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With iPad sales slumping, Apple has been working with more than 40 tech companies to make the device a more valuable tool in the workplace. In its Q3 earnings, Apple said it sold 10.9 million iPads in the quarter, down from 13.2 million in the year ago quarter. This was the latest of several quarters of […]... →

Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the maker of WeChat, has pinned down a strategic investment with indoor mapping startup sensewhere. The total amount of the deal was undisclosed, but the companies said that Tencent now has a license to use sensewhere’s indoor positioning software in Tencent Maps. Sensewhere will also be Tencent’s preferred vendor for location-based advertising… Read More... →

GUEST: On Monday, Google announced its biggest move in 11 years: All Google stocks are being transferred to a new holding entity called Alphabet (www.abc.yz). Google is being slimmed down, “with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead,” according to Google cofounder Larry Page’s official announcement Spinning […]... →

There’s a leadership change going on at Tinder. According to Re/code’s Kara Swisher, the dating app company has ousted its chief executive Chris Payne, making way for the return of its cofounder Sean Rad. Payne took over the helm at Tinder in March 2015 as a means of helping it gain more experienced management. But it doesn’t […]... →

Device maker Lenovo today announced layoffs for 3,200 of its employees, or 5 percent of its workforce, and plans to adjust its operating structure and product line to make the most of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility last year. The cuts are intended to cut expenses by around $650 million in the second half of […]... →

Wikipedia's organic search traffic from Google down by over 250 million visits per month. The post Wikipedia's Traffic from Google Down 11%, Why the Drop? by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Google had a major overhaul this week as it is now a subsidiary of the newly formed Alphabet, Inc., but one company is actually spinning off completely from this new corporate infrastructure. Niantic Labs, which is the developer responsible for creating the massively multiplayer geocaching game Ingress, is now its own, independent company, according to […]... →

Posted by Cyrus-ShepardRecently, Moz announced the results of our biennial Ranking Factors study. Today, we'd like to explore one of the most vital elements of the study: the Ranking Factors survey. Every two years, Moz surveys the brightest minds in SEO and search marketing with a comprehensive set of questions meant to gauge the current workings of Google's search algorithm. This year's panel of experts possesses a truly unique set of knowledge and perspectives. We're thankful on behalf of the entire comm... →

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The future of free-wheeling automated yard work took a step closer to American consumers on Wednesday after U.S. regulators gave robot maker iRobot Corp Inc technical clearance to make and sell a robotic lawn mower. The Bedford, Massachusetts-based company, known for its robot vacuum cleaner Roomba, has designed a robot lawn mower […]... →

The dust hasn’t completely settled on Google’s Alphabet move and we’re told that the new umbrella company will be nimble. Today, one of the groups inside of the company announced that it will be spun out into a separate company…but will it stay under Alphabet? Here’s what the team had to say in a Google+ post: Important Account Information: Niantic Labs is… Read More... →

If you’re sending emails or other messages to your customers, there’s a standard way to measure your success — you look at whether they opened those messages, and whether the openers actually clicked. But that’s setting the bar kind of low isn’t it? I assume you’re usually trying to drive some sort of behavior, whether it’s making a purchase, trying out… Read More... →

Google search has started showing software download cards when you search for an app name preceded or succeeded with the word “download.” The card points you to the official download link, emphasizing the URL so you see exactly where you’re headed. While many will probably see this addition as a small convenience boost or even […]... →

Microsoft’s Surface Hub device will now ship on January 1st of next year. The delay comes after the firm signaled last month that a prior, fall ship date would be delayed. Microsoft promised an update in early August. Hello, early August. Here’s the official red verbiage: ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley was early to noticing the change. As she points out in a piece published… Read More... →

When I first got the job running marketing at Mint, founder and CEO Aaron Patzer told me that we had to get Mint to 100,000 users within six months of launching. The number itself didn’t intimidate me: Before Mint, I had been Facebook employee No. 30. I’d witnessed crazy, exponential user growth first-hand. The difference was that at Mint, we were pre-product and certainly… Read More... →

Facebook plans to open up its Periscope livestreaming competitor to more than just celebrities. In replies to requests from Verified Pages about when they’d get access to the VIP-only Facebook app Mentions that houses Facebook Live, the company wrote “In the future, Mentions will be available to verified Profiles”. When I asked if that would include Facebook Live, it told me… Read More... →

Украинский венчурный фонд TA Ventures инвестировал в немецкую онлайн площадку StyleLounge, на который используется движок метапоиска для одежды и продуктов, необходимых повседневно.  В раунде приняли участие Axivate Capital, ASTUTIA Ventures, основатель Home24 Феликс Ян. По данным TechCrunch, объем раунда оставил 2,3 млн евро. Средства пойдут на экспансию в страны Европы. К концу года StyleLounge планирует выйти на рынок еще пяти стран. Движок StyleLounge позволяет найти и сравнить цены на одежду и другие в... →

Most professional marketers don't understand the FTC rules that apply to online marketing. So as a busy freelancer or small business owner, it's certainly understandable if this isn't on your radar. But this is a critically important thing, as new guidelines are being released that you need to understand. The FTC is about to make an example out of companies that cross the line, even if only out of ignorance.... →

After Alibaba reported lower-than-expected financial performance in its second quarter, shares of Internet portal and mobile shop Yahoo fell around four percent in regular trading. Alibaba’s own equity slipped a slightly higher percentage, giving up nearly five percent in the same period. Read More... →

What's changing? We've updated the runtime requirements of some of our client libraries . Make sure to update your setup to keep your application compatible and secure. Which libraries are affected? .NET As announced in 2014 , the .NET client library requires a minimum of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or Mono version 3.2.8. Java As announced in 2014 , the Java client library now requires Java 1.6 or higher. Perl With the release of version 4.0.... →

В сервисе микроблогов Twitter отменен лимит в 140 символов для личных сообщений (direct messages). Об этом сообщила пресс-служба Twitter'a в России. Обновление вступило в силу 12 августа на всех платформах: в версиях для Android и iOS, на сайте социальной сети, в приложениях TweetDeck и Twitter для Mac. В будущем ограничение в 140 символов будет распространяться только на личные сообщения, отправляемые и получаемые с помощью SMS. Специалисты Twitter рекомендуют пользователям обновить используемые приложения... →