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The Eagle has landed. An accidental tweet told us that the UK wouldn’t have to wait for Apple Pay much longer, and that tweet was right. Apple Pay has officially launched in the UK. According to Apple, Apple Pay will be available in 250,000 locations. Finally. Apple Pay has been available to customers in the US since last October, so your time has come UK folks. Hopefully your bank is one… Read More... →

Salesforce is giving out $10,000 grants to 10 different non-profit organizations as it hits a "milestone" in volunteering.... →

For some, mobile is all about figuring out the frequency at which people want to receive information from a brand.... →

OpenTable could beef up its mobile app with a way for users to check the locations of the other members of their party for a restaurant reservation — and then move a reservation back if everyone is running late. It’s one of the improvements OpenTable could be making to its mobile app, Scott Jampol, senior […]... →

REVIEW: Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is a great buy for PS4 players looking to get into fighting games, but it's a not a great deal for current players.... →

Google тестирует бронирование номеров отелей в результатах поисковой выдачи. Пользователи будут оплачивать услугу на сайте поисковой системы, а не на сторонних сайтах. Обновление заметили специалисты сайта новостей о путешествиях Tnooz. После поиска пользователи обычно переходят на сайт отеля или туристического агентства, чтобы завершить бронирование. Например, кнопка «забронировать» рядом с записью отеля Ink48 в Нью-Йорке приводит пользователя на сайт отеля: Новая экспериментальная функция предлагает пол... →

Interviewed, launching from Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, is looking to help employees make better hiring decisions. It’s not uncommon for employers to be wowed by a candidate’s interview skills, only to find that their actual on-the-job skills are lacking. Interviewed fixes this issue by creating advanced simulations for job candidates who are interviewing… Read More... →

Tomorrow NASA’s New Horizons space probe will reach the finale of its 9-year journey to the outer reaches of the solar system. The mission, a 13-year study in marshaling resources, could be a lesson to any startup. And regardless of the outcome of tomorrow’s flyby, the probe has already revealed one hell of a planet. Read More... →

Okay, so the fact that MasterCard is hosting a series of hackathons might not seem terribly exciting — even if we grant that the name Masters of Code is kind clever, it seems like every big company is going after the startup/developer crowd with a hackathon of its own. What is impressive, however, is the scale of MasterCard’s efforts. Throughout the course of the year, the… Read More... →

The truth is there’s no easy answer, and it takes a lot of iteration to arrive at the right data set and the right tools.... →

Every region has its evil. In Hollywood, it’s content pirates, and in New York, it’s banking regulators (or Michael Bloomberg if you live outside Manhattan). In Silicon Valley, though, we don’t choose a small profession as our bogeyman: that’s way too pedestrian for us disruption gods. No, we choose all of middlemen as our foe. In the pantheon of evil conjured up by… Read More... →

Geoloqi cofounder Amber Case has teamed with Chris Dancy on a new startup app called Compass which is fixated on providing you with a healthy lifestyle and a friendly nudge.... →

Chris Gomersall has spent the past three years working with brands and agencies at Facebook Facebook, where he was the first creative strategy leader. Now he’s leaving to run his own startup, Atomized. Gomersall told me that he’s trying to solve a problem that he saw again and again in meetings with marketers — when they needed to bring out the creative assets for a… Read More... →

Amazon today announced that it will build a 208 MW wind farm in North Carolina to power its current and future AWS data centers. The so-called Amazon Wind Farm US East — likely because its power will mostly be used for Amazon’s US East region data centers in Virginia — will be built and operated by Iberdrola Renewables. Read More... →

ANALYSIS: The game developer-turned-executive helped shepherd two of Nintendo's biggest successes -- the DS and Wii consoles.... →

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today Iberdrola Renewables will build and operate a 208 megawatt (MW) wind farm in North Carolina’s Pasquotank and Perquimans counties on behalf of AWS. News about the facility, which will be called Amazon Wind Farm US East, comes just a few weeks after Amazon said it […]... →

Susan Wojcicki, top banana at YouTube, took the stage at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference just a few minutes ago to talk about the future of Google’s video unit and answer some questions about competitors, including Facebook and Twitter. As for what to expect, Wojcicki said that 50 percent of YouTube’s views are now coming from mobile devices, and that as a result,… Read More... →

It’s been a whirlwind few days for messaging app Telegram. The service, founded by Pavel Durov who created ‘Russia’s Facebook,’ first found itself (briefly) booted from the Google Play store on account of sticker drama, before a major DDOS hit its servers. Read More... →

After the recent rash of map vandalism and other map mischief that caused Google to shut down Map Maker, the company is getting ready to reopen it. Simultaneously Google is instituting a new moderation procedure that will rely more heavily on community moderation than on in-house Google personnel.... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Pepsi, eBay, Red Bull, and VentureBeat are some of the companies that use SocialFlow to share content.... →