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A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with Darrell Jones III, who heads up business development at Clef, at the southern restaurant Pican a few blocks away from the Oakland building that 3,000 Uber workers are slated to move into by 2017. Jones, who is half-black and half-Filipino and grew up partly on the North Side of Chicago, makes a point of being a patron at mostly black-owned businesses in… Read More... →

PizzaRat, the lovable scampering rodent that took the Internet by storm last week, now has representation in Hollywood. An entertainment company called Jukin Media bought the rights to the 15-second video that reached over 5 million views on YouTube, a move that surprised many of the rat’s fans who retweeted gifs of the rodent in action. The guy who recorded PizzaRat, comedian Matt… Read More... →

Stories of entrepreneurs launching innovative ideas, raising millions in venture capital and turning startups such as Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat into multi-billion dollar companies has catapulted venture capital investments, setting record numbers since the dot-com era. On the surface, it appears that investors have everything under control. But as we peel back the layers, empirical research… Read More... →

The goal today on Technology Translated is to arm you with the information you need to get the right answer for your needs and to find the right person to help you. Rebecca Gill is the founder and CEO of Web Savvy Marketing. They've been building websites since 2009 and are one of the most respected agencies in the WordPress community.... →

For the first time, Google joined the legal fight last week against robocalls. It filed suit against a search engine optimization firm in California for robocalls that promised better results from its search engine. It also set up a new Web page for reporting robocall scams. But even mighty Google can only do but so […]... →

Samsung officially opened the doors to its new 1.1-million-square-foot Silicon Valley offices Thursday, more than 30 years after its arrival in the San Jose tech corridor in 1983. The building will house various research labs dedicated to semiconductors, LEDs and displays, staff in sales and marketing, and other support areas, the company said. “[We are] laying the groundwork […]... →

It’s Oculus Connect keynote day, and the company had a lot of stuff to announce despite a claim that consumers shouldn’t get too excited. Here are all the big announcements from the developer event. Samsung’s $99 Gear VR While Oculus is planning to release the amazing new Rift headset in Q1 2016, one of its […]... →

В Пензе состоится знаковое событие в жизни ИТ-сообщества – HackDay, двухдневный командный ИТ-марафон. Мероприятие во второй раз объединит наиболее активных представителей технологических и предпринимательских сообществ Пензы и ближайших регионов, чтобы за 48 часов участники смогли запустить собственные ИТ-проекты. По окончании мероприятия готовые проекты будут продемонстрированы экспертам, инвесторам и журналистам. Особенностью мероприятия является то, что вся работа — от представления идей и набора команд ... →

There are not one but two renowned Defenders of Humanity on this week's episode of The Showrunner. Sonia Simone, Chief Content Officer for Rainmaker Digital, joins Jerod Morris and Jonny Nastor to discuss how your podcast can (and should) fit into your overall content marketing mix. The timing of Sonia's visit is not a coincidence. With Authority getting ready to shut its doors to new members next Wednesday (September 30, 2015),... →

The director of the NSA Admiral Michael Rogers just admitted at a Senate hearing that when Internet companies provide copies of encryption keys to law enforcement, the risk of hacks and data theft goes way up. The government has been pressuring technology companies to provide the encryption keys that it can use to access data from […]... →

Twitter is looking at possibly letting users add quick polls to their Tweets. A company spokesperson confirmed the move in a statement to VentureBeat saying “We’re experimenting with a new way to poll users on Twitter.” Right now, it looks like polls are only visible on Twitter’s mobile apps and website, but not on desktop […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

We finally have a workable virtual-reality platform, but plenty of obstacles are between us and a Star Trek-style holodeck. If you reach out to touch a table, you’ll feel the molecules of that piece of furniture push against your hand. Do the same thing in virtual reality, and you’ll feel nothing. This is a problem — and […]... →

Google has rolled out a series of updates for Google Play and Android 6.0 Marshmallow today aimed at giving better support for developers. The company announced that Marshmallow now has a new permissions model aimed at improving the way app installs and updates are handled. Additionally, Google Play services 8.1 offers support runtime permissions, a […]... →

Posted by Genevieve Cuevas, Software Engineer (Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog .) Forget fumbling with sticky notes or trying to recall that last item on your to-do list. When you're trying to capture a moment or remember a task, Google Keep can help. And starting today, the things you love about Keep on the web and Android are now available on iOS: Find what you need, quickly by searching and filtering your notes by color and type like images, audio and text.... →

Marketing is simply, and literally, "bringing your products to market." And sales is making the right offer to the right person. And yet, research shows that "selling" immediately brings to mind negative word associations. It's as if the world hadn't dramatically changed since the release of Glengarry, Glen Ross. But the world has changed, and it's the prospect, not the salesperson, who has control. So,... →

Today Oculus gave 1,500 developers at the Oculus Connect 2 conference (as well as those at home via livestream or on Gear VR a chance to watch) a look at how the consumer version of the Oculus Rift will roll out in Q1 2016, how Oculus plans to bring virtual reality to millions through the Samsung Gear VR, and how new platforms and controllers will expand the uses of Oculus Rift from games… Read More... →

Recently, we announced the availability of native ads for apps in DFP . Here, we're going to introduce you to creating native creatives with the DFP API using the ads Java client library . A native creative consists of a set of assets (headline, image, etc.) which are sent to mobile apps for custom rendering in their own code (see our Android and iOS developer guides for details). Native creatives are actually just another type of template-based creative .... →

Fledgling European mobile phone brand Wileyfox announced its arrival in the smartphone realm a month ago, and now the London-based company is preparing to launch its first ever product: The Wileyfox Swift. Initially slated for launch this week, Wileyfox revealed that shipping for the $200 Android device has been delayed until September 30. But while […]... →

Microsoft is beefing up the security capability of Windows 10 IoT Core, the compact version of Windows intended for Internet-connected devices. Microsoft’s Bitlocker data encryption technology and its Secure Boot system for only supporting trusted software will both appear in in an upcoming release of the operating system, Microsoft announced today. “By building this into […]... →