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Hotel Urbano, a hotel search and booking platform and one of Brazil’s fastest growing startups, has raised an additional $60 million in strategic funding from discount travel conglomerate Priceline Group. Launched in 2011, Hotel Urbano previously raised $75 million from Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. The company declined to disclose a valuation, but co-founder João… Read More... →

Microsoft announced an academic research program Monday aiming to gather proposals for HoloLens technologies that further “the role and possible applications for holographic computing in society.” Microsoft will be awarding $100,000 and two HoloLens development kits to the best five research proposals from academic institutions. “This emerging technology teems with… Read More... →

Twitter’s ads would work a lot better if it knew how old you are. So in an obvious data grab, Twitter will show animated balloons on your profile when it’s your birthday if you’re willing to give it your birthdate. You can see what the balloons looks like on comedian Kevin Hart’s profile. Twitter’s minimalist sign-up flow seems to be coming back to bite it. All… Read More... →

Today social networking company Twitter said that users can now add their birthdays to their profiles. Comedian Kevin Hart is doing it, as Twitter product manager Ricardo Castro pointed out in a blog post on the news today. This is just the latest change Twitter is making. Developing….... →

Late last week, Microsoft kicked out another Windows 10 build, numbered 10162, to the ‘fast ring’ of its testing community. The larger Windows Insider program has two groups, fast and slow, allowing people to select how raw they want their code. The build was rolled out to the larger group of testers today, those in the slow ring. Given that Windows 10 is now just 23 days out… Read More... →

Google Shopping ads show what percentage lower a product is priced compared to the online average. The post Another Google PLA Test Targets Low-Priced Products appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

When a publication does not want to publish your writing, what is the best way to proceed? This week on Editor-in-Chief, you'll learn a productive way to take action after an editor rejects your writing. Here is yet another way to become the Editor-in-Chief of the content you produce. In this 18-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief, host Stefanie Flaxman discusses: Trusting an editor and trusting yourself Why the nicest,... →

Издание Business Insider собрало факты из жизни основателя Uber Трэвиса Каланика — о его биографии, предыдущих бизнес-проектах и стремлении к мировому господству.... →

Для того, чтобы присоединиться к глобальному движению за толерантность и равноправие, Coca-Cola выпустила банки без обозначения своего бренда. Так компания показывает, что выступает за мир без этикеток и предрассудков.... →

Great writers write to the emotions of their readers. And they focus on just four emotional appeals. The appeal is the reason you give the reader to read, subscribe, donate, share, or buy. And the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline. John Caples, in his book Tested Advertising Methods (a must-read for any copywriter), says that all effective advertising boils down to an effective appeal. In this 6-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth,... →

Twitter today officially announced the launch of its new mobile Ads Manager, which allows users of Twitter’s smartphone applications to track their ad campaigns’ performance – including their impressions, engagements, spend, cost per engagement, and engagement rate – while on the go. The button was recently spotted in the wild, ahead of a formal announcement from… Read More... →

The best part of every TechCrunch Radio show (and trust me, there are tons of good parts) is the TC Radio Pitch-Off. For the last half-hour of each show, John Biggs and I bring on five of the coolest new startups we can find to pitch their product live on the radio. They each have exactly sixty seconds to share their story, at which point they’ll answer a few questions from a panel… Read More... →

Южноафриканское рекламное агентство Publicis Machine разработало завернутые в пластик флаеры из шоколада для программы по похудению SureSlim. Компания раздавала их на мероприятиях, посвященных еде и здоровому образу жизни.Чтобы получить скидку в 20%, нужно принести флаер целиком в один из центров компании.... →

Posted by jamiejpressMany of us have known for a while that Google Autocomplete can be a useful tool for identifying keyword opportunities. But did you know it is also an extremely powerful tool for content ideation?And by pushing the envelope a little further, you can turn an Autocomplete topic from a good content idea into a link-building, traffic-generating powerhouse for your website. Here’s how I did it for one of my clients. They are in the diesel power generator industry in the Australian market, but... →

Microsoft may have sold off some of its mapping assets to Uber last week, but almost as if to show that it’s still taking Bing Maps seriously, the company today announced a new preview release of Bing Maps for the web. Read More... →

The esports phenomenon is getting so big that it's getting its own documentary.... →

If you’ve ever had to reserve a block of hotel rooms for a conference or wedding, you know how complicated the process can be. YC-Backed Roomblocker is a service that handles the entire group booking process, from gathering bids to accepting reservations for people in the group. Here’s how Roomblocker works: First, the company assigns each group organizer to a dedicated… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced a request for proposals for academic research on possible applications of “holographic computing” — the sort of augmented reality that Microsoft’s HoloLens headset can offer. Microsoft has come up with a few potential areas of exploration, like data visualization, interactive art, human-computer interaction, and and psychology. But the company wants help from […]... →

While the rise of standalone streaming services has been fueled, in part, by increased connection speeds combined with the ubiquity of smart mobile devices, video consumption is still often taking place in the living room. And in the case of Hulu’s over-the-top streaming video service, living room viewing is actually on the rise. Today, living room viewing accounts for over 58 percent… Read More... →

Meet Talent.io, a new take on engineer recruitment companies. Talent.io isn’t your average headhunting agency and has opted for a more scalable model that should work for both engineers and recruiting companies. Three months after its beta launch in France, the company just raised $2.2 million (€2 million) from Alven Capital, Elaia Partners, Ventech and a few business angels. Read More... →