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Over the last year content marketing has really taken off for e-commerce sites. More businesses are wanting to relish the benefits of producing creative content. I'm not just referring to the product descriptions, but other more exciting forms of content like product tutorials and user-generated content. It's this type of content that helps you to differentiate your brand from your competitors.... →

Tacos. Burritos. Staples of the San Francisco scene. Admit it, you’re thinking about getting one right now for lunch, aren’t you? Well, on Thursday, October 8, not only could you get one, but you’ll be able to have a food truck parked right in front of your office, thanks to a promotion by Square-owned Caviar. […]... →

6 октября корпорация Microsoft провела очередную презентацию своих новых продуктов, на которой представила, в том числе, свой первый ноутбук — Surface Book, о котором многие уважаемые издания отозвались как о потенциальном «убийце Macbook».Издание Business Insider полагает, что Microsoft хочет добиться того, чтобы её ставили в один ряд с Apple — и для индустрии это шаг вперёд. Редакция vc.ru собрала ещё несколько мнений о том, сможет ли Surface Book изменить индустрию производства компьютеров.... →

Y Combinator is creating a non-profit research lab aimed at creating technology “that shouldn’t be owned by any one company”. To accomplish this, chief executive Sam Altman says he’ll be donating $10 million to jumpstart YC Research to further innovation beyond the startup scene. Although part of the Y Combinator organization, it’s going to be […]... →

Google today brought out its Cloud Security Scanner service for finding potential security issues into general availability — for free. The tool came out in beta back in February. The timing is the interesting part. Google published its blog post on the news less than one hour after Amazon Web Services, the biggest public cloud […]... →

Сегодня, 7 октября 2015 года, компания Google официально запустила проект с открытым исходным кодом — Accelerated Mobile Pages. Основная цель инициативы сводится к тому, чтобы сделать открытый мобильный интернет ещё более производительным. Проект реализован при поддержке партнёров Google из DNI. В тестировании нового формата создания мобильных страниц уже приняли участие свыше 30 издателей по всему миру. «Мы хотим, чтобы веб-страницы с разнообразным контентом — видеороликами, анимацией и графикой — загружа... →

Israel has become known for its security startups, and Scalock, a company that wants to secure the burgeoning container space, announced a $4 million Series A round today. The funding was provided by Israel venture capitalists TLV partners, a new fund launched earlier this year by veterans of the Israeli VC scene, Rona Segev and Eitan Bek. The company is run by two security industry… Read More... →

Bitter rivals Facebook and Google today announced a partnership that may feel a bit odd at first glance. WhatsApp for Android is getting Google Drive integration, which lets you back up your chat messages and media content to the cloud. You can download the latest version directly from Google Play, though you might not see […]... →

You did it! You pitched a reporter, and he or she called you for comment. In this episode of PR is Dead, you'll learn best practices for making the most of this exciting opportunity. In this 19-minute episode of PR is Dead, host Doyle Albee discusses: How to answer a reporter's call What you need to think about before sitting down for an interview Some do's and don'ts for doing interviews Click Here to Listen to PR is Dead on iTunes Click Here to Listen on Rainmaker.... →

Streaming has been eating away into digital and CD sales for years, as consumers turn to online services like Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and now Apple Music, among others, to listen to their favorite songs and artists. Alongside this shift, it seems that users are becoming less interested in managing their collection of MP3’s, in favor of getting the tracks they… Read More... →

Today at Amazon re:invent, Amazon announced a new service called Amazon Inspector that analyzes your AWS instances and reports back with any security or compliance issues it finds. This provides a valuable service for Amazon customers who may be worried about security, especially those that are new to cloud services. The service does a complete review of your Amazon cloud and reports back… Read More... →

Living in California, like many areas around the world, we’re prone to earthquakes and when one does strike, one of the things that people are prone to doing is tweet about it (c’mon, admit it). But did you know that your tweet is being used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to help track these events? […]... →

Мосгорсуд постановил временно заблокировать страницу онлайн-кинотеатра Megogo с шоу «Суд присяжных. Окончательный вердикт» по просьбе правообладателя, телеканала НТВ, сообщает «Роскомсвобода». Представители сервиса считают, что НТВ ошибочно трактует законодательство.... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon Inspector, a sort of bot service that looks for and identifies potential security and compliance vulnerabilities. Amazon Inspector is available in preview today. A blog post has more detail on the service. The tool draws on the knowledge that Amazon has built up over 20 years of operation, […]... →

Компания Google представила Accelerated Mobile Pages — сервис по созданию быстро загружающихся в мобильных браузерах новостных статей. Об этом пишет TechCrunch.... →

The first batch of startups in Disney’s startup accelerator produced successes like the bb-8 droid from Sphero and Naritiv, a marketing platform that nabbed a deal with Snapchat. Sphero produced the bb-8 droid in anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. But it was a fated meeting with Disney CEO Bob Iger that gave the Sphero robotics team an idea to create the… Read More... →

When it comes to the weather, there are no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Sunshine, is looking to change all that. Using information delivered from the barometer sensor in the phone, as well as user-generated reports of local weather, the app is trying to change the way we… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of new database tools to run production databases on its public cloud. There’s now a Database Migration Service that allows companies to easily move databases to AWS that takes 10-15 minutes to set up. The promise here is to run the same databases in the cloud at […]... →

TriggMine представляет собой SaaS-сервис триггерных писем для привлечения, активации и реанимации клиентов в сегменте электронной коммерции... →

Giphy, which launched out of betaworks in 2013 as a search engine for gifs, is evolving into something much bigger. In the last year, we’ve seen Giphy launch a standalone mobile app for creating your own gifs, called GiphyCam. We’ve also seen Giphy partner with tech companies like Facebook and Slack for seamless gif sharing. Meanwhile, Giphy offers original content through… Read More... →