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The Xbox One is about a month away from getting a major overhaul, but we’ve got an early look and want to give you an idea of what to expect. The New Xbox One Experience (NXOE), as Microsoft calls it, is something of a mea culpa. It is Microsoft admitting that it got some major […]... →

Rumors that Dell is going to buy Massachusetts-based storage giant EMC, first reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, have been flying fast and furiously. The deal could be valued as high as $27/share, or just shy of $52 billion, according to one report, sending EMC’s stock soaring today. If the rumors are true, it could be one of the biggest tech M&A deals in history… Read More... →

Netflix is raising the price of its most popular package from $8.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting today. The updated price applies to new users in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Existing Standard subscribers don’t need to panic just yet. Netflix will let them continue paying the lower price fee until October next year. Here’s the statement from the […]... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the introduction of the AWS Mobile Hub, a service for building, testing, deploying, and then monitoring iOS and Android apps. The tool is live now in beta, and it’s free in the sense that you only pay for the services that the Mobile Hub uses, including AWS compute and […]... →

We've made it easier and faster to apply for AdSense and get your account approved. Starting today, you'll have immediate access to your AdSense account once you sign up. Previously, when you applied for AdSense, you'd need to wait for your account information to be approved before you could access your account and place ad units on your site. Now you can create ad units and place them on your site right after signing up for AdSense.... →

Surprise! Netflix just got more expensive. The service’s most popular plan now costs $9.99. Existing customers will have a grace period, but the price is effectively immediately for subscribers in US, Canada and parts of Latin America. Netflix quietly raised prices for Europeans in late August. The price increase raises its Standard plan to $9.99 a month. This is the plan that streams… Read More... →

S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, is leaving the company. Microsoft confirmed the news with VentureBeat but wouldn’t share any details surrounding the departure. ZDNet was first to break the story, noting that Microsoft cloud and enterprise executive vice president Scott Guthrie announced internally today that Somasegar would be leaving […]... →

AJ Wilcox, one of the superstar Missing Link LinkedIn group members (and a LinkedIn ads expert), shares a case study you'll want to emulate to get the most out of Sponsored Updates on LinkedIn. Get this, AJ took his target goal from 600,000 prospects all the way to 2.1 million in just a few steps. And, if you don't think you need to follow through on your analytics research for your ad campaigns, AJ shares why you need to look at the entire sales funnel.... →

Shares of Box, an enterprise collaboration shop, traded sharply higher today following news that the company’s CEO, Aaron Levie, recently purchased 15,000 shares. At a price, according to an SEC filing, of $11.1 per share, the dollar amount of the trade is not large, but its impact has been more than symbolic. Disclosure of the $166,500 purchase helped push shares of Box north by… Read More... →

Издание уже сформировало русскоязычную команду, опубликовало первый материал на русском языке и завело русскоязычный аккаунт на Twitter... →

Microsoft организовала конкурс Hacking Mars на создание средства, которое могло бы спасти героя фильма «Марсианин» Марка Уотни, затерявшегося в буре во время эвакуации с Марса на Землю. Об этом vc.ru рассказали представители компании.Победители смогут посетить штаб-квартиру Microsoft с возможностью протестировать разработку компании — компьютер дополненной реальности HoloLens. Среди других призов — устройства, представленные на последней презентации корпорациии, — планшет Surface, игровая консоль Xbox One, ... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon IoT, a new service companies can use to hook up with Internet-connected devices and build applications based on them. Until now, working with devices, networks, security, data collection to build Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels said at the AWS re:Invent conference in […]... →

As of some time this summer, Google says that more than half of all web searches now happen on mobile devices, meaning smartphones. “This summer for first time mobile searches have surpassed desktop search,” said Amit Singhal, Google VP and head of the search business. Singhal said more than half of the 1 billion Google searches a […]... →

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Make way for another big player entering the Internet of Things space. Amazon today is announcing its long-awaited IoT platform for AWS at its re:Invent developer conference in Vegas. As Amazon describes it, it is a managed cloud platform “that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.” The platform, which is launching in… Read More... →

21 is a mysterious Bitcoin hardware and mining startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz that unwrapped its first product earlier this year. A few weeks ago, they unveiled and began pre-selling a computer that has native hardware and software support for the Bitcoin protocol. Co-founder Balaji Srinivasan, who previously started bioinformatics and gene testing company Counsyl, said the vision is… Read More... →

Mozilla today announced its intention to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugin support from Firefox “by the end of 2016.” The company has been working along with other Web proponents to implement functionality (like streaming video, advanced graphics, and gaming features) that were once only available via NPAPI plugins. NPAPI plugins are seen […]... →

Today at the Amazon re:invent conference, Amazon announced Amazon EC2 Container Registry, a tool designed to simplify container management for developers. Last year Amazon announced EC2, its container service, which provides support for Docker images. As Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO told the crowd, as you generate, store and launch these container images, having a registry to keep track of… Read More... →

Amazon today announced the launch of its AWS Mobile Hub based on AWS Lambda at its re:Invent developer conference, a new tool that makes it easier for mobile developer to build the back-end processes for their apps. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted during today’s keynote, AWS has long offered developers all of the services to run a backend for mobile apps, but those weren’t… Read More... →

Posted by Weilong Yang and Min-hsuan Tsai, Video Content Analysis team and the YouTube Creator team Video thumbnails are often the first things viewers see when they look for something interesting to watch. A strong, vibrant, and relevant thumbnail draws attention, giving viewers a quick preview of the content of the video, and helps them to find content more easily. Better thumbnails lead to more clicks and views for video creators.... →