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GUEST: Tech giant Facebook recently announced plans to bring Internet access to areas where many people have never touched a computer before — using solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles as Wi-Fi hot spots. The potential of these uniquely mobile hot spots is huge: Drones might be about to open the global economy to billions of individuals living […]... →

Sony has released an update to fix various bugs that interrupt the gameplay of Until Dawn. These bug fixes could be critical, since Until Dawn is a highly replayable interactive horror game where you try to save as many characters trapped at a mountain lodge, until dawn. Gamers have complained about some problems from the […]... →

Confirming rumors, ArenaNet announced today that the Guild Wars 2 core online game is going to be available for free, starting today. At the same time, ArenaNet is preparing a paid expansion pack, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, for launch on October 23. The Seattle-based company announced the changes at the PAX Prime event in […]... →

What does it take to build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise-software company? We gave a 30,000-foot answer to this complex — and fascinating — question in a recent TechCrunch post, The SaaS Adventure. To recap: We’ve observed seven key phases in most SaaS companies’ go-to-market success. We dubbed this journey the “SaaS Adventure,” which is broadly how we… Read More... →

Сооснователь компании Creara Advertising Николай Шестаков опубликовал в Facebook фото автомобиля, принадлежащего бизнес-консультанту Вячеславу Семенчуку, известному также как «стартап-хирург». На снимке внедорожник предпринимателя был припаркован так, что полностью перекрывал небольшой тротуар во дворе. Шестакова возмутил тот факт, что его бабушка, живущая в соседнем подъезде, должна обходить машину Семенчука, которую автор записи назвал «брендированным корытом». Фото спровоцировало бурную дискуссию в соцсе... →

GUEST: As the founder of a growing startup, one of the most common questions I get asked whenever the topic of competitors comes up is, “Can’t you just buy some of these companies out?” From the very beginning of the dot-com boom, the idea of raising money, acquiring another company, or going public has always been […]... →

“Transportation tech is not only changing how we get from A to B, it’s fundamentally altering the underlying infrastructure of our cities.” Read More... →

Apple apparently didn’t like its new music service’s poster boy, Drake, appearing on a rival music service. The music service Tidal was set up to stream Lil Wayne’s Lil Weezyana Festival in New Orleans Friday night, but a problem occurred when Drake made a surprise appearance at the end. The video feed at Tidal was suddenly cut before […]... →

The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 28, 2015. A surprise guest in the chat center, benevolent Zuckership, and the psychosocial benefits of dogs. Alternate title: Save the Robots. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Gené Teare, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More... →

GUEST: Since SparkLabs Global Ventures launched 20 months ago, we have made 50 investments across five continents. We have six partners, based in Silicon Valley, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Singapore, and London, which gives us a unique viewpoint on what is trending in terms of technology and innovation across the globe. Last year, we began an annual […]... →

There are more Kickstarter watches out there these days than grains of sand on the beach. Everyone with a quartz movement and a NATO strap figures they can make and sell some kind of fashion watch to the masses, a concept that is as silly as it is flawed. That’s why the Tactico Geomaster GMT is actually interesting. First, it uses a mechanical ETA movement – an rare movement these… Read More... →

Life’s short. Use PGP. Once IPO bound, Ashley Madison is almost certainly doomed to shutter following a ruinous hack. As an early indication of its inevitable shutdown, parent company Avid Life Media announced yesterday that CEO Noel Biderman is stepping down. Likewise, its 37 million users may never recover from having their most private thoughts and fantasies spread around the […]... →

There’s some leaks that can’t ever be taken back or patched over or fixed–and they’re generally things that, as things stand, aren’t even illegal. Read More... →

Notifications have a dirty job to do to grab the flittish eyeballs of tech users. But some of these digital chat-up-lines go about this unlovely task by attempting to pull the kind of weird moves that would get a human swiftly ejected from the conversation… Read More... →

To make your Marketing Nerds and SEJ Marketing ThinkTank experience better, we've launched new landing pages for our content initiatives. The post Check out SEJ's New #MarketingNerds and #SEJThinkTank Landing Pages by @AkiLiboon appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

13-летний школьник из Канады Соруш Годзи (Soroush Ghodsi) разработал сервис под названием Slik, позволяющий оперативно получать информацию о появляющихся по всему миру ИТ-стартапах, отслеживать привлечение ими инвестиций, количество сотрудников и другую статистику. Внимание на проект 29 августа обратило издание The Next Web.... →

В Rambler&Co очередные кадровые перестановки: Андрея Соломенника сместили с должности CFO, все платежи теперь согласуются без него. На его месте - Елена Попова, бывший CFO в SUP Media, которая в Rambler&Co была финконтролером. А Соломенник будет заниматься Рамблер.Путешествиями и Афиша.Ресторанами.... →

I am a tall straight white cisgendered Canadian man in excellent health, i.e. I won pretty much every available lottery on the day I was born. People expect me to excel at things, or at least they don’t expect me not to. Concierges at five-star hotels are eager to help me, and rarely even ask me whether or not I am a guest. Read More... →

Сервис для заказа такси Uber нанял на работу специалистов по ИТ-безопасности Чарли Миллера (Charlie Miller) и Криса Валасека (Chris Valasek), которые ранее получили известность, научившись удалённо взламывать и управлять бортовым компьютером автомобиля Chrysler Jeep Cherokee. Как сообщает Reuters, новые сотрудники войдут в команду исследователей Uber, занимающуюся созданием самоуправляемых машин.... →

For those of you who still getting used to the new picture, here are a few PR strategies to get your CEO's name out there effectively. The post 4 Creative #PR Strategies for Your CEO by @ChelseaHarrigan appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →