written approval before displaying ads.
Litecoin and XRP Lists on Germany’s 2nd Biggest Stock Exchange
Börse Stuttgart, Germany’s second biggest stock exchange and the 9th largest in Europe, has sanctioned two new ETNs (Exchange-traded Notes)- Litecoin (LTC) and XRP. According to a company press release, this is the first kind of announcement in Germany.
Börse Stuttgart has declared that like ETFs, ETNs are also strictly regulated, a transparent and protected instrument that can be used by an investor to invest in different assets or they can buy or sell ETNs based on the cryptocurrencies Litecoin and Ripple.
How to Disable the Launcher in Windows 10
It is important to manage startup programs on Windows 10/8/7 that should not be restarted each time Windows is started. It is common for most programs to be added to the startup list, wasting resources on your computer and slowing down. Now, you can choose windows to buy online, it’s very convenient.
Trump Declares Emergency, Blacklists Huawei
President Trump used an executive order Wednesday to declare a national emergency over threats to American technology. The move prohibits American companies from using telecom services solely owned, controlled, or directed by a foreign adversary. The order also “delegates authority to the Secretary of Commerce,” Wilbur Ross, “to prohibit transactions posing an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.” The move clears the way for a ban on Huawei, China’s controversial telecom giant.
Is Facebook Too Powerful?
It was another wild week for Facebook. Dueling editorials in The New York Times debated the social network’s very existence. The right is still in an uproar over Facebook’s censorship of conservative viewpoints, users and scientific issues. Meanwhile, on the left, the website— or is it a utility?— has become a campaign issue on its own. Differing Democrats have begun to split on whether stringent regulation of the tech giant will be sufficient, or whether Facebook has become too big to allow to survive.
On Thursday, Chris Hughes tore in to his co-creation, and co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in The Times. “Mark alone can decide how to configure Facebook’s algorithms to determine what people see in their News Feeds, what privacy settings they can use and even which messages get delivered,” he said. This, Hughes argues, gives Zuckerberg “unilateral control over speech.
Why Social Media Marketing is the # 1 Way to Build Your Business Online.
Your social media content strategy should flow naturally from your social media objectives. Ask yourself how you’ll use content tactically to attain broader social media objectives. For example, if a social media objective is to extend brand recognition with millennials by 30%, your content strategy might specify a posting rate for Snapchat and embody plans for influencer takeovers Instagram live giving you more opportunities to connect with your target market. In addition to supporting your social media strategy, your content should also support and align with your organization’s general content approach, provided one exists. There are four key parts of a social content strategy. Research and analysis of current content perception and strategy, your target audience identified by platform, a list of content-specific goals and objectives and plans for the distribution of your content.
Energy Producers Boost Price, Lower Reliability, in the Name of ‘Fighting Climate Change’
You would think energy producers would always be looking for ways to lessen the costs and increase the reliability of power for their customers. This is not the case, however, with several American energy producers who are now taking advantage of the climate scare to try to force their customers to pay more. They are doing this through unnecessary conversions away from dependable, inexpensive coal-fired electricity generation to unreliable and costly wind and solar power. The Wisconsin-based utility, Alliant Energy, which provides electricity to about 960,000 customers in Wisconsin and Iowa, is a case in point.
10 Tips For a Killer Branded YouTube Content Strategy
The role YouTube plays in a branded content strategy can’t be understated. It’s consistently ranked the most popular social media site among U.S. adults, taking advantage of the massive percentage of internet users who view online video regularly.
Other social network platforms have added video capabilities in recent years, but YouTube remains the gold standard.
Setting Up Your YouTube Content Strategy
Every channel being considered as part of a branded content program needs a strategy all its own, including YouTube. That means making decisions that will impact what sort of material is posted there, what the expectations of the audience are and what metrics are being tracked to determine success. It helps to answer a series of questions.
What’s the World’s Fastest Growing Smartphone Company and Do They Have Illicit Plans?
Did you think Apple or Samsung? No it’s Huawei.
Is Huawei using its incredibly fast China growth and government backing to help launch and control the 5G standard? Many are concerned. Huawei smartphone units shipped increased from 39.3 million in Q1 of 2018 to 59.1 million in Q1 2019 according to IDC 2019.
Internet Shutdowns
The Internet is sometimes called a friend and sometimes an enemy. In th small African nation of Chad, the internet has been closed for one year. Chadians feel anger and are revolting as they struggle without internet.
An internet shutdown happens when someone, usually a government, intentionally disrupts internet access to control what people say and do. Blackouts are sometimes called blackouts or kill switches. The internet enables all our human rights. When there is peace, people enjoy life with The Internet. In times of war it may be better to close The Internet.
Why Do You Need a Cryptocurrency Wallet?
Crypto wallets have become the need of the hour with a tremendous increase in the use of cryptocurrency on a global scale. These virtual wallets come to combat all the limitations of a conventional wallet by way of imparting more security to your money. Hire a professional crypto wallet developer now to help you build personalized crypto wallets to cater to specific trading needs.
Source Code of Bilibili Leaked on Github
Today has been a special day for Chinese coders. According to Sina News, the source code of Bilibili, a famous Chinese ACG video sharing website, had been fully leaked on Github. Before being taken down, it had been forked more than 6,000 times, which means basically it is impossible to stop the spread of the code now. People are posting concerns on Zhihu (a Quora-like Chinese website) and Sina Weibo over potential cyber attacks on Bilibili over the next few days.
Amazon Rewards Fake Reviews – The Ebanel Case
The Numbing category on Amazon is rampant with fake reviews both positive and negative. Nowhere could we find a worse perpetrator than Ebanel Laboratories. After an in depth review of thousands of potentially false reviews, positive on their products, negative on their competitors, we filed a complaint to Amazon, and wrote an email directly to Jeff Bezos about Ebanel.
Amazon emailed us back on March 26th 2019.
5 Ways to Make Your Video Content Social Media Ready
We are going to take on what you need to know on how to create amazing video content for your marketing efforts on social media and make it go viral. As many have noticed about videos for a long time now so it doesn’t come as a shocker when we talk about that if you haven’t started publishing videos yet, it’s time to move on and get rolling as part of your overall b2b marketing strategy.
Lyft’s IPO Places Them in the Top 150 American Companies
- List: America’s Largest Companies
- Lyft’s IPO is set to price tonight and the stock should start trading on Friday after a market clearing price has been determined. The proposed maximum share price is $68, which would value the company at $19.3 billion, but there are reports that it could be higher due to strong demand.
Logistics: Goods Today are Tracked at Every Step
Technology has changed the way things operate. Now you can keep track of your consignment of goods 24 /7. GPS tracking has made this possible. The vehicles are fitted with trackers so you know the real time positioning of your goods at all times. This is particularly beneficial in case of valuable goods. Companies have also begun with seamless offline mode of engagement with the clients in order to rope in higher efficiency and professionalism within the entire transportation system.
Pharmacy Delivery Apps Allow You to Keep Your Medications Coming on Time
In today’s era everyone is busy, so they don’t get proper time to take care of their health. In some cases, it happens that patients run out of the stock of their medicines. Different applications have been launched to provide the proper flow of medicine to customers. These applications save a lot of time for the customers as they don’t have to go for the trip of medical shops.
Rockets, Crashes, Closed Stores…oops…Leave Open: Elon Musk & the Tesla Story
- Even at the best of times, Tesla operations have seemed like loosely organized chaos, the company’s rapid-fire price changes for its vehicles and its hastily announced — and subsequently reversed — decision to close most of its stores are signs of a business that has been stressed to the breaking point.
9 Practical Tips to Improve Good Reputation Management for Small Businesses
All Businesses needs loyal customers to be successful, right? Two of the most important tools in marketing goal for small businesses to prosper in 2019 is to retain loyal customers and attract new ones. Reputation Management is an amazing method for small businesses to concentrate on in order to achieve their marketing goals.
Businesses of all kinds and types have become smarter about the significance of retaining a good reputation just after the deceptive practices of some corporations surfaced.
Elon Musk & Tesla Are Rocketing, But Is the Direction Up or Down?
- Elon Musk said Tesla would not be profitable in the first quarter of 2019 and disclosed that Tesla is closing most of its brick-and-mortar stores. Musk added that he expected Tesla to be profitable in the second quarter.
Joyoshare Officially Launches UltFix iOS System Recovery to Repair iOS
Hong Kong – Joyoshare Studio, a creative and dedicated multimedia software developer, has recently announced a new release for its iOS utility, Joyoshare UltFix, to give a hand to fix iOS system issues in various possible situations, such as iPhone stuck in recovery mode, black screen, iPhone no service, etc. on both PC and Mac without data loss and get iOS device back to normal within only 3 steps.
2019 Top Content Marketing Trends
Content marketing will become even more influential and powerful for small and medium-sized business. 2018 had the whole industry pushing content out faster than ever before. The trend in 2019 will be to polish and further narrow in the strategies that can make you stand out from the crowd.
Top 6 Expected IPO’s in 2019
- Uber $76 billion: Uber Technologies Inc had $50 billion in total bookings for its ride-service and food-delivery businesses last year, a testament to the size and global reach of the company as it prepares to woo investors in one of the biggest public stock listings to date.
Google Quarterly Businesses Breakdown
- Advertising: Cost per click on Google properties — the rough measure of what Alphabet charges advertisers for each ad served on its websites — dropped 29 percent from last year and 9 percent from last quarter. That’s the steepest rate of annual decline in at least 16 quarters and suggests a growing threat from Amazon could be causing a pricing squeeze.
- YouTube: The number of YouTube channels with more than a million subscribers nearly doubled in the last year. The number of creators earning five or six figures grew by more than 40% year-over-year. YouTube has nearly 2 billion monthly logged-in users.
Find Nearly 9% YTM with Magnachip Semiconductor, Bonds Mature July 2021
This week, Durig Capital ventures to the technology sector to review an issuer involved in the design and manufacture of semiconductors. Magnachip Semiconductor (NYSE:MX) has been around for over 30 years and is the largest independent supplier of OLED display drivers to panel makers for smartphones. The company’s latest reported quarterly results (three months ending September 30, 2018) were excellent.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 13% year-over-year.
Gross profits were up 10.8% over the prior year period.
Operating income increased by 17.9% over Q3 2017.
Revenues were up 16.6% year-over-year and were at the highest levels since Q4 2012.
Interest coverage over 3x for the third quarter.
Increasing Use of Electronic Content In Vehicles Aiding Automotive Software Market Growth
According to a new market research report published by Credence Research “Automotive Software Market (Software Type – Autopilot Software, Navigation Software, Entertainment Software, Car Safety Software, Connectivity Software, Auto Mechanical Software; Vehicle Type – Passenger Vehicle and Commercial Vehicle; Electric Vehicle Type – Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)) – Growth, Future Prospects and Competitive Analysis, 2018 – 2026”, the automotive software market was valued at $16.24 billion in 2017 and expected to reach $78.62 billion in 2026 growing at a CAGR of 19.2% during the forecast period from 2018 to 2026.
