LG’s New Phone Is The Antithesis Of The iPhone 7

LG just unveiled today in San Franciso its latest smartphone, the V20, and as usual, the South Korean tech company is zigging when everyone is zagging. It’s no secret that I am a fan of LG’s phones, and that I admire the company’s efforts to try new things. Not all of these have been well received — the G5’s modularity, for example, ended up bringing more build problems than actual practical use — but the ones that did work (such as quad HD display, fingerprint sensor on the back of the device, always on display, dual-cameras), other smartphone makers have followed.

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Messaging Hermine: Did We Learn From Hurricane Sandy?

Hermine is no longer with us but is certainly in the running for legendary social media status. The storm was tracked from the Atlantic Ocean as Invest 99L to landfalling Hurricane Hermine in the panhandle of Florida. Landfall was not the end of Hermine. The storm was downgraded to a Tropical Storm and eventually became a “post tropical cyclone.” Dennis Mersereau wrote an excellent piece in Forbes on this transition . Hermine, similar to Sandy a few years ago, transitioned from a “tropical” system deriving its energy from latent heat exchanges associated with evaporation of warm ocean water/condensation in thunderstorms to a storm system deriving most of its energy from air mass differences (it has fronts). On Tuesday September 6th the National Hurricane Center tweeted

All coastal tropical storm warnings discontinued for #Hermine. Last NHC advisory issued.

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Snapchat To Reach Nearly $1 Billion In Ad Sales Next Year, eMarketer Predicts

The report, published on Tuesday, predicts Snapchat’s ad business will generate $935.5 million in revenue in 2017. If realized, the sales would represent impressive growth for the young advertising business, which is still playing catch up with larger social networks like Facebook and Instagram in areas like ad targeting and measurement.

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