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While Uber dukes it out in China against Didi Kauidi, a homegrown rival in India is also piling pressure on the U.S.-based transportation app with global ambitions. Ola, a taxi app backed by the likes of Softbank and DST Global (coincidentally also both backers of Didi Kauidi), is launching a new shuttle service to complement and expand on its taxi offering, with rides costing under $1.… Read More... →

Increasingly, the worlds of fashion and technology are becoming intertwined"from wristbands that track your heart rate to responsive fabrics that adjust to your temperature. And just like you can sew together different pieces of fabric to make a dress, or choose different items from your closet to create an unexpected outfit, you can also put together code to make something that's never existed before. Today, as New York's Fashion Week kicks off,... →

I asked four web design, branding and marketing exerts to review and rate the sites of the leading Republican candidates. Now we’re taking a look at the sites of the top four Democrats in the race and putting them through the same process. Read More... →

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Posted by Ashley Sprague, Director of IT, Netflix Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Ashley Sprague, Director of IT at Netflix, where over 65 million members go to stream their favorite movies, shows and more. Netflix was recently featured at Chrome Live to share how they've brought their call center into the cloud " powered solely by Chrome devices and Chrome management. To learn more about Netflix's approach to work, check out this recording of Chrome Live .... →

I know this might be shocking to you, but I’m not a fashion expert. I’m lucky if I can find two matching socks to wear. Most of the time I give up and don’t. However, it looks like the rest of the tech world is looking to up its fashion game, namely Apple and Amazon. Read More... →

Mobile messaging company Kik recently landed investment from Tencent at a billion dollar valuation, and now it is borrowing a hallmark of the Chinese company’s blockbuster WeChat app: QR codes. Read More... →

Do you need Clams? Nucoin? ShapeShift.io is here to help. This oddly simple system is a universal and anonymous cryptocurrency converter created by one of the pioneers in bitcoin, Erik Voorhees. How does it work? You request a certain cryptocurrency – Litecoin, for example – and give the service a deposit address. Then you simply deposit another currency – Bitcoin, for… Read More... →

Mobile is the new battleground — for everything. Including, now, enterprise software and services. About 18 months ago, Datanyze launched a revolutionary service for cloud software providers, telling them when companies are trying their competitors’ services and giving them the opportunity to insert themselves into the evaluation and buying process. Today, the still-young startup is launching the […]... →

Tomorrow’s Apple event is going to be a behemoth. First, it’s going to take place in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, which seats a huge crowd of 7,000 people. Second, rumor has it that Apple is going to touch on many product lines — the iPhone obviously, but also the Apple TV, the iPad and the Apple Watch. Here’s what to expect. Read More... →

Jawbone is releasing a firmware update that will add passive heart rate and an automatic sleep mode to their wristbands. The UP2, UP3, and UP4 trackers are also getting a facelift in the form of new colors and, for the UP2, a new design with thinner straps. Read More... →

As user acquisition costs soar, mobile-game developers are looking for alternatives to getting users. One of the best ways, and sometimes most overlooked, is obtaining users organically through app store optimization (ASO). This basically means that developers have to ensure that their keywords, their descriptions, their icons, and all their metadata makes their app easily discoverable […]... →

WebCEO Company provides white label SEO tools for other platforms as well as a LeadGen widget specifically for use on digital marketing agency websites. The post Drive Lead Generation with WebCEO Marketing Automation by @sejournal appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Global Marketing News - 8th September 2015 Naver and Kakao lock horns in South Korea mobile race The Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao are in fierce competition over the country's mobile market. With more Koreans now using their mobiles to access the internet than their desktops, the two companies are battling for dominance in mobile as the winner will have the upper hand in the internet market as a whole. While Naver leads the Korean mobile search engine market,... →

With Google Shopping , finding the right customers starts with creating a good product data feed: the better your feed, the more easily we can connect you with online shoppers, searching for what you sell. Key to creating a complete feed is clearly and accurately specifying which products you have for sale. For most products, the manufacturer will provide a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) to uniquely and completely identify a product in the global marketplace.... →

What is in a domain name? Rather than using one of its many top level domain options, Google took a different approach by making a new address for Alphabet Inc. - ABC.XYZ.... →

Popular desktop ad-blocking software Adblock Plus, which has some 50 million+ monthly active users worldwide, has finally launched an iOS app. It’s also managed to convince Google to allow its ad-blocking browser for Android back in the Play Store, noting that this is the first time since March 2013 it’s been allowed in the Google-controlled Android app store. Read More... →

Since its founding a decade ago, Emergence Capital Partners has become among the startup industry’s highly regarded investors in enterprise software-as-a-service companies. Fact is, few firms are as specialized. But the approach has paid big dividends. In fact, in 2013, Emergence saw one of the industry’s biggest returns with the IPO of Veeva Systems, an enterprise cloud provider… Read More... →

VB EVENT: On September 24, a group of forward-thinking marketers in San Francisco will spend three hours learning more about agile at the VB Agile Marketing Roadshow. Join the conversation by registering today! Originally formulated as a way to quickly build and iterate software, the agile method has been expanded into the marketing world. You can read […]... →

So you decided to stick to the Raspberry Pi architecture and have completely eschewed the Orange Pi? Good for you. In honor of your decision I offer a new $60 Raspberry Pi touchscreen that can turn your single board computer into a fun-sized multi-touch tablet. The officially licensed product connects to the RaspPi’s DSI and DPI connectors to avoid using the precious HDMI connector and… Read More... →