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Things are looking up for 23andMe. Right off a fresh $115 million cash infusion, the Food and Drug Administration is giving the direct-to-consumer DNA company the green light to include health and carrier traits, along with ancestry reports. This was not the scenario two years ago when the FDA put a moratorium on 23andMe’s ability to provide any health information associated with… Read More... →

Inventory is a tricky problem for retailers, especially small ones. Ordering too much of an item that doesn’t sell is an expensive mistake, but running out of popular items also loses money and risks alienating customers. A new tool by Google, called Shopping Insights, might help businesses by showing what products people in their cities are searching for the most. Read More... →

Just over three months ago, Uber launched its car-pooling service, UberPool, in its single-most important city in the world: Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province. In those first 100 days, Uber says it has saved commuters in the city nearly 4.8 million kilometres — or the equivalent of going 120 times around the earth. All those saved rides […]... →

Over two years ago, Misfit launched an activity monitor called “Shine,” which was among the first breakout successes in the wearable space, offering an attractive alternative to competitors’ then more plastic-looking fitness trackers. In the years since, the company has expanded its product line to include a range of connected devices, including also sleep monitors and… Read More... →

The health wearables company Misfit today announced the second version of its popular Shine fitness and sleep tracker — the Shine 2. Misfit says it’s completely redesigned the Shine, adding a new 3-axis magnetometer to the 3-axis accelerometer inside the device. The accelerometer measures movement, while magnetometers typically measure the strength and pull direction of an external magnetic field. […]... →

Twitter is on double time these days when it comes to rolling out new products and pressing ahead under new CEO Jack Dorsey — a strategy that will likely get a decent gust of air tomorrow during the company’s Flight developer conference. In the meantime, TechCrunch understands that one area where Twitter wants to do more in the future is in B2C business tools, and… Read More... →

Yahoo! Tests Google Again Back in July we noticed Yahoo! was testing Google-powered search results . From that post... When Yahoo! recently renewed their search deal with Microsoft, Yahoo! was once again allowed to sell their own desktop search ads & they are only required to give 51% of the search volume to Bing. There has been significant speculation as to what Yahoo! would do with the carve out. Would they build their own search technology?... →

The car is well on its way to becoming the most sophisticated mobile device in the Internet of Things (IoT), or, to use a phrase that’s more to the point, the Monetization of Things™ (MoT). Linked to the cloud by way of wireless technologies, smart chips, onboard computers and mobile apps, connected vehicles are driving new business models and disrupting old ones. Here’s a look… Read More... →

Today we're launching the beta of our new Shopping Insights tool, another step towards helping retailers connect with consumers in moments that matter, by making data about shopping habits and preferences more accessible. Shopping Insights shows the products people are searching for across cities, time and devices. While 87% of shopping research happens online, 92% of goods are still sold in retail stores. By better understanding user's shopping intent online,... →

Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux now finally lets you mute any single tab. Just right click a tab that is producing sound and hit “Mute tab.” You no longer have to decide between opening the tab to figure out what’s playing and just closing the tab outright. The new feature was added in Chrome […]... →

Posted by SamuelScottIt's October 26, 1985. The top song in the United States is Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love for You." The top weekend movie at the US box office is "Jagged Edge," starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges. And Marty McFly was about to travel back in time in "Back to the Future." (photo: Back to the Future Day) Yes, for any Mozzers who do not know, Back to the Future Day—the exact date when Marty went to the future in the sequel to the original film—is today! Also in the mid-1980s, the... →

Facebook has announced that, as of today, everyone with the iOS app will have access to content published via Instant Articles. The post Facebook's Instant Articles Now Available to All iOS Users by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Tech companies today are celebrating the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives that will expand privacy rights to non-U.S. citizens. The bill, known as the Judicial Redress Act, sailed through the House on a bipartisan, voice vote. If passed by the Senate, the measure will expand some of the privacy rights enjoyed by American records to citizens in allied nations, mostly in the… Read More... →

Ahmed Mohamed has accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development where he will join the QF Young Innovators Program. The family announced the move today, some 24 hours after meeting with President Obama. Ahmed gained Internet fame last month school officials called the police when he was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school.… Read More... →

Yahoo has revealed details about a deal with Google to display the competitor's search results through 2018. The post Yahoo Strikes Deal to Display Google Search Results Until 2018 by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Yahoo won’t be competing with Netflix anytime soon. During its fourth quarter earnings call, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman noted that the company wrote-off $42 million in expenses related to the sixth season of Community, as well as its two original programs Sin City Saints and Other Space.  Goldman said that Yahoo had difficulty effectively monetizing the programming, “In three cases at […]... →

21 октября 2015 года — дата, которую выбрали герои фильма «Назад в будущее» для путешествия во времени. Обозреватель vc.ru вспомнила, какие бренды упоминались в популярной трилогии и узнала, как они изменились за 30 лет.... →

Apple told a U.S. judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be “impossible” with devices using its latest operating system, but the company has the “technical ability” to help law enforcement unlock older phones. Apple’s position was laid out in a brief filed late Monday, after a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, […]... →

Following its earnings release, Yahoo commented today on the forthcoming spinout of its Alibaba equity stake as a new firm, Abaco Holdings. The parent firm stated that it’s making “good progress” on the deal, and that it will “strive to complete” the transaction in the fourth quarter of this year. Read More... →

Despite a checkered history with online platforms, developers are always looking for the next big distribution model, and a small but growing number is betting that the popular group-messaging platform Slack is the way to go. One such startup, Austin-based Howdy, may be the first to nab venture funding based largely on that vision. Specifically, the company, which has developed… Read More... →