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GUEST: Spoiler alert for early stage growth companies: If you do not have a business plan that will allow you to reach profitability/scalability with current capital, then get ready for the Mike Tyson punch in the face that is coming in 2016 Mike Tyson’s quote, “Everyone Has a Plan Until They Are Punched in the Face,” […]... →

Welcome to the next generation of broadcasting. New York-based Anchor, which launched today for iOS, is offering a new, easier way to record and transmit interactive audio content. The company’s two co-founders Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, who previously worked at the photo-editing toolkit developer Aviary, hatched their new company over a shared love of radio. And have even… Read More... →

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting snarky. And it’s not even April Fool’s Day. In conjunction with the launch last night of the free Lumberyard game engine and the GameLift game backend service, AWS updated its Service Terms — the document that spells out how people can use its tools — […]... →

In what is probably one of the most unique studies involving iBeacons, music, and sex anyone has ever done, a researcher (in connection with Apple Music and Sonos) has found that music in the home increases togetherness, closer “proximity,” and leads to 67% more sex worldwide. Now before you say “Hey, this is just Apple and Sonos trying to sell us product” understand… Read More... →

GUEST: This January, five global tech startups raised a total of $858 million to become the latest members of the Unicorn Club. The one making the biggest leap was Shanghai-based Dada ($1 billion valuation), which raised $300 million in Series D financing from DST Global, Sequoia Capital, and other sources. Dada, a sort of Uber for […]... →

GUEST: Nowait CEO Ware Sykes joins VB analyst Jon Cifuentes, TaskEasy CEO Ken Davis, and Upstart CMO Mike Osborn in a not-to-be-missed webinar on making data work. Whether you’re a startup or legacy brand, it’s not the size of your data stockpile that matters — it’s how you use it. Register here for free. “In God we trust; all others […]... →

Microsoft today confirmed that it did in fact acquire Groove music app that was available on iOS from the startup Zikera. The news comes several months after Microsoft somewhat mysteriously changed the name of the Xbox Music app to Groove. “Microsoft acquired Zikera’s Groove music app. We have nothing more to share,” a Microsoft spokesperson […]... →

Posted by NickRebuildNationTo help a dental client with 11 locations better compete in multiple locales, we created “City Service Pages” (CSPs) for two of their locations. Completely distinct from the existing service pages, these CSPs are engineered to drive niche traffic from local users by utilizing more specific long-tail searches. Instead of simply listing the services offered, as is often done on location-based landing pages, we were able to optimize individual landing pages based on their targeted co... →

The 9th Annual Crunchies took place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco last night. Host Chelsea Peretti had us laughing before our presenters came on stage to announce the winners of this year’s Crunchies. Follow along for some of the highlights of the show, including an operatic musical number, our favorite speeches and some of your social media posts. Read More... →

The Wii U and 3DS are limping to the end of their console lives, and publisher Nintendo knows it. President Tatsumi Kimishima minimized the importance of both of these aging systems when an investor asked him how his gaming company would return to “Nintendo-like profits.” Instead, the executive pointed to two businesses that have generated zero dollars […]... →

SolarCity, which is down more than 50 percent over the past year, just released its Q4 2015 earnings. The market has reacted negatively, with the stock trading down about 30 percent after-hours at a price of around $17.50 per-share. While Q4 revenue of $115M and loss of $2.37 per share beat estimates of $111M in revenue and a loss of $2.59 per share, the company’s Q1 2016 forecast… Read More... →

Politwoops, a service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials accountable for the statements they make on social media, is now back online in the U.S. The restoration of the service, announced today by the Sunlight Foundation, follows Twitter’s earlier decision to restore Politwoops’ access to its API after previously having… Read More... →

Twenty-First Century Fox, which invested $160M in DraftKings over the summer, has written down the investment by about 60 percent, according to its 10-Q filed today. Specifically, Fox noted that “based on information concerning DraftKings’ current valuation in a recent financing transaction, the Company determined that a portion of its investment in DraftKings was impaired and… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Mobile Algorithm Tests Underway...... →

It’s no secret that open-source technology — once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters — has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are… Read More... →

Last week, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web. Infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay adopted it on Friday, and now on Tuesday, Kickass Torrents has followed suit. Torrents Time, which recently received a cease and desist letter, provides an embedded torrent client that lets users […]... →

Fewer children are getting their first introduction to video games through Nintendo devices, and the publisher is turning to some interesting alternatives to fight that trend. Nintendo is preparing to release its first smartphone app next month as part of a major effort to increase its revenues and keep its properties in front of a wider audience, […]... →

Qapital, the financial management service integrated with most banks, is launching its Android app today. First available only in iOS, the new service offers the same breadth of functionality to new Android customers which comprise the bulk of mobile phone users in the world., For investors and boosters like Dan Ariely, the launch of the new Android service is a way to expand… Read More... →

Robots need excitement. If their lives don’t provide instead they’ll incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. But robots also need trash. That’s why the Trashbot is so cool. This robotic trash can will automatically sort all of your garbage, pitching metals into one can and non-recyclables into another. The project is still in its relative infancy but it’s… Read More... →

Tesla has yet to unveil the Model 3, but the company just confirmed that it will be available starting at $35,000. The Model 3 has long been rumored to cost about this price, and today, Bloomberg is quoting a Tesla spokesperson who confirmed the starting price. At that price, the car will retail at a price point slightly higher than the average car sells for in the States. It will retail… Read More... →