Netflix tests a mobile subscription only to make its service more affordable

Netflix tests a mobile subscription only to make its service more affordable

Netflix tests a mobile subscription only to make its service more affordable

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Netflix is ​​testing a low-cost mobile phone subscription as it explores a new package designed to expand its appeal in Asia and other emerging markets.

Red Hastings chief executive told Bloomberg last week that the company would test packages at lower prices, and it did not take long for these tests to emerge. The first reports from Malaysia, where Netflix quietly put a portable layer only at RM17, or about $ 4, every month. This is half the price of the company's lowest-priced "basic" package - sold at RM33, or about US $ 7.90 per month in Malaysia.

Netflix spokesman confirmed the Malaysian experience. Similar trials "are being conducted in a few countries", although they refused to provide details, they added. It remains to be seen whether this new subscription layer will be deployed to other parts of the world.


Please note that the mobile-friendly beta reduces Netflix in Malaysia by approximately 50%

This step is logical for Netflix. While it added a large number of international users - those outside the United States account for 79 million of its 137 million customer base - it has argued in the past that it lacks more customers because its stringent prices are prohibitively expensive in much of the world. In fact, to prove this point, a number of competitors in Asia are pricing their services more forcefully.

Competitors including Hotstar Fast-growing in India, iFlix - supported by SKY covers 28 countries - both HOOQ and Viu are priced from $ 3 per month. While it's not clear how many users are clicking from Netflix, it's clear that there is a price discrepancy, which is what this new mobile offer does in some way. It is also increasing the number of mobile users only in India and other parts of Asia.

Apart from offering cheaper options, Netflix will also double the local content in Asia. India is a major hub and this month the company unveiled a list of eight new Netflix movies and a new series from India.

The Mobile Pack is not the first time Netflix has used its pricing strategy.

The company tested a strategy to bypass Apple Store using its own online payment system during the summer. Instead of using in-app payments for billing, so Apple paid 30 percent of the booty, Netflix enabled it to raise all the money for itself. More money is better, of course, but the cost is that the user experience is clunkier without shop applications which may put some potential customers. It is not clear how good the test was done on Netflix.

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WeWork picks up another $ 3B of SoftBank

WeWork picks up another $ 3B of SoftBank

Adam Newman (WeWork) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017
WeWork received an additional US $ 3 billion in financing from SoftBank, not confused with SoftBank Vision. The transaction comes in the form of a note, allowing SoftBank to pay $ 3 billion to allow shares to be bought before September 2019 at $ 110 or more, ultimately leading to WeWork's $ 42 billion valuation.

In August, Softbank invested $ 1 billion in WeWork as a convertible note.

According to the Financial Times, SoftBank will pay WeWork $ 1.5 billion on January 15, 2019 and another $ 1.5 billion on April 15.

SoftBank is the largest investor in WeWork, with SoftBank Vision contributing $ 4.4 billion to the company last year.

Playing real estate in WeWork is just one aspect of the company's strategy.

More than physical ground, WeWork wants to be the central connective tissue to work in general. The company often contracts with top service providers at "full sale" prices by negotiating on behalf of its 300,000 members. In addition, WeWork has developed corporate products for large companies, such as Microsoft, who tend to sign longer and more lucrative lease contracts. In fact, these types of deals make up 29 per cent of WeWork revenues.

The biggest issue is whether WeWork can maintain its overheated growth, which seems to have been the key to its high valuation. After all, WeWork has yet to achieve profitability.

Can vision become a reality? SoftBank seems willing to bet on it.
WeWork picks up another $ 3B of SoftBank

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Top Android Apps 2018: Download it now

Top Android Apps 2018: Download it now

The best free Android apps

Best Android Apps - Introduction
Ten years have passed since the announcement of Android, and it was a decade ago. But there was no better time to hop on board, as the Google Play store exploded in recent years, with applications spreading to meet all your needs.

The problem lies in: having a large number of them, even with Editors' Picks, Featured, Best Selling, Top Paid, and Top Free categories there to help.

There are things you can do to filter the winners of the wannabes. Google creates a list of apps that you recommend based on previous downloads, so this is often the place to start.

You can also filter by new versions if you just want to see the latest things to get to the store. Or, if you want an app similar to an app, look for that app and see what appears.

Of course, using user feedback and ratings is an essential part of ensuring that your applications are of high quality. But the easiest (and best) way to find high quality apps is to make someone else looking for you.

What is the best phone for 2018? Check the countdown for the video below!
That is why we put this list. Just like you want the best apps for Android phones. Applications that will revolutionize the functionality, or at least, offer something so great that it is one of the applications that should be downloaded when you get a new phone.

The following applications will be continuously updated and are a combination of paid and free apps selected by our Android experts. So, even if you're reviewing the actual money for one of these apps, you're safe knowing it's a worthwhile purchase.

New This Week: Mobi Goo


£ 7.99 per month

You may have come across Moby before - it's a streaming movie service that allows subscribers to access a new movie every day, with an emphasis on independent and global movies. Moby Goo is basically a movie.

The service selects a new movie version every week and gives you a free ticket. Or rather, it gives you a quick response code that can be scanned in some movie theaters in exchange for a ticket.

There seems to be a good range of cinemas, including big strings like Vue, although Moby Joe tends to choose specialized films that do not contain large versions, so if you are not in a big city your mileage may vary.

The service is included with a standard Mobi subscription, so if you are already a subscriber you can download the MobiJo app and instant access.

However, while Mobi itself is available in both the United States and the United Kingdom, Mobi Go is currently a British service only. We will not be surprised if that changes someday, but at the same time, American users always have a superficially similar MoviePass movie.

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Vista snaps up Apptio for $1.94B, as enterprise companies remain hot

It seems that Sunday has become a popular day to announce large deals involving enterprise companies. IBM announced the $34 billion Red Hat deal two weeks ago. SAP announced its intent to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion last night, and Vista Equity Partners got into the act too, announcing a deal to buy Apptiofor $1.94 billion, representing a 53 percent premium for stockholders.

Vista paid $38 per share for Apptio,  a Seattle company that helps companies manage and understand their cloud spending inside a hybrid IT environment that has assets on-prem and in the cloud. The company was founded in 2007 right as the cloud was beginning to take off, and grew as the cloud did. It recognized that companies would have trouble understanding their cloud assets along side on-prem ones. It turned out to be a company in the right place at the right time with the right idea.

Investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and Madrona certainly liked the concept, showering the company with $261 million before it went public in 2016. The stock price has been up and down since, peaking in August at $41.23 a share before dropping down to $24.85 on Friday. The $38 a share Vista paid comes close to the high water mark for the stock.

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Sunny Gupta, co-founder and CEO at Apptio liked the idea of giving his shareholders a good return while providing a good landing spot to take his company private. Vista has a reputation for continuing to invest in the companies it acquires and that prospect clearly excited him. “Vista’s investment and deep expertise in growing world-class SaaS businesses and the flexibility we will have as a private company will help us accelerate our growth…,” Gupta said in a statement.

The deal was approved by Apptio’s board of directors, which will recommend shareholders accept it. With such a high premium, it’s hard to imagine them turning it down. If it passes all of the regulatory hurdles, the acquisition is expected to close in Q1 2019.

It’s worth noting that the company has a 30-day “go shop” provision, which would allow it to look for a better price. Given how hot the enterprise market is right now and how popular hybrid cloud tools are, it is possible it could find another buyer, but it could be hard to find one willing to pay such a high premium.

Vista clearly likes to buy enterprise tech companies having snagged Ping Identityfor $600 million and Marketo for $1.8 billion in 2016. It grabbed Jamf, an Apple enterprise device management company and Datto, a disaster recovery company last year. It turned Marketo around for $4.75 billion in a deal with Adobe just two months ago.

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Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data

Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data

Bonobo AI, an AI-based platform that helps companies get insights from customer support calls, texts and other interactions, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by G20 Ventures and Capri Ventures. Founded in 2016 and led by co-founder and CEO Efrat Rapoport, the Tel Aviv-based startup claims that its technology has been used to analyze more than a billion interactions so far and that it has signed up a “few dozen” clients, including DreamCloud and Honeybook.

The idea behind Bonobo is that even though customer service texts and voice calls can provide companies with a trove of valuable information, these data points are difficult to aggregate and analyze at scale. Bonobo’s technology integrates into the platforms that its clients use to communicate with customers, like Gmail, Zendesk or Twilio) and CRM platforms like Salesforce or HubSpot. Then it analyzes interactions for “events of interest in calls,” Rapoport told TechCrunch, like “when customers ask for a discount, complain, ask for a missing feature, become dissatisfied, etc.”

There are two main types of issues that Bonobo helps its clients with. One is opportunity detection, or identifying things that can either help the closing of a sale, like features that have proven popular among past buyers, or hinder it, such as customer questions that aren’t satisfactorily answered. By doing so, Bonobo is also able to help clients create very targeted marketing campaigns. For example, instead of sending marketing material to all customers who need to renew their subscriptions, Rapoport says Bonobo’s clients can create campaigns to help retain customers who need to renew their subscriptions but have complained about the price being too high or missing a feature.

Another example of how Bonobo can increase conversion rates is predicting customer cancellations and other potentially costly issues. For example, one vehicle repair company was losing millions of dollars due to cancelled jobs. Bonobo helped it identify factors associated with a higher likelihood of cancellations during customer interactions with the company’s representatives, which helped it retain thousands of customers.

The second is risk detection. For example, Bonobo detects if a customer starts mentioning a competitor, threatens to post their complaint on social media or brings up problems that are a legal or compliance risk. Rapoport says that Bonobo’s technology can identify specific segments in conversations, so companies can review it directly from Bonobo’s dashboard without having to perform a time-consuming search.

Rapoport says that she and her co-founders (CTO Idan Tsitiat, COO Barak Goldstein and VP of Research and Development Ohad Hen) began working on Bonobo after they realized that while there are many tools from companies like Tableau, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce for gathering insights from structured data (like customer behavior on websites), very few exist for analyzing unstructured data, including conversational data, at scale. “It’s easy to measure how many people go to their cart but then change their mind and exit, but how do you do the same on thousands of customers calls? How do you know what’s the reason customers change their minds?” says Rapoport. “That’s the gap we are filling.”

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Alibaba sets new Singles’ Day record with $31B in sales, but growth is slowing

Alibaba scored another blockbuster Singles’ Day after customers around the world shopped in stores and online on the tenth edition of its November 11 shopping festival. That puts this year’s gross merchandise volume – a measure for the dollar value of total transactions – at a staggering $30.8 billion, although the company recorded its lowest-ever annual growth rate for the event.

The figure makes the spending bonanza more than twice the size of Cyber Monday and Black Friday combined in 2017.

This is by far the largest-ever Singles’ Day to date. Just 15 hours and 49 minutes into the spending spree, transactions leapfrogged that of 2017’s tally of $25 billion, the company announced on Twitter.

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And there it is. Gross merchandise volume at this year's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival tops last year's total.

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As the world anticipates when the supercharged shopping day will hit a ceiling, sales are already cooling. The final total of 2018 represents a 27 percent increase from last year. That’s the lowest Alibaba has seen in the history of Singles’ Day sales, and a drop from 36 percent in 2017 — still, it remains impressive given how large the target is each year.

The slowdown came on the heels of Alibaba’s weakest revenue growth since seven quarters ago and a cut in annual revenue forecast – though revenues were still increasing at a healthy rate of 54 percent year-over-year in its latest quarter.

New growth fuel

Consumers are expected to tighten their purse strings as an economic downturn hits China. The ecommerce giant is, however, unconcerned for it’s betting on the country’s rising middle class in the long run.

Shoppers “are looking for new ways to upgrade their lifestyles and make their lives better,” Alibaba executive chairman Joe Tsai  said at a media event on Sunday. “This will really offset a lot of the short-term cyclical effects.”

More than 300 million of China’s 1.4 billion people have entered the middle-income bracket, according to the national statistics bureau. That means discretionary items will drive much of the growth in the Chinese retail titan – and the upmarket trend is already underway. Health supplements, small home appliances, and skincare items are among the fastest growing categories by GMV during Singles’ Day this year.

Alibaba has also tapped into physical stores. The online retailer is poised to “digitize the whole consumer retail market,” Daniel Zhang,  current CEO and incoming chairman as Jack Ma hands over the helm next year, told media on Sunday. Over the past two years, Alibaba has been jostling with close rival JD.com to snap up strategic partnerships with brick-and-mortar retailers who remain keen to reach Chinese consumers.

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang started the Singles’ Day shopping festival in 2009 when he was in charge of the company’s Tmall business (Photo Vivek Prakash/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

There are nuances in the sheer size of GMV, however, as it doesn’t reflect final revenues. A slew of factors could boost the figure. For one, refunds cannot be processed on November 11. Many vendors run pre-sales weeks in advance, taking deposits for items at the time but only processing full payments on Singles’ Day.

Alibaba also aired a star-studded gala on the night of November 10 to drum up sales. It said that over 240 million people – that’s almost one in five people in China – watched the show and its Singles’ Day commercials through two of China’s top TV broadcasters and Alibaba’s own Youku  video streaming site.

Next ten years

As Alibaba enters its 19th year, it’s turning to new channels to sell. “Voice will be an important entry point,” said Zhang. The firm’s efforts to brace for China’s transition from a mobile-first age into an AI-powered one include a tie-up with voice assistant startup Rokid.

Alibaba also has its sights set on international consumers. This year, merchants from over 200 countries participated in Singles’ Day, including those on Alibaba’s Southeast Asia-based Lazada platform. “From day one, our dream was to create a global shopping day,” suggested Zhang.

An 11.11 advertisement in New York

Alibaba celebrated another big milestone this year: over one billion packages were shipped throughout the shopping day. But the company is also under mounting pressure to address its packaging waste problem.

“We have to redefine packaging,” said Zhang. That means more than using recycled material. More important, the CEO wants items to travel at a closer distance. This is made possible by algorithms that optimize inventory management. Alibaba could also lean on Ele.me, which it acquired this year and runs a fleet of food delivery staff, to process neighborhood orders which may require less or no packaging at all.

Singles’ Day was first popularized as an antidote to Valentines’ Day for the way the date is written numerically: 11.11, which represents four single people. Nearly a decade after Zhang first turned it into a sales promotion for Tmall, Alibaba’s online sales platform for brands, the one-day event has swollen into the world’s largest online shopping festival.

“We created this day for people who are lonely. Today, we totally redefined the day for how people shop,” concluded Zhang.

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Cloudflare rolls out its 1.1.1.1 privacy service to iOS, Android

Months after announcing its privacy-focused DNS service, Cloudflare is bringing 1.1.1.1 to mobile users.

Granted, nothing ever stopped anyone from using 1.1.1.1 on their phones or tablets already. But now the app, now available for iPhones, iPads and Android devices, aims to make it easier for anyone to use its free consumer DNS service.

The app is a one-button push to switch on and off again. That’s it.

Cloudflare rolled out 1.1.1.1 earlier this year on April Fools’ Day, no less, but privacy is no joke to the San Francisco-based networking giant. In using the service, you let Cloudflare handle all of your DNS information, like when an app on your phone tries to connect to the internet, or you type in the web address of any site. By funneling that DNS data through 1.1.1.1, it can make it more difficult for your internet provider to know which sites you’re visiting, and also ensure that you can get to the site you want without having your connection censored or hijacked.

It’s not a panacea to perfect privacy, mind you — but it’s better than nothing.

The service is also blazing fast, shaving valuable seconds off page loading times — particularly in parts of the world where things work, well, a little slower.

“We launched 1.1.1.1 to offer consumers everywhere a better choice for fast and private Internet browsing,” said Matthew Prince, Cloudflare chief executive said. “The 1.1.1.1 app makes it even easier for users to unlock fast and encrypted DNS on their phones.”

You can download the app from Apple’s App Store and Google Play.

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Quick Google Adsense Approval practical tips

You will learn easy way to get Quick Google Adsense Approval which is what i might call the nightmare of some webmasters or bloggers.

It’s time to solve that nightmare once and quickly got adsense approval;if only you will carefully read and practiced whatever i will discuss on this article.

Having had vital experience on how Quick Google Adsense Approval works, and also how a day,week,month old blog or website can get approval on first time. I am willing to tell you that to get Quick Google Adsense Approval is more easier and simple than tying your shoe, hey! am joking, but its true!.

For newbies, it might seem heartbreaking glancing at the title of your mail messages showing Google Adsense disapproval message. Don’t worry, am once like you(you not alone!).

I know of many hardworking bloggers and webmasters that lost focus on publishing content to their readers and eventually sell of their website or abandoned it, simply because their website were not approved by google Adsense so as to aid them monetize their blogs.

Now in this article, am going to guide you on the A-Z approach to take when applying for Adsense.
The truth is that most people don’t clearly understands what the disapproval message from Adsense meant or the corrections they want you to take.
Am going to list and explain what Google Adsense really wants you to do or note before applying again or else you might keep getting disapproval. Google are smarter!, you have to follow rules they set.

Without boring you much, i will list all the necessary steps and action one take before you can get

Quick Google Adsense Approval from Google Adsense:
1. Creating original and Educative contents:
The first step one can take before applying for Adsense is to make sure that you have original content that is meaningful and well formatted.

Having a good content is a good way to start making your website Adsense ready and also it will help rank your sites in search engine. Content is the tea of every website be it music blog, sports,education,eCommerce,health, business site. You need to learn how to craft a good article that is relevant to your niche.

When your are creating original content, try to make your article length to be at least 500-1k words or more depending on whatever topic you are writing at,but let it have a good length.
Google search engine have a sweet spot for every website that publish great article that is well structured and with a nice article length.

Structuring your content when creating it is very important factor to consider because it makes your site visitors to keep on checking for your newest article.

What i mean by structuring your content is that you should:
⦁ Have straightforward headings that justifies your article at the beginning of your content
⦁ Use good font style or font size where it matters.
⦁ Apply bold/italic character where you want your readers to put good attention to.
⦁ Learn how to use paragraph in your article because it’s the first step to having structured article.
⦁ Specificy a good width and height when including image,video,slider in a post and try to make it fit perfectly where it help tells your stories more.

If you followed the above explanation i did,you will get the focus of how you can structure your post whenever you are writing a new article.

So having an original articles on your blog is the forward approach to skyrocketing your website. Before you can apply and get Quick Google Adsense Approval,make sure you have created at least 15-20 different original articles on your site and also with minimum of 500 words.

Applying this instruction is the key to get quick adsense approval because google will trust your site easily when you have great content that matches your niche.

2.Never copy articles from different websites:
Like they usually say ‘No man is an island of knowledge’ but i always say ‘ atleast man have knowledge’.

Now this is the most critical advice am going to give on this article,if truly you want to get Google Adsense approval.
Well, just like normal human being do hate plagiarism of articles, Google Search engines hate it the most and they are out to punish any website that does that.

What am trying to let you know here is to avoid plagiarism at all possible means because it will kill your website faster than you can ever imagine. Never look on your friends that does or say that it doesn’t matter or advice you to use article spinner and others
Like i mentioned in the first paragraph of this section ‘No man is an island of knowledge’, that the universal truth but that doesn’t give you an edge to copy other website article and paste on your own website.
The sites you copy their articles might have spend so much time on researching and getting facts that will help create an content that worth their readers interest. As an author or content developer, will you be happy if another person live by your sweat and stress?. I guess the answer is ‘NO’.
When you have a new website,try to make it an obligation never to copy other site article no matter how juicy or huge traffic is generating for them.

There are so many way you can get or copy article from a site (Hey!! not what you think) that is legal and not harmful:

⦁ Read your competitors article and learn from the way they write their article
⦁ Check on their articles that is driving huge traffic and embark on more research or fact finding that will help you write more about that particular article and add fresh meaning to it.
⦁ Giving credit to the original site where you copied a particular content
⦁ Notifying the author of that particular content you want to copy from and get their permissions, Google will understand.
⦁ Careful editing of an original content before publishing, this is most used format but add your own knowledge or experience on that article, include image or videos that will make yours exceptional.
Adsense always frown at site that involve in plagiarism and they will keep on warning you to remove plagraise article on your site before they can give you access to earn from them.

There are many damages your site will face if you keep on plagiarizing other site articles without giving them credit or editing thoroughly.

Read:how to create viral content that ranks faster

3. Poorly structured blog:
Google Adsense is a tech company that have interest of its user at hand and so therefore you have to aid them on that.
Regards to Quick Google Adsense Approval, how your website is structured is also co-factor that determines good response from them.

A poorly structured website can’t get approval from google no matter how many original articles you have written so far. Google needs your website to be user friendly and well structured so that to enable its crawler survey all your web pages before they can give you any approval message.

So far, i have been talking of Poorly structured site and maybe you don’t understand what it really meant.

A poorly structured or non-structured site is a website that doesn’t have the following component:
⦁ Navigation menu
⦁ Footer navigation
⦁ Title
⦁ navigation between pages in site
⦁ Sitemap
Above is the key tip a good structured website should have, You have to make sure your website is not under construction mode or testing mode before applying adsense.
I hope you have gotten an idea of how poorly structured website can deny your site quick approval.

4. Blog Niche or type of website:
Here we go again on what can make your site not to get Quick Google Adsense Approval.
There are some niches that Google Adsense does not support and those site have to look for alternative Ads network for them to monetise their blog or sites.
Example of niches or websites that Google Adsense prohibit and wont approve are:
⦁ niches that based on porn and adult based contents (18+)
⦁ Gambling and betting niche
⦁ websites that publish violence articles or humanity threat
⦁ websites that promote hard drugs,crime,killings,rape etc.
⦁ niche that promote cyber crimes,black-hat,malicious or virus tools
If your niche or site is plainly or partially based on the bulleted list above, kindly forget about using Google adsense for monetisation, use other available ad networks that support your kind of niche.
Even if you decides to buy adsense account from someone, your website will be banned immediately adsense code touch the website, so don’t try to complicate issues for yourselves but rather respect their rules and do what is right.
5. Blog Design:
One of the mistakes which I have seen many bloggers that is in hurry to get Quick Google Adsense Approval do is, they create a new blog, add few content, add lots of different ad networks, use a crappy or distorted design and apply for Adsense. Believe me, first impression is very important and it’s your blog design which matters a lot.
If you are on WordPress, you can use any professional WordPress theme from premium theme network or from elegant theme, as it’s cheap.
If you are on Blog-spot, use a blog Spot theme which is not only beautiful but also looks professional. Don’t clutter your sidebar widget and post with lots of blog widgets and different ads. Once you are approved for Adsense, you can always add as much widget or different ad network. (If required).
6.Apply for Google Adsense Again:
Now if your blog cleared all tests and mistakes, it’s the time to resubmit your application. You will find a link in rejected email from Adsense team to reapply for your adsense account.
Another tip is to use a custom domain and have a Google apps account. Now, use your Google apps Email Id to apply for Adsense account. This works for many.
At times, adsense reject your application for wrong reasons and one way to bypass this is by reapplying again and again. If you would keenly follow all i have written above, i assured you that you will be amazed at how fast Google will approve your website.
7.Promoting your blog:
This is the most secretive approach to get faster approval from Adsense. Although Google doe’s not list driving traffic or promoting your blog as their policy before they can approve your account, but have you gone on a survey to know why they did not list that?
Here is it, you might get Quick Google Adsense Approval if you are making effort to drive traffic to your blog especially new blog site.That will make them consider your blog easily regardless of some other necessary checkout they will do on your blog.
8.Alternative approach to Google Adsense:
I would love to advice all newbies in blogging not to hope on Adsense as the only source of monetizing their blog, there are so many opportunities that exists which will earn you greatly if you follows it up. Some of successful bloggers doe’s not have Adsense on their blog yet they make up-to 5k-10k dollars every month, do you know their secret?
Here are five alternative way you can earn big as blogger without Adsense:
⦁ Promoting content (this depends on your traffic).
⦁ Affiliate marketing
⦁ Advertising for companies or individuals
⦁ Earning with other available Ad networks such as bidvertiser, mgid
⦁ Advertising your product or business
There are so many alternative every smart blogger can engage which i will not cover all the details here, but will make sure i publish it in coming weeks.
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If technology Is powerful in the school room - Why do some college students Dislike It a lot

The effectiveness of generation use in the school room has grow to be a arguable issue. at the same time as many teachers and students sense that it is fine to use technology because it enhances teaching many others feel that it reasons too many challenges and that it is a waste of time. If technology is as effective in the school room as many teachers accept as true with it to be; why perform a little college students dislike it a lot?

 

so as to objectively respond to this question, three articles have been tested. 2 out of the 3 relate how using generation within the study room frustrates students even as the remaining one translates the mind of students who feel that generation within the lecture room has answered to their need. So the difficulty is not that generation isn't powerful however as a substitute that some instructors want to be mindful about technology use inside the study room and others want to learn so as to properly use generation to teach so that scholars do not view generation as obstruction gaining knowledge of however as an enhancing tool.

 

After summarizing the 3 articles that have been reviewed we will be able to prove that there are 2 companies of students who claim to dislike generation within the study room: people who are improperly exposed to it by using their trainer and those who did not deliver themselves sufficient time to familiarize themselves with it. we will then be able to get to the logical end that those equal college students could appreciate the cost of generation inside the classroom if their teachers used it well. allow us to first summarize the articles that we're referring to.

 

the thing "while right era approach terrible teaching related that many students sense that instructors and professor use technology as a manner to expose off. students whinge of era making their teachers "much less powerful than they would be if they caught to a lecture on the chalkboard" (younger) different issues associated by using students include teachers wasting class time to educate about a web tool or to flab with a projector or software program. while instructors are strange with the technological equipment, they're probable to waist extra time trying to use them the technological software this is used the maximum according to college students is PowerPoint. college students bitch that instructors use it rather than their lesson plan. Many college students give an explanation for that it makes information extra hard "I call it PowerPoint abuse" (younger). Professors additionally publish their PowerPoint Presentation to the college board earlier than and after class and this encourages students to overlook more lessons.

 

another hassle pronounced inside the article with the usage of generation in the school rooms is that many schools spend time to teach their team of workers approximately how to use a specific era however it does no longer educate them on "strategies to use them properly" (young). the author believed that schools have to also provide small monetary incentives to teachers and professors to wait workshops.

 

In an interview made with 13 college students, "some gave their teacher a failing whilst it got here to the use of strength factor, route management structures and other school room generation" (younger ) a number of the complains had been again approximately the misuse of PowerPoint's and the reality that teachers use it to recite what's on the size. every other criticism was that teachers who are surprising with technology often waste elegance time as they spend extra time troubleshooting than teaching. The closing complain referred to is that a few instructors require college students to comment on online chat rooms weekly however that they do now not screen the final results or never make connection with the dialogue in elegance.

 

similarly, the object "i am now not a computer character" (Lohnes 2013) speaks to the reality that students expectations as far as era is involved may be very distinct. In a examine finished with 34 undergraduate college students, they recommend that technology is an essential a part of a college college students life because they need to do must everything online from making use of for college or college, searching and registering for instructions, pay tuition and that similarly to being included in the administration, and many others. era is also broadly used to teach and is valued by means of better schooling.

 

those college students, but, experience that technology poses a barrier to achievement as they conflict to align with the methods wherein the organization values generation." A student explains that generation is used in her freshman yr to turn in assignments, take part in dialogue boards and blogs, emailing the professor, viewing grades and for a wide variety of different administrative undertaking such as tracking the following faculty bus. This precise scholar whose call is Nichole says that she does now not own a laptop but stocks a family laptop. She has a younger brother who additionally uses the laptop to complete his school paintings so she therefore has to stay up overdue to finish assignments. She states "technology and i? We in no way had that connection" (Lohnes). Nichole dislikes the fact that her college requests that she had greater contact with technology than she is conformable with. despite the fact that, she explains that as she started out doing the ones faculty on line assignments so often she got here to comprehend that they had been not that horrific.

 

one among her issues even though with technology is that she had come from Puerto Rico approximately a yr earlier entering university and that she in no way needed to use the computer so much there. The articles relates that other university students like Nichole have admitted that they may be "reluctant era customers" (Lohnes) the thing wants to explain, in essence, that although the general public could expect that university students prefer generation and are already familiar with it," that assumption is defective" (Lohnes).

 

alternatively, the article "What Screenagers Say approximately... " excessive school age college students had been asked approximately what they thought of era but most expressed liking it. one of them stated approximately PowerPoint: "My records trainer did a good task with power points. He could positioned them on-line, which made for surely exquisite reviews." (Screneagers, 2011) Others expressed how technology became absolutely who they're and that teachers should understand for instance that after they textual content in magnificence, they're not being impolite but that they have got gotten used to multi tasking. any other student invitations instructors to no longer be frightened of technology "teachers should not be scared of technology. take into account that it is how we stay our lives. So don't just push it out. learn to deal with us and how we work." (Screenagers, 2011)

 

another student but, expressed how she prefers simpler generation that her trainer is secure with rather than excessive tech that the instructor does not control properly "The most essential thing for instructors is to be relaxed with what they're the use of. It would not must be great excessive tech. My math teacher used a projector, and it turned into one among my favorite instructions. Then i would go to this other class wherein the instructor used electricity points and the clever board, but I failed to get any extra out of it due to the fact she wasn't secure with the generation" (Screenagers, 2011) college students spoke about their appreciation for truly all types of era used inside the school room. another stated "one of my teachers used Skype. this is face-to-face interplay. If I had a problem with some math trouble i was working on, I may want to take a image of it and placed it at the Skype screen. She ought to see wherein i used to be making my mistake. It absolutely helped." (Screenagers, 2011) the lowest line is that the ones excessive college college students desired to let instructors realize that they virtually like era and that it is already a wonderful part of their day by day habitual however that it had to be used well in order for them to enjoy it.

 

similarly, they summarize a few things that they dislike as properly. the various list, they said: analyzing on the laptop, paying lots for an internet textbook and the reality that they frequently forget about everything else after they get caught up with the usage of technology.

 

nonetheless, they had a great deal extra high-quality matters they liked in technology like for instance that some teachers might text a query for them to consider earlier than magnificence, so if they do no longer know they solution, they might talk with classmates to talk about the possibility for the answer before magnificence. This lets in them to go to elegance prepared. they also like using Skype, emailing their instructors in preference to going to talk to them in character. additionally they revel in dialogue forums. the recommendation they would love to convey to their teachers is to ensure that they may be cozy with anything technological tools they're using, to provide them greater freedom to use the good sites and those inside the middle variety while they are browsing the internet the usage of school computer systems and to remember that era is a part of their lives.

 

After summarizing those articles, we can see that the students mentioned in Youngs, 2004 dislike era because their experience with it turned into not exceptional. In other phrases, a collection of college students dislike era due to the fact some instructors are not mindful approximately generation use or they want extra education. as an example, a few college students are annoyed due to the fact they feel that teachers waist their time when they are now not nicely trained to use the technological gear. Others disliked the reality that a few instructors had PowerPoint shows which have been both now not meaningful or they could just read anything they wrote and add no additional comments. those examples are referred to as "bad teaching (young, 2004) and they may be in reality horrible examples that instructors should no longer observe because generation is not supposed to assist teachers do the least work or to adopt poor coaching practices. Somme students related that PowerPoint became widely utilized by instructors so that they even call it PowerPoint abuse.

 

i will relate to what is being expressed by using those students. I observed a teaching Assistant teach a grammar elegance lately. He purchased a device to permit him to screen the screen with out touching the computer. He changed into in a position to walk during the magnificence even as converting slides. it all looked so magnificent but notwithstanding all of this display, college students have been left so burdened on the end of the lesson. when they requested questions, he went back to the slide that had the grammar rule and read it over to the elegance. The PowerPoint became a duplication of the textbook bankruptcy. The same examples of the e-book had been used. at the stop of the route, he felt that he had performed a super PowerPoint whilst in fact, it was now not significant. It become a replica/paste project from the textual content ebook to the display. this example shows that we need to use not unusual feel when the use of era. while coaching grammar, a trainer has so as to give you examples aside from the ones inside the e book, you have to write on the board, have student practice what they have found out. PowerPoint use turned into a real horrific concept, in my opinion, for coaching this path. It was just not the right technological device for the lesson.

 

college students in that magnificence may also determine that they hate energy factors as it confuses them extra whilst the problem is not with the use of PowerPoint but instead with the trainer's poor choice of generation. The point I additionally need to make here is that instructors may every so often be unaware of their unsuitable use of technology. that is why, as educators, we now and again want to ask college students for his or her comments so we can also make corrections wherein wanted.

 

we are able to then finish that the ones college students dislike era as a result of unsuitable technological use by way of teachers, and additionally due to the fact many teachers do now not attend workshops or education sessions to help them acquire a broader information of era seeing that they're so busy. Like advise (Youngs, 2004) and (Lohnes, 2012), those identical busy teachers would have attended the ones trainings if there were given an incentive. inside the article "generation requirements in a third-Grade lecture room" (Kovalik, 2001), it is related how a look at done on a 3rd grade magnificence of 25 showed that scholars were nicely the use of generation. there's no indication that the ones college students dislike the usage of technology. the object additionally stated how the academics were exceedingly skilled because the Ohio board pays incentive to instructors to take part in generation schooling which coaching them no longer most effective how to use technology by means of teaches them techniques on while to apply them.

 

boards from other states must consider doing the equal factor to make sure that their instructors are responding to the technological want in their students and that they are coaching them in keeping with the requirements. The Ohio faculty referred to above met the standards as far as era is worried because of the era education received by means of the teachers. If instructors learn how to properly use generation within the school room, it'll be a less irritating revel in for them and for the student who will much less possibly dislike era since it'll meet its motive to beautify teaching.

 

the alternative organizations of students who dislike era are people who had been no longer uncovered to it for lengthy sufficient. The college Freshman, Nichole advises that she turned into no longer exposed to a lot technology even as she was in excessive college in her domestic u . s . a .; therefore, it seemed to be a burden to her to must want a computer to complete most of her faculty assignments however also to engage along with her classmate via a dialogue board. what's interesting although is that even though she claimed to dislike technology so much, she recommended that when she started out to spend so much time the use of it, she realizes that it isn't always so awful. although it is likely that a few human beings do not like the cellphone and texting so much, the pc and a few internet site have grow to be part of most people daily ordinary. In Nichole's case, she does now not very own a pc and has to watch for her turn to use the circle of relatives laptop which means that that she has no attachment to this media because her use of it's far managed. but, as soon as she gets to personal her very own computer, it's far a guaranteed that her view of era will alternate.

 

I back to highschool after approximately 12 years. when i was in college the 1st time round, nothing became digital but when I contacted USF to use, they advised me that the whole lot was on-line. in the beginning, I requested why everything became on-line however as soon as I were given used to it, I commenced to apprehend the price of having the benefit to do lots of factors while not having to live my domestic.

 

therefore, Nichole will absolutely not keep to dislike generation that a lot once she gets greater acquainted and more attached to it. The truth is that she said that she began to comprehend that it was no longer that awful once she commenced doing so many assignments. She got here to the conclusion that the computer changed into not yet a pal however that it became now not an enemy; it have become to her an acquaintance.

 

With this expertise, depending at the background of some ELL college students and relying on whether or now not they were exposed to generation in their domestic u . s . a ., they may not like technology in the beginning but this have to no longer be a sign that they will never come to favored it. As trainer, we can want to permit them time to familiarize themselves with it whilst we retain to correctly use it in order that we do now not advocate in opposition to it or involuntary ship ignored facts about its genuine price.

 

on the other hand, the last article testifies to the reality that the new technology is technology driven and that once used properly, they benefits from it within the school room, there are numerous examples of ways instructors initially used technology to educate which might be appreciated via college students. What must the realization be then?

 

we have tested that era use is effective in the school room however that teachers need to take some actions so that you can make this device beneficial to students. it is vital that they acquired a few training in the event that they lack it, and prefer a pupil suggested inside the Screenager article, they ought to chorus from the use of complex gear if they are now not sure approximately how to use them. it's great to correctly use some thing plenty less complicated that they're familiar with like a excessive faculty scholar advised.

 

similarly, it's far important for teachers to display screen the countless technological equipment and to research them before introducing them to their teaching. ought to they test some that do not paintings properly, they have to stop the use of them and are trying to find one that is more suitable. most significantly, generation isn't constantly the answer that is why teachers have to be balanced whilst using it. If it is required that we use the board and chalks to assist students higher apprehend, that is what we need to do. Doing so, we are able to ensure that extra students respect the usage of era within the lecture room for what it is well worth.



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How to find a legal and most proffitable business online

how To Find A Profitable business Niche online

Regardless of what type of online business you are trying to develop, it's a good idea to focus on one specific niche.

But picking out a profitable niche online can sometimes be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The internet is a busy place and online business owners need to know that they are entering a worthwhile market before spending time, money and resources on building up a new internet based business.

Here are 7 tips on how to find a profitable niche online.

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When you type a word into Google, before you hit enter it displays a list of possible phrases that you may be looking for. This auto-complete feature draws on popular search requests from other users. Because an audience are searching for that item it is likely to be profitable online niche.

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When you're looking for a profitable niche online business Amazon has already done a lot of the work for you. If a niche market is popular on the world's largest retailer that will quickly tell you if you have a workable marketplace or not.

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You can also use the offline world to search for a profitable niche online. The publishers of magazines and books do a lot of research before spending money on marketing and printing, so when you see a book or magazine for sale, it's most likely based on a top niche market.

4. FAQFox.com

FAQFox.com scans online forums and scrapes keywords and phrases based on a word that you enter. It will list titles, links and questions that are relevant to your keyword. When you see a lot of people talking about the same problem, product or service, that shows there is a profitable niche online.

5. Udemy.com

This website shows markets where people are buying courses and education. You can use their information database to see a list of the most popular courses. This is a great way to find out what people are actually paying money for.

6. Ask Technorati

You can search for your niche subject matter on this website. If there are a good number of results, you are probably a profitable online niche.

7. The Competition

If there are lots of businesses in a market that is very competitive, it will be challenging for you to be successful. However, if there is no competition it shows that it is not a viable market. Type your niche name into Google. If there are ads related to the search that's a good sign. That means companies are profitable enough to spend money advertising to your market. Now you need to focus your efforts on a well-defined segment of that market.

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