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If you’re a consumer-brand marketer, you’ve no doubt given thought to running a marketing campaign or having a presence on a mobile messaging app. After all, every consumer is increasingly using mobile messaging as their portal to mobile. It’s sticky and lends itself to repeat sessions, boasting the highest retention and engagement rates of other apps on average. So if… Read More... →

Facebook's 'Other' inbox is being replaced with more noticeable Message Requests. The post Facebook to Replace 'Other' Inbox With More Visible 'Message Requests' by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Pivotal today released its Greenplum data warehouse software under an Apache 2 open-source license. The source code is available now on GitHub. “The Greenplum Database (GPDB) is an advanced, fully featured, open source data warehouse. It provides powerful and rapid analytics on petabyte scale data volumes,” Pivotal writes in the description of the Greenplum software […]... →

Omise, a relative newcomer to the payments space in Southeast Asia, landed a $2.3 million Series A investment earlier this year, and now the Bangkok-based startup has pulled in more money via an undisclosed seven-digit investment from Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures. Read More... →

Rackspace is getting deeper into the container game. The company today announced the beta launch of its Carina container service. Carina gives developers access to a fully managed container environment that offers bare-metal performance and still allows them to use the same native Docker tools they are used to from their local development environments. Read More... →

During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey let us know that the company would be running a new TV commercial during the World Series. As The Verge points out, this commercial was done by the same group that did Apple’s 1984 campaign. While it’s not the first commercial by Twitter, it does look like the beginnings of an actual “campaign.” Twitter’s… Read More... →

Posted by jenstarIf you're a webmaster, you probably received one of those infamous “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on example.com” warning letters that Google sent out to seemingly every SEO and webmaster. This was a brand new alert from Google, although we have been hearing from the search engine about the need to ensure all resources are unblocked—including both JavaScript and CSS. There was definite confusion around these letters, supported by some of the reporting in Google Search Console. He... →

The U.S. Senate easily passed legislation on Tuesday aimed at bolstering the country’s cyber defenses, advancing the first serious attempt in Congress to combat computer hacks that have hit a growing number of businesses and government agencies in recent years. The bill, which would expand liability protections to companies that choose to voluntarily share cyber-threat […]... →

AdWords API v201509 introduces some changes to reporting columns, particularly Clicks . Recently, AdWords introduced new columns called Engagements and Interactions . It also added reporting columns related to video campaigns such as VideoViews , which have previously been unavailable via API reporting. AdWords API version v201509 has updated its reporting to match these changes. The new Interactions field, available in API performance reports,... →

Less than a week after selling SecondMarket to NASDAQ, Barry Silbert has announced the official launch and and first round of funding for Digital Currency Group. Talking onstage to TechCrunch Editor John Biggs today at Money 20/20, Silbert announced that the company has closed a round from Bain Capital Ventures, Transamerica Ventures, FirstMark Capital, MasterCard, and New York Life,… Read More... →

The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against its quickly growing competitor, Zenefits. In a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice. Per the terms of the settlement, ADP stated it has no reason to believe problems exist with the security of Zenefits software. Zenefits… Read More... →

Heists used to be so much effort — you’d need a gang, machine guns, a getaway car and long, meticulous planning. Nowadays, all you need is a couch, a laptop and some stolen data. When the barrier to entry is so low, it’s no surprise that online fraud is a huge problem. In fact, according to the authoritative annual True Cost of Fraud report from LexisNexis/Javelin Group,… Read More... →

If you needed any more evidence that Twitter’s business has rapidly turned mobile just follow the money. The company reported today that almost 9 out of every 10 advertising dollars it earns is earned on mobile devices, mainly phones. Actually, Twitter said in its quarterly report today that 86 percent of its ad revenues come from mobile, and […]... →

In the coming weeks, we'll be making changes to the way the IMA HTML5 SDK handles AdSense and Ad Exchange non-linear and full slot ads. To facilitate these changes, we're adding a new API: AdsRequest.forceNonLinearFullSlot . Gaming publishers are required to set this parameter to true to ensure that all ads returned to your player are correctly rendered as full slot ads. This change is planned to go live the week of November 30th.... →

In the coming weeks, we'll be making changes to the way the IMA HTML5 SDK handles AdSense and Ad Exchange non-linear and full slot ads. You should be aware of these changes to ensure that your video player behaves as expected once the changes have taken effect. Definitions A non-linear ad is a static or animated ad that displays over the video content during content playback. These are also sometimes referred to as "bottom-third" ads,... →

Enlitic, a startup using a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to help radiologists do a better job of understanding medical images, is announcing today a $10 million round of funding. The money comes from Capitol Health Limited, a publicly traded company that provides diagnostic imaging services in clinics across Australia. As a result […]... →

Critically acclaimed screenwriter and director John August stopped by The Writer Files to chat with host Kelton Reid about his writing process, the film business, and his hit podcast Scriptnotes. Since his breakthrough film debut Go (1999), John has penned an impressive list of big budget Hollywood films from Charlie's Angels (2000) to a handful of Tim Burton films, including Big Fish (2003) and Frankenweenie (2013). The prolific author has also worked in TV, on Broadway,... →

This morning Verizon and Motorola revealed their next-generation Droid phones: the shatterproof Turbo 2 and the less interesting Droid Maxx 2. Of the two phones, the Turbo is more feature rich with faster battery charging, more storage, and a better processor. But perhaps its most compelling feature is Motorola’s “shatterfield” technology, which prevents the phone’s screen from […]... →

Apple Pay is pretty nifty, but it’s a whole lot less useful outside of the US and UK — as in, it doesn’t work yet. That’s changing soon, it seems. On their earnings call this afternoon, Apple committed to rolling out Pay support in four new countries — two of which will get it this year. According to Tim Cook, Canada and Australia iPhone owners should get Apple… Read More... →

In a crushing blow to the tech industry and privacy advocates, the Senate today passed the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The bill, which passed the Senate on a bipartisan vote, is intended to allow companies to share information about cybersecurity threats with the government. However critics, particularly those in the tech industry, say the bill will extend… Read More... →