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Most people are familiar with Uber as the ridesharing king; it has taken the world by storm, with much fanfare. Less has been written about its new family member, UberEATS, which now delivers lunch within 10 minutes by the push of a button. What’s interesting about the two ventures is the playbook that Uber uses to identify, design and market them in their Uber world. Perhaps we ought… Read More... →

Human has been relentlessly updating its passive activity tracking app for the past two years. But today’s update is the biggest to date with many under-the-hood improvements and new user-facing features. In particular, Human is now much easier on your battery and more accurate as well. Read More... →

So you’ve shot some cool video footage — congrats! But if it needs any editing, you’ve still got a lot of work ahead of you. Or you could try out a startup called VidMob, which is building a marketplace for professional video editors. The company has been beta testing its products, with plans to launch an iOS soon, and an Android app later on. Read More... →

If you’ve ever wondered what you’ll eventually find inside your body cavity when the robots take over meet QRoSS by Takeshi Aoki, Satoshi Ito, and Yosuke Sei from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. This robot consists of a rounded roll cage and four legs hidden inside its body. You can throw the ball into a room where it can roll around and then, when it needs to move… Read More... →

Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a… Read More... →

This is a guest post by Benjamin Mangold . Benjamin is the Co-Founder of Loves Data , a Google Analytics Certified Partner . When he's not seeking out insights, you will find Benjamin blogging, presenting or playing with the Measurement Protocol. A new book showing you how to make the best use of both Google Analytics and Google AdWords is now available.... →

Microsoft, Dell, HP, Intel, and Lenovo today are hosting a webcast titled “PC Does Whaaat?!” The event is supposed to showcase “what’s in store for the next generation of PCs” and debut “an exciting new joint advertising campaign designed to help showcase PC innovation.” As the name implies, the new campaign is aimed at building […]... →

Planet Earth spends a ton of money on video games, but it turns out that only a fraction of the countries make up the bulk of that spending. The top 20 nations alone will spend $83 billion on video games by the end of 2015, according to intelligence firm Newzoo. That represents nearly 91 percent of the […]... →

Everyone is discussing everyone online these days. Someone may be discussing your brand at this very moment and you’d better be there to engage! Online reviews are becoming more and more important: They influence buying decisions and your business growth! Some stats: Here are some online reviews stats from the travel industry: Average number of reviews for a hotel – 238 Percent of travelers who find user reviews important 81%... [Read More...] The post Start Monitoring Your Online Reviews Now: No Excuse for... →

Emergent VR, a startup that promises full video capture for virtual reality headsets like the Gear VR, has raised $2.2 million from Accel Partners, Rothenberg Ventures and Google Ventures. Emergent VR’s play is that it can build a simpler experience for users who want to capture video that can be viewed through VR devices. The three Emergent VR demos Wilkins showed me indicated that… Read More... →

On The Missing Link, host Sean Jackson and Mica Gadhia welcome Dylan Jones, one of their very helpful Missing Link LinkedIn group members, to share about his solid success with LinkedIn and how he drives traffic to his site that's built on the Rainmaker Platform. No, Sean and Mica did not pay him with cash, chocolates, or even booze to share how the Rainmaker Platform is working so well for him now.... →

В сентябре 2015 года ведущий партнер инвестиционного фонда Deep Knowledge Ventures Дмитрий Каминский получил более 70% ООО «Интерактивный банк» (iBank). Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Сумма сделки не раскрывается. Изменения в учредительные документы еще не внесены и пока невозможно определить, чью долю выкупил Каминский. В июле-августе этого года он купил около 10% iBank через ООО «ЛАДА XXI век», которое полностью принадлежит ему. Ранее 70,1% банка принадлежал Олегу Говорухину, которого портал Banki.ru... →

Проект ResearchKit позволяет ученым по согласию пользователей собирать информацию с гаджетов и использовать ее в медицинских исследованиях... →

Smartwatch maker Pebble today announced a new Dictation API (application programming interface) that will give voice recognition capabilities to third-party apps for Pebble watches connected to iOS or Android devices. Rather than develop its own voice recognition technology like Google and Apple, which have their own smartwatches, Pebble has packaged up technology from Nuance Communications. […]... →

Google мог снизить позиции сайтов, закупающих ссылки в бирже Sape. Такое предположение выдвигают пользователи форума Black Hat World. Владельцы сайтов и оптимизаторы массово заметили, что за прошедшие сутки трафик на их ресурсы из Google резко сократился. Примечательно, что все пострадавшие ресурсы продвигали ссылками, закупленными в Sape. Уведомлений в Search Console о том, что к ресурсу были применены санкции вручную, до сих пор не получил ни один вебмастер. Это заставляет думать о том, что проекты попал... →

Dropbox is going head-to-head against a very popular web app, Google Docs. Dropbox Paper is a collaborative document editing platform in your browser. It lets you edit a document in real time with your Dropbox contacts. Here’s how it works. Read More... →

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with IBM Silverpop. The ways consumers use mobile devices in their daily lives today compared to just a couple of years ago has changed dramatically. It’s no longer about sending a simple text message to your friend. It’s about keeping up with Instagram, streaming music from Spotify, and asking Siri […]... →

Our story begins at Stanford University, where the idea for an ephemeral photo sharing app is brought to life by three founders. Read More... →

It's you who makes YouTube the most watched platform for gamers"far and away. Every month gamers watch more than 144 billion minutes of gaming videos and live streams on YouTube. To put it into perspective, that's like watching Let's Plays for more than 270,000 years straight 24 hours a day"or beating Final Fantasy VII 1,900,000 times a day!... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Word processing app Quip raises $30M from Greylock and Benchmark Quip is a San Francisco startup that has built a mobile-friendly application for word processing, working on spreadsheets, and chatting with colleagues. Today Quip […]... →