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Kill SMS, spawn a chat bot platform, bring friends together offline, improve artificial intelligence, and delight people. That’s Facebook Messenger’s roadmap for 2016 now that it has 800 million monthly active users, up from 700 million in June, 600 Million in March, and 500 million last November. That makes Messenger the fastest growing app of 2015, according to Nielsen, and it… Read More... →

VB EVENT: Modern marketing can sound like a marriage of bloated buzzwords (“hyperlocal synergies” anyone?) or a deep dive into big data, where pools of analytics never let you come up for air. What’s missing from those takes are the elements that are really at the heartbeat of modern marketing: its people. Smart, imaginative and motivated people. […]... →

Do you own a small business? If so, you’ve likely been told by a marketer, a customer or even a relative that you need a presence on whatever social media site is flavor-of-the-month.... →

As expected, even though it took so long, Google finally announced on Google+ that they have revamped the Crawl Errors report for Android Apps in the Google Search Console. Google said they updated and simplified the app crawl error types...... →

EXCLUSIVE: It is January 7, 2016. By now, around 43 percent of you will have fallen off the health and fitness bandwagon. That cinnamon bun was just too tempting, wasn’t it? But in the weeks leading up to the New Year, you were clearly up for the challenge. How do we know? Social media engagement analytics. Today, […]... →

ISTANBUL (By by Yesim Dikmen, Humeyra Pamuk and Ercan Gurses, Reuters) – Micro-blogging site Twitter filed a lawsuit in an Ankara court on Thursday, seeking to annul a fine by the Turkish authorities for not removing content Turkey says is “terrorist propaganda”, a source familiar with the case told Reuters. A Turkish official said much […]... →

Google's John Mueller replied to a webmaster who is tasked with merging and migrating three different web sites into a single web site. John gave him advice in the Google Webmaster Help thread - the typical advice and encouragement you'd expect from a Googler...... →

Yesterday, Glenn Gabe shared with me that this site has some featured snippets in Google. He posted several examples on Twitter also hinting that he has some tool to help webmaster determine if Google has featured snippets for their own site...... →

Building a tech company from the ground up and having it succeed is an ambitious goal. Doing that as a female founder and CEO is another beast, entirely. When you stop and look at what it takes to be a successful female founder in tech — the numbers I mean — it’s enough to ward off women from even trying: 555 tech companies raised a Series B in 2015; however, only 5 percent… Read More... →

Back in August we reported that even invalid HTTPS pages will still get the Google HTTPS ranking boost - all it needs to get it is be on an HTTPS URL...... →

A post in the Local Search Forum notes that earlier this week, the Google Maps search results showed 20 search results per query, now it is showing only 10. The user said "I noticed today that Google Maps are showing 10 results per page again...... →

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Илья Еремеев, креативный директор студии игровой разработки A-Steroids, провёл для vc.ru детальный разбор проекта Clash Royale — новой игры от компании Supercell, создателя успешной мобильной стратегии Clash of Clans.... →

Guardant Health, a three-year-old, Redwood Shores, Ca.-based company whose non-invasive genomic sequencing test for cancer requires just two vials of blood, has raised nearly $100 million in Series D funding roughly one year after closing on $90 million for its Series C round. The financing was led by OrbiMed Advisors, with earlier backers participating, including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia… Read More... →

In this post I'll explain what evergreen content is, look at some examples and stats from Search Engine Watch, and demonstrate how the creation of evergreen content can reward the extra effort required.... →

В конце 2015 года мы расспросили самых активных бизнес-ангелов о том, в какие технологии верят. Сегодня своим видением поделится Виталий Полехин.  Какие направления для инвестирования вы считаете перспективными в интервале 3, 5 и 10 лет, соответственно?  5 лет – слишком большой срок для венчурной индустрии в наши дни. 10 лет – вообще фантастика и космос. А вот в течение 3 лет мы станем свидетелями того, как наша обычная жизнь очень сильно изменится под влиянием технологий. Поэтому наиболее перспективными, я... →

Amazon has officially entered the semiconductor market with the news that it is selling its own-brand of ARM-based chips to manufacturers. U.S. tech companies went transatlantic on more than a few occasions last year in search for innovation, but one of the more curious cases was when Amazon headed to Israel and snapped up Annapurna […]... →

Oculus co-founder admits he screwed up Rift price-point messaging, explaining in a Reddit AMA that when he said “that ballpark” he had been thinking about the ‘all in’ cost of the headset — which requires a gaming PC to power it… Read More... →

ANALYSIS: Back in the summer of 2013, facing a modest shareholder revolt, Apple chief executive Tim Cook did one of the more remarkable things I’ve seen in years of writing about corporate compensation: He volunteered to rewrite the rules for the restricted stocks units he had already been granted. He was under no obligation to do […]... →

Федеральная торговая комиссия США обязала разработчика серии игр для развития когнитивных способностей Lumosity компанию Lumos Labs выплатить штраф в размере $2 млн за введение пользователей в заблуждение. Об этом сообщает NBC News.... →