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You’ve likely heard of the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Espys, and even the Crunchies. But it’s entirely possible you’ve never heard of the Breakthrough Prize Awards, which honor the world’s greatest scientists and their discoveries. The Breakthrough Prize was started by Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia Milner, Jack Ma and… Read More... →

Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, he isn’t away at college or living with his parents but instead working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a noted team of investors at NFX Guild, a new accelerator program in San Francisco. (We’d written about it here.) Now the spotlight is on Kahn to see if he can produce. Kahn and three cofounders – all… Read More... →

The concept of virtual reality (VR) has been around for several decades. Largely ignored by mainstream computing until about four years ago, VR technology has leapt to computing’s center stage — largely kick-started by the investment from Facebook — and is now poised to make an industry transforming impact. Read More... →

A new report claims it's not just electric-car drivers that don't pay their share. No one does.... →

Posted by BenjaminEstesSEO is not something that is done. SEO is a way of doing things that encompasses many teams and initiatives. This is especially true for large organizations with well-established and potentially siloed teams. Most marketing disciplines have concrete inputs and outputs. Consider the following examples, which may seem trite at first: PPC results in visibility in search results. Email marketing results in visibility in the inbox of folks on your mailing list. Content strategy results in... →

Beacon marketing company inMarket is unveiling a new technology that it calls Quantum Receptivity, which it says can help marketers figure out when they should show an ad to a shopper and have the biggest impact. “It’s really about cherry picking marketing times — not just things like days of week, but based on  each individual’s unique… Read More... →

There’s a misconception in Silicon Valley that there aren’t enough talented black people to hire. It’s my intention with this weekly series, People of Color in Tech (POCIT), to highlight the up-and-coming people of color in tech, as well as the people of color who are already making waves in the industry. Don’t hesitate, and please feel encouraged to send me your… Read More... →

GUEST: In the first part of this series, we covered new trends in sales for SaaS companies, including new processes, new channels, best practices, and new sales organizations. Now, it’s time to look at some of the growth hacking techniques for enterprise SaaS companies. A few of the examples below are based on my personal experience […]... →

We — humanity, that is — created 4.4 zettabytes of data last year. This is expected to rise to 44 zettabytes by 2020. And no, I didn’t make up the word “zettabytes.” For scale, it is estimated that 42 zettabytes could store all human speech ever spoken. One zettabyte is around 250 billion DVDs — almost enough fit the whole Friends series. Read More... →

Google Life Sciences and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced that they’re teaming together to fight heart disease. Both organizations have committed to donating $25 million each over the next five years to better understand and cure heart disease. “With its devastating human impact on countless generations of families, cardiovascular disease, and in particular coronary […]... →

GUEST: (Spoiler Alert: Accredited investors will be the primary VC source in 2016.) Startups will soon be able to solicit investments from anyone, thanks to new SEC rules. The crowdfunding regulations, known as Reg CF (or Title III), open startup equity to all investors, where before companies could only solicit capital from accredited investors. This is a big change, […]... →

Trying to wade through the noise and hype that surrounds VR can be overwhelming, but there are clear real-world uses that make the future of the technology exciting. Lucid flew through that noise for me. The thing that’s going to bring the “future” to the “now” is a killer app that consumers can understand and more importantly afford. That’s where Lucid… Read More... →

Инвестиции Яндекса в "Кинопоиск" составили более 80 миллионов долларов. Google не потратил на собственные модифицированные результаты поиска практически ничего.... →

GUEST: Companies make acquisitions for many reasons. For a high-growth company, I think the best reason is to grow faster. You can gain access to talent, speed up time-to-market, and snap up innovations that allow you to command a premium price. But don’t let the dollar signs blind you to reality: Between 70 and 90 percent […]... →

One in four websites are now powered by WordPress. Today is a big day for the free and open-source content management system (CMS). To be perfectly clear, the milestone figure is not a fraction of all websites that have a CMS: WordPress now powers 25 percent of the Web. The latest data comes from W3Techs, […]... →

GUEST: In recent years, a growing number of coding boot camps have helped address the large gap between available software engineering positions and qualified candidates to fill them. Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. For example, Aaron Skonnard, the CEO […]... →

Internet founders believe the best role for government is competitive and direct funding for non-government agencies to solve social problems, whether it’s these parent-run public charter schools, loans to immigrant entrepreneurs for an alternative energy startup, or scientific research at a public university. Read More... →

GUEST: The quintessential tech entrepreneur? Names like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin come to mind. Each created a company, weathered some early bumps and turned their businesses – and themselves – into iconic brands. But most entrepreneurs do not. According to Harvard Business Review author Noam Wasserman, four out of five entrepreneurs are forced […]... →

GUEST: The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus began shipping a few weeks ago, which means that iPhone fans everywhere are looking forward to the moment they can unbox their brand new device and start playing with Apple’s newest offering. For many, that includes downloading apps – both old and new – that can now be accommodated […]... →

Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat isn’t messing around when it comes to videos, showing that it can generate views which brands are probably paying attention to. The company has reportedly said that 6 billion videos are viewed on its service, with that number tripling since May. If you just compare the numbers and not how each service […]... →