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Just over a year ago, Microsoft removed the 1TB limit on its OneDrive service for Office 365 subscribers. If you were paying for Office 365, you suddenly had unlimited storage, at no additional cost. Today, the company killed that upgrade. The deal was a steal. The cheapest Office 365 subscription costs $7.00 per month. It […]... →

French Tech has never been in such good health: Showroomprivé and Deezer just announced their IPO, Leetchi its trade sale to Crédit Mutuel Arkéa group and several startups have announced significant funding rounds in France in the last three months (more than €10 million for Lengow, iAdvize, Geolid, Miralk; €100 million for Sigfox; and $200 million for BlaBlaCar). Read More... →

One of the biggest publishers of traditional games in the world now also owns one of the biggest mobile-game makers. Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush Saga now all belong to Activision after the publisher spent $5.9 billion to acquire King Digital, the company best known for Candy Crush and Farm Hero […]... →

Plex is finally on Apple TV, but it wasn't easy... →

Amazon announced its new Parental Leave policy earlier this morning in an email to employees. The Seattle-based company’s new policy includes 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birth mothers and a novel leave-sharing system that allows employees to share up to 6 weeks of paid leave with a partner. Amazon’s new policy comes after the company faced significant criticism for its… Read More... →

Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault. Lonsdale, who had strongly denied Clougherty’s allegations and filed a countersuit against her, claiming for defamation, has dropped his lawsuit, too. Clougherty’s suit received national attention in… Read More... →

SAN DIEGO — Virtustream‘s founders Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid were very stressed out when they turned down an acquisition deal with SAP. Instead, they took an investment from the corporate giant, and bet on going it alone. It turned out to be the right move, as Virtustream was acquired this year for three times […]... →

Apple has now rolled out a “Top Charts” section on the Apple TV App Store, following the release of the company’s revamped streaming media player which went on sale last week. The TV App Store had only hundreds of titles at the time of launch, but that grew to over 1,000 during the weekend, according to independent third-party reports. However, developers were disappointed… Read More... →

This week's SEJ Wrap-Up is all about finding the best blog ideas and why clickbait journalism is no longer cutting it. The post SEJ Wrap-Up: Finding Blog Ideas That Win, Clickbait Not Cutting It by @megcabrera appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud now has an integration with Pinterest, which the companies say will allow marketers to make “pinners” part of their overall digital marketing plans. A new set of tools becomes available to help marketers connect with customers on Pinterest using Salesforce’s Social Studio social media marketing platform. The tools will allow companies to “compose, preview, schedule and publish Pins across Pinterest […]... →

Posted by KaneJamisonI've been obsessed with Facebook Ads for the past few years. It probably didn't hurt that the first test campaign we ran earned an excellent $0.04 cost-per-engagement from a $10 budget. I'm obsessed because I'm convinced Facebook Ads are one of the most powerful tools we currently have as digital marketers. Whether you're looking to spend $200 a month advertising to a single zip code or $20,000 a day reaching sports fans, you can reach the ideal target audience for your organization wit... →

A group of activists from the Coalition on Homelessness took over Airbnb headquarters in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco this afternoon to protest what they believe is a company at the root cause of evictions and homelessness in the city. Airbnb has added the lion’s share (more than $8 million) into defeating Proposition F, a proposal some believe is hiking up the rent in SF… Read More... →

For Menlo Ventures‘ managing director Shawn Carolan, bringing some sense of focus to his life is important. It’s because of this reason that he founded Handle, a workflow companion app designed to bring order to your personal and professional lives. The app debuted in January (although a beta version first released in 2013) to let the general public […]... →

EBay today finalized the sale of its previously announced eBay Enterprise business. As part of this deal, Zeta Interactive, the big data-driven marketing firm co-founded by David Steinberger and former Apple and Pepsi-Cola CEO John Sculley, today announced that it has acquired the CRM division of eBay Enterprise. Sources close to the two companies tell us Zeta Interactive paid about $80 to… Read More... →

Here’s one way that Thrillist Media Group is spending the $54 million that it raised earlier this year: It’s adding three new sections to its website, one for entertainment, one for health and one for sex and dating. Naturally, the company is supporting this expansion with some new hires. John Sellers, former senior editor at New York Magazine’s Vulture, will run the… Read More... →

Plex, the much adored app for streaming totally-legit-and-not-at-all-bootlegged-cough-cough content from your PC to your other gadgets, has just hit the new Apple TV. Still wondering what the heck Plex is? The short answer: you run a Plex server on your PC, and load it up with video and music files in just about any format — from your standard DiVX/XVid file to a big ol’ high res MKV. Read More... →

WASHINGTON (By David Morgan, Reuters) — Internet giant Alphabet Inc, the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of Google’s drone effort said on Monday. David Vos, the leader for Google’s Project Wing, said his company is in talks with the […]... →

Dear reader, Please keep in mind that this list is tongue-in-cheek. We are being silly. If you take this list seriously, and complain, we shall giggle at you. Let’s have fun! Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to announce our second monthly Include Office Hours! On November 17th, Ryan Sweeney and Dan Levine of Accel Partners will open their doors for underrepresented founders. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to take their startups to the next level. Read More... →

The idea that the average consumer i.e. a non “high net-worth individual” could invest in a small equity round has been in the works since June but a new rule released last week now brings the US closer to true equity crowdfunding. You can check out the entire release here but, in general, it opens the door to a new form of investment. Companies will be able to raise a maximum of… Read More... →