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This one might be a bit confusing due to product naming weirdness, but here we go: Google+ Photos, the photo sharing solution built into Google’s social network Google+, is shutting down. However: Google Photos (note the lack of +) — as in the excellent, unlimited, free photo host that Google launched back in May — will live on. The shutdown of Google+ Photos will start on… Read More... →

If you know anything about Twitter, you probably know that one of the issues the site has always had is policing its global community with consistency. Too often someone complains that they’ve been harassed on the site but they don’t see anything come of it. Still, the company is making progress. Twitter hopes to further that progress by launching a “Safety Center”… Read More... →

Разработчики Instagram добавили поисковый функционал в веб-версию сервиса. Теперь пользователи могут искать хэштеги, профили и места на сайте instagram.com. «Несмотря на то, что Instagram.com был создан в качестве дополнения к мобильным приложениям, внедрение поискового функционала – это важное нововведение», - отметил пресс-секретарь компании. Кроме добавления обычного поиска, разработчики Instagram также создали целевые страницы для геотегов и хэштегов. Пользователи также смогут видеть некоторые из наиб... →

Google’s share price has been spiking over the past week and is on its way to surpassing a market cap of a cool half-trillion. It’s insane to think that at one point Larry Page and Sergey Brin were turned down when they tried to sell Google for $750 thousand. Here’s a look at some massive missed opportunities in the past decade that we can probably be thankful never happened. Read More... →

GoPro is taking steps to make some cash on the back of the vast troves videos its users are creating. The company just announced a platform that lets content creators license their videos to brands and media companies. With this platform, your GoPro videos could make their way into advertisements and get you (and GoPro) paid. Read More... →

Chipmaker Qualcomm is preparing to lay off several thousand employees, or more than 10 percent of its 30,000-strong workforce...... →

ANALYSIS: Some iPhone apps simply deal in content that doesn't transfer well to the tiny screen of the Watch.... →

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Cortana Out For Android, Featured Snippets & Local Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

The photo- and video-sharing app has added search features to its website for the first time.... →

Twitter launches Safety Center to provide users with a resource to better protect themselves.... →

Today following the end of regular trading, IBM reported its second quarter financial performance, including revenue of $20.8 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $3.84. Using normal accounting methods, IBM had a slimmer $3.58 per-share profit. The street had expected the enterprise firm to generate $3.78 of adjusted per-share profit on revenue of $20.95 billion of revenue. According… Read More... →

Microsoft has signed an agreement to pay $320 million in cash for Adallom, a startup with software for monitoring the use of cloud-based services, a source familiar with the matter tells VentureBeat. All 90 of Adallom’s employees — with 30 in the U.S. — will function as an independent unit of Microsoft and handle everything […]... →

We've been talking a lot about the benefits of the "logged in experience" when it comes to email list building and marketing automation. There's even more to it than that. Birthday boy Jerod Morris joins Brian Clark for this episode of New Rainmaker to talk about interesting things they've spotted in the endless content stream related to digital commerce.... →

PayPal closed out its first day back on the stock market at $40.48 per share, valuing the company at 33 times what eBay originally paid for it in 2002. Though PayPal started trading below its original target of $45 per share, there’s lots of room for the stock to grow. Already the company is being valued well above its […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

The photo- and video-sharing app has added search features to its website for the first time.... →

Since the days of the horse and buggy, there has been a fundamental relationship between vehicle and driver. The advent of driverless cars will invert this dynamic as we all roll forward into the future. What should cities do now to prepare? Due to the popularity of application based on-demand vehicle services, we have some foreshadowing of what may arise. Read More... →

A few days ago, Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana became available for download. This is not the official launch and it’s not clear the software is ready for all Android devices. It certainly didn’t function properly on my Nexus tablet. Several people have already written... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur has built companies in several different industries and has been successful enough to hand the companies over to someone else to manage and run. He had more or less retired when he co-founded Examine.com, an independent and unbiased evidence-based organization that investigates the science behind supplementation and nutrition. He's trying to make a difference in this industry,... →

Analysts are expecting sales of around 50 million iPhones for the quarter.... →