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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... →

Though some adults still feel awkward about having conversations with their smartphone’s mobile assistant, like Siri, kids today seem to have no qualms about chattering with our virtual helpers. My daughter, for example, thinks of Siri as just another of iPad’s toys. She also regularly instructs me to “ask Google” for the answer, and hits up our smart speaker… Read More... →

Google has long given Android developers the option to manage closed beta tests from the Google Play Developer Console. To join these betas, users had to become part of a Google+ group, however. That was obviously not the most intuitive way of joining a beta program, but at the time, this idea fit in well with Google’s obsession with all things Google+. Starting today, that Google+… Read More... →

Pinterest is the latest company dedicating itself to bringing a more diverse workforce to the tech industry. Today Pinterest announced its annual workforce diversity stats revealing an overwhelmingly White and Asian male staff with a growing number of female engineers. In addition, Pinterest says its launching a new initiative this fall called Inclusion Labs in partnership with a strategy firm called […]... →

На его место назначен Михаил Эренбург, который ранее отвечал за взаимоотношения «Группы Сбербанк» с поставщиками ИТ-оборудования и ПО.... →

The latest perk of working at Facebook: getting to play the new Nintendo game Super Mario Maker a month before it comes out. Yesterday, Facebook hosted a Mario Maker hackathon where 100 employees built their own levels, and competed for whose was best. We saw fiendishly difficult boards, as well as ones with cute Facebook themes like “Bowser’s Timeline” and “Move Fast… Read More... →

Google has rejected an order from French privacy watchdog, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des liberté (CNIL), to include global versions of its search engine in the so-called right-to-be-forgotten program. The request was an extension of the May 2014 ruling from the European Union Court of Justice that allowed E.U. citizens to request that Web […]... →

Компания Avito, которая управляет в России сайтом бесплатных объявлений Avito.ru, в июле 2015 года продала 48% в своем марокканском проекте Avito.ma компании компании Le Rouge AB за $ 13,5 млн. Об этом говорится в отчете фонда Vostok Nafta Investment, который является инвестором «Авито». Avito.ma – марокканский проект компании Avito, который является частью международной сети сайтов частных объявлений.  О компании Avito Avito управляет сетью сайтов частных объявлений. Деятельность компании  развивается в та... →

When Google officially launched its Android for Work program earlier this year, it had already signed up a wide range of partners to help bring Android for Work to market. Today, it is expanding this program by adding a new device manufacturer and — for the first time — carriers to its partner ecosystem. Read More... →