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Three dating apps have been removed from Apple and Google stores following a warning from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that the apps "allow adults to find and communicate with children." The removals came at the weekend, after the FTC had sent a stern warning to Wildec, the Ukraine-based developer of FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U, telling them that "despite a statement in each app's Privacy Policy that users under 13 years of age are not allowed to use the apps, users who indicate they are under 13 are not prevented from accessing and using the apps or being visible to other users." The apps store users' ages and even enable real-time location data, and so "sexual predators can search by age and location to identify children nearby." The FTC tested one of the apps and found that "FTC staff was able to search for other users by age and location to find users near our location who indicated that they were as young as 12 years old."...

F acebook has filed a lawsuit in the US against a New Zealand-based company and three individuals that it says have been selling 'fake likes' on Instagram. Through websites such as SocialEnvy.co, IGFamous.net and Likesocial.co, says Facebook, Social Media Series Limited and its directors made more than $9.4 million by selling fake engagement to Instagram users. The three directors of the company have been named locally as Arend Alexander Hubert Nollen, Leon Francis Hedges and David James Pekka Pasanen. Facebook says it sent cease-and-desist letters to two of the company's directors in July and December last year. "We previously suspended accounts associated with the defendants and formally warned them in writing that they were in violation of our Terms of Use, however their activity persisted," says Jessica Romero, Facebook's director of platform enforcement and litigation. Read more at Forbes

I ntel's consternation with its 10nm manufacturing process is well documented but on its Q1 earnings call yesterday, the Santa Clara chip giant painted a more positive picture on the ramp-up of its forthcoming Ice Lake processor for mobile client systems, dubbed Ice Lake-U. While many media outlets have been reporting that Intel's 10nm product wouldn't ship in meaningful volume this year, Intel CEO Bob Swan offered commentary that production output of Ice Lake has nearly doubled in the past few months. Swan noted specifically, “on the process technology front, our teams executed well in Q1 and our velocity is increasing. We remain on track to have volume client systems on shelves for the holiday selling season. And over the past 4 months, the organization drove a nearly 2X improvement in the rate at which 10nm products move through our factories.” Beyond this, I would offer that Intel is in the process of qualifying the product with major system OEMs here in Q2, with pr...

T his week was both fantastic and terrible for Facebook. Its latest earnings report shows the company has become an unstoppable force whose user growth and profits are immune to its never-ending parade of privacy and security breaches. Even the FCC appears willing to back down from its confrontation with the company and slap it with a fine that amounts to just a tiny fraction of its quarterly profit, making even legal violations nothing more than the cost of doing business. At the same time, Facebook confronts newly emboldened regulators around the world all clamoring for their own chance to bring the world’s most powerful gatekeeper to heel. The only problem is that Facebook may already be unstoppable. Facebook has much to cheer about. As has become increasingly clear, the public no longer seems to care about their digital privacy or security. Despite breach after breach after breach after breach, users aren’t leaving and aren’t demanding any changes to the company’s business ...

O n the heels of its release of k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution designed for the edge, Rancher Labs has announced an accompanying operating system called k3OS. The k3OS preview release is available with support for x86 and ARM64. With k3OS, Kubernetes cluster configuration and the underlying OS configuration are defined with the same declarative syntax as other Kubernetes resources, meaning both can be managed together. Rancher has been working with a number of customers including wind turbine company Goldwind Smart Energy on using Kubernetes in resource-constrained environments. Read more at Rancher

BambooHR is an online human resources (HR) software service that offers an end-to-end solution for your workforce management. It is currently the highest rated HR solution in FinancesOnline.com review base. It also won their Best HR Management Software Award for 2018 as well as the Expert’s Choice Award for 2018. The software provides small and growing companies with a user-friendly platform where they can migrate data from complex spreadsheets to a modern Human Resource Information System (HRIS) that fits their specific requirements. If you want to see the system in action you can easily schedule a live demo at Financesonline.com website Read full review at FinancesOnline.com There is also recent review of BambooHR  at PCMag.com

Sisense is a business intelligence platform that lets you join, analyze, and picture out information they require to make better and more intelligent business decisions and craft out workable plans and strategies. It is highly flexible for any business size, ranging from startups and developing enterprises to Fortune 500 giants including Sony, ESPN, Comcast, and NASA. With Sisense, you can unify all your data into visually appealing dashboards via a drag and drop interface. Sisense basically allows you to turn data into highly valuable insights and then share them with colleagues, business partners, and clients via interactive dashboards. Read full review of Sisense at FinancesOnline

FreshBooks is the current holder of FinancesOnline’s Best Accounting Software Award for 2018 and has the highest customer satisfaction rates of all similar apps in this category. As you will find out in this review, there is a long list of reasons why our experts considered FreshBooks for these prestigious acknowledgments. Freshbooks is popular among businesses for streamlining client invoicing and time tracking processes. Built with small and growing businesses in mind, the software packs a robust set of features that are offered in flexible, SMB-friendly pricing plans. In fact, freelancers who want to optimize their sales cycle and collection can easily deploy the software. This gives them the ability to customize the branding of their financial documents by modifying its design, colors, and logo to be more professional. FreshBooks is a reliable and fast accounting suite that turns otherwise complex financial management into an enjoyable experience. Creating professional-lookin...

Wrike is an award-winning software for online project management that was designed with a single goal: to improve the speed and efficiency of work in both co-located and distributed groups. It is a winner of FinancesOnline Best Project Management Software Award for 2018. The flexibility provided by Wrike enables multifunctional groups to collaborate and get things done effectively from a single location. The service allows you to schedule, prioritize, discuss, and keep track of both work and progress in real time — all with just a few clicks of the mouse. Wrike has been the project management software of choice for many Fortune 500 companies, such as, Google, Stanford University, Adobe, HTC, and EA Sports to mention a few. Read Full review

What is Freshdesk? Freshdesk is a cloud-hosted help desk solution equipped with best-in-class features for delivering quality customer support. It won FinancesOnline Best Help Desk Software Award for 2017 as well as the Supreme Software Award for the same year and is currently no. 1 solution in our help desk software category outperforming such tools as Zendesk and Desk.com. Freshdesk also offers a great free trial plan that allows you to test all key features of the service. You can easily get Freshdesk free trial here. The software is designed to meet demands of both small businesses and large companies. With it, users can broaden their reach through launch multi-channel support, streamline operations using automation tools, increase productivity through gamification, as well as reinforce customer support efforts using self-service portals. Freshdesk has integrated Live Chat, Phone Support, and Game Mechanics. It also works with legacy productivity tools and your CRM when yo...

Best Bookkeeping Apps for Small Business Owners QuickBooks Online:  Best for Reporting Wave:  Best Free Bookkeeping App Bill.com:  Best for Automating Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable QuickBooks Self-Employed:  Best for Freelancers and Contractors Bench:  Best for Full-Service Bookkeeping Expensify:  Best for Handling Expense Reports Finagraph:  Best for Financial Planning Hubdoc:  Best for Document Storage In the world of  small business accounting , bookkeeping apps can change how you do business. As a small business, you don’t have a big accounting or bookkeeping department to balance your books and help with financial planning. This is where bookkeeping apps can help. Read more at  fundera.com

Probably the most important feature of Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) is the fact that is ships with the latest Linux 5.0 kernel series, which enables support for recent hardware components like AMD Radeon RX Vega M GPUs, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, as well as Intel Cannon Lake graphics. Linux kernel 5.0 also adds significant USB 3.2 and Type-C, and power-savings improvements, along with KVM support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, support for the P-State driver for Skylake X servers, support for memory protection keys on POWER architectures, and zcrypt support on IBM Z systems. Another key feature of the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) release is the latest GNOME 3.32 desktop environment, which brings smoother startup animations, higher frame rates, reduced CPU and GPU load, fractional scaling for HiDPI/4K screens in both X.Org Server and Wayland sessions, as well as desktop integrated with VMWare for bi-directional clipboard and file sharing. Read more...

Contributing Editor  JR Raphael  at   Computerworld magazine picked essential organizing apps in android. His list consists of 8 apps: Trello - Organize your projects. The app breaks your business down into a series of boards. Within each board, you create a series of lists. And within each list, you add any number of cards — individual items that contain text, photos, files, and so on. You can label and color-code cards and assign due dates, and you (and anyone else you invite) can comment on cards to add in thoughts and updates. Any.Do - Organize your to-do lists. Any.do's main screen automatically separates your tasks into four default sections: "Today," "Tomorrow," "Upcoming," and "Someday" (though you also have the ability to create your own custom categories). You can drag and drop tasks between the lists and attach notes, files, recorded audio, and reminders to any items. You can even view and manage your device's native ca...

T here is a problem of fake reviews on Amazon. You do not need to be a cyberspace guru or security specialist to even notice this problem. Just go Amazon and look through products of not very well known or unknown brands and you will see here and there weird pattern. Some products may have 50 reviews with half of them being  5-star reviews posted in a row in a few days. " Amazon's problem with fake reviews shows no signs of abating, with an investigation by the Which? consumer group revealing a flood of fake five-star reviews for tech products. 'Unknown' brands of headphones, dashcams, fitness trackers and smart watches are receiving thousands of reviews; as they're unverified, there's no evidence that the reviewer has even bought or used the product. These brands include  ITSHINY, Vogek and Aitalk. When Which? searched for headphones, all the products on the first page of results were from unknown brands and almost nine in 10 of more than 12,000 review...

B erlin, April 18, 2019 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.2.3, the third bug and regression fixing release of the LibreOffice 6.2 family, targeted at tech-savvy individuals: early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users. LibreOffice’s end users are helped by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available. LibreOffice users are invited to join the community at https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/, to improve LibreOffice by contributing back in one of the following areas: development, documentation, infrastructure, localization, quality assurance, design or marketing. LibreOffice 6.2.3 provides over 90 bug and regression fixes over the previous version, contributed by a thriving community of developers, which are described in the change log pages: https://wiki.doc...