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The Future of Practical Quantum Computing

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If Quantum Computing sounds too technical then you are right, but you don't necessarily need to be an expert to know more about the amazing product that D Wave is providing. D Wave has been in the business of providing and delivering products using the fastest path. Think of the most difficult math problem you had trouble solving when you were in high school, remember the time it took you to solve that with the help of your friends and classmates, now multiply the complexity of that problem to a thousand or more, D Wave's quantum computing program solves that in a second. The future is fast approaching and along with it are the complex mathematical and analytic problems that require a fast solution and you don't want a pen and paper to solve that for you.

D Wave Going Public

D Wave is now at its final steps to bring Commercial Quantum Computing to Public Markets. This is expected to expand D-Wave's Quantum Computing Ability beyond what was originally thought possible. And with all these things in mind, the Market Valuation is expected to reach ~$1.6B.

The support it is getting from its current investors is more than enough to validate the future that this company from NEC and Bezos Expeditions as well as Goldman and Sachs.

D Wave Products

The company offers a wide variety of products and solutions ranging from Manufacturing and Logistics to Life Sciences.

In Logistics computing the most optimal time and route of your parcel considering hundreds and thousands of variables from time of day to vehicle volume, foot traffic and the likelihood of the recipient to be available based on the kind of neighborhood they live can definitely make your delivery services a lot more appealing to customers and saves the business a lot of time and resources.

In the Manufacturing industry scheduling your production based on your staff schedule delivery schedule and the machine rest requirements as well as your historical staff reliability can potentially increase efficiency based on how these things align.

Providing an effective finance solution is nothing but a set of computations based on historical data and probability based on previous data behavior. Fraud risks are identified by considering key factors from a certain set of data presented and what better way to analyze that than doing it in a blink of an eye. Nowadays getting the finance approval out is just as important as getting it out quicker than anyone else.

In this day and age, being right and accurate is still one of the most important aspects of problem-solving, however being the fastest while staying accurate and correct is becoming as important if not more.

If you give everyone enough time as most principles have been established everyone will eventually arrive at the same solution. How fast you get there ahead of everyone is what will take your business from being an average to a leader in the industry.

D Wave is definitely right in cusp of being successful and being part of that journey is definitely one that guarantee that you have a place somewhere in that future.

Business FirstInternet Today

What You Need To Know About ‘Made For Tik Tok’ Tip Videos

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Since its introduction, Tik Tok has been among the best performing apps in every section, from entertainment to business marketing; you can be sure to get what you want in Tik Tok if only you get the right audience and do the right thing. Many things had changed in the app, trying to make it perform well than when it was first introduced. Not long ago, TikTok launched a new feature on their app, which is meant to help marketers and other business operators understand the essential elements of the app as it enhances the creation of better TikTok campaigns.

The feature is 'Made for TikTok'; this is a new series that highlights the key and most essential lessons from professionals and experts. It will begin with an actual workout program series whose host is David Ma.

Apart from being a fun way to entertain yourself while looking into the camera, Tik Tok is an excellent opportunity for businesses to engage with users in a creative and cost-effective way. There are two things that appeal to different kinds of brands. One is to use one's own creativity by creating a unique story line and the other is to take advantage of existing content, such as popular characters (Disney, Star Wars), and assemble them into an entertaining video.

The New York Times’ food blog Little Otsu took the latter route and made a video using characters from Frozen and Spiderman. The result is hilarious and engaging, and it has attracted over 2 million views in the past week.

It is advisable to make your videos short and to the point. I do not think that brands will go well with long-form video on this platform. Therefore, you need to come up with ideas that can be expressed in 10 seconds or less.

The Purpose of TikTok Tips Videos

As the name suggests, they will be educative videos that will aim to engage their audience most in every available and reasonable way possible. For instance, the workout program will be a video that incorporates various workout series clips; it considers the viewer's interest and therefore ensures they are engaged through comments, co-creation, subcultures, and other many ways. Each of the mentioned elements can be easily viewed in isolation on TikTok for Business Profile as it aims at promoting what you do.

You should remember that these videos are not in-depth; however, they are made to provide the required information that will enable people to understand TikTok more broadly. This aspect is with the intention of better alignment of content so that usage behaviors and shifts can be enhanced.

Importance of using TikTok for Business Ad Campaigns

TikTok has almost a billion users globally; many brands seek to meet their customers and potential buyers. Therefore, 'Made for TikTok' through the TikTok app can make it easy for these businesses to meet the people they need to flourish.

Using TikTok for ad campaigns for a business can be the best idea as it is the first and quickest platform that attracts young consumers who are crucial to the development and growth of a business. Getting the significant benefit by attracting many consumers will sustain businesses for a long; for instance, if you compare a business that advertises with TikTok with the one that advertises with other platforms, the one for TikTok must be attracting a large number of customers.

As the second largest consumer market, there are many opportunities for companies to get creative. TikTok has become a global phenomenon for this. This app allows people to connect with others by creating video stories. There are different creative tools that help anyone to create their videos, which can then be shared on other social media platforms.

This is the reason why many brands are interested in using this app to reach their customers. For example, Ohio State Football announces their game by making tips videos. This way they can share their game information to all their fans via the mobile phone app.

This mobile app is very easy to use by both businesses and individuals. As well as many other social media sites, it helps people gain more followers and gain more brand awareness.

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The Tiktok Shopify Partnership In Focus

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The recent announcement of the Tiktok Shopify partnership marks TikTok's continued investment in social commerce. The partnership aims to help Shopify merchants, of which there are over one million, engage with TikTok's youthful audience and generate sales revenue. Ultimately, the venture will grow to encompass additional in app shopping elements too.

Early Days of Tiktok

In the past, TikTok gained notoriety for being a video platform that offered memes and entertainment. Members were not able to purchase items directly on the platform, even though it featured influencers who promoted cosmetics, clothes and domestic products. Rather, members were only able to purchase items on TikTok through adverts on the platform.

Shopify Partnership

This new arrangement permits merchants on Shopify to set up, optimize and run their TikTok advertising campaigns from Shopify's dashboard directly. To do this, they have to install the newly released channel app from TikTok that is available from Shopify's app store. After installation, merchants can take advantage of the functions offered on the 'TikTok For Business' Ads Manager.

Merchants on Shopify have come to realize the importance of discoverability, with social commerce offering the chance for independent companies to boost their brand awareness. The 2021 report from Shopify about the future of commerce revealed that fifty-four percent of younger shoppers across the world find brands through social networks. In addition, Shopify has joined forces with TikTok to introduce product links. Merchants on Shopify will use these links as product tags on TikTok, to send shoppers straight to their online stores from organic posts. Shoppers can opt to purchase from the merchants' stores directly, or click tagged products in merchants' TikTok posts.

Once merchants have set up the one click pixel in their 'TikTok For Business' account, they can activate in feed shoppable video adverts. To create these adverts, merchants simply choose the products they want to promote using templates that are designed specifically for ecommerce. These ad templates feature existing videos or imagery, so the TikTok channel is suitable for merchants of all sizes. To launch their joint venture, TikTok is offering merchants a $300 voucher to spend on their first advertising campaign.

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TikTok Competitor: Taking A Look At TikTok And Its Closest Rival (Instagram Reel)

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In today's world of social media platforms, TikTok stands tall at the top of the pile. Formerly known as musical.ly, TikTok is as successful as it is for a number of reasons. For starters, the social media platform in its current form fills a void that its predecessors like Vine had left in the social media space. It is, therefore, not difficult to see why the social media app has taken off in popularity the way that it had.

Importantly, it does not hurt that the current TikTok algorithm within the app and the ability to share videos to other major platforms seem to support the viral reach of videos. Even TikTok users that are numbered among "the least of these" will post a video that will get likes, views, comments, and good support. Some go on to be viral, reaching far beyond the app and become Internet phenomenons. Add to that the fact that the tag of the person whose video is being shared remains throughout the duration of the video, and you get users who are eager to use the platform and grow their profiles in the social media space.

A Closer Look At TikTok Competitor Instagram Reels

In many ways (before Facebook bought the app), Instagram had a much freer algorithm where hashtags yielded a greater reach for the content posted by users and the chances of posting viral content were much higher. However, that has significantly changed. As such, other social media apps like TikTok have been allowed to take up space. The competition has forced Instagram to evolve and implement new features. The most recent feature in this evolution is the addition of Reels which are very TikTokesque in how it functions.

Some popular features that IG Reels and TikTok share include stitching together shorter videos that combine to make one video that is designed to promote a particular idea, point, or just for fun. The use of filters, as well as the addition of music, text, voice alterations, and other features, are among the TikTok adaptations used on IG Reels.

It is true that IG Instagram has done well through Reels to ensure that they don't lose a significant portion of their user-base to TikTok by now offering TikTok's appeal right there in the IG app. However, it is hardly likely that this will hurt TikTok in a similar manner that IG Stories arguably hurt Snapchat. For starters, TikTok by design (algorithm and sharability features) plays to the desire for virality that brands, influencers, and other users are looking for with their digital brands.

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Coinmama The Global Cryptocurrency Broker

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Coinmama is a global cryptocurrency broker that was launched way back in 2013. This exchange service is owned by New Bit Ventures Limited, who have their headquarters in Israel. Although Coinmama is deemed an exchange service, users are limited to just buying specific cryptocurrencies, as opposed to trading them. Presently, the only cryptos available to buy on Coinmama are Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Advantages

The advantage of using Coinmama is that it’s available in a large number of countries. In fact, it supports the widest range of nations; almost 200. These include countries like Algeria, Belgium, Kenya, Thailand, UAE, just to name a few. The only countries that aren’t supported are those that have been sanctioned. Coinmama also supports states in the U.S. including Colorado, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas, etc. Coinmama also allows buying cryptocurrency with credit cards and offers some of the highest limits among brokers that accept credit cards. You are able to buy up to $5000 worth of Bitcoin in a day and up to $30,000 per month.

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Our List Of The Best Bitcoin Mining Calculators

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Bitcoin exploded in popularity in 2018, and many websites started to launch and offer tools. This led to the popularity of Bitcoin mining calculators. With that said, we've researched calculators and have created a short list of the best ones.

Calculators For Beginners
When you're mining Bitcoins, but you're a newbie, then things can become overwhelming very fast. There is a lot of info out there and many factors that play a role in the profitability of mining. Some calculators are simpler than others, and this includes:

CryptoCompare- When you search Google for Bitcoin Mining Calculator, the first one that pops up is this one. There's a reason why, and that's because you can customize the hash-power, cost per KWh and power consumption, as well as the mining pool fee. You can estimate what your yearly income will be, as well as monthly, weekly or even daily. It doesn't take into account potential difficulty changes that may occur in the future, so it may provide you with over-estimates of profits.

Anything Crypto- We have a page dedicated to showing you profitability of different ASIC miners. This includes skeptical and optimistic predictions, and we take difficulty changes and price changes into consideration.

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Best Places To Get Startup Funding Online

Crowdfunding

You probably have seen the television show Shark Tank and heard of the site Kickstarter, places you can get your product and startup funded. The crowdfunding industry has taken off in the US with entrepreneurs getting tens of thousands of dollars in funding to millions of dollars. There are hundreds of crowdfunding sites online to get your startup funding, but only a few have a track record of success and the community to fund your product or project. If you money is stopping you from starting your company, look to these startup funding sources.

The collaborative economy has been made possible by the Internet and has boomed in recent years. In 2012 the industry funded $2.7 billion in projects and $5.1 billion in 2013. The Jobs Act of 2012 kicked off the industry so growth has continued every year since for the young market. As an investor in a crowdfunded startup you get either a share of ownership in the company, rewards, products, or perks. Businesses and individuals get to step all the overhead involved in bank financing or Venture Capital.

Sites to Choose From:

Kickstarter

Kickstarter allows for donation based funding on creative projects. This site is not for charities or businesses, its for creative projects like art, films, designs or a music album. The site has helped get 143,000 projects off the ground. You have to pay a fee to Kickstarter if you get funded in addition to a processing fee. And you only have a certain period of time to get your funded. Make sure your submission is good as not all projects make it past the approval process.

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H&R Block Debuts Tax Reform Checkup

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There have been many changes in the tax reforms. IRS is encouraging everyone to do a quick tax reform checkup. That's why H&R is in the forefront by offering a free tax reform "Checkup service." It's an excellent program that helps you to track whether your tax obligations are smaller or bigger than usual. This will help taxpayers to change their financial or family situations in the next tax season.

There is a lot to do much ground to cover by taxpayers. The current reforms drastically decreased their taxes while increasing their paychecks. It requires taxpayers to check and fix their W4 forms.

A single taxpayer with one withholding allowance, with no children and a salary of $35000 was entitled to a $600  in refunds in 2017 returns. Changes in withholding tables in February saw a paycheck increase of 32$ in March. However, by next year, April the refunds will be 600$.

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Square Acquired Weebly: What Does It Mean For Other Website Builders?

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Weebly has a substantial amount of subscribers at 625,000. Merchant payment processor Square acquired Weebly for $365 million. Square intends on global expansion via this acquisition. A great portion of Weebly users lie outside of the United States, allowing Square to address a bigger audience of entrepreneurs. Revenues are expected to rise from $744 MM to $764 MM. The team members are also included in the merger. Most of the team from Weebly will be joining forces with the Square team.

The merger occurred during late April 2018. The merger is slated to help businesses all over the world. The services of both companies will line up well together. The CFO of Square stated that she feels both companies are culturally aligned. Backers of the acquisition include Floodgate, Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Felicis Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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Rupert Murdoch Asking For Financial Help From Facebook

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The executive chairman for News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, is asking for Facebook, Twitter, and even Google to subsidize the news websites that show up on people's newsfeeds. Essentially, Murdoch wants someone to pay him for the news that his company, and others like his, would put out on people's feeds.

This change comes right after the announcement of Facebook's updated newsfeed policies that prioritize friends and family first over the likes of news sites and advertisement pages.

This effectively puts news corporations at an extreme disadvantage for having their news seen at all. As anticipated, Wall Street did not take well to the news at all. They expect users will spend less money overall making their market shares decrease over time.

Newsfeed Chief for Facebook, Adam Mosseri, did not really have much to offer in the way of a compromising solution. He was quoted in the press announcement as telling news and advertisement companies to "experiment" and see what "content gets more likes." A very shunted answer when announcing that they are basically cutting off the toes of news companies.

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