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Today, the Luxembourg Government announced that they are taking steps to become Europe’s hub for mining space resources. The small European country plans to establish the necessary legal and regulatory framework and invest in related research and development projects. They’re even considering investing in already-established asteroid mining companies like the U.S. based Deep… Read More... →

DigitalOcean wants to gain more share of the startup market for its cloud infrastructure. The company announced today that it will be offering $250,000 in credits to all of Y Combinator’s startups. The move is good for developers because it gives them more options on which to build their products and puts DigitalOcean in direct […]... →

Uber has big plans for Super Bowl 50 this weekend. The rideshare platform will pick up passengers at designated areas throughout San Francisco and route them in a way that will hopefully help avoid all the traffic congestion that is already starting to happen before the big game. It’s also offering something very fun and fluffy ahead of the big day today – puppies on-demand.… Read More... →

Practice Fusion, a startup digitizing electronic health records (EHR) for hospitals and healthcare facilities confirmed to TechCrunch that it has trimmed a quarter of its workforce today in an effort to become cash flow positive. The layoffs were across the board, including engineering, product, marketing, and customer success departments and affect roughly 74 people. CEO Tom Langan announced… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Azure IoT Hub — a cloud service for registering, managing, and communicating with Internet-connected devices — will become generally available tomorrow, February 4. Azure IoT Hub is a big part of Azure IoT Suite, a bundle of products that can be used to build and run applications that integrate with […]... →

Platforms are what make the technology world go ’round. Great platforms create value for technologists everywhere — be it a technology-specific platform like what Google has newly open-sourced through Tensor Flow, a customer-specific platform development environment like Salesforce or a truly horizontal platform like what Amazon offers through AWS. This value stems from the fact… Read More... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the fourth build of 2016. The release doesn’t include any new features, once again, but the company did give testers a bunch of ninja monkey wallpapers isntead. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building […]... →

GUEST: For those working in the “aaS” business, the Parse shutdown was the main topic of conversation this weekend. Many in the developer community were taken by surprise and took to Twitter to express their disappointment. So why did Facebook decide to shut down its developer platform play? While I believe the arguments about streamlining and […]... →

Super Smash Bros. fans are zealous, and Nintendo does not want to lose that audience when it transitions from Wii U and 3DS to a new platform. Nintendo is working on a new dedicated gaming device that it calls the NX. And while the company hasn’t had much to say about this device, one early […]... →

Posted by EricEngeMachine learning is already a very big deal. It's here, and it's in use in far more businesses than you might suspect. A few months back, I decided to take a deep dive into this topic to learn more about it. In today's post, I'll dive into a certain amount of technical detail about how it works, but I also plan to discuss its practical impact on SEO and digital marketing. For reference, check out Rand Fishkin's presentation about how we've entered into a two-algorithm world. Rand addresses... →

GoPro forecast current-quarter revenue well below analysts’ estimates on weak demand for its wearable cameras, and the company named Brian McGee as its new chief financial officer. GoPro said McGee, who joined the company from Qualcomm in 2015, would succeed Jack Lazar as CFO on March 11. The camera maker’s shares fell 10 percent in […]... →

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a problem. The federal agency today announced that it a hardware failure has brought down some of its systems, including the Where’s My Refund? feature. “Taxpayers can continue to send their tax returns to their e-file provider; these companies will hold the tax returns until the IRS resumes accepting […]... →

NBA 2K16 is getting a $250,000 esports competition, but publisher Take-Two Interactive admits this is more about marketing than making any money from pro gaming. Chief operating officer Karl Slatoff says that esports primarily about marketing, not making revenue, for Take-Two. The company announced the NBA 2K16 Road to the Finals event earlier this week. This […]... →

Yesterday, a report surfaced in the Wall Street Journal claiming that online retail giant Amazon was planning to launch as many as 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores. The report set off a stream of stories about the news; chatter slamming the idea of a company that’s precipitated the collapse of bookstores building them itself; and even some stock movements for Amazon’s… Read More... →

Glu Mobile announced today that it has partnered with music superstar Taylor Swift to develop a new mobile game. The move represents Swift’s first foray into mobile games, but Glu has been specializing in starpower ever since it established the celebrity mobile game market with the megahit Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in mid-2014. Glu has deals with celebrities […]... →

Justin Kan, the entrepreneur behind the pioneering webcast project Justin.tv, has decided to reboot the concept on ephemeral messaging service Snapchat. Kan, fresh off a multi-million dollar payday as one of the founders of the video game footage streaming service Twitch, published a job posting today seeking a videographer to direct the project. I've decided to […]... →

Cisco today announced plans to acquire Jasper Technologies, a company that offers a cloud service for managing Internet-connected devices, for a total of $1.4 billion. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a hot area for cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Intel, IBM, and other companies have initiatives in […]... →

We’ve seen startups helping brands tap influencers to promote themselves on social media platforms like Vine and Instagram, so it might be time for a new influencer marketing startup, Applause, that’s focused on live video — particularly Twitter’s Periscope app. It’s certainly a platform that CEO Jon Jacques is familiar with. In addition to working for a couple… Read More... →

Apple or Alphabet is now the most valuable company on the planet, surpassing Alphabet or Apple by market cap during regular or after-hours trading today. Plenty of factors led to this moment, as Apple or Alphabet only narrowly surpassed Alphabet or Apple by market cap in the first place, following news of better-than-expected revenues or record-breaking profits. Now, […]... →

Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, a company that sells an Internet of Things cloud platform, for $1.4 billion. With Jasper, Cisco gets a company that understands the burgeoning Internet of Things market. While IoT is term bandied about quite a bit, it simply means connected machines talking to one another over the internet. This could be industrial automation equipment on… Read More... →