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Evernote founder Phil Libin was succeeded as CEO by ex-Googler Chris O’Neill last month, and the new man at the top appears to be wasting little time making his mark after Evernote announced that it would cease support for its Food app. Read More... →

American video-streaming services are like buses if you happen to live in Japan. Fresh off the news that Netflix is heading to the East Asian country next week, Amazon has revealed that its Prime video service will also swoop into the Land of the Rising Sun. Read More... →

Amazon apparently dumped its smartphone business, but Microsoft isn’t giving up on Lumia. A photo published today by prolific (oft-reliable) leaker Evan Blass appears to reveal two pretty sleek flagship devices: This isn’t the first time we’ve heard word of these two smartphones, codenamed Cityman and Talkman. We’ve seen leaks and rumors for months, and in July, the specifications trickled […]... →

Slack opened the tech world’s mind to the potential of messaging inside organizations, but there are plenty of others working to bring the concept to different kinds of businesses. One such startup, Eko Communications, is focused on making communication within large-scale companies mobile-centric, and it has raised $5.7 million in Series A funding led by Gobi Partners. Read More... →

It’s no surprise that the major content players – Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Yahoo, etc. – continue to capture front page news and headlines every day for their strategic moves and announcements in the United States and other major markets across the world. However, when it comes to emerging markets, while their moves might not garner the same level of attention, make no… Read More... →

Amazon has grabbed the bull by the horns today in its video streaming battle with Netflix. The company announced it will start offering its Prime Instant Video service in Japan starting next month. Netflix has previously made clear it plans to enter the Japanese market on September 2, and has tapped SoftBank to offer carrier billing for its launch there. The Netflix […]... →

Facebook announced its beginning a very small roll out of a digital assistant service, called M, that will live within Messenger. The post Facebook Launches M, a Siri-Like Personal Assistant for Messenger by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

In the last couple weeks, I’ve seen a lot of media coverage on one former Google employee’s effort to bring more pay transparency to her workplace by creating a spreadsheet for co-workers to share their salary information with one another. Since that story broke, the commentary has been along the lines of, “Yes! You should do this, too. Just tell everyone what you make. It… Read More... →

GUEST: Last month, the startup world was chattering about free money, and founders and investors alike were on their toes driving growth at all costs and trying to push valuations to unprecedented heights. This week, after the Dow dropped 1,000 points to start trading on Monday, the same people are on their heels, worried the party […]... →

Posted by randfishToday, it's my pleasure to announce some exciting news. First, if you haven't already seen it via his blog post, I'm thrilled to welcome Russ Jones, a longtime community member and great contributor to the SEO world, to Moz. He'll be joining our team as a Principal Search Scientist, joining the likes of Dr. Pete, Jay Leary, and myself as a high-level individual contributor on research and development projects. If you're not familiar with Mr. Jones' work, let me embarrass my new coworker fo... →

“Google is not an enterprise company and we are trying to become cognizant of what the enterprise needs,” Craig McLuckie, Google’s product manager in charge of its Kubernetes and Google Container Engine projects, acknowledged during a panel discussion at the OpenStack Foundation’s annual Silicon Valley event today. Read More... →

After taking a beating from critics and consumers on its first foray into smartphones with the Fire phone, Amazon has decided to focus its efforts elsewhere. The company has very recently released a group of engineers retained to work on phones, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Wednesday evening. Developing . . . […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Today’s marketers have an unprecedented opportunity — yet taking advantage of that opportunity is also a significant challenge. What is that opportunity? To know who customers are and what they want. Most marketers have traditionally known very little about their customers or what they care about. What data companies do have is typically limited to historical […]... →

Last year, Google was considering purchasing the livestreaming site Twitch. That fell through, but this didn’t stop the company from pushing forward with a gaming initiative all its own: YouTube Gaming. This launched today, and GamesBeat is taking a closer look at all of its slick new features (game hubs) along with its remaining warts (the […]... →

Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon says he’ll soon be the site’s majority stakeholder. Again. The site originally launched in 2001. StumbleUpon was sold to eBay in 2007, but sold back to a group including Camp in 2009. He was active CEO from 2001-2012 and has stayed on as “Chairman” since. Here’s what Camp had to say about the move, which will include… Read More... →

Intel just announced a more than $60 million investment into Shanghai-based drone maker Yuneec. The news comes the same week that fellow Chinese drone company Ehang raised $42 million, and Sony unveiled its own drone prototype due out in early 2016. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich called Yuneec’s technology “a game changer in the drone industry,” and said the investment falls in line with Intel’s […]... →

Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab S2 tablet isn’t the coolest looking tablet on the market, but it is thin and sleek, pretty powerful, and comes with some nice software onboard. The S2, the new flagship in Samsung’s tablet line, became available for preorder today and will go on sale in the U.S. September 3. Samsung was kind enough to […]... →

Специалисты Google разместили в блоге Google+ новое предупреждение для пользователей сервиса Мой Бизнес. В ближайшее время те владельцы бизнеса, которые не входили в свой аккаунт Google Мой бизнес в течение года, получат электронное письмо с просьбой войти в систему и подтвердить указанную бизнес-информацию. Если после получения уведомления аккаунт останется неактивным, Google может отменить его верификацию или даже удалить информацию о компании из Карт Google. Команда сервиса Google Мой Бизнес рекомендуе... →

It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Native let Facebook’s engineers work faster and reuse the JavaScript backend. Coders have dreamed of a system that would let them ‘write once, run anywhere’. But Facebook… Read More... →

Earlier today, Rovio said it would lay off 260 employees. This was relatively shocking news to the Internet, given its status as one of the vanguards of mobile gaming as the iPhone and Android exploded. But, in reality, this is the fate of more or less every game company — it just depends on the speed at which it happens. All games eventually fade into obscurity, and even viral… Read More... →