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College students may soon be taking autonomous shuttles from class to class and wherever else they need to go on campus. YC-backed Auro Robotics is currently testing their driverless shuttle system at several universities, and is actually beginning to deploy shuttles on the campus of Santa Clara University. The company is also planning to expand to other markets like amusement parks… Read More... →

Reddit has had a pretty bizarre last few days in Russia. The entire site was blacklisted and banned yesterday for a number of users in Russia following a clear threat made by Russia’s FCC, the Roskomnadzor, to remove a thread about growing psychedelic mushrooms that had been posted on the site. Roskomnadzor’s post on Vkontakte (basically the Russian Facebook) read: Those… Read More... →

Robinhood, a zero fee stock trading app, is now on Android. The app launched on iOS late last year and since grew to “hundreds of thousands of customers” and made over $1 billion in trades on the platform, according to the startup. Robinhood estimates it has already saved those on the iOS platform more than $22 million in ETF, or stock trading fees. It would like to continue doing… Read More... →

Buffer has introduced the ability to upload and schedule native video content across all social media platforms with an update to its software platform. The post Buffer Makes it Possible to Upload and Schedule Your Videos on Social Media by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Tim Kendall’s new job is to make sure Pinterest’s partners are finding new ways to make money off one of the most engaging platforms on the Internet. He’s been plenty busy since he got started, including launching Buyable Pins. We sat down with him to find out a little bit more about the company’s commerce plans. Read More... →

July brought the hot summer days and very few major releases, but the gaming industry is still growing. New game hardware, software, and accessories generated $541.9 million at U.S. retailer in July, according to the monthly report from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That is up 6 percent from $513.3 million during the same period […]... →

Twitter открыл доступ к архиву всех проиндексированных твитов с помощью нового поискового функционала под названием Full-Archive Search API. Анализ архивных твитов призван помочь брендам в разработке новых рекламных кампаний, продуктов, аналитических решений и т.д. В разработке инструмента приняли участие специалисты Gnip – компании, приобретенной Twitter в прошлом году. Новый функционал эффективно использует существующее 30-дневное поисковое решение и расширяет доступ к твитам давностью более девяти лет. ... →

Компания Google получила дополнительное время - до 31 августа, чтобы подготовить ответ на обвинения Антимонопольного комитета Европейского союза. Изначально предполагалось, что подготовительный этап закончится 17 августа, но представители Google попросили о дополнительном времени. Несмотря на исторические жалобы на карты и прочие вертикали, в настоящее время «Заявление о возражениях» (Statement of Objections) касается только сервиса сравнения цен. Вероятно, в Европейской комиссии считают, что имеют шансы н... →

The New York Times aims to predict which stories will do well on social media with a bot that runs within popular messaging app Slack. The post The New York Times Built a Bot to Predict Successful Social Media Stories by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Sony’s on a roll. The PlayStation 4 was the top-selling console in July in the United States, according to data from market research firm The NPD Group that Sony shared with GamesBeat. “We are truly humbled by the success of the PS4, and we would like to thank gamers for making it the top selling console […]... →

Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein tweeted this morning that he’d found what looked like a used condom in a freshly cleaned bag of baby clothes from laundry startup Washio. “Hi @washioapp,” wrote Klein, “Thanks for the bonus gift returned with my baby’s clothes, but she’s already protected by her car seat.” The idea that Washio laundry personnel were up to… Read More... →

Welcome to this week’s edition of our “weird leads” series where we discuss some of the funny leads we are receiving here at Internet Marketing Ninjas. Please watch the two previous ones: Acquire 300-400 Good-Quality Links Guaranteed Rankings + PR7 Links Here’s another one: The Lead: …can you tell me approximately how much income I will get for best gaming mouse keyword, if i will rank in top 5 results??... [Read More...] The post How Much Income Will I Get if I Rank in Top 5: From Weird Leads #JimAndAnn ap... →

OPINION: Disclosure: I am a monthly contributor to my local public TV and radio station. I hope Cookie Monster never sings “C is for Capitalism, and that’s good enough for me.” This morning, we learned that the beloved PBS children’s show Sesame Street was moving to a high-rent neighborhood: the pay TV realm of HBO. The […]... →

Apple has endured years of trouble trying to launch a subscription TV service to rival cable, and now it looks like more of the same as it will reportedly delay launching a new live TV service until 2016. That’s according to a new report from Bloomberg Thursday afternoon, citing people familiar with Apple’s plans. The […]... →

When it comes to raising money in the U.S., corporate venture capital is seemingly synonymous with “Plan C.” If you can’t raise money from top-tier firms, you move on to Plan B, second-tier firms. If that fails, Plan C is corporate. There are exceptions, but corporate does tend to be the last resort: The place you go when your company has been shopped, or your valuation is… Read More... →

Jessica Mah has been starting companies since she was 13. As a teenager, she built websites for small businesses, and then created a company that managed online services for companies. It was pulling in $100,000 in revenue before she was even in high school, Mah said. So after finishing an undergraduate degree in computer science […]... →

Google today announced the availability of Google Play Services version 7.8 to ease up development of mobile apps. The most compelling aspect of this code release is a new application programming interface (API) called Nearby Messages. The API gives developers a way to expose content in apps to the devices and beacons around you. “Today, […]... →

Apple just released a new diversity report with data about the race, gender and ethnic makeup of the company. Even though the company is still mostly white (54%) in the U.S., it’s promising to see that, of Apple’s hires in the last year, 11% have been black, 13% have been Hispanic and 19% have been Asian. Worldwide, Apple’s workforce is still predominantly male (69%),… Read More... →

Starting with v201506 of the AdWords API , you can: Hide or unhide an AdWords account under your manager account by setting the isHidden attribute of its ManagedCustomerLink to true or false , respectively. Exclude hidden accounts in ManagedCustomerService.get and ManagedCustomerService.query calls by specifying ExcludeHiddenAccounts = true in your predicate or AWQL WHERE clause. With these new features,... →

Candy Crush Saga publisher King has beat its own guidance for its fiscal second quarter, but investors are not happy with what they see from the game maker. King’s stock price is down more than 8 percent in after-hours trading to $13.82. This dive comes as the company reported its Q2 results where it generated […]... →