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Facebook объявил, что активная месячная аудитория Messenger превысила отметку в 800 млн пользователей. В ноябре 2014 года эта цифра составляла 500 млн человек, в марте 2015 – 600 млн, в июне – 700 млн. «Миссия команды Messenger – сделать сервис самым лучшим местом для общения с людьми и компаниями во всём мире», - прокомментировал прохождение очередного рубежа глава Messenger Дэвид Маркус (David Marcus). В течение последнего года Facebook Messenger активно развивался. В апреле 2015 года была запущена дес... →

The deal is done — Germany company RNTS Media says it has completed its acquisition of Heyzap. The acquisition is worth up to $45 million, specifically $25 million in cash upfront, with cash and stock earn outs of $20 million. It was first announced in December and represents a team up between two mobile ad companies, namely Heyzap and RNTS subsidiary Fyber. RNTS CEO Andreas Bodczek… Read More... →

Google обновил отчёт об ошибках сканирования Android-приложений в Search Console. В рамках апдейта количество типов ошибок в отчёте было сокращено до трёх: Не найден пакет; Недопустимый URI; Удалено из индекса (new). Обновлённая статистика доступна, начиная с 11 декабря 2015 года. Ошибки нового типа «Удалено из индекса» показывают, что некоторые страницы приложения не соответствуют правилам Google. Возможно, пользователи не могут найти на них нужные материалы. В этом случае ссылка на приложение будет удале... →

Honestbee, a grocery delivery service backed by Formation 8, has launched in Taipei, its third city so far. Services are already available in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Niseko, Japan. During the first half of this year, Honestbee also plans to expand into Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, and Jakarta. Read More... →

Ctrip, the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip, a fellow booking service that covers flights, hotels and bus ticketing in the South Asian country. Read More... →

Alienware will “invest” in making virtual reality a hit when it launches on the PC later this year by bundling the Oculus Rift with older PC hardware at a discounted price, a Dell executive said. Frank Azor, cofounder of Alienware and an executive at Dell, said at a dinner that Alienware will bundle the Rift […]... →

Surprise, surprise! If you buy cheap off-brand electronics from a shoddy factory in Asia, they may have poorly-designed lithium-ion batteries that can catch fire. After nearly 60 airlines basically banned hoverboards overnight, college campuses are now jumping on the hoverboard hate bandwagon. Over a dozen colleges have banned the two-wheel devices (that don’t actually hover), with… Read More... →

Samsung’s slow recovery appears to be continuing after the South Korean tech company release its financial projections for the final quarter of 2015, although its figures are below industry analyst expectations. Read More... →

Lenovo announced at CES that the company would be producing the first Project Tango phone. As a reminder, Project Tango is an ambitious project that adds depth as well as a bunch of sensors to your device’s camera. Read More... →

The third annual Hardware Battlefield at CES 2016 is nearly complete. Fourteen companies took to the TechCrunch stage at the Sands Expo with six minutes to prove their viability in the market. And it wasn’t just the audience that they were trying to impress. We had expert judges including Fitbit’s James Park, FirstMark Capital’s Matt Turck, and GV’s Lo Toney waiting in… Read More... →

Lenovo and Google announced a partnership today to create a new smartphone that makes use of 3D augmented reality technology known as Project Tango. Johnny Lee, a member of the Tango team at Google, said that the sense of space and motion from Tango will now be built into a mobile phone. “We can use […]... →

Lumus shares their sixty degree field of view smart glasses prototype with us. Read More... →

Lumus shares their sixty degree field of view smart glasses prototype with us. Read More... →

Artificial intelligence (AI) is permeating our lives — just not in the ways we might have expected from reading sci-fi novels or watching robot apocalypse-themed movies. Instead of having live robots walking around, doing our dishes and engaging us in conversation, AI exists primarily in web and mobile apps designed to help us with small intellectual chores, like finding out when the… Read More... →

Posted by randfishIt's a new year, and that means it's time shift into some new habits regarding your keyword research. Rather than simply targeting marketing blasts at either the in-demand or the long tail, you may want to think about carefully tailoring your tactics to the shape of your niche's keyword demand distribution curve. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand details four steps to using these curves to support and improve your existing strategies. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high re... →

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said today at tech’s biggest North American trade show that online harassment is frighteningly real and a new alliance of tech leaders are banding together to fight it. On Monday, Krzanich announced the new Hack Harassment initiative to combat online harassment — a problem that he said “affects all of […]... →

This week at CES, IBM unveiled a some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly divested itself of an older asset. Today it was announced that Salary.com — a portal for people to find and compare remuneration data across lots of different industries, as well as look for… Read More... →

Posted by tommcloughlin Many small businesses see content marketing as something that you can only be successful with if you are a huge company with a big budget. I was in the same boat for a long time, but after much research, many (many) failed attempts and a lot of perseverance, I’ve finally started to see some predictability in how to get results from content marketing. Nothing illustrates this better than a project we managed for a travel company that was inspired by the finale to the fifth season of t... →

GUEST: The big mystery behind Oculus’ $599 preorder fiasco was how a savvy company like Oculus, owned by a savvier company called Facebook, could fail so spectacularly at setting its customers’ expectations. While Oculus feigns Mr. Magoo-like ignorance, I believe it was all a brilliant Zuckerbergian machination. Put yourself in Oculus’ shoes. You have a hyped […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar. Register here for free. Mobile app developers are fighting a fearsome battle everyday. As mobile continues to be second nature for us, publishers are releasing countless new apps on a daily basis — almost 1,500 a day are added to Apple’s App store alone. However, only a few will gain the […]... →