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Global average connection speeds rose 14 percent year over year to 5.1 Mbps in Q3 2015. Unfortunately, just over 5 percent of users now have broadband speeds of at least 25.0 Mbps. The latest figures come from Akamai, which today published its quarterly State of the Internet Report for Q3 2015. The firm found 126 […]... →

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I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. That makes me nervous. I prefer to see a screenshot of an internal dashboard, not something created for the board, and I prefer to see that same dashboard in the same format at every meeting. The reason is I want to see that management is using a dashboard every day, not just for board meetings. Read More... →

Today is a big day for team communication app Slack — the company is releasing an App Directory for easily discovering third-party tools that plug into Slack. But Slack is also gaining a powerful new open-source framework called Botkit that makes it very easy for developers to build their own bots. The early-stage startup Howdy.ai […]... →

Slack has made its next move in building out its platform. At a major press event in San Francisco today, the company announced that it has launched a third-party App Directory aimed at being the de facto source for its users to find certified integrations. In an effort to foster its growing ecosystem, Slack has […]... →

We knew music streaming service Rdio would be shutting down following Pandora’s acquisition of Rdio last month, but we didn’t know when. Now we know that the service will go offline on December 22. The company just informed users of the sad news in an email. “As we announced last month, Rdio is being acquired. […]... →

Slack just hatched a master plan to ensure it becomes the social and collaboration hub of the enterprise. It’s harnessing all its Silicon Valley hype to create rocket fuel for its growing app platform. Slack wants to lock in the 2 million daily active users and 570,000 paid seats it now has. That means getting developers to build Slack apps beyond the 150 that it’s now showing off… Read More... →

Music lovers can only get so many copies of Adele’s 25 over the holidays before they start to have a tough time faking smiles. Below are a few of my favorite bluetooth speaker selections from 2015 as well as some of the top music gizmos chosen by our resident social media guru (and fellow music lover) Travis. Whether you’re looking for hardware, music subscriptions or just a… Read More... →

The year has not been kind to Yelp shareholders. On the year, shares of Yelp have tanked around 50 percent. Today wasn’t an exception, with shares of the company down more than 9 percent. That big swing today comes on the heels of a new way of finding top-rated local businesses through Facebook cropped up on the Internet. Read More... →

Posted by cmurfToday, we're talking about June 25th, 2015: the day Google AdWords changed forever to allow Analytics remarketing audiences to be available for advertisers on search. In our video blog, we'll begin by telling you why this is important and explain some problems it solves. We'll give you some examples of how you can use RLSAs, along with four benefits of using them. We've also included a simple example of how you can create one audience. And we'll conclude with the sequel to The Day Google AdWo... →

Earlier this year, FLAG Capital Management — an asset manager that has backed a long list of top venture firms, including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures — was acquired by the British fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. But the union created a giant that manages… Read More... →

The recently moved Notifications tab on Twitter’s desktop version of the service isn’t working. Everything seems to be working just fine on the official iOS and Android apps, though. twitter wont let me see notifications — Prompto (@colinjezek) December 15, 2015 Anyone else getting a fail on their notifications? — Michael Bolen (@MichaelBolen) December 15… Read More... →

Команда Яндекс.Директа сообщила о запуске в открытое бета-тестирование нового типа кампаний с автоматизированным созданием рекламы — Динамическими объявлениями. Особенность в том, что система сама генерирует элементы рекламы и собирает из них эффективные объявления — точечно под каждый товар и соответствующий ему запрос. Директ анализирует содержание рекламируемого сайта и берет на себя всю работу по подбору ключевых фраз, заголовков и посадочных страниц. Достаточно создать кампанию для динамических объявл... →

In a perfect world, Twitter’s Head of Infrastructure and Operations Mazdak Hashemi can walk over to a data center and kick out a power cable to a server, and the service will continue to run fine. He’s not going to do that just yet, but he and his team have been devising ways to simulate those sorts of failures within Twitter and ensure that the service remains up and running. Read More... →

If you’re a night-reader on your mobile device, then you know that it’s hard to get tired with the bright screen burning your eyeballs. This of course isn’t a problem with physical books, as you can add a soft light to the room to wind down. Google Play Books wants to emulate that softer experience with a feature it calls “Night Light.” As the evening goes on,… Read More... →

Free your friends and family from hunching over the side of their bed, sitting on the floor in airports, and infinite other uncomfortable positions. Buy them this Anker 9-foot long iPhone/iPad lightning cable that’s almost 3X longer than the normal one. Why this is the perfect gift: It’s cheap but they’ll love and cherish it everyday Normal iPhone cords always fray and break… Read More... →

Dheeraj Pandey, is co-founder & CEO of Nutanix, one of the most disruptive software infrastructure companies today.  He has held leadership positions with Aster Data & Oracle.  He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, and has been working in Silicon Valley for over a decade. In this podcast, he discusses his journey to Silicon Valley, his experiences as a serial… Read More... →

Glu Mobile is launching its long-touted Katy Perry Pop mobile game today as it aspires to cash in on the celebrity gaming trend that it lit on fire with its Kim Kardashian: Hollywood game. The title is an always-connected, massively multiplayer online mobile game based on the life of pop star Katy Perry. In the […]... →

In the new economy, it’s not the code that matters — it’s how you use it to connect people to things they need. From 3D printers to Docker, open-source-based innovation is fueling some of the hottest digital capabilities of our time. Finally — the golden age of open source has arrived. Read More... →

The University of California announced a $250 million venture fund to invest in startups “emerging from the University of California system.” The fund will be focused on students, professors and alumni of the 10 UC schools, with a particular emphasis on startups in the life sciences, technology, energy, agriculture and materials sectors. The investment arm will be led by Vivek… Read More... →