Roku announces 4K UHD Insignia Roku TVs coming to Best Buy Canada

Roku, the leader in streaming set-top boxes announed their first 4K UHD Insignia Roku TV models are now available in Canada exclusively from BestBuy.ca starting today and in Best Buy stores nationwide early next month.

As with all Roku TVs, the 4K UHD Insignia Roku TVs feature the award-winning Roku® operating system (Roku OS) that provides a simple smart TV experience with a personalized home screen and access to more than 1,700 streaming channels in Canada, including 4K UHD content from channels including Netflix, UltraFlix and YouTube.

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SEO tools for Android and iPhone

Is a smartphone enough for full online promotion of your website on the Internet? The truth is it's by far easier to write an novel on a phone than to fulfill full-scale SEO project for your website. However, according to WBC company it does not mean that the applications for your smartphone cannot offer anything interesting for SEO professionals.

Take for example the process of attracting new traffic. While some people consider it to be a complex process, which is based on continuous monitoring and analysis of competitors’ actions, an experienced web marketer will make various decisions in order for the website to take leading positions in search engines and keep them there. A phone is always at hand and, therefore, it is a versatile tool for regular monitoring of your website's performance. Also, you can monitor the actions your competitors take to get ahead of you. You, on the other hand, are enabled to save your time and come up with superior response strategies. In this article, we will offer you short reviews of 30 applications for SEO/PPC for your Android and iPhone.

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Google's Destinations makes trip planning more efficient for Canadians

Google' recently launched Destinations which makes planning for a vacation more efficient with Destinations on Google, which helps you discover and plan your next vacation, right from Google Search on your phone.

With more than half of Canadians saying they intend to vacation in 2016, we see many Canadians turning to mobile phones to sneak in vacation dreaming and planning here and there—in line at the coffee shop, or on your way to a friend. In fact, Canadians spend an average of 30 days planning their trips, which last 8.6 days on average.

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Facebook buys face-swapping app Masquerade

Snapchat isn't the only one with face-swapping capabilities. Facebook wants to offer the experience to its users so they've bought face-swapping and live filter app Masquerade. You probably know them more as MSQRD on both Android and iOS worlds. The standalone apps won't go away but what Facebook is looking to do is bring the feature into its app (we're guessing to Messenger).

According to Masquerade CEO Eugene Nevgen, the purchase will help them reach a wider audience. "Within Facebook, we're going to be able to reach people at a scale like never before." As of December 2015, there are over a billion daily active users on Facebook, so they do have the potential to reach a much larger audience.

Source: SlashGear