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In the last 30 to 45 minutes of a long two-hour keynote session, Bear Douglas and Romain Huet took the stage to undertake a pretty complex task: build not one, but two iOS apps right then and there. For them, the mission was simple: show the more than 1,500 developers in the room and those […]... →

Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets. Thanks a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have to print out a PDF or (shudder) wait for someone to put your physical tickets in the mail. Instead, the tickets will be delivered through the app, giving you a mobile barcode that will be scanned when you reach the… Read More... →

Microsoft promised that Bing would stop losing money in its fiscal year 2016. Today, the company reported the first quarter’s results of that fiscal period and dropped an interesting tidbit: Bing is profitable. Read More... →

Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015, it’s hard to think of a sport left untouched by the spindly fingers of organized crime and match fixing. It doesn’t matter if you’re into sumo wrestling, NBA, boxing, college football or the… Read More... →

One day, things in the tech startup world are ticking along nicely. The next, investor Bill Gurley is calling private valuations “fake,” billion-dollar companies are losing their sheen, and venture capitalists are allegedly getting cursed out for passing on startups. For those us based in the Bay Area, it’s hard to know what in the world is going on. You can probably… Read More... →

The Ad Council and a cohort of tech companies shed some light today on an eye emoji that has been perplexing Apple watchers since the release of iOS 9.1. The eye — which was rumored to mean everything from the Department of Homeland Security is watching you to “talking with your eyes” — symbolizes an anti-bullying campaign that launched in conjunction with… Read More... →

In preparation for improvements to CPA bidding in AdWords, starting October 26, 2015 , we'll perform a one-time removal of inactive ad group-level CPA bids. What's an inactive ad group CPA bid, you ask? An ad group-level CPA bid is inactive if the ad group's effective bidding strategy is not a CONVERSION_OPTIMIZER strategy. This includes CPA bids on ad groups whose effective bidding strategy is TARGET_CPA ,... →

Facebook engineering manager Ari Grant has posted an explanation for the recent issues with the app gorging itself on power. Grant says that the battery issues were causes by a series of bugs including one that ate up extra CPU cycles, causing Facebook to use up more of your iPhone battery than it should. After a post by Circa co-founder Matt Galligan caused some eyeballs to hit the issue… Read More... →

По-видимому шести тысяч классных котиков из числа сотрудников "Яндекса", которые тестировали "Кинопоиск", оказалось недостаточно. Или внезапно выяснилось, что они немного biased..... →

In the last episode of Rough Draft, your host Demian Farnworth explored storytelling from a myriad of angles, culminating in a thorough vetting of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey concept. This time, Demian thoroughly vets Campbell " the man " with superstar Campbell scholar Robert Segal. Professor Segal is an unstoppable fount of knowledge about Campbell and his work, particularly the Hero's Journey. This is a frolicking good ride for those who love myth,... →

Amazon today provided new information about robots working inside of its facilities. The e-commerce company now has 30,000 Kiva robots working in its fulfillment centers, an executive said during Amazon’s quarterly call with investors today. That number is up from 15,000 at the end of 2014, said the executive, Phil Hardin, Amazon’s director of investor […]... →

Several research reports this month have pointed out that Google’s display ad business is growing far more slowly than Facebook’s. Most recently, IgnitionOne’s Q3 Digital Marketing Report said that Google’s display business dropped 19 percent from last year’s third quarter to this year’s, while Facebook’s share of display advertising spend increased by 40 percent. In short, the […]... →

На обратный выкуп 1% своих акций компания потратит $5B из лежащих на балансе $73B.... →

GUEST: Amazon set the standard for online retail in an unsettling way. Following Amazon’s model, the way to dominate market share is by posting a loss … over and over again. Amazon didn’t actually make a profit until 2009 after being in business for 15 years. Online-only retailer Jet jumped onto the scene in July and […]... →

Last week, The Showrunner hosts Jerod Morris and Jon Nastor teased a potential listener question being expanded into a full-fledged episode. They lied. That listener question is actually being expanded into a two-part series about how to use social media to promote your show. In this episode, Jerod and Jon focus on Twitter. Here is the question, via Jeff Leo Hermann: Question regarding social activation (Twitter) and building your show brand versus your personal brand.... →

Today, Alphabet beat Q3 earnings projections. During the earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the (micro)phone to discuss the business and product highlights from the quarter. “There is a real sense of energy and focus throughout the company.” he said. He also added that its main products, including Maps and YouTube have over a billion users each. Google Play, which… Read More... →

How did Alphabet come up with the weirdly specific number of $5.099 billion for its buyback of class C shares? By taking the square root of 26, which not-so-coincidentally is the number of letters in the alphabet. @lexnfx It's the square root of 26 e18th. Those Google guys! They have so much fun with numbers. — George Anders (@GeorgeAnders) October 22, 2015 The big stock… Read More... →

Microsoft didn’t say how many Xbox 360s and Xbox Ones it sold last quarter, but it does point out that its online-gaming service is growing. Xbox Live now has 39 million monthly active gamers, according to Microsoft’s quarterly financial report. That’s up 28 percent year-over-year, but this number also doesn’t really tell the whole story. […]... →

Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think of using our digital operating systems. Sure, we already have our portable computing devices such as iPads and smartphones, but Solu founder Kristoffer Lawson wants us to stop lugging all our heavy laptops and notebooks around… Read More... →

After the market closed Thursday, online music streaming service Pandora reported a third quarter loss of $85.9 million. The company lost 40 cents per share. Pandora met street estimates and posted an adjusted profit of 10 cents per share. Its revenue of $311.6 million narrowly missed estimates of $313 million. Shares were down 15% in after hours trading following Pandora’s… Read More... →