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This week NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover celebrated its 12 year anniversary on the red planet. What’s truly remarkable about this is the fact that the rover was only designed to operate for about 90 days. Due to helpful unforeseen surface conditions and few creative software changes, NASA has been able to keep Opportunity alive and operational to this day. After a 6 and a half… Read More... →

Posted by randfishSEO has much of its roots in the practice of targeted link building. And while it's no longer the only core component involved, it's still a hugely valuable factor when it comes to rank boosting. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand goes over why targeted link building is still relevant today and how to develop a process you can strategically follow to success. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edit... →

Vulcan, the investment firm of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, features a practice area that aims to “reduce our impact on the environment, particularly local watershed and ocean habitats.” So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral reef in the Cayman Islands that has been in… Read More... →

Google Calendar is getting more worldly. Starting this week, on iOS and Android, the app can now be used in 41 languages that weren’t previously supported. The new languages are — deep breath! — Arabic, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Dutch, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese of Portugal, Russian, Spanish […]... →

Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a $25 million debut fund. The SEC filing is here. Susa has four general partners: Eva Ho, who was most recently the VP of marketing and operations at venture-backed Factual and a senior product marketing manager… Read More... →

More bad news for blood analysis startup Theranos – Walgreens has suspended use of the company’s Newark, California lab, following news the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that lab posed “immediate jeopardy” to patients. Walgreens partners with Theranos, allowing the startup to collect blood draws out of many of the drug store’s Arizona locations… Read More... →

VB INSIGHT: In 2015, marketing tech swelled in deal sizes, frequency, and valuations like never before. 2016 is off to a similar start. In a new MoneyTree Report from PWC and the National Venture Capital Associate, VCs cooled on later-stage growth investments, particularly in tech at the end of last year. Whether that’s due to fluctuating financial markets, markdowns from […]... →

Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time, and they came from about a dozen publishers. Slidejoy Trends, on… Read More... →

Компания Яндекс, владеющая сервисом Кинопоиск, перенесла новую версию сайта на другой домен и изменила логотип сервиса. Новая версия сайта, которая ранее была расположена на домене beta.kinopoisk.ru, теперь находится по адресу plus.kinopoisk.ru. Доменное имя, как видим, поддерживается новым логотипом — вместо значка «бета» теперь находится плюс. Напомним, портал Кинопоиск был перезапущен Яндексом 8 октября. Ресурс получил новый дизайн, обновленный функционал и новые возможности по покупке билетов и просмо... →

Electronic Arts is reloading. Andrew Wilson, chief executive of EA, said in a conference call with analysts that EA has a new Battlefield game coming in the next fiscal year, as well as a new Titanfall game from developer Respawn Entertainment. That was the first glimpse of new games coming from EA, which beat earnings […]... →

Here’s a surprise: Facebook is closing its Parse developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a reported $85 million in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer services. Parse will still operate until January 28, 2017,… Read More... →

Facebook today announced that its Parse mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) cloud is shutting down. It will stick around for exactly 365 days and will no longer be available on January 28, 2017. We’re proud that we’ve been able to help so many of you build great mobile apps, but we need to focus […]... →

Publisher Electronic Arts is taking a small beating on Wall Street. EA’s stock is at $64.70 in after-hours trading, which is down more than 7 percent from its closing price of $69.79 when the closing bell rang earlier today. Investors are spooked that the publisher, coming off a big win with Star Wars: Battlefront, doesn’t have quite […]... →

Xerox is reportedly gearing up to announce that it will break itself apart and form two new companies, bowing to pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn. The news is supposedly scheduled to be announced on Friday during the company’s fourth quarter earnings. The well-known business and digital printing company will divide itself into two entities: one centered […]... →

Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been placed on multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. I’ve confirmed the identity of at least one engineer who publicly lists themselves as a Bank Of America employee. Wells… Read More... →

Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Read More... →

It looks like Star Wars was a wise investment for Electronic Arts. Star Wars: Battlefront, the multiplayer shooter from developer DICE, surpassed 13 million copies sold to gamers, according to the publisher’s quarterly financial results. This helped once again push EA to take the spot as the No. 1 publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox […]... →

Amazon made more money last quarter — $482 million in profit for the fiscal Q4 2015 — than it did during every previous quarter combined since Q3 2011. That $482 million figure exceeds Amazon’s previous quarterly record, when, in Q4 2010, it earned $416 million in profit. So why, then, did the company’s stock tank by more than 13 percent […]... →

Big video game publisher Electronic Arts charmed investors again as it reported third fiscal quarter earnings that hit/missed expectations for the three months ended Dec. 31. The company’s results are widely watched as a bellwether for the $90 billion global market for all things gaming. But for some reason, investors aren’t happy. In after-hours trading, EA’s […]... →

Microsoft doesn’t share its hardware numbers anymore, but it sure does have a lot of people using its online gaming service. Xbox Live has 48 million monthly active players, according to Microsoft’s report for the second quarter of its fiscal 2016. That is up 30 percent year-over-year. “It was a strong holiday season for Microsoft […]... →