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If you’ve looked at the news cycle recently (outside of election politics), you probably think Uber and Lyft have taken over the world, with the rest of the on-demand economy close behind. You might be wondering if we even need taxi cabs anymore? What about the rest of public transportation? Has the on-demand economy taken it all over?  According to  Andrew Meyers , CEO of  Kaptyn  and lifelong for-hire transportation sector innovator, the answer is a resounding  no.  Andrew states: “RideShare/e-hail service makes up less than 20 percent of the United States transportation industry as a whole. An industry that is worth well over 30 billion dollars" There’s no denying the sheer size of the global transportation industry. Going forward the global taxi and car-service market alone is projected to increase to 183 billion in value, by 2024, according to statisticians at  fivethirtyeight . Thus, even if the on-demand economy takes a s...

Samsung unveils Windows Mixed Reality headset, AltSpaceVR joins Microsoft, SteamVR catalog coming to Windows Mixed Reality this holiday. Update 10/3/17, 7 p.m. PT: A recording of our event from today is now available to watch on demand. Mixed reality will unleash the creativity of every person and every organization on the planet. Our journey has been filled with key moments in time that have shown us what is  possible as we enter this next era of computing, the era of mixed reality. From  the introduction of Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully self-contained holographic computer in January 2015, to the welcoming of enterprise partners like  Ford Motor Company , the inspiration and creativity we have seen customers and modern workplaces continues to inspire us and drive us forward. Today, in San Francisco was another key moment in time. I had the privilege of sharing more about Microsoft’s mixed reality vison. We unveiled a Windows Mixed Realit...

The digital token market may be about to become a little bit more like Wall Street. tZero, a subsidiary of online retailer  Overstock.com Inc. , is joining with Argon Group and RenGen LLC to form a digital tokens exchange that Overstock Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne said will be the first in compliance with Securities Exchange Commission and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority guidelines. There’s a pipeline of about $2 billion in digital assets sold through initial coin offerings waiting to start trading, with the first tokens expected to list in the fourth quarter, the companies estimate. Byrne’s long-term bet is that all securities will eventually be tokenized and trade using blockchain technology. An exchange that falls under the SEC umbrella is a step towards that. “It’s a cleaner, more efficient, less expensive market,” Byrne said Tuesday at tZero’s offices in New York. “It will start with ICOs, but all the forces of economics will drive blue...

Key Points Launch begins on October 25th You MUST  register to participate  (opens 10/10/17) Targeting $24 million USD for 60% of token supply Fixed supply of 1 billion tokens No presale or discounts Every time you send a text message, post a photo, or send a snap, you are being tracked. Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are taking your data, studying you, and then profiting off of you by selling your personal information to other companies that want to advertise to you. Let’s change that. By building a tokenized social ecosystem on the Ethereum blockchain, applications can leverage tokens to incentivize meaningful interactions while users can utilize them to gain access to premium services. The Global Messaging Token (GMT) Global Messaging Token is an ERC20 utility token built on Ethereum. When applications build on the Mercury Protocol, they can charge GMT for premium services or award it to active users for positiv...

Want to be an expert in SEO but you don’t know where or how to start? Start simple with these hacks from SEO expert and author  Stephan Spencer  who co-presented with his daughter  Chloe Spencer  at BlogHer17 in the highly acclaimed session  SEO: Search Engine Algorithms . Stephan was kind enough to write this up for us so we could give more SEO information to the community at large. Take it away, Stephan! Maybe you thought you’ve done what is needed to SEO your website. Maybe you even did all the “easy” stuff: good keywords that suit your niche, an XML sitemap, optimized titles and copy. But nothing seems to let you get past your competitors in Google search results for your keywords of choice. You find yourself asking what to do. You don’t want to go through all the work again and wait for some unknown period of time to get results. In short, your time and resources are limited. Is it even possible to do a few tweaks on the existing blog you’ve cre...