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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 […]... →

Periscope is building an app for the new Apple TV, according to multiple sources. It will allow users to watch livestreams on their television that are broadcasted from Twitter’s Periscope app. You could consider it a coming of age moment, considering the acquired startup’s website is Periscope.tv Tomorrow, Apple will unveil an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that includes an Apple… Read More... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a path-finding coach, speaker, writer, non-conformist, and entrepreneur. She is co-host of the Wild Crazy Meaningful Life podcast. She offers path-finding and peaceful productivity courses and has given inspirational talks at many events, including World Domination Summit and App Camp for Girls. She has a degree in Logic and Computation and had her dream job as an artificial intelligence programmer,... →

One in five Android devices are now running the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. The company released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and once again the latest version has increased its adoption share. Android Lollipop has not only passed the 20 percent mark — it was once […]... →

Председатель совета директоров холдинга «Сумма» миллионер Зиявудин Магомедов запустил венчурный фонд Caspian VC Partners (CVC) объёмом до $300 млн, предназначенный для инвестиций в высокотехнологичные стартапы. Об этом VC сообщили представители CVC.... →

Летом «Яндекс» выпустил несколько экспериментальных приложений, которые, по словам представителей компании, не рассчитаны на массовую аудиторию: «Яндекс.Прогулки» с путеводителями по городам России, «Разговор» – для людей с плохим слухом.VC поговорил с директором по распространению технологий «Яндекса» Григорием Бакуновым — о новых экспериментальных проектах компании, мотивации сотрудников, участии Аркадия Воложа в оперативной деятельности и о последних кадровых перестановках.... →

Ah, the Apple press cycle, when other technology companies either try to preempt Cupertino’s news, or bury their own nasty bits inside of the media whirlwind. Today, Microsoft announced several things relating to the enterprise that come, it appears, only a few dozen hours before Apple announces a new iPad, aimed at corporate customers. The Redmond-based software shop has formed a deal… Read More... →

Pantheon, a well-funded website hosting and management platform for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it is launching a new enterprise service. Pantheon Enterprise builds on the company’s experience in building and running its service for agencies that handle the sites of multiple clients. That service now hosts the sites of more than 1,500 of Pantheon’s agency… Read More... →

The mobile ecosystem of applications for enterprise, plus enabling technologies for developers, will shortly be at least a $100 billion annual revenue opportunity, according to Emergence Capital, a venture capital firm focused on software as a service technologies for enterprise. “When you’re talking about commerce or mobile apps for business, if you’re not approaching those markets […]... →

Microsoft today announced that its newly released Edge browser will be getting support for VP9, an open-source video codec that Google initially developed, in upcoming Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox already support VP9 — an alternative to the H.265 codec that can quickly deliver high-definition video content — […]... →

Halp! For years, TechCrunch has had a “Collaborative Consumption” category, which included companies like Airbnb, Uber, etc. But as time passes, and more and more ‘on-demand’ companies move from 1099 to W2, the term ‘collaborative consumption’ begins to make less and less sense. Internally, we floated the idea of changing the name of that category to… Read More... →

Компания 404 Group проинвестировала Sociate - систему автоматического размещения рекламы в группах в соцсетях «ВКонтакте», «Одноклассниках», Facebook, а также интернет-издательство wp-media. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Сумма и подробности сделок не раскрываются.  В 404 Group рассказали, что в wp-media было несколько раундов инвестиций за последние 2 года. Также компания в 2014 году вложилась в сообщество владельцев 3D принтеров 3dtoday и в сервис продвижения сайтов Movebo. Самвел Кафиян из акселерат... →

Sharxi позволяет находить попутчиков для поездок на такси и делить с ними плату за проезд... →

Today Google announced its same-day delivery service is now available in states across the midwestern U.S. including in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. The service, called Google Express, first launched two years ago and offers consumers the opportunity to have purchases made with select retailers delivered to their door. The service hinges on Googles partnership with major […]... →

Incorrect semicolon usage perpetuates additional incorrect semicolon usage. Learn the appropriate way to use this punctuation mark and put an end to the cycle. The next punctuation lesson in the editorial standards series on Editor-in-Chief will help clarify misconceptions about an elegant and practical punctuation mark. In this 13-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief,... →

This week’s Cribs episode brings us to Trulia’s newly designed real estate headquarters in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Zillow snatched up the rival real estate site earlier this year in a stock-for-stock purchase of $2.5 billion. But Trulia quietly worked behind the scenes to make its workplace a comfy experience for employees who call the SF office home. Located near… Read More... →