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Facebook announced several updates to Pages that are designed to help businesses engage with mobile users. The post Facebook Adds New Mobile-Focused Features to Business Pages by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Fresco News has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. I first wrote about the startup back in June, when founder and CEO John Meyer (pictured above) explained that the company was working an app where users could both browse breaking news content and also accept assignments to contribute photos and videos to professional news organizations. Read More... →

Selfies might be the social currency of our generation, but the companies based around them still kind of need cash. Shots, a selfie app made famous by high-profile celebrity supporters like Justin Bieber, just raised another $4 million in funding led by DCM Ventures, adding on to its $8.5 million Series A from this past April. The company has raised $15.2 million to date. For how simple… Read More... →

MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Facebook says it’s going to help businesses make themselves more accessible on mobile devices. The social networking company announced today that it’s updating its Pages offering to now not only include enhanced call-to-action buttons, and improved Page layout, but also new sections — all geared towards the mobile audience. “Building an […]... →

Вечером 8 сентября основатель «Тинькофф Банка» Олег Тиньков на своей странице в Facebook заявил о том, что банковский сервис «Рокетбанк» «выставлен на распродажу».VC связался с сооснователем «Рокетбанка» Олегом Козыревым, который опроверг информацию Тинькова.... →

For as long as I’ve paid attention, Sand Hill Road has been synonymous with venture capital. But that is changing. As the epicenter of the technology renaissance age has shifted, or expanded, from Palo Alto and its environs to San Francisco and other pockets of the peninsula, the monopolistic high ground of venture capital real estate that top venture firms call home base has started… Read More... →

Инвестиционная компания экс-мэра Киева Леонида Черновецкого Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) вложила $1 млн в международный онлайн-сервис продажи автобусных билетов Busfor. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.   На международном рынке компания была известна под названием Gillbus, которое было изменено в ходе ребрендинга.  Средства пойдут на увеличение продаж билетов на тех рынках, где компания уже достигла больших объемов загрузки билетов в собственной системе бронирования – на рынках России, Украины и Т... →

GDGT co-founder, Engadget founding editor and VP of Product at AOL, Ryan Block is leaving the company for parts undisclosed. Block came to AOL with the acquisition of GDGT in 2013 and has headed up AOL Alpha in recent years. Block’s GDGT co-founder Peter Rojas recently left AOL for betaworks, where he is an EIR. “The opportunity to build a new products lab at one of the big… Read More... →

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

Платформа онлайн-торговли eBay выпустила обновления своих приложений для iOS и Android — мобильные продукты получили новый дизайн и интерфейс.... →

FEATURE: Apple is the company most responsible for ushering in touchscreen gaming, but a rumor now claims the company will reveal a new device tomorrow that will rely heavily on a physical controller. By this time tomorrow, we’ll know exactly what Apple has planned for the new Apple TV (read everything we know about the device […]... →

Full Coverage Of The Apple 9/9 Event http://techcrunch.com/tag/Apple-fall-2015-event/ Read More... →

The mobile enablers space is converging rapidly. Localytics does analytics, sure, but also mobile marketing automation. Tune is known for attribution and owns a mobile ad network, but just added marketing. Tapjoy is an ad network, a mobile user acquisition specialist, does app marketing automation, and more. Part of the reason? People don’t want multiple […]... →

"Storytelling" and "empathy" have become business buzzwords, which is either hilarious or sad depending on your perspective. These two words, however, are at the root of what it means to be a human being. And yes, these two words are also the key to effective marketing of any kind. When you add in a strongly integrated mix of content and the right products and services, you've got an amazing business.... →

This is a guest post by Nico Miceli, a Google Developer Expert for Google Analytics, Technical Analytics Consultant on Team Demystified , quantified selfer, and all around curious guy. He blogs at nicomiceli.com and tweets from @nicomiceli . Hello, my name is Nico, and I love data. I quantify everything, and the Google Analytics Measurement Protocol is my favorite way to do it. With the Measurement Protocol, I can send, store,... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 22 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. The recent avalanche of customer data has created a bounty for marketers. The ability to track every customer interaction across their lifetime has created a way to engage and convert like never before. But it’s also […]... →

TechCrunch is giving away another pair of tickets to Disrupt SF, as well as a pair of tickets to the 2015 UX Awards (the UXies). One lucky reader will score a pair of tickets to both of these awesome conferences. Think of it as a chance to travel coast to coast to attend two cutting-edge tech events. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and… Read More... →

Team communication software startup Slack today announced the availability of a public beta of a version of its app for Windows Phone. The app is live now in the Microsoft Store. It’s not perfect, though. Slack mentions several known issues in the release notes for the app. Here’s one, for example: “The application may not […]... →

GUEST: As a user experience designer for games, I keep a close watch on new trends and apps with cutting edge marketing and consumer psychology principles that free-to-play titles employ today for monetization & retention. Selling match-3 boosters: how it’s done Boosters are power-ups that most match-3 games sell to help player’s get through a level quickly […]... →

GUEST: The point of using celebrity brands to reach mobile app users is straightforward: Your app needs a large, engaged audience to succeed, and celebrity brands have them. You pay the celeb, or license rights to the brand, to get access to their audience and then leverage the credibility of their name and image to turn […]... →