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VB WEBINAR: That useful little blue dot on your smartphone’s map is like a flame to a moth for location-based marketers. But as I found out from Mike Schneider, VP of marketing at Skyhook, during our webinar “Drive ad revenue with precise location targeting,” if you focus on pushing offers, messages, and coupons to people based on […]... →

TalkTalk, one of the U.K.s largest Internet services providers (ISPs) with more than four million customer accounts, has suffered its third data-breach in 2015, and the latest one is significant. Founded initially as a subsidiary to the Carphone Warehouse mobile phone retailer, TalkTalk has emerged as one of the preeminent communication brands in the U.K., […]... →

Right on time for Halloween, rumors spring out of the ground that a new Google update involving so-called low quality, high volume, “zombie” traffic is coming. And that’s not all that’s buzzing in our communities! We’ve got news of Duane Forrester’s departure from Microsoft, a great discussion about site layouts, words from Seth Godin about ad blocking, and more. Besides zombie traffic, the biggest news is probably Amazon tackling 1,114... [Read More...] The post Zombie Traffic and Fake Reviews: Weekly Foru... →

Blackberry is officially accepting pre-orders for its new Android based smartphone. Priv was first announced last month. The phone features a touch screen, slide out keyboard, and Blackberry’s security software. The phone is first being made available in the U.S., U.K., and Canada for $699, £549, and $899 CND respectively. Blackberry hasn’t yet announced when the phones will […]... →

Facebook has hit a milestone today as its stock price has topped $100 per share in current market trading hours. The company now has a market cap of over $280 billion. Since July 16, Facebook’s stock price had hovered within the $90 range, creeping ever closer to $100. Analysts had predicted that the company would hit […]... →

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Turing Pharmaceuticals, a months-old biotech startup that is largely financed by its 32-year-old founder and CEO Martin Shkreli, sparked widespread outrage last month. The reason: shortly after paying $55 million for a 62-year-old drug called Daraprim that’s prescribed for toxoplasmosis and other types of infections, Turing repriced the drug from $13.50 per pill to a stunning $750… Read More... →

На этой неделе в «ИТ-офисах» — пражская штаб-квартира аналитической компании Socialbakers.... →

Voyat, the hotel CRM tool revealed by Ben Habbel in July of last year, is now seeing more than 500,000 new guest profiles each month, with operations in 10 different countries across the globe. The company provides a software tool that hooks into reservation systems and gives hotels insight into individual guests. For example, Voyat’s V-CRM product would be able to tell the hotel a… Read More... →

Doorman, a company tackling the problem of missed deliveries by allowing consumers to schedule their own deliveries as late as midnight, has now gone live in Chicago and is preparing to soon launch in New York. The expansion comes on the heels of Doorman’s seed funding round from earlier this summer, which saw the company adding $1.5 million to its coffers in order to grow its business.… Read More... →

Колонка партнёра Andreessen Horowitz, члена совета директоров AirBnb и бывшего президента PayPal Джеффа Джордана.... →

The organizers of Casual Connect Tel Aviv paid my way to Israel. Our coverage remains objective. TEL AVIV — Israel’s 200 game companies are expected to generate $1 billion in mobile and social gaming revenue in 2015, up 25 percent from $800 million a year earlier, according to a market analysis by Playtika, Israel’s largest game […]... →

We have a love affair with our cars. We equate them with independence and romance. We spend hours washing, waxing and restoring them. As a portion of total consumer credit, we spend more on car loans than we do on home mortgages. So when researchers claim they can remotely control our cars, disable the brakes and take control of the steering, and news websites show pictures of an SUV nose down… Read More... →

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Global Marketing News - 23rd October 2015 Instagram to overtake Twitter for marketing in the US Research by Emarketer predicts that the number of US companies using Instagram for marketing purposes will overtake the number using Twitter within 2 years. Currently, around a third of US companies with over 100 employees use Instagram for marketing purposes, compared to two-thirds who currently use Twitter for such purposes.... →

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Another big change for DataSift — the UK startup that applies analytics to social network data firehoses to surface trends, which had a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Halstead, who founded the company in 2010, is stepping down as CEO. Halstead will be replaced by Tim Barker, DataSift’s chief product officer. In a blog post announcing the move,… Read More... →

Курс акций Facebook в начале торгов в Нью-Йорке в пятницу, 23 октября, превысил отметку в $100. Рыночная капитализация компании составила более $280 млрд.... →

Never Eat Alone started with a simple idea, but it’s a potentially very lucrative business. If you work in a big corporate environment, chances are you always have lunch with the same persons in your department. And when they’re not around, you end up eating in front of your computer, like hundreds or thousands of others in your company. Never Eat Alone puts an end to this. Read More... →

На улицах города стартовала акция «Дома бездомных»... →