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Venture capital is booming again. VCs invested a total of $48 billion last year — the highest amount in a decade. The lion’s share went to software, which attracted $19.8 billion, versus just $6 billion for biotech. There are many reasons why, and it’s worth in-depth exploration: Our ability to thrive on planet Earth depends on our ability to make continued scientific… Read More... →

Mobile marketing technology company Fiksu today made cuts to its staff for the second time in a year. Founder and chief executive Micah Adler confirmed the news to VentureBeat in an email today after VentureBeat received a tip on the layoffs. “Roughly 25 employees in the U.S. were impacted, and also a few small international […]... →

Posted by randfishLast month, Rand made a surprise virtual appearance at Full Stack Marketing, part of the Turing Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. He presented a special edition Whiteboard Friday to the audience, and the folks at Stipso who hosted the festival were kind enough to let us share it with you, as well. Amplifying content to the right audiences is tricky business. It's easy to hope people will find you organically—particularly if you have really great tools to share—but most of the time, it just ... →

Following new iPhone 6s upgrade/trade-in plans announced this week by both T-Mobile (starting from $5/month) and Sprint (starting from $1/month), now it’s Verizon’s turn to put on the boxing mitts and step into the ring. While it’s admittedly not looking to deliver a knockout blow on pricing, it says its network offers the largest 4G LTE coverage in the U.S. Re/code […]... →

Most of the successful peer-to-peer marketplaces are purchase-oriented. There are two fundamental problems with rental marketplaces: The average order value for most of them is too low, and frequency from demand-side renters is too low. Incentivizing supply in any marketplace is really important to get liquidity. Read More... →

Watsi announced today that it has helped more than 5,000 patients receive funding for their medical conditions from around the world. To mark this occasion, the nonprofit organization says it’s starting a five-day campaign drive where it will match all donations made through it’s site through Monday. To date, $5 million has been donated to […]... →

Many of us are reading the press today about the launch of the newest iPhone tomorrow — the iPhone 6s — and wondering if upgrading is a good idea. Most of the early reviews of the phones say it’s debatable. Of course it depends a lot on the phone you’re using now, and whether or not you’re under […]... →

Oculus VR chief technology officer John Carmack was desperate to get the block-building open-world game Minecraft into virtual reality, but it took a lot of effort and a meeting between two of the most powerful people in tech to make that happen. At the Oculus Connect developer conference in Hollywood today, Carmack explained that, for him, […]... →

Foursquare expects Apple will sell roughly 16 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus phones this weekend, based on foot traffic leading up to the launch. That would be a big leap from last year, when Apple sold 10 million of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus during opening weekend. The app, which unearths shopping, eating, and entertainment destinations, is […]... →

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 […]... →