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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... →

Today Alphabet, the umbrella company which owns Google, Nest, and all of Google’s money-eating “moonshot” experiments, announced plans to buy back more than $5 billon — specifically $5,099,019,513.59 — in stock. That’s roughly one percent of Google’s $451.3 billion market cap. This isn’t all that surprising. Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat hinted last quarter that the company wasn’t […]... →

Today Microsoft reported the financial performance it recorded during the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. Microsoft generated $0.67 in adjusted per-share profit off non-GAAP revenue of $21.66 billion in the three-month period. Analysts had expected the Redmond-based software shop to earn $0.59 per share, on revenue of $21.03 billion. Microsoft also reported GAAP revenue o $2.04 billion.… Read More... →

We’re back. Hardware Alley is TechCrunch’s premier hardware event and will be taking CES by storm again this year. Applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application by Friday, 11/6 at 9pm PT to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electronics Show, $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy. For those of you following along at home… Read More... →

Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $25.4 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share. Analysts were expecting a loss of 13 cents per share on sales of $24.91 billion. Shares of Amazon promptly shot up around 9% in extended trading. The company is expecting revenue of… Read More... →

Microsoft today reported its earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal 2016, including revenue of $21.7 billion and earnings per share of $0.67. Analysts had expected the company to earn $21.03 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.59. More to follow More information: Powered by VBProfiles... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Today Amazon posted better than expected earnings of $0.17 per share on revenue of $25.4 billion. The company was expected to post a loss of $0.13 a share on revenue of $24.91 billion. Its operating cash flow also saw an increase of 72 percent, bring its to $9.8 billion. Over the last year, Amazon’s stock has been on […]... →

Today following the bell, Alphabet reported its Q3 2015 financial performance, including revenue of $18.68B, and adjusted earnings per share of $7.35. Investors had expected adjusted per-share income of $7.21, off revenue of $18.53 billion, including traffic acquisition costs, and $15 billion, excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC). Up over a point in regular trading, Alphabet is up… Read More... →

Amazon today disclosed in its quarterly earnings that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest public cloud currently available for hosting websites and applications, brought in $2.08 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2015, which ended on Sept. 30. AWS revenue for the quarter was up 78 percent year over year. That […]... →