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Airbnb has spent more than $8 million and hired a top political operative to defeat a San Francisco initiative on the ballot Tuesday that could threaten the growth of one of the most valuable global technology companies.... →

It might sound obvious, but if you’re hoping that mom will want to hop into virtual reality while you make her drag around a bunch of ugly ass (and dangerous) wires, it probably won’t happen. That’s why Oculus is doing projects like its partnership with Samsung on the Gear VR. It makes virtual reality mobile. When the latest iteration was announced, our own Josh Constine… Read More... →

Posted by ImprezzioMarketingLocal SEO can be confusing for those businesses that don’t have a physical store for customers to walk into. Unlike businesses with a brick-and-mortar storefront, service-area businesses (or SABs) go out to meet with their customers, as opposed to their customers coming to see them. This often results in them servicing multiple cities, which can be problematic—the #1 ranking factor in local SEO is the physical address of the business. In addition, business owners are also usually... →

Google, Facebook, eBay and Yahoo filed court papers backing Spokeo, a people search website.... →

When it comes to computer science, millions of girls are being left out of the conversation. Despite earning the majority of bachelor's degrees in the U.S., women earn fewer than 20 percent of computer science degrees, with serious implications for our economy and for women at large. The problem of getting girls more interested in tech has many sources,... →

When it comes to computer science, millions of girls are being left out of the conversation. Despite earning the majority of bachelor's degrees in the U.S., women earn fewer than 20 percent of computer science degrees, with serious implications for our economy and for women at large. The problem of getting girls more interested in tech has many sources,... →

Alphabet, which backs diversity in all facets of technology, is helping to shed light on a specific project…a film called “CODEGIRL“. It comes via filmmaker Lesley Chilcott, who you might be familiar with from her work on “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for Superman” As an extension of Google’s “Made With Code” project, the… Read More... →

GUEST: At Adobe’s customer conference last March, a banner on stage read, “Marketing beyond marketing.” It’s true that Adobe, with its Marketing Cloud and Adobe Experience Manager, owns the high end of marketing and experience software for major consumer brands. Its aggressive investment and focus is paying off. Forrester’s research shows that Adobe’s experience manager revenue is twice that of its competitors. But […]... →

Porch, one of the many companies positioning themselves to be the go-to place for “home services,” has laid off 90 members of its staff according to Geekwire. We’ve reached out to Porch for a statement. The company has raised $98.85M to date in 3 rounds. Their competitors include Amazon, Angie’s List, Pro.com and HomeAdvisor, just to name a few. We just covered… Read More... →

GUEST: We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent – people – who give us products to sell. The cybersecurity industry in particular is feeling the effects of an inadequate talent pipeline, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that 209,000 […]... →

Gartner’s annual report in 2008 was titled “Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies.” This was the first year the IT and technology research firm’s annual report mentioned augmented reality (AR). In it, Gartner estimated that AR was “more than 10 years” from mainstream adoption. Read More... →

GUEST: The Internet of Things stands as one of the largest economic opportunities in the world. But it’s not just about consumer devices. Some of the biggest breakthroughs are taking place behind the scenes in factories, farms, and industrial sites to optimize production or increase energy efficiency. The opportunity for IoT in industry, however, is also […]... →

In another week or so, AngelPad, a five-year-old incubator that chooses roughly a dozen startups to coach over a three-month period twice a year, will be hosting an invitation-only “demo day” for a couple hundred angels and VCs in San Francisco. Likely, the investors are already looking forward to it. AngelPad has funded 115 companies to date, including its current cohort, and half… Read More... →

Nexon is a pioneer of free-to-play online games in Asia, and it wants to break into the West in a big way. A couple of years ago, the Tokyo-based, South Korean-born company appointed Owen Mahoney, a former Electronic Arts executive from the U.S., as its CEO. And he has been on a quest to sign up as […]... →

Is Snapchat, the brazen baby of the major social media platforms, slowly killing the hashtag? It looked that way yesterday, when for Halloween, Instagram curated content in a special feed for users who wished to view Halloween-based content from their friends and others, reports Wired. This normally wouldn’t be a very big deal, and on its own, it isn’t. However, Twitter… Read More... →

GUEST: The astute Paul Fain recently reported that a coding bootcamp had partnered with accredited Lynn University ($33,450 tuition) to provision a “tech skills” program for course credits. The tuition would be $14,000, with housing costing an additional $8,300, and would be treated like a “study abroad” on-premise in the bootcamp facilities. On the surface, this […]... →

Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade isn’t winning over as many users as the company probably would have hoped. After three months, Windows 10 has captured almost 8 percent market share, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 was installed on over 75 million PCs in the first four weeks, and passed 110 […]... →

British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked.... →

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Design plays just as big of a role in technology as computer science. That’s why it’s no coincidence that boatloads of successful startups have designers on their founding teams. Since 2010, 27 designer-founded startups have been acquired by large tech companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Adobe, Dropbox and LinkedIn, according to the Design In Tech Report, produced by… Read More... →