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Apple met in May with an official from GoMentum Station, a testing ground for autonomous and connected cars, a representative from the Contra Costa Transportation Authority told VentureBeat Friday afternoon. And that official just happened to be the testing facility’s program manager for connected and autonomous vehicle testing. GoMentum Station is operated by the CCTA. […]... →

Google has a new parent company, filed a patent for “watch time based rankings,” and more this week. As always, our communities were buzzing at the news. But like any good conversation, there were plenty of interesting side-discussions about Twitter, content marketing, and URL structure as well. Here’s a look at what you might have missed out on! Google Local 7-Pack is Now a 3-Pack When searching in Google, local... [Read More...] The post Google (Alphabet) Shake-Ups and the Content Tsunami: Weekly Forum Ro... →

GUEST: This week, Google grew up. Taking many in the business world by surprise, the tech giant restructured itself under a new holding company, Alphabet. The shake-up means many of the ‘moonshot’ projects Google picked up over the years have been spun off into separate and independent companies, while Google retains the most profitable side: search […]... →

As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor. The second is the polar opposite of the first, and encompasses Airbnb and Uber, the enormous, multinational corporations that remain those best associated with the term “sharing… Read More... →

It's Friday, which means it's time for an A-through-Z of the week's Google Search trends (see what I did there?) Per-see ' what is it? As the skies lit up with the Perseid Meteor shower this week, there were more than a million Google searches around the topic from people on the hunt for shooting stars. Along with questions on how to pronounce it (that would be something in the region of " percy-id "),... →

Ever wanted to travel to an exotic island for a week but didn’t have the cash? Well, thanks to MissTravel, that’s not a problem anymore — if, and it’s a big if, you’re a young, attractive woman who’s willing to swipe right on a lonely, wealthy travel companion. MissTravel initially launched as a dating site two and a half years ago, the first in the… Read More... →

Chen Levanon used to be a hurdler in college. So the Israeli woman is a natural for running a fast-moving business like ClicksMob. ClicksMob is a mobile-only performance advertising platform that delivers users to app developers and publishers. As a third-party broker, ClicksMob can access more than 8,000 sources of traffic, making mobile advertising more […]... →

Take a pretty picture. Slap some inspirational words on it. Post it on Facebook, then swim in a river of likes. If this is a thing you do, be afraid: you have been replaced by a robot. A wonderfully random, terrifyingly sentient robot. Meet InspiroBot, an “artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of… Read More... →

Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration that’ll make them extremely happy. Email will probably never completely die, it’s how organizations communicate with the outside world. Now you can bring email into your Slack channels: Email remains ubiquitous and is… Read More... →

Industry experts see Google's search and ad business remaining relatively unchanged. However, the areas that fall under Alphabet could see a positive impact from the increased attention.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Sorry, Jay Z: Your friend Barack Obama joined Spotify today. The White House inaugurated its account on the music streaming service with a two-part summertime playlist — one for daytime, one for nighttime. The Slow-Jammer-In-Chief has a track record for decent taste in music, and he doesn’t disappoint here. That’s a relief because 2015 is the first year in recent memory with […]... →

A piece of correspondence unearthed by a public records request may provide more evidence that Apple is indeed building a self-driving car. A report in the Guardian today says that Apple engineers met in May with officials from GoMentum Station, a 2,100-acre former naval base near San Francisco that is now used as a testing ground for […]... →

What qualifies as a tech company? Everyone has their own definition. For this gallery, we’ve hewn closer to the Silicon Valley definition of tech with help from CrunchBase data. Every list has its biases. Those are our bends. Read More... →

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app backed by VKontakte founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov, announced today that its users send 10 billion messages per day. That’s up from 1 billion daily messages in December. That’s impressive, considering that people on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp send a combined 45 billion messages each day, Facebook said in April. […]... →

On September 16th, 2015 , the IMA HTML5 SDK will change how it handles custom playback. In order to provide a more seamless ad experience, custom playback on Android 4.0+ devices will be disabled . As per a previous change , the SDK only selects custom playback when necessary. Since Android 4.0+ devices support standard rendering , it is no longer necessary to use custom playback on these devices. What must I do to prepare for this change?... →

Industry experts see Google's search and ad business remaining relatively unchanged. However, the areas that fall under Alphabet could see a positive impact from the increased attention.... →

Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn’t just keep no trace of your porn browsing habits on your machine but that also blocks online services that could track you while you’re surfing the web. That’s not unlike what plugins like Ghostery and the EFF’s Privacy Badger can do for you, but Firefox now combines that with its own incognito… Read More... →

Samsung unveiled new phones and Samsung Pay this week, causing a bit of buzz in the world of mobile. Because we simply can’t resist it, we discussed the latest in 3D printing, while the Coolest Cooler has become the most funded project on Kickstarter. We discuss all of this, and our future romantic relationships with robots, on the latest episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast. This… Read More... →

Overnight, live-streaming app Meerkat became the “it” thing in app-happy San Francisco this spring. Everybody seemed to be doing it. Then, suddenly, Twitter acquired Periscope. Shortly after that Twitter cut off Meerkat’s access to the Twitter social graph. Then Meerkat announced that Greylock Partners, known for backing social media companies, was putting money behind the […]... →