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Apple announced Wednesday that it has rolled out Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks in China. Apple’s music-streaming and radio service will also be available on Android this fall and free with a three-month trial membership, after which it’s 10 RMB per month ($1.5). The company said it will include a strong line up of Chinese artists as […]... →

Twitter is about nine years old and has a little over 300M monthly active users. It’s a killer real-time platform. You know what it’s for, I know what it’s for, and even most of our moms know what its for. What it will become, or more to the point — contain, is what none of us know. But it needs to grow. Those of us who are hardcore users shook in our boots a bit today… Read More... →

Much like the evolution of systems design, IT-enabled process change ebbs and flows over time. We see this in history as each technology revolution brings with it a refactoring of business operations. We’re about to see another “flow” of transformation thanks to resurgent interest in artificial intelligence and the emergence of the AI-powered business application. Read More... →

If you’ve been following the news from Google today, you’ll probably know that you can now stream Spotify right to your Chromecast. To do that, all you need is the Spotify app and a Chromecast or Chromecast Audio device hooked up to your TV or speakers. Although both types of devices allow streaming, there is one […]... →

Google unveiled two new Nexus phones, an updated version of its Chromecast dongle and an audio-only version of the Chromecast at a press event in San Francisco today. This was Google’s largest dedicated hardware event to date, and we spent some quality time with all of the new devices. Read More... →

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Not everything on Snapchat disappears. As much as the app wants memories to span just 10 seconds and live for just 24 hours, one piece of content doesn’t self destruct. The profile GIF. And through its permanence, Snapchat has found a way solve a major problem with its identity system and social graph. Snapchat quietly added the profile GIFs in July alongside the flashier shift from… Read More... →

Naturally, Cheetah Mobile is growing at blazing speeds. Just five years ago, it was a small company making apps on the web in China. Formed from the merger of two small companies, it had revenues of $5 million. This year, revenues should be about $600 million, mostly from mobile. “Three years ago, we made it […]... →

For more than 35 years since its founders emigrated from Lebanon to the Bay Area, La Mediterranee has served falafels and tzatziki to locals in San Francisco and Berkeley. It’s one of the longstanding local businesses that has managed to cross over with San Francisco’s more tech-centric crowds. That’s because of a partnership with ZeroCater, that is now bringing more than… Read More... →

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the cofounders of Google, have wanted to get self-driving cars on the road since basically the company’s beginnings in 1998. But it took a decade for the project to get going in earnest — as longtime chief executive Eric Schmidt thought the company should work on other things first. Today, […]... →

Author and Fast Company Editor Joe Berkowitz stopped by The Writer Files this week. His latest, a humor book titled You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life , lands this October. He took a break from his busy schedule to rap with host Kelton Reid about how he survives the harried life of a big city journalist. In addition to his work for Fast Company, Joe's writing has been featured in The Awl, Salon, The Village Voice,... →

Такси-сервис Gett 30 сентября запустил новый класс обслуживания — «Эконом +», доступный только в Москве и Петербурге. Тарифы в этом классе понижены на 40% по сравнению с классом «Комфорт», который ранее был самым дешевым в сервисе, сообщили vc.ru представители Gett.... →

At Google’s press event today, the company announced a number of new products and updates, including two new Nexus smartphones, two Chromecast devices, a new Android tablet and more, but one thing it kept under wraps was news of a notable new application arriving on the iOS platform: Google Maps now works on Apple Watch. Through an update to the Google Maps iOS app on the iTunes App… Read More... →

Amidst a flurry of announcements today, Google debuted not one but two new Chromecasts – one that works just like the original Chromecast, and an audio-only version meant to be plugged into your existing speaker systems. We took a quick peek at both devices and the new look of Chromecast in the video above. Read More... →

Sit back, relax and don’t turn that dial, this week’s episode of Cribs takes us to the online television platform, Hulu. The company’s giant 90,000 square foot headquarters sit betwixt Hollywood and the tech world in Santa Monica, California, in the same building as HBO. And it has changed the way we watch television. Shows like the Mindy Project and the Last Man on Earth… Read More... →

As the number of mobile apps increases while the size of our mobile screens decreases, we’re reaching the limits of the mobile “OS + apps” paradigm. As an alternative, messaging apps are becoming the new platform, subsuming the role played by the mobile operating system. Just as websites replaced client applications, messaging bots will replace mobile apps. Bots, therefore,… Read More... →

В русскоязычном сегменте Instagram реклама должна была появиться через селлера IMHO Vi, однако в данный момент ее продажа осуществляется через официального реселлера — агентство Aitarget... →

After two years in operation, Panorama Education, a startup that surveys students, teachers and parents to provide feedback to schools, realized it had a problem on its hands. The Boston-based startup’s survey tools were working; teachers and principals were measuring student sentiment around education, safety, and stress; and its analytics platform was helping thousands of schools… Read More... →

Ever wondered if those content tips you read a few years back are still relevant today? Hit Publish host Amy Harrison has just returned from a conference of conversion experts who spilled the beans on what tactics are working right this minute. And she wants to share them with you ' Last week, Amy was part of a copywriting panel at the Call to Action Conference in Vancouver. The two-day event was packed with practical,... →

Instacart is growing up. To wit, the three-year-old, grocery delivery startup – which hit “unicorn” status late last year when it raised $220 million at a reported $2 billion valuation – has hired a CFO for the first time. Ravi Gupta, who spent the last decade as a director with the private equity firm KKR in New York, and the previous two years as an analyst with… Read More... →