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Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during our 9th Annual Crunchies awards show at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Tonight’s show is hosted by comedian Chelsea Peretti. Read More... →

It’s a big week for San Francisco. Yesterday, the city played host to the Super Bowl and tonight, we are celebrating the startup ecosystem with our 9th Annual Crunchies award show in the swanky WSF War Memorial Opera House. You can guess which one of those I’m more excited about. Tonight’s show will be hosted by comedian Chelsea Peretti, and the awards will be presented by… Read More... →

With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations of responsiveness, organizations of all types are focused on building “web-scale” systems. Initially built by companies such as Facebook and Google because their sheer size demanded it, web-scale technology has become the mantra for… Read More... →

There’s a big shuffle happening at Zenefits today — with Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad exiting the company and COO David Sacks taking over. Conrad is also stepping down as a director of the company. In an email to employees, Sacks noted that compliance issues that have plagued the company contributed to Conrad’s exit. Zenefits has hit significant turbulence, including… Read More... →

Oculus VR has one of its biggest brains working on a feature that could make mobile virtual reality even more impressive than the Rift or HTC Vive. John Carmack, chief technology officer at Oculus, revealed in a tweet today that he is spending the majority of his time working on the problem of positional tracking […]... →

With a flurry of exits by mobile Internet companies in Q4 2015, and a slowdown in venture capital investing behind us, now may be the time to look in the rearview mirror. Did we just pass the top of the market? Going forward, will it be all downhill for the values of these companies? According to Digi-Capital, a tech M&A adviser, 102 mobile Internet […]... →

Parker Conrad, cofounder and chief executive of human resources and insurance software startup Zenefits, ha stepped down from the top position at the company. David Sacks, the company’s chief operating officer and formerly cofounder and chief executive of Yammer, is taking over as the Zenefits’ new chief executive. A company spokesperson sent over a press […]... →

Posted by MiriamEllis St. Valentine’s Day is on the way, and I’ve been thinking about love and loyalty as they apply in the local business world. It’s been estimated that it costs 7x more to acquire a customer than to retain one; in my city, most of the major chains offer some type of traditional customer loyalty program. Most rely on a points-based system or an initial sign-up investment to receive benefits, but I wondered about Main Street. I picked 15 locally owned businesses at random to see if they had... →

GUEST: By now, anyone in product or marketing knows what A/B testing is. What we don’t know, or at least won’t admit, is that too many A/B tests yield nothing. Too often they measure meaningless variants, produce inconclusive results, and nothing comes from them. Of course, some A/B tests yield real, meaningful, actionable results. Those are […]... →

Verizon Communications Inc has given Tim Armstrong, chief executive officer of its AOL unit, a leading role in exploring a possible bid for Yahoo Inc’s assets, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the situation. Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, hasn’t hired bankers to conduct an offer and there have been no formal […]... →

One of the best games of the year so far comes out tomorrow, and you cannot buy it in a store or get it on a disc. But that doesn’t mean that those of you who love physical goods have to go completely without. Firewatch, a mystery game for PlayStation 4 and PC (read our […]... →

Today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a new 360-degree video, giving you a virtual tour of the Martian surface. The video was created by stitching together images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on December 18th, 2015. The scene takes place at Namib Dune with a view of Mount Sharp on the horizon. Curiosity’s Mast Camera took the images on the 1,197th sol (a Martian… Read More... →

CBS reported earlier this morning that its live stream of Super Bowl 50 broke all prior streaming records for the big game. Now the network has released numbers to back up that claim: according to an announcement released this afternoon, 3.96 million unique viewers tuned in to watch the Broncos versus the Panthers across laptops, desktops, tablets, connected TV devices and mobile phones.… Read More... →

Apple today announced that it has open-sourced benchmarking tools for measuring performance of code written in its Swift programming language. The toolset is available now on GitHub under an open-source Apache license, like the rest of Swift. “The suite contains source code for benchmarks, libraries, and utilities designed to help track Swift performance and catch […]... →

Last Friday, the Oslo stock exchange decided to halt trading in Opera Software’s shares after rumors of a potential takeover by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 appeared in a Norwegian newspaper. Trading in Opera shares is still suspended today (which is a pretty unusual move) and now Opera itself is adding fire to the takeover rumors by postponing its planned earnings call from… Read More... →

Data is hot right now. We generate tons of it, but most of it sits there, latent, unused and useless. This is particularly pronounced when it comes to health and fitness data, where we strap on our fitness trackers and expect the pounds to melt away with each step passively logged. But we haven’t seen a dramatic improvement in our nation’s health with the emergence of the… Read More... →

A number of technology companies took to the airwaves during last night’s Super Bowl 50 broadcast to make their names – and brands – better known among a mainstream audience. However, according to new data out today from TiVo, which historically tracks viewer engagement with Super Bowl ads across its network, the only tech company to make into the list of the top 10 Super… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

…and Social Media Managers everywhere rejoice! Read More... →