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Posted by MrADThomsonWhile the digital marketing agency I work for, Three Deep, doesn’t get a lot of business through local searches, people do have to find their way to our office from time to time. After recently moving our office across downtown St. Paul, we took the opportunity to clean up our messy local SEO footprint. Having an up-to-date local footprint may help us rank for general terms. Most importantly, it will provide accurate results and directions to those searching for us by name.In this artic... →

Венчурный фонд Ильи Голубовича I2BF Global Ventures инвестировал в израильский стартап Utilight, который использует лазерную технологию бесконтактной 3D-печати для производства печатной электроники, в том числе солнечных батарей. Utilight привлек $2,9 млн в раунде А. В сделке также приняли участие SCI Advanced Technology Fund, группа бизнес-ангелов из Азии, а также существующие инвесторы — Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC), Waarde Capital. Также компания получила $3 млн в виде гранта от офиса Руководителя... →

500 Startups is continuing its efforts to tap on Asia’s fast-growing startup scene after the U.S.-headquartered VC firm announced a $10 million fund in Vietnam. Read More... →

A day after Finnish oline bank Holvi got acquired by BBVA, here comes yet more consolidation in Europe’s fintech landscape. Today, Atom Bank — a still stealth, online-only startup, coincidentally also backed by BBVA — announced its first acquisition: Grasp, a design and development house based out of the north of England. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, an Atom… Read More... →

Кросплатформенный рекламно-аналитический сервис Facebook Atlas ввел функцию Offline Actions, которая позволит маркетологам загружать данные о покупках с мест продаж и анализировать их в контексте рекламных кампаний.... →

Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though I understand the acquisition includes ParcelBright’s tech and customer base. Meanwhile, founders Daniel Lipinski and Carlos Vilhena will stay involved in the form… Read More... →

О трендах в мире бизнеса и технологий на цифрах... →

If you’re on the hunt for an easy way to convert your online documents to an ebook-friendly format, Google has quietly announced that it will now let you save your documents directly to the .epub (EPUB) format. First released in 2007, EPUB has emerged as the most broadly supported file format for ebooks, and as […]... →

Google is currently talking with several Indian telecoms to help launch Project Loon, which uses balloons instead of cellular towers to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas. According to an article in the Economic Times, the company is in discussions with BSNL and other companies to pilot Project Loon in India. Read More... →

Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that manages hugely popular payments service Alipay, is raising a new round of financing that could value the company as high as $60 billion ahead of a much-speculated public listing. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Skype Translator — a tool that automatically translates your speech into text and computer-generated speech in the other person’s language in real time — now supports Arabic. So Skype Translator now speaks a total of eight languages — in addition to Arabic, it also speaks English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, […]... →

500 Startups announced today that the launch of a $10 million micro-fund that will invest solely on Vietnamese startups. It’s the latest in a series of such investment vehicles the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program has created in the past year. The organization plans to fund between 100 to 150 companies that have some connection to the […]... →

Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth supported language. As the Skype team told a small group of reporters at a press event in its Palo Alto offices last month, the company decided to add Arabic in part because… Read More... →

Truecaller has announced plans to merge two of its flagship apps into one as part of the Swedish startup’s efforts to create the ultimate phone call management app. If you’re new to Truecaller, the Stockholm-based company has built a solid reputation over the past seven years with its crowdsourced approach to helping users flag rogue […]... →

It’s weird that game companies keep celebrating new launches by setting their online servers on fire. You’d think they would eventually learn. Ubisoft debuted Tom Clancy’s The Division tonight (or early this morning for most of you around the world), which is a new military shooter set in apocalyptic New York, and it is already […]... →

Истории шести женщин-предпринимателей, которые смогли построить успешный бизнес невзирая на гендерные стереотипы... →

Authorities in New York have taken the first step to appealing a judge’s ruling last month that denied a request for information held on an iPhone. Read More... →

A New York City startup called Hero plans to replace those plastic pill organizers with a high-tech home appliance. As demonstrated for me by the Hero team, it’s easy to load your medicines, vitamins and other health supplements into the machine, then indicate the dosage you’ll need and when you’re supposed to take it. Once you’re all set up, the Hero device will… Read More... →

Tokyo-based Repro, the provider of mobile analytics tool under the same name, announced today that the company has fundraised 300 million yen (about $2.6 million) from Jafco, Voyage Ventures, and several angel investors. This follows their previous funding round where they raised 100 million yen (about $835,000) from DG Incubation, Brain Pad, and Shift back in […]... →

Being Canadian means a lot of things. For example, I’ve driven a car, an ATV, and a snowmobile. But this, this is something else. Canadian inventor and mechanic Tod Anderson has taken a Smart car and converted it into a … snowmobile car? Snow car? Ski car — Let’s go with that because I just […]... →