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6 Best Practices on Building a Winning App Like PokéMon GO

  It’s an APP world! Do you have many ideas to start the next big app but not sure where to start? Have you wondered what are the best practices you could follow to build a winning app? You may be wondering, what goes into the recipe to cook up an app such as Pokémon Go that took the world by storm? What were the ingredients that fueled its success? Do you need to raise $30 million from Google, Nintendo and Pokémon in order to create a successful app that is known to generate upwards of $2 million in daily revenues? While we know that John Hanke, Pokémon Go’s creator, took a big bet and it more than paid off, we’d like to know what are the ingredients that made this app such an instant success. What causes people to wander around aimlessly glued to their mobile phones and then

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WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” Update

August WordPress Update: Version 4.6 “Pepper” WordPress 4.6, aka “Pepper” named after jazz legend Pepper Adams, was just released to the public. The second major release of the year, it brings some exciting new improvements enhancing performance and bringing added stability. We strongly recommend that you update your site(s) immediately. Our developers have checked it out and compiled some of the highlights which you can expect from WordPress 4.6: NEW NATIVE SYSTEM FONTS WordPress 4.6 is now using the same font as your device. This will make WordPress load faster and improve overall performance. This could make you feel like your device and WordPress are one. EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS Improvements in 4.6 becomes even smarter. WordPress will now let you know if you’ve added a broken link to your post. And if you lost your internet connection while writing, the Improved AutoSave saves your drafts to your browser. So when you return to edit, WordPress will

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Business Apps

How to Build a Winning App like POKEMON GO!

  You’ve probably already heard all the hype around Pokémon GO. It’s literally everywhere! Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and that’s just online. Turn off the computer, they are even talking about it on TV. You go outside to a park, grocery store or any public place, there’s probably someone poking around an artifact trying to find and catch a Pokémon. Pokémon GO is likely the biggest augmented reality app to date that captures that childhood nostalgia in a virtual world. But did you know that Pokémon GO’s target market aren’t just for Pokémon fans? Their marketing campaign attracted a much more extensive audience than the adults that played Pokémon decades ago as children. Pokémon Go players traverse their surroundings in search of any nearby Pokémon, they also get to make PokéStops which are typically easily identifiable landmarks, such as public art installations, nearby stores, and restaurants. Training, capturing and defending

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Digital Marketing

WordPress Update: Version 4.5.3 Security Release

WordPress Update: Version 4.5.3 Security Release WordPress 4.5.3 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions. WordPress strongly recommends that we update your sites immediately. Regarding this latest update: The update patches more than two dozen vulnerabilities, including 17 bugs introduced in the last three releases, all published this year. The patch covered many of the vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely and allow an attacker full control of any website running on WordPress. The platform continues to focus on security; already this year WordPress has updated a handful of times with sizable security updates and in April, turned on free encryption for custom domains hosted on WordPress. The latest update patches vulnerabilities affecting versions 4.5.2 and earlier. The update addressed a redirect bypass vulnerability in WordPress customizer API, a framework used by developers to preview live changes to WordPress themes. Two separate cross-site scripting vulnerabilities delivered

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7 Major Online Trends in 2016

Online marketing competition has drastically increased over the course of the past few years and 2016 will have it increase even more. AZENCE is ready and willing to help your business reach its competency! Here are the Top 7 online trends that will dominate this year. 1. Video Ads will DOMINATE – Video ads are always superb. AZENCE can create cartoon animations, whiteboard doodle and kinetic typography for your business! Did you know? Videos increase people’s understanding of our product or service by 74%. 2. APP usage will EXPLODE – Nowadays, everyone’s into mobile, simply because apps can do everything that websites can, except in a more intuitive, convenient and accessible ways. AZENCE can help you create your own Android and iOS applications and reach your audience via mobile! 3. Mobile will Dominate over Desktops – Last year was a big year for mobile—not only did Google announce that mobile traffic finally

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