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Windows 10 ships with two browsers: the new, modern Microsoft Edge, and IE11 for legacy sites. When Edge determines that a site is old and meant for Internet Explorer, it will prompt the user to fire up the ancient browser instead. Microsoft is now extending that feature so that it is more automatic. This functionality […]... →

Ok, not really, but this is pretty cool. Vegemite is a disgusting yeast paste beloved by far too many people. While I wouldn’t recommend actively eating it, Professor Marc in het Panhuis at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science figured out that you can 3D print the paste and use it to carry current, effectively creating Vegemite bio-wires. What does this mean? Soon… Read More... →

GUEST: Familiar names dominate the top of the app store charts … how do you compete against Clash of Clans and Candy Crush? Paid app install campaigns can deliver short terms gains, but also some of the worst user quality scores and ROI. It’s a user acquisition model that requires outbidding the market for an app […]... →

Соцсеть Facebook запустила собственного виртуального помощника под названием M. Он работает через Messenger и является гибридом автоматических приложений вроде Siri, Google Now и Cortana с сервисом персональных помощников Magic, пишет Wired.... →

Earlier today, Y Combinator President Sam Altman posted the type of numbers about which he gets asked “a lot” — calling them (humbly and probably rightly) “very imperfect indicators of success.” Here’s the lowdown, if you missed them: Excluding companies like Quora that didn’t get their start with the incubator, Altman says that YC has now backed… Read More... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer, where he blogs and coaches for the Digital Marketer Lab and other training courses. He started marketing online from his dorm room in 1999, and has worked in over 500 different markets. In the last three years, he and his team have invested over $15,000,000 in marketing tests, and have generated tens of millions of unique visitors. He's also a sought-after public speaker and consultant,... →

GUEST: The China stock market downturn and currency changes have started to impact the global market. With 50+ startups in my firm’s global portfolio and a fast growing startup of my own, I thought it would be very timely to discuss what is happening in China and it’s potential impact on startups. So I jumped on […]... →

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is acquiring FutureAdvisor, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based online financial advisory firm that aims to help people manage their existing IRAs, 401(s) and other investment accounts. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but FutureAdvisor had raised $21.5 million from investors, shows Crunchbase. A Y Combinator alum, the… Read More... →

«Яндекс» перезапустил свой сервис трекинга «Метрика для приложений» и переименовал его в AppMetrica. Теперь сервис бесплатно предлагает все основные инструменты для работы с приложениями, необходимые маркетологам, издателям и разработчикам, сообщили ЦП в компании.... →

The top games on mobile in 2015 are the same games that were at the top of the charts in 2012 — and that incessant domination of just a handful of apps is starting to take its toll on the audience. Gamers spent less time playing on mobile in 2015 than they did in 2014, […]... →

Frustrated by how difficult it was to have spur of the moment get-togethers with friends, Stanford students Joseph Lau and Nikil Viswanathan spent a Friday afternoon in San Francisco’s SoMa district building what they called Down To Lunch. “I want to emphasize how simple or silly it was,” said Lau. “We didn’t know who was free, and who was where, and who was able… Read More... →

Evernote will cease all work on Evernote Food on September 30. Users will be able to still use the apps, but no further updates will be provided by the company, including syncing back to the Evernote service. In a blog post, Evernote’s senior director of content and communications Ronda Scott explained that the shifting of […]... →

Android Pay, Google’s forthcoming payments platform and rival to Apple Pay, will soon launch, allowing consumers to pay using their Android smartphones at point-of-sale as well as make purchases within mobile applications. However, according to sources familiar with Google’s plans, Android Pay is not arriving today – or any time this week, in fact – despite a… Read More... →

Don't you love those Internet facts? You know, the ones that aren't facts at all, they're fodder for our own confirmation bias, and weapons in the Outrage Wars. In the early days of the social web, we thought that bringing people together would create a knowledge utopia. What we got instead was a battleground of competing ideas " many of them misguided or just plain wrong. In this 20-minute episode of Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer,... →

Not unlike those fortune-telling fish you used to get at joke shops a new form of 3D-printed microfish – fish, not fiche – can wiggle and jiggle and wriggle inside you, dropping off medicine and cleaning up toxins as they go. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have created nano-sized fish out of materials that can react to their environment, allowing them to… Read More... →

Google today detailed a new improvement in Chrome that results in a faster browsing experience. Available now in the browser’s beta channel, Chrome reschedules JavaScript timers to create a smoother experience when you’re interacting with a webpage. JavaScript timers let web developers write code that checks in on a page periodically (with APIs like setTimeout). […]... →

Главным конкурентом свежего YouTube Gaming выступает принадлежащий Amazon сервис Twitch, уже объединяющий десятки миллионов любителей игр. Twitch уже поздравил игрока № 2.... →

There has been a lot of discussion about startup valuation over the past few months. Luminaries across the industry have chimed in, suggesting we’re returning to a time of irrational investment valuations hearkening back to the bubble of the late 90s. My colleagues and I at Sapphire Ventures are seeing the rise in private market valuations firsthand. The stage at which we invest, the… Read More... →

It seems that the #Uncarrier has a soft spot for pirates, but perhaps only when they’re being asked to deal with them without a court order. T-Mobile’s Austrian branch is refusing to comply with a request from a music rights group to block access to the popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay in the country, Torrent Freak reports. The Pirate Bay has faced particularly strong… Read More... →

GUEST: Any CMO or VP of marketing will tell you: It’s challenging to find genuine marketing talent. Specifically, one of the most competitive positions within marketing to hire for is analytics, which is why it’s historically been an area of outsourcing and vendor reliance. Utilizing marketing analytics vendors isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless it is. If […]... →