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This podcast began with the mantra "media not marketing." In other words, valuable online content does the job that marketing is supposed to do, but instead of people avoiding it, they seek it out. Once you have an audience, you can intelligently determine what people want to buy. Not with random ideas and guesswork, but by serving the problems and desires of a group of real people. There's a new buzzword for this process: Native Commerce. In short,... →

Following the bell today, Rackspace reported its second quarter financial performance. The company mostly missed street expectations, with lower-than-expected revenue, and earnings-per-share that just met expectations. Shares in the hosting company are up just under six percent in after hours trading. Rackspace reported profit of $0.20 per share on revenue of $489 million in the three… Read More... →

A testament to the strength of Second Measure (YC S15) and their data analysis product is the fact that, after backing the company, Y-Combinator was so impressed that they became paid users of the product themselves and are now using it to help inform their own future investments. Second Measure delivers such effective analysis by inspecting billions of credit card transactions (less than… Read More... →

Take-Two Interactive Software reported earnings that met revenue expectations for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, but it fell short on earnings targets. The New York-based company reported earnings per share of 31 cents on revenues of $366.4 million (up 142 percent from a year ago). Analysts had expected non-GAAP earnings per share of […]... →

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

Twitter’s stock broke its losing streak today. Investments in Twitter from the company’s board and executive team saw its stock close up nine percent. On Friday, interim Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey bought $875,000 worth of Twitter stock, which he announced in a tweet. Investing in @twitter's future: https://t.co/wowJm4Z7M0 — Jack (@jack) August 10, 2015 In addition to Dorsey, chief financial officer Anthony […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 1 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.  The notion of big, hulking marketing campaigns that get released once a quarter, or even once a year, has morphed substantially. The digital world is responsible. It’s accelerated the pace for companies to stay competitive […]... →

The latest Silicon Valley reality series Startup U begins tomorrow night on ABC Family and we got a sneak peek at what the show is about. Startup U features 10 student entrepreneurs as they compete in a 7-week program at Draper University. Each of the show’s subjects must go through the fundamentals of launching a startup the Draper U way – including wilderness survival training… Read More... →

Watch collectors are weird. Sometimes they plan meetups where they get together with their entire watch collections and fondle each others’ timepieces, breathless with excitement. In short, if you ever see a bunch of grown men looking at Seikos from the 1970s while hyperventilating… run. For the rest of us – or, actually, for the true watch obsessive who doesn’t want to… Read More... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur helps startups and companies attract new clients online. He is the co-founder of HubStaff.com, which allows businesses to manage their remote staff by tracking time and activity levels, providing screenshots, and calculating employee payments. HubStaff allows us to see exactly what virtual teams are working on so we can track expenses to specific projects. Today's guest is also a self-published author, consultant, and father of two.... →

Supply chain leaks have indicated that Apple is working on an iPhone 6s, and details of the new device have been surfacing one at a time for the past few weeks. Unbox Therapy has obtained the rear casing of the 6s and meticulously compared it with the iPhone 6. Apple is reinforcing some weak points with this year’s new iteration, and the company is also switching to lighter, stronger… Read More... →

As Silicon Valley buckles under the pressure of housing the technology industry it created, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company called Teleport has been quietly building a set of tools to distribute tech and knowledge-workers throughout the rest of the world. They started with a basic regional housing search engine for workers looking to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, with criteria… Read More... →

Discover the five key roles of an Editor-in-Chief and how they help you establish your own digital business. Through the Editor-in-Chief mindset, you can create a business asset that has the potential to move your career forward. In this 20-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief,... →

Размер кросс-платформенной интернет-аудитории в России в июне 2015 года достиг 80,1 млн человек. Об этом сообщается в очередном исследовании аналитической компании ComScore.... →

Snapchat is courting teenagers around the world who want to save their data plans with a new travel mode. When enabled, Snaps, Stories, and Discovery content will only load if users tap them, rather than automatically when they open the app. Travel Mode comes alongside several other new features for iOS and Android. Now users will be able to add as many emoji to their snaps as they want and… Read More... →

Google today announced that it will soon support the Khronos Group’s Vulkan graphics API on Android. The goal of Vulkan is very similar to that of Apple’s Metal API for iOS and OS X. Vulkan is a low-overhead graphics API that gives developers more direct access to the graphics processor and control over how their graphics are rendered. In today’s announcement, Google… Read More... →

Ever meet someone who completely revamps the way you look at an issue? This is the story of how an older gentleman changed Demian Farnworth's mind about what it takes to be successful. The first time Demian met Peter Hut was in a swank, open-air lounge where the concrete floor shone from a glossy finish. Peter draped himself over one of the three black faux-leather couches and complained about how cold the place was. Demian took the couch across from him.... →

Scoot, the Zipcar for scooters, recently updated its line of vehicles to carry bigger people and more cargo. The new Scoot Cargo vehicle can carry up to 390 pounds, including both rider and cargo. CEO Michael Keating founded the startup in 2011 to cut down on the many transportation problems in San Francisco. Scoots are all-electric and can go for up to 20 miles on a single charge. Each… Read More... →

Hacker Samy Kamkar has created a clever system for capturing and playing back the radio signals that can open your garage door and car. It costs $30 and could spell the end of the laughably insecure systems now in place that protect our rakes and Land Rovers. The project, called the Rolljam, blocks the signal coming from a remote key fob and then prepares itself to record the signal when the… Read More... →

За первые шесть месяцев 2015 года блокировщики рекламы отключили объявления на общую сумму $20 млрд. Общее количество пользователей систем блокировки достигло 198 млн человек, говорится в отчёте компаний Adobe и Pagefair.... →