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Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it the second country in Asia after China to get the digital payment service. Read More... →

Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,” she told me over the phone while catching a plane back to New York. “The truth is three-quarters of startups fail and if founders got more sleep they’d have a better chance… Read More... →

There have been numerous speculations on what retailers should do in an omni-channel world. How do they compete in a world where Amazon is undercutting them in prices and offering free delivery through Prime? How should they respond when brands are increasingly ignoring channel conflict and launching their own e-commerce stores to transact directly with consumers? Read More... →

Apple today is unveiling an overhaul to its App Store developer website, a resource available to the 11 million registered developers worldwide who have helped to grow the App Store to now over 1.5 million applications. The updated site will include new articles and videos which are aimed at helping developers better understand how to grow their businesses and engage users. For example, some… Read More... →

We aren’t done yet. We’ve got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they’re good ones. First up, Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including PCMag, Laptop and Engadget, where he served as the Director of Media. Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly,… Read More... →

Facebook 86’ed The Shade Room from its platform today for unknown reasons. The celebrity gossip and news publisher attracted about 4.2 million followers on Facebook. We reached out to The Shade Room and to Facebook to learn why its page disappeared. Facebook did not yet reply to our inquiry, but we’ll update this story as it develops. Angie Nwandu, The Shade Room founder, and… Read More... →

Posted by JoyHawkins[Estimated read time: 7 minutes] I regularly hear things in the Local SEO world that many people believe, but which are completely false. I wanted to put some of these myths to rest by listing out the top 9 Local SEO myths that I run into most frequently. 1. Deleting your listing in Google My Business actually removes the listing from Google.Business owners will often question how they can get rid of duplicate listings on Google. One of the more common things people try is claiming the d... →

Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008 – 2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all got their early funding in those dismal years. And, while not everyone agrees that there is a massive… Read More... →

Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local, and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company to become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Before joining Facebook, Vernal spent nearly six years at Microsoft, first as a product manager as later as a development lead. The Harvard grad… Read More... →

Verizon Wireless and Hearst Corp. are set to jointly acquire Complex Media. The lifestyle site focused on pop-culture trends and general entertainment will continue to operate independently, albeit with Verizon and Hearst now each owning 50% stakes in the company. Complex CEO and co-founder Rich Antoniello will continue to lead the company. Complex Media has raised over $60 million in… Read More... →

A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of millions of copyrighted books. And the final word is: it’s fair use. Read More... →

Netflix just posted its first-quarter earnings, and it looks like for investors it was a whiff. The company’s shares are diving more than 10% in extended trading, which more or less fits in with the usual behavior of Netflix — big spikes, up and down, all over the place and all the time. Even the last time the company reported earnings, shares spiked 8%, and we’re seeing that… Read More... →

In terms of venture capital dollars, it’s still hard to beat Silicon Valley. The latest figures have Bay Area companies gobbling up about 15 percent of the world’s venture capital. Factor in San Jose and Los Angeles and that share climbs to nearly one-third of the all the money raised by private companies in 2015. By contrast, New York City companies raised just 5 percent,… Read More... →

Основатель Telegram Павел Дуров объявил о выдаче безвозмедных грантов разработчикам ботов — от 25 тысяч долларов каждому. Общий фонд составит $1 млн, сообщается в корпоративном блоге Telegram.... →

Лучшие разработчики получают деньги безвозмездно и без наложения на них обязательств после вручения гранта.... →

Despite adding a record number of new users in the first quarter, Netflix is having a no good, very bad day. After reporting its first-quarter earnings, the stock is getting absolutely slammed in trading right now, down more than 10%. The company reported earnings of 6 cents per share — a beat — but missed on revenue targets with $1.96 billion in revenue. Analysts were expecting… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Kanye West’s decision to flip-flop on whether or not his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be an exclusive to music streaming service Tidal, has now been met with a class action lawsuit led by consumer tech privacy law firm Edelson PC. The artist originally promised the album would only be on Tidal, but later decided to release “Pablo” to competitors… Read More... →

There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell — a widely revered former Columbia University football coach who went on to run Intuit for four years in the ’90s and only retired as its chairman in January — put something rather magical into his hours with entrepreneurs. A great many… Read More... →

Technology market analysts at ABI Research predict that advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be big business in the next decade — to the tune of $132 billion. But they also predict the decline and fall of night vision in our cars. Night vision systems have been available for vehicles since the early 2000s. They use either infrared or thermographic cameras to scan the… Read More... →