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Marco Arment sparks debate about Apple software quality

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An influential blogger who often writes about Apple stirred the pot Monday with a post that called out the Cupertino, Calif. company for losing its way on software quality.Marco Arment, formerly the lead developer of Tumblr and perhaps best known as the creator of Instapaper, took Apple to task for what he called "embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions" in OS X, its Mac operating system.

Microsoft rolling out 30 new features for the new release of Parature

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Microsoft Corp. is rolling out its newest release of Parature, a solution that helps businesses manage their customer service experiences across different channels like the web, email, social media, online chat, and help tickets. The Redmond, Wash.-based company acquired Parature in January 2014 in a bid to build out its self-service capabilities for Dynamics, its…

Five straight years of growth for US manufacturing according to PMI

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  Although the US PMI did fall by 0.9 from 54.8 in November, signalling a slight slow down, any amount above 50 signals growth. Levels of new work continued to increase in December and the rate of expansion picked up slightly from the 10-month low recorded during November. A number of manufacturers noted weak demand from the...The post Five straight years of growth for US manufacturing according to PMI appeared first on The Manufacturer.

No, You Don't Need a Data Scientist Army to Understand Consumers

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Today's advances in consumer management technology are facilitating a paradigm shift for brands to achieve authentic understanding and generate genuine loyalty from their best customers. For brands that are embracing this technology, loyalty has shifted from a reactive, “wait and see” approach to a proactive, “design and drive” initiative, free of data-head squads.read more

With Downloads In Decline, Can iTunes Adapt?

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Apple's innovative iTunes music service is still the market leader in music downloads, but after more than a decade of growth, sales of music tracks on iTunes have been declining. Last year saw the largest drop in sales — 14 percent. The drop is attributed to the increasing popularity of streaming music services such as Spotify, Pandora and YouTube. These services give fans access to millions of tracks from any Internet-connected device for a monthly fee or in return for listening to commercials.

Why you should pay developers to learn

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Do you want your project be developed by an unskilled team? If a project spans over a year or more, how would you feel about a team that never has time to level up? Software development is one of the most knowledge-driven industry, yet many expect developers to be readily equipped with everything it takes to solve any given problem.

Google Was Asked To Delete 345 Million Links In 2014 Over Copyright Infringement (GOOG)

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Google is getting asked to remove more and more links over copyright issues, with requests up 75% on 2013. Torrent Freak has compiled all of Google's weekly transparency reports into one study that looks at the whole of 2014. The report shows that DMCA takedown requests sent to Google increased by 75% from 2013, with 345 million requests sent in 2014. It's important to note that Google isn't hosting the copyright-infringing material. Rather, publishers are asking Google to remove search links to that material.

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