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Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — система учёта посетителей Envoy, которая привлекла $15 млн инвестиций от фонда Andreessen Horowitz.... →

Samsung has royally screwed up.... →

EXCLUSIVE: Turns out people like to actually talk to a human before making purchase. The problem? Being able to track revenue attribution to that phone call. That's what DialogTech aims to address.... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Box and legacy tech vendor IBM today announced a major new partnership. Box will get analytics from Watson, security features, and enterprise content management as a result of the deal. Box customers can get support from IBM’s Global Business Services division. IBM’s Verse and Connections software will gain Box […]... →

IBM is going Levie. This evening, Box and IBM announced a partnership that will see their technologies integrated, and their cloud products commingled. As part of the arrangement, Box will also offer its customers the ability to store their data on IBM’s cloud, which will have — I checked with the firm — 46 data centers around the world by the end of the year. The deal has… Read More... →

The need for speed.... →

DuckDuckGo is celebrating that fact that, for the first time ever, the privacy-focused search engine has exceeded more than 10 million searches per day. The post DuckDuckGo Exceeds 10 Million Searches Per Day by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

The WhatsApp app for Windows Phone today received a major update: Now you can make free voice calls with it. That feature arrived on Android in March and on iOS in April. The new version of the app also lets you send audio files — if you’re running Windows Phone 8.1 or a later release. […]... →

Instagram announced that it has added new search functionality to its iOS and Android apps that will allow users to find photos by location, discover real-time trending searches, and more. The post Instagram Now Lets You Search By Location, Explore Real-Time Trends, + More by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Google clearly wants people to have a human connection to its forthcoming self-driving cars. The tech giant today announced Paint the Town, a contest that will have artists send designs to be displayed on prototypes, Google’s website, and a community event next month in Mountain View, Calif. Google will choose 10 winning designs to be […]... →

VB INSIGHT: Last year about a third of mobile developers and publishers said they were cheated when acquiring new app users. This year, that number has jumped to almost two thirds. Clearly, many more developers are now paying good money for bad users. Last year VB published one of our first-ever research reports (yes, we do that now) on the hot topic […]... →

GUEST: IBM’s and Cisco’s recent acquisitions of Blue Box and Piston Cloud Computing, respectively, just top the list of big names closing deals that position OpenStack as the coming standard for cloud solutions. Although the smaller OpenStack-based cloud companies now being acquired had the edge on nimble, early-stage innovation in the early years of the open-source […]... →

Reddit turned ten-years-old today, and it’s been quite the wild ride since University of Virginia roommates Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the site in 2005. Reddit has been a major news source for its hundreds of millions of unique monthly users over the past decade, but it has also been the focus of more than a few stories to go viral. Read More... →

Popular scientist Bill Nye is known for explaining all sorts of things to us, but today he's talking climate change using emojis.... →

The 28-city tour hits the Bay Area this week. A new six-week session starts in September.... →

Towers Watson believes that 55 percent of employers will be offering employees telemedicine benefits next year, and that 81 percent will be doing so by 2018.... →

Разработчики Google добавили более заметное меню справки в Search Console. Меню расположено в правом верхнем углу экрана. Окно справки можно перемещать по странице, чтобы оно не закрывало нужную информацию. Пользователь может искать справочные статьи или получить контекстную справку, основанную на открытом разделе Search Console. Месяцем ранее Google сообщил о ребрендинге сервиса «Инструменты для вебмастеров». Теперь он называется Search Console.... →

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Google executives explain what's not allowed on YouTube -- and in the process, point us to some really weird, sick stuff.... →

Разработчики почтового сервиса Gmail от Google перенесли функцию «Отменить отправку» из экспериментального раздела «Лаборатория» на вкладку общих настроек. Функция позволяет пользователям Gmail выбрать срок от 5 до 30 секунд, в течение которого отмена отправки будет возможной. После того, как пользователь нажмет «отправить», над списком писем появится желтая полоса, которая содержит информацию об отправке письма и дает возможность прочитать отправленное сообщение или отменить его отправку. Фун... →