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Denny's finds there's still life in check-ins Mobile check-ins may be fading, but a study by Denny's suggests that marketing potential remains. The restaurant chain teamed with SessionM for a campaign that offered users the chance to download a game applications, enter a sweepstakes or view new menu items in exchange for checking-in. The result: Check-ins to Denny’s restaurants rose as much as 50%.

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TIME’s new cover: Never Offline. The Apple Watch is just the start. How wearable tech will change your life

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For all our talk about flex time and the freedom (and insanity) the Internet gives us to work at any time of the day, the traditional 9 to 5 workday, with a break at noon, is still going pretty strong.

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If you’re like most Americans, you suffer from the physical, emotional, and mental epidemic that the scientific community calls “sitting disease.”

But unlike many other illnesses that require a team of doctors, the cure is in our own hands—or feet, rather—and all we have to do is take a walk.

Last week we challenged readers, and ourselves, to restore some energy, focus, and creativity by taking either a 20-minute lunchtime walk or two 15-minute mid-morning and mid-afternoon walks each day.

Here’s what happened when we put this advice to the test.

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Ignoring an in-office conflict won’t make it go away. Here’s how to get things back on track.

You’ve had an interaction with a coworker during which you felt hurt, angry, misunderstood, and wronged—clearly it was an upsetting and difficult situation.

As you regroup, you review what happened, what you heard and experienced. Replaying the conversation is painful and you begin to plan what you’d like to say as a follow-up. Of course the other person is taking stock and regrouping too, and he or she likely has a very different take on what happened.

Revisiting and repairing a difficult interaction in the workplace is a complex process. Here’s how to get started:

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Since we launched Swarm two months ago, it’s been growing really fast. Currently, about 75% of people who check in now do so on Swarm. It’s been pretty intense keeping up with the growth (Foursquare didn’t have that many users for a few years), and you guys have sent a ton of feedback, both to [email protected]

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Amazon Fire Phone Review: Ambitious and Inventive, But a Version 1.0 Product

Even a company like Amazon can’t build a fully competitive phone on its first try.

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Test participants who had used Facebook for 20 minutes reported being in a worse mood than those in two other test groups (one browsed the Internet, one served as a control and did nothing); the Facebook participants also felt their time had been used in a less meaningful way.

Now go share this on Facebook.

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Twitter COO Ali Rowghani Is Leaving The Company

30 Years of Mobile

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Digital video will make up almost 12% of marketers' digital budgets this year, and integrating those videos with television budgets successfully will be vital, according to an eMarketer report. Marketers should use digital video to complement TV campaigns and increase brand presence, according to ad agency reps.

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Michael Chasen is pitching me his new app, SocialRadar, and it sounds a little creepy. “I want you to walk into a room and know how you’re connected to everyone in there, because all of that information is in the cloud,” he says. “If you go an event, it will tell you, ‘There’s 12 people here you know. Three are friends, four are coworkers, two are people from college, one is a guy you ran into on the street, and three are friends of friends. And one just got a promotion, and another one just got married.’”

It sounds creepy, but it also sounds supremely useful.