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On July 16, the U.S. Treasury Department finally made a move that many fintech professionals have expected – and some dreaded – for years. They issued a Request for Information (RFI) for online marketplaces. Their goal is to “allow policymakers to study the various business models and products offered by online marketplace lenders, the potential for online marketing lending… Read More... →

Each week our friends at Backerjack highlight a successfully crowdfunded gadget. This week, we look at Batteriser, a small battery add-on that can radically extend the life of alkaline batteries. It is close to 600 percent of its funding goal. Remember batteries? They used to show up in things like pagers, digital cameras, voice recorders, […]... →

Posted by CarloSeoThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.The spam in Google Analytics (GA) is becoming a serious issue. Due to a deluge of referral spam from social buttons, adult sites, and many, many other sources, people are starting to become overwhelmed by all the filters they are setting up to manage the useless data the... →

If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twitter and Facebook – and the so-called disappearing messengers – like Snapchat – where messages vanish after being read. Read More... →

The K-Y-A in KYA Anlytics stands for “Know Your Audience,” and founder and CEO Jeff Weisbein said that’s exactly what he’s trying to help online publishers do. Weisbein has been in those shoes himself, have created and run the tech site BestTechie for more than a decade (though he took some time away from it to work as an analyst at Mashwork, now known as Canvs.tv).… Read More... →

A new report says that a consortium of German car makers have agreed to buy Nokia’s Here mapping technology. Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagen owned Audi have agreed to buy the mapping business for almost $3.2 billion, according to Reuters. The agreement comes after a nearly two month stand-off between the three car makers. Nokia is getting rid […]... →

GUEST: Corporate boards fail for all kinds of reasons. Some boards lack the appropriate skillsets or experience around the table. Some boards are expertly composed but insufficiently engaged or committed. Others appear to be independent custodians with both hands on the wheel but preexisting relationships with other board members or with management denigrate their objective oversight. […]... →

Capitalizing on the falling cost of launch services and the miniaturization of satellites, a new breed of startups are gearing up for the space race under the moniker of NewSpace. At a recent conference in San Jose, Calif., leading figures in this NewSpace movement (a term used to describe the startups that stand in the shadows of space industry giants such as Boeing and Lockheed-Martin)… Read More... →

Возможно, что универсальный по назначению "Яндекс" выглядит привлекательнее, чем "голый поиск", в глазах тех, кто ставит вообще хоть какие-нибудь приложения на смартфон.... →

GUEST: My company, InterDigital, recently sponsored a survey conducted by the Telecom Industry Association on the topic of 5G development and deployment – one of the first of its kind, and necessary reading in these early days of 5G. Necessary reading because, quite frankly, we’re still in the earliest stages of actually defining what 5G will […]... →

Manhattan, 2040: Alice wants to open an antiques store. Chelsea seems like a good location. She has to find 150 square meters to move the items that she has collected over the years, and to go on a tour of flea markets in Eastern Europe, her area of expertise. She needs to finance the imports. The problem? She doesn’t have enough money to get started. Read More... →

You can now reserve the anticipated Turing phone, known for being the first all-liquid metal phone. The phone comes in three color schemes: purple and gray (beowulf), blue and red (pharaoh); and red and white (cardinal). Like the iPhone, the Turing offers three storage sizes 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB, with corresponding prices of $610, $740, and […]... →

It’s still early days in the bacteria becomes our food production process. However, several Silicon Valley scientists are creating lab-grown edibles of the truly bizarre or mixing up animal substitutes based on some interesting ingredients. Here are 10 of them. Read More... →

GUEST: Machine intelligence technology makes us better, more capable versions of ourselves.... →

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Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. SHANGHAI — For the second time in my life, I rode Shanghai’s Maglev (magnetic levitation) train to the airport for just seven minutes and 20 seconds. It was such a cool, speedy experience to take the monorail-like train from mid-Shanghai to […]... →

GUEST: Viewability is an ongoing hot-button issue in the advertising industry. When fewer than half of all impressions are actually seen by humans – and the constant threat looms of bad actors using robotic or other means to create false non-human traffic (NHT) – how do we know what we are truly getting for our digital […]... →

“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in the city, was created with a predictive algorithm that focused on factors including, per the Chicago Tribune, “his or her acquaintances and their… Read More... →

Startups start with talent, and the talent, as we all know, seems to get younger every year. But it wouldn’t happen if children themselves were not introduced to the word of technology and engineering early, and shown that it can be a fun, creative environment. For the last 6 years, a pioneer of this in the UK has been Young Rewired State, a non-profit founded by Emma Mulqueeny, which… Read More... →

Non-profits aren't just using technology to help their causes. They're also innovating the tech sector themselves. The post 10 Great Non-Profits Making a Difference in the Tech Sector by @albertcostill appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →