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For investors of Zulily, today is a good day. The company has agreed to be acquired by the parent company of QVC in a roughly $2.4 billion deal. The agreement values Zulily at $18.75 per share, up nearly 50 percent from its prior close. Temper your excitement. When Zulily went public, it sold 11 million shares at $22 apiece. As TechCrunch wrote at the time, the online deal shop had a massive… Read More... →

Do you want to quit your job, write a few books, and build a business that allows you to be your own boss? Kevin Kruse did just that. Here's how ' In this episode of Authorpreneur,... →

Google has introduced a new Web app for its Hangouts cross-device messaging app, a full two years after the app first launched to the world. It’s live now at the convenient URL: hangouts.google.com/. (Hat tip to Droid Life for covering the new site today.) The app allows users to make voice and videos calls for […]... →

This past Saturday in Oakland, CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHub Oakland for Tech808, an intimate startup conference inspired by hip-hop. “From the very beginning of hip-hop’s evolution as a culture and a music, it’s been entrepreneurial… Read More... →

(By Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters) – Daniel Negari could not be clearer – his company is not for sale. XYZ.com LLC’s founder and CEO Negari says he was literally shaking with excitement when he read Google Inc’s announcement that .xyz would host the website of the tech giant’s new company, Alphabet Inc. “I walked over […]... →

Редакция Лайкни и компания SEO Study проведут бесплатный вебинар с генеральным директором «Агентства Продающих Текстов» Дмитрием Котом... →

Last week on New Rainmaker with Brian Clark, Brian talked about the concept of "native commerce" as a way to create content, build an audience, and ultimately find out what people will actually buy. It's about creating a unique experience for the right type of person, but how does that happen? Brian realized shortly after last week's episode went live that we had just explored the idea of creating a seamless, valuable experience for our ideal customers and clients.... →

Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in a status update. After a few tweaks like the ability to insert photos, Facebook left Notes to languish. The launch of Timeline in 2011 buried the feature so deep in the interface that one could conclude Facebook… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a real estate investor, one-time real estate agent, podcaster, web designer, and Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the online real estate networking platform, BiggerPockets. The platform now has more than 330,000 members. Today's guest is also the CEO of BiggerPockets's publishing division, and has co-written and published two Amazon bestsellers.... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of a virtual machine (VM) of Windows 10 that comes with the new Microsoft Edge browser. You can use run the VM on Windows (with Hyper-V 2012, VirtualBox, and VMware), Mac (Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMware), and Linux (VirtualBox only). Vagrant and QEMU support and Edge’s availability in Microsoft’s Azure RemoteApp […]... →

Keen IO announced today that it’s open sourcing one of its key features. The company allows customers to create their own analytics tools without having to develop the infrastructure from scratch. As you’d probably guess, it’s a fairly developer-centric product — the last time I spoke to co-founder and CEO Kyle Wild, he told me, “Our customers get to write code,… Read More... →

(By Devika Krishna Kumar, Reuters) – Liberty Interactive, which owns home shopping network QVC, said it would acquire Zulily Inc in a deal valued at $2.4 billion to tap into the online retailer’s younger clientele and its strong mobile presence. Zulily is known for its “flash” sales of clothing, primarily for women and children. Chinese […]... →

Discover how to make your digital business stand out by creating and managing editorial standards that add a superior layer of quality to the work you produce. Now that we've established connection is king, rather than content alone, how do you ensure that your content helps you establish a strong bond with your audience? In this 20-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief,... →

With a broader U.S. economic recovery under way, loans to small businesses that fall under the $1 million mark have still been slow to recover. A Y Combinator startup called Drip Capital is looking to step in with a new product for working capital that helps small businesses cover orders. Small business entrepreneurs working in this slice of the market typically rely on credit cards, which… Read More... →

Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia. The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll beat companies like Venmo to the market in Southeast Asia. Users can transfer money within private groups, as well as chat, but it’s not about making those transactions public, co-founder Moses Lo said. Read More... →

Банк «Интеркоммерц», на основе которого работает сервис «Рокетбанк», выпустил мобильное приложение для управления счетами «ё-банк». Об этом сообщили представители компании.... →

Another hardware startup is sparking up in Finland. Helsinki-based startup Solu has taken in a $1.3 million seed round, ahead of a planned product launch this fall. Read More... →

In addition to formally confirming that Marshmallow is the official name of Android M, the forthcoming version of the Android mobile operating system, Google today announced the final preview for the new OS for certain devices. Today’s Developer Preview 3 of Android M — er, sorry, Android Marshmallow — comes with enhancements to the Fingerprint […]... →

We’re a day away, people. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in NYC is going down in almost exactly 24 hours, and it simply wouldn’t be complete without you. Ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their products to a panel of expert judges, including Foursquare product manager J Crowley and Greycroft partner Alan Patricof, among others. At the end of each pitch,… Read More... →