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Software company Adobe will be expanding its maternity and paternity leave programs for employees. Starting November 1, birth mothers will be able to take up to six months of paid leave. Primary caregivers, who include new parents through birth, surrogacy, adoption and foster care, will get up to 16 weeks of paid leave. In addition to parental and maternity leave, Adobe has also announced… Read More... →

Google just announced a big restructuring of the company, sending shares up 5% in extended trading. As part of the restructuring, Larry page is now the new CEO of a parent company called Alphabet, while Sundar Pichai will be CEO of Google. According to a regulatory filing, Google’s business will include “search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical… Read More... →

So Google is now part of Alphabet, a new holding company that will manage Google and all of its other products. Why is the new company called Alphabet? Google/Alphabet CEO Larry Page says it’s because Alphabet means a “collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search!” But… Read More... →

Sean D'Souza is the master "Rainmaker." Through years of experience studying human behavior, Sean has created a powerful business that teaches business owners " and authors " how to sell their wares and provide maximum value. The bottom line is that everyone who sells anything needs to understand how the human brain works, whether it's a book or the Brooklyn Bridge. In this episode of Authorpreneur,... →

If you just read the media reports, Twitter is a sad, ship-jumping mess. The reality of the situation is that while the company might seem like a soap opera part of the time, its uniqueness causes that pain. The “how to fix Twitter” meme continues, with everyone weighing in being an obvious professional when it comes to corporate turn-arounds at social firms that benefited from… Read More... →

Google вернул возможность редактирования в сервис Map Maker на территории шести стран: Бангладеш, Бразилии, Канады, Индии, Филиппин и Украины. Теперь внесение изменений будет возможно после их проверки региональными модераторами. Ранее специалисты Google заявляли: «Мы пришли к выводу, что из всех способов защиты, помогающих поддерживать наши карты чистыми, сообщества заинтересованных пользователей являются наиболее надежными и быстрыми». Возобновление работы Map Maker в шести странах является частью поэта... →

As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, "Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make "smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses." From the start, we've always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have.... →

Google’s senior vice president Sundar Pichai is becoming CEO of the search giant as the company restructures. Current CEO Larry Page announced the following in a statement: “A key part of this is Sundar Pichai. Sundar has been saying the things I would have said (and sometimes better!) for quite some time now, and I’ve been tremendously […]... →

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Сооснователь Google Ларри Пейдж объявил в официальном блоге, что новым главой компании станет Сундар Пичаи, ранее занимавший должность директора по продуктам. Основатели компании Пейдж и Сергей Брин станут управлять холдингом Alphabet, в который войдут Google и ряд других компаний.... →

Take-Two Interactive Software will release an unnamed “AAA” title in its fiscal 2016 year ending March 31, 2017, according to a company executive. Karl Slatoff, president of New York-based Take-Two, announced during the company’s quarterly earnings call today that the company would launch an unnamed new game during its current fiscal year. That should get tongues […]... →

Google’s cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin appear to be moving beyond the day-to-day operations at the tech giant. The two will be running a new venture called Alphabet that is geared towards being a “collection of companies” that seems to be an umbrella of entities, of which the largest will be Google. According to […]... →

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Google just rocked the world with some light news on a Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will now report up to “Alphabet, Inc.” a new corporate name. That includes Google, which will now be CEO’d by Sundar Pichai. The CEO of Alphabet will be Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page. His missive on Google’s blog explains what the new holding company is:… Read More... →

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 […]... →