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Ущерб от нового витка скандала оценивается минимум в 2 млрд евро... →

Facebook огласил финансовые результаты за третий квартал 2015 года. В отчётном периоде выручка компании выросла на 41% по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года и достигла $4,5 млрд – на $130 млн больше, чем прогнозировали аналитики. Прибыль из расчёта на одну акцию составила 57 центов (за исключением отдельных издержек) и также превысила ожидания рынка (52 цента). Это 14-й по счёту квартал, по итогам которого результаты компании превзошли прогнозы Уолл-стрит. Большая часть дохода Facebook приход... →

Легендарная кампания Coca-Cola празднует юбилей... →

Google announced the addition of its new Street View imagery from New Zealand’s “Great Walks” to Google Maps on Thursday, opening a virtual window into the country where The Lord of the Rings was famously filmed. The Great Walks are a set of nine popular trails that take trekkers through some of New Zealand’s most scenic locations, […]... →

Weave announced today that it has raised a $15.5 million Series B round of funding that’ll enable it to provide updated communication technology to small- and medium-sized businesses. Led by Crosslink Capital, this Y Combinator alumni company will likely expand beyond its focus on dentistry and orthodontics to other industries. Providing software that merge your […]... →

Remember, without goals, it's tough to really achieve anything of value. Here's your simple, yet powerful, guide to setting great goals and achieving them. The post How to Set Goals and Meet Them: 8 Steps for Success by @syedbalkhi appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Google rolled out an update to Google Maps for iOS on Wednesday that brings users spoken traffic alerts while in navigation mode “about congestion and incidents on your route, and traffic descriptions give you a summary of traffic before you drive.” The update (version 4.12.0) also brings with it the ability to “easily add new and […]... →

Evernote has updated its iOS app to include a feature that now lets you sketch right within a note. Just open up an existing note or create a new one and draw. You can use your finger or a stylus (Evernote prefers either its Jot Script or the Apple Pencil). The line weight can be […]... →

Leading up to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, media buzzed with talk of an unprecedented cybersecurity agreement on par with previous governance around the creation and handling of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. But what was built up to be the first arms control accord for cyberspace actually turned out to be quite anticlimactic. Read More... →

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and his lieutenants took the stage today to give their big enterprise pitch to customers. Houston, of course, has to answer questions that a lot of critics have for the company. Can it be a force in the enterprise? Is it worth $10 billion? Will it hold that valuation as online storage becomes a commodity and the cost of storage goes to zero? Read More... →

Google Maps for iOS got a seemingly small, but extremely helpful feature today in an update. Starting today, you’ll now get spoken traffic alerts while navigating. The app will tell you about accidents, traffic congestion or other incidents (like police in the area) for your route before you start driving. If this sounds familiar, it definitely seems like Google is pulling out some of… Read More... →

It took three years for Richard Price, a PhD in philosophy, to get a paper published. The slow speed of that inspired him to start what is essentially a social network called Academia, where academics can publish their papers and have them reviewed by other experts called. Now, Price wants to take the next step to surface the best papers with a score. It’s called PaperRank, and… Read More... →

Posted by KelseyLibert When emotionally-charged content is placed in front of the right audience, it can spread at an incredible rate. We recently had this happen with a Fractl client campaign called Perceptions of Perfection, which we executed for Superdrug Online Doctor. Here’s a look at the results during the first few days of the campaign launch: It was also endorsed by Sofia Vergara on Facebook, putting it in front of her 7.7 million followers: And we were contacted by traditional media outlets to talk... →

If you haven’t stared at the price of bitcoin over the past few days, you’ve missed some excitement. After spending large swaths of 2015 middling in the $200 range, bitcoin broke out, reached the $500 mark, and then gave up some of its gains. For bitcoin fans, seeing the price move is welcome. For traders, the vertical velocity must be appreciated as well. For the rest of us,… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest public cloud currently available for hosting websites and applications, announced today that it will open a new region of data centers in Korea. AWS already has several customers in Korea. “These customers (and many others) have asked us for a local region; we are looking forward to making it […]... →

Now what? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself since Leslie Miley, the now former engineering manager at Twitter, published a post explaining that his reason for leaving the company was because of the way it addresses, or doesn’t address, diversity and inclusion. Jesse Jackson, presumably in response to Miley’s revelations, urged Twitter to release a racial… Read More... →

Posted by Alex Vogenthaler, Group Product Manager, Google Drive (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog .) When you store your important files somewhere, you want to have peace of mind that they'll be safe and easy-to-access later. That's why everything in Drive is always encrypted. And why we encourage all of our users to complete a simple Security Checkup every now and then.... →

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a system to put realistic-looking plastic hair on 3D printed objects. While this doesn’t help the follicularly challenged humans among us it does allow you to add cute hairdos to 3D printed characters and even simulate hard growth on living things. The system uses a standard 3D printer with special programming that extrudes a little plastic… Read More... →

Facebook, the world’s largest social-media platform, thinks virtual reality and augmented reality are the future — but one that’s distant. Mark Zuckerberg’s company reported the results of its third quarter financials today, and the chief executive shared some thoughts about how virtual reality will develop as a business. In March 2014, Facebook acquired the hot […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, November 12 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.   “To pay or not to pay?” That is the Shakespearean question businesses are asking themselves when it comes to building an audience. It’s no secret that paid advertising can get any message across to a […]... →