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The much talked-about ecommerce site, Jet, is launching its Costco-for-the-Web marketplace today to the general public. For $50 annually, Jet delivers cut-rate deals on everything from toilet paper and groceries to dresses and televisions. The company is hoping it can lure in a vast customer base by undercutting the competition on price. But as Jet chief marketing officer […]... →

Google has launched something quite surprising today: Google Drive for Microsoft Office. That’s right, the company now offers a plugin that lets you edit Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents stored in Google Drive using Microsoft Office. Once you’re done making changes, you can then save them back to Google Drive right from the Office apps. […]... →

When my co-founders and I launched SumAll four years ago we decided we didn’t want to work in an evil, miserable environment. When people have crappy managers and deceitful executives, they start to hate life, and things get evil quickly. So, we came up with a solution: Let employees elect their own leaders and make all managers accountable to the people they manage; if leaders… Read More... →

Google today launched a new plug-in for Microsoft Office that gives you access to all of your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in Google Drive right from Microsoft’s desktop apps. The plugin also lets you save files directly to Google Drive, so you can then edit them in Google’s online apps, too. The idea here, a Google spokesperson told us, is to continue to make Drive… Read More... →

Songkick, the cross-platform app that lets you keep tabs on when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, now lets you track artists in your Spotify account through the Songkick website. For the uninitiated, London-based Songkick has made a name for itself in the live music realm for the way it helps users […]... →

Стажировка позволит познакомиться с трендами развития венчурной индустрии и экспертами в венчурном и ангельском инвестировании.... →

The Interactive Advertising Bureau just released its “deep dive” into the world in-feed ads — namely, the ads that show up in the middle of the stream as you scroll through your favorite news site or social network. The report is meant to supplement the IAB’s Native Advertising playbook, which the trade group released at the end of 2013. Prepared by task force groups… Read More... →

“Journalism is clearly in big trouble. The business of the news media. And we think we have a model that has potential and could really help certain forms of journalism — niche topics, local journalism, investigative journalism, impassioned campaign-type journalism, war reporting perhaps even,” says Tudor, laying out the Byline pitch, after I ask whether it’s building… Read More... →

According to Bloomberg and CNBC Nokia has found a buyer for its HERE mapping unit. The company had sought as much as $4 billion for the platform. However the reported purchase price is roughly $2.7 billion (€2.5 billion). The winning (and perhaps only) bid was made by a German consortium of car... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Data center traffic is one of many types of nonhuman or illegitimate ad traffic. TAG's new program will tap into Google's internal data-center blacklist to filter bots that are ran in data centers.... →

Merchant retail platform Shopify announced today that it has launched an app store for its Point of Sale (POS) offering. Right now, only five apps are in the store, but it hopes to add more in the future: Appcard, Ultimate Sales Manager, Turnstyle, Supple Wholesale, and Order Printer. With this app store, Shopify aims to […]... →

На двух маршрутах автобусов в Петербурге появилась оплата проезда банковскими картами, сообщил один из операторов проекта, Mastercard. Партнерами компании стали «Сбербанк» и ГУП «Пассажиравтотранс».... →

Создатель геолокационного сервиса-аналога Foursquare — Gowalla — Джош Уильямс опубликовал в своём блоге на Medium заметку о провале своего проекта. Приложение Gowalla было запущено в один день с Foursquare, и, по словам основателя, это сбило команду с толку — сотрудники увлеклись соперничеством и не заметили, что их реальным конкурентом стал другой проект.... →

Personal styling service Trunk Club first got its start by appealing to men who don’t like to shop by offering to ship hand-picked designer clothing to their homes for free. Then, customers only paid for those items they kept. Today, in the company’s first major announcement following its acquisition by Nordstrom last year, the service is expanding this same concept to women.… Read More... →

Larger numbers of staff have been let go in San Francisco, according to reports on social media.... →

A Google representative Gary Illyes confirmed last week that Google Penguin would take a few months to be updated. That means it will be at least a year (or more) between the last year’s and this one. @mrjamiedodd No. Penguin refresh is months away — Gary Illyes (@methode) July 11, 2015 (Penguin 3.0 in 2014 also took more than a year btw) By refreshing Penguin once a year, Google is... [Read More...] The post When Is the Next Google Penguin Update (And Why Everyone Cares!) Jim & Ann Show appeared first on I... →

CartoDB, an online map maker and business intelligence startup, wants to make it easy for anyone to communicate information with a map. Today the startup is unleashing a new feature, One-Click Mapping, that will analyze any data you upload and automatically create maps showing the relevant information. Originally, CartoDB provided software for map makers and data scientists,… Read More... →

Data center traffic is one of many types of nonhuman or illegitimate ad traffic. TAG’s new program will tap into Google’s internal data-center blacklist to filter bots that are ran in data centers.... →

Launching out of the Y Combinator accelerator, Verge Genomics is looking to find cures for brain diseases. Diseases such as Alzheimers, ALS, and Parkinsons are complex diseases that usually involve a network of genes, as opposed to a single gene. According to the company, over 99.9 percent of drug discoveries ultimately fail because researchers are looking at a single gene at a time. But… Read More... →

Apple and MTV were supposed to announce the Video Music Award nominees. But it looks like many Apple services are down right now, including the iOS and Mac App Store, Apple Music (and Beats1), Apple TV, the iBooks Store, many iTunes services (iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, iTunes Store, iTunes U) and the Podcasts app. iCloud services are still up and running, so you should be able to save… Read More... →