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Dave McClure is back on your TV this fall in yet another reality show focused on startups in Silicon Valley. Enter the ‘Bazillion Dollar Club. Call it a sign of the times. In the last tech boom, people joked that when you saw someone build an incubator for incubators, things were upside down. Can you even name all the TV shows focused on the technology industry? The founder of 500… Read More... →

Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… Read More... →

Posted by randfishWhen you're creating content, especially when you're a smaller shop without much inherent authority, it's often a good idea to publish that content on a different site -- one that does have authority and can help you rank by linking back to the original version on your site. What types of platforms should you approach, though, and should you publish it on your own site first? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand answers those questions and dispels a rumor about whether this approach could le... →

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is trying to launch a spacecraft and have the rockets return safely back to Earth…specifically on a floating barge. As it turns out, it’s not that easy. And it costs a lot of money. There’s now a web game that lets you give it a try yourself. In case you forgot, here’s what happened in real life: Think it’s easy? Try the game.… Read More... →

Pinterest has revealed today it has reached a milestone of 100 million monthly active users. The post Pinterest Reveals Its User Numbers: 100 Million Monthly Actives by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

PRESS RELEASE: Penumbra, Inc., today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $30.00 per share. The offering is scheduled to close on September 23, 2015, subject to customary...... →

Google+ links and reviews are no longer being included in search results, even in searches for specific business names. The post Google+ Links and Reviews Dropped From Google Search Results by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

How do you convey empathy concisely and unambiguously across languages?  The Dislike button has been the most requested feature from Facebook’s users for years. Finally, this week CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company is building a way for people “to express that they understand and that they relate to you” when you share something sad, such as news of a natural disaster… Read More... →

Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s most esteemed bitcoin podcast. This week we dug into Disrupt’s coming bitcoin panel, which our own John Biggs will moderate, host, and generally kick over. Also on the program today is Erik Voorhees, a noted bitcoin expert and entrepreneur. Voorhees’ new project, ShapeShift.io, recently raised… Read More... →

Twitter links are going to be more secure starting on October 1. In a scheduled change, all new t.co type links will use the https URL scheme. However, in doing so, links will now be increased by “a single character”. In a post on a Twitter forum, developer advocate Niall Kennedy advises that third-party apps that […]... →

With Apple’s content-blocker announcement, the way we see and understand our users on the web is going to profoundly shift. It doesn’t seem like a very big deal. Adblockers have existed on desktop browsers for years, and products like Google Analytics have still become the industry standard for measuring and monitoring websites. But this is all about to change — individual… Read More... →

At this year’s Disrupt SF event, Sequoia’s Bryan Schreier and Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith will make a co-appearance. I’m hosting the duo. Schreier is best known for his early investment in Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service. The venture capitalist been on the board there for more than seven years. Smith is a co-founder at Qualtrics, a Utah-based shop founded in 2002. Read More... →

With the release of iOS 9 this week, the discussion over ad blocking has reached a peak. That’s because the latest version of Apple’s mobile OS includes tools for developers to create ad-blocking software, affording mobile users the same freedom from advertising that desktop browser add-ons like AdBlock Plus and Ghostery have provided for years. […]... →

Hyperloop, dubbed “the fifth mode of transport,” is real. At least, that’s what the introductory video released this week on YouTube is to be trying to communicate. Hyperloop is a project envisioned by engineer and inventor Elon Musk. In short, the goal is to build a high-speed transportation system using a low pressure tube train, […]... →

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled Samsung should have been barred from retailing products that infringe on Apple’s patents. Apple had been denied an injunction against Samsung by a lower court in May 2014. A jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $120 million for violating patents for the iPhone’s slide-to-unlock, autocorrect and data detection features. The U.S. Court of… Read More... →

5.3 million people now subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud service, the company revealed in its third quarter 2015 earnings report today. Adobe hopes hit nearly 6 million paid subscribers before 2015’s end. The company added 684,000 new subscribers in the third quarter, 639,000 in Q2, 517,000 in Q1, and 644,000 in Q4 of 2014. Adobe will have to add about […]... →

Advanced Micro Devices said today that its latest code-named Carrizo family of processors is 46 percent more energy efficient in terms of its carbon footprint than the previous generation of chips. In 2014, AMD set its 25X20 energy efficiency goal to deliver at least 25 times more energy efficiency from its mobile accelerated processing units […]... →

We’re on the precipice of the virtual reality future, but we’ll probably have to wait a few more years before augmented reality is a part of our daily lives. The Microsoft HoloLens AR head-mounted display (HMD) is “really a five-year journey,” the company’s chief executive officer Satya Nadella said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce customer conference yesterday. […]... →

Airbnb has formed a partnership with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce on a new tourism initiative aimed at helping visitors discover “off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods and small businesses.” The primary sponsor of “Explore BK“, Airbnb says it’ll provide not only financial resources, but also content and insights from its Brooklyn hosts. It seems that Brooklyn is becoming […]... →

With the surge in popularity of the interview-based podcast, what can you, as a Showrunner, do to stand-out and be remarkable? In this episode, Jerod Morris and Jon Nastor tackle this very question. In fact, this topic started as their listener question, but both of them felt that it deserved its own episode. With Jerod's sports podcasting background and Jon's business podcasting background,... →