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Please take our 2-second survey to download a free copy of Ninjas’ Panda Whitepaper! We’ve talked about some click-through and bounce rate signals Google may be analyzing to get an idea of how well a web page serves a user. It’s only logical to assume that these signals may be used in Google Panda algorithm as well: Pogosticking Not every bounce is bad… When a user clicks on a search... [Read More...] The post Panda 4.2: Signals You Should Be Looking at: Jim and Ann Show appeared first on Internet Marketing... →

NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that has backed more than 400 charter schools and educational technology for more than 15 years, has just opened a new startup accelerator with an initial focus on science. They’re offering $1.5 million in grants, and their first project is a Science Learning Challenge. That’s for companies and nonprofits that are… Read More... →

John Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 25 years ago, but it didn’t take him nearly so long to cement his status as a legend in the industry. Doerr’s career in tech began in 1974 at the chipmaker Intel, where he held roles in engineering, marketing, management and sales. He later founded a software company called Silicon Compilers and… Read More... →

Cameras are standard in smartphones these days, but they’re still incredibly limited when compared to the average DSLR. Light, a startup developing multi-lens cameras for smartphones, wants to raise our expectations. The company announced today that it took in $25 million in funding to bring DSLR camera qualities to our phones. The round was led […]... →

Everlane, the fashion shopping site focused on selling high-quality apparel at lower prices than traditional designer retail, has today made the move to mobile. The company has now launched its first native smartphone application with the launch of Everlane on iOS, which allows shoppers to browse and buy its luxury items right from their phone. However, the app has a couple of interesting… Read More... →

The pressure is on Samsung and other smartwatch makers to answer the curb appeal and functionality of the Apple Watch, and Samsung appears ready to fire its next shot. Samsung’s next smartwatch release will likely be powered by its own Tizen operating system. The company said this morning at a Tizen developers event that a new […]... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur has started several successful businesses, written three books, is a motivational speaker, and has consulted with companies in several different industries. He coaches teams and businesses on the actions required in order to grow. As a result, he is known as the entertainer, educator, and consultant of choice for America's leading companies. He is the founder of Thrive 15,... →

Launching out of the latest YC class, Ironclad is an automated service to help companies draft, organize, and execute common legal paperwork. Expensive legal bills are often an unwelcome reality for young startups. Lawyers charge hundreds of dollars an hour, but are often a company’s only option for correctly preparing things like financial documents and sales contracts.… Read More... →

We’re delighted to announce that Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow’s chief marketing officer, has agreed to speak at GrowthBeat next month. She’ll explain how the company has grown into a $4.5 billion market-leading real estate network — within a decade, and mostly without an ad budget. (GrowthBeat, our event in SF on August 17-18, is focused on explaining the […]... →

Drone manufacturing king DJI has a plot to expand its unmanned aerial empire. It’s teamed up with prestigious VC Accel to launch the $10 million SkyFund, which invests in companies expanding the drone market — and DJI’s sizable slice of it. Today SkyFund revealed to me that its first investment goes to DroneBase, which lets any business rent a drone and pilot. Read More... →

So many businesses focus solely on getting the sale, but as far as the customer is concerned ' the sale is just the beginning. What comes next can make or break not just that one customer relationship, but the future viability of your business as a whole. In this episode of The Mainframe, Chris Garrett and Tony Clark reveal: Why your onboarding process is as important, or maybe more,... →

Facebook today detailed its plans for its solar-powered, laser-connected, Internet-beaming drones, but confirmed its not going to compete with Internet Service Providers. “Our intention is not to be an operator” Facebook’s VP of engineering Jay Parikh told an assembly of reporters. “We’re not going to be ‘Facebook ISP.'” Instead, Facebook plans to… Read More... →

Posted by Mohsen Vakilian, Software Engineer The large scale of our software engineering efforts at Google often pushes us to develop cutting-edge infrastructure. In May 2015, at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), we shared some of our software engineering tools and practices and collaborated with the research community through a combination of publications, committee memberships, and workshops.... →

Activity apps are all the rage right now thanks in part to any number of smartwatches and bands you can wear, as well as Apple’s HealthKit initiative. There’s a lot of activity going on out there, and we’re finally tracking the data that goes along with it. With that data comes some interesting learnings. A company called Human, which has a fitness tracker for iOS that begs… Read More... →

Российский инвестор Юрий Мильнер объявил, что даст $1 млн создателю лучшего сообщения для внеземной цивилизации. Основатель проекта по поиску внеземных цивилизаций Фрэнк Дрейк заявил, что сообщение должно содержать важную и понятную информацию для внеземных существ. При этом он отметил, что сообщение может быть принято инопланетянами спустя тысячи лет после отправки. Дрейк назвал большой ошибкой попытки создания сообщения на англиском языке. В основе сообщения должно лежать нечто общее, что может быть между... →

Like gravity pulls objects to the earth, the web pulls people across the landscape of connected information " whizzing by landmarks (content) at breakneck speed. Thus, when people arrive at your blog, they should be able to size up your content in an instant. From the headline, down the subheads, to the call to action. In other words, it should be clear what's in it for them ' and is it even worth their time? And it should be concise.... →

Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. SHANGHAI — Kabam chief executive Kevin Chou announced today that his company’s Marvel: Contest of Champions has surpassed $100 million in gross revenue in just seven months, making it the fastest-growing Kabam game in history. That’s a big milestone in the nearly […]... →

Iwoca, one of the booming cluster of FinTech startups coming out of London, has raised a $20m series B round from the VC arm of Germany’s CommerzVentures, Acton Capital Partners, the Munich-based private equity and VC firm Redline Capital and other existing investors, in order to grow the lending platform’s European business. Iwoca offers flexible financing to Europe’s 20… Read More... →

A recent Canon ad campaign used the slogan “See impossible.” It seems like their latest camera allows us to do just that — the ME20F-SH, a full-frame digital camera, boasts a staggering 4 million maximum ISO. For the uninitiated: ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light. The lower the ISO value, the less sensitive […]... →

UK-based crowd equity platform Crowdcube has raised £6m ($9.3m)from stockbroker Numis, Tim Draper, his London-based VC firm Draper Esprit and existing backer Balderton capital. As a result Crowdcube is now valued at £51m. The move will also now it to offer a way for investors to access companies which are about to go public, bringing IPO investment opportunities to the platform. IPOs will… Read More... →