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The team at Turing Email is setting out to fix the little things that make email so tedious. Although many solutions to replace email for internal communications are growing in popularity today, Turing Email takes a step back to the basics and focuses on the little inconveniences that make email such a groan-inducing part of the workday. Stewart Macgregor-Dennis, the company’s founder… Read More... →

Smart banners are a handy thing for publishers. You can drop an AdMob smart banner into a layout or storyboard, and it'll stretch or squeeze itself at runtime until it's just the right size for the device, then request an ad to match. They're a great feature with all the extra work hidden under the hood. If you're building an Android mediation adapter or custom event, though, things aren't quite as simple - after all, you're under that hood, too!... →

Apple has made an agreement to lease a large piece of real estate in Sunnyvale, California on which it plans a second “spaceship” office building.  And if recent reports about the scale of Apple’s electric car business are correct the new space might be needed for that. Apple plans to use the space to build a […]... →

Posted by randfishA concept we've covered regularly is what we call flywheel marketing, where the organic traffic, shares, and links you get from publishing one piece of content makes it easier for later pieces to see some success. One of the key pieces of that flywheel is the ability to get those social shares, and based on a recent study, we're ready to admit it: We were completely wrong about that key piece.In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains why, and that the real value may lie in engagement. Cl... →

According to Google's Gary Illyes, Google Authorship may make a comeback The post Google May Still Do Something With Authorship Markup in the Future by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Advanced Micro Devices said it would lay off 500 people, or 5 percent of its 9,469 work force as part of a previously announced restructuring. In July, AMD said it would have to restructure its business units around priorities because its business of selling chips for PCs and other devices was weaker than expected. It […]... →

T-Mobile announced on Thursday the personal information of about 15 million customers was swept up in a hack on Experian, a vendor that processes the phone company’s credit applications. The breach affects new applicants who required a credit check for service or a new device between Sept. 1 and Sept. 15. Experian said the hack did not affect its consumer credit database. The… Read More... →

Recently I had the chance to test drive the latest prototype version of Elio, a three wheel, two-seater built by Elio Motors. The vehicle, which is about half the width of a regular car and looks straight out of Silicon Valley, aims to eventually retail for a base price of around $6,800. As background, Elio Motors was founded in 2008, and is in the midst of fundraising to start… Read More... →

Today Google was granted a patent for using holograms in a head mounted display like Google Glass. It would effectively let Google create augmented reality experiences that superimpose computer-generated imagery (CGI) atop the real world. Filed in March 2014, the patent shows Google’s research into how it could merge its head mounted display technology with AR. But what’s perhaps… Read More... →

The evolution of the mobile ad ecosystem is bringing in some new disguises. I spoke recently with several practitioners about where mobile ads are heading. “The customer experience [of mobile ads] is totally broken,” ad tech firm Rubicon Project’s head of mobile Joe Prusz told me, referring to both web and in-app ads. He pointed […]... →

Билеты нельзя приобрести как на самом сайте "Трансаэро", так и на сайтах агентств..... →

ZeeMee, a platform that wants to help students bring their college applications to life, told TechCrunch exclusively Thursday it had raised a Series A round of $5.8 million led by BlueRun Ventures. Prospective college students today have been on social media for most of their adolescence. ZeeMee wants to help those students use the medium they know so well to showcase talents and interests… Read More... →

The 2016 International CES trade show is going to be big again. Perhaps not as big as last year’s 176,000 attendees, but likely above 150,000, according to Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, the trade group which puts on the show. If the show gets smaller, Shapiro said, it will be deliberately so, as […]... →

Last week at Disrupt SF 2015, I ran into the folks behind Sereneti Kitchen, a company that I’ve known since it launched at our Hardware Battlefield in Vegas earlier this year. Then, its technology had promise, but less polish. In the interim, the firm went through the Highway1 accelerator and wanted to show off what it has been up to. Read More... →

Uber has over 5,000 drivers and 500,000 users since launching in Brazil a year ago, and aggression by politicians and taxi drivers alike has been mounting in lockstep with its growth. Read More... →

Sprint may be preparing to make some major cuts, including layoffs, as it struggles to rebuild its network and gain ground on rival carriers. A Dow Jones report this afternoon says the carrier will cut between $2 billion and $2.5 billion in costs in next 6 months, as well as cut an as-yet unknown number of […]... →

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As consumers, we can probably agree that bank profits are, well, gross. In the second quarter of this year alone, U.S. lenders wrung a record $43 billion from their customers. It’s the kind of stat that a small but growing two-year-old, L.A.-based investment company called Aspiration is increasingly using to gain new customers. In the words of cofounder and CEO Andrei Cherney,… Read More... →

Sad news for those who like free stuff – Klout Perks, the swag offered by social media scoring platform Klout, has quietly shut down. Lithium Technologies, the company that bought Klout more than a year ago confirmed it ended the Perks program in a statement to TechCrunch today. “Klout’s real strengths lie in its algorithm and wealth of social data,” wrote… Read More... →