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A federal judge has thrown out a $532.9 million damages award against Apple Inc after a jury found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by a Texas company.... →

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations, Google ( Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog ) For many years, the Computer Science industry has struggled with a pipeline problem. Since 2009, when the number of undergraduate computer science (CS) graduates hit a low mark, there have been many efforts to increase the supply to meet an ever-increasing demand. Despite these efforts, the projected demand over the next seven years is significant.... →

Кампания «Как девочка» производителя товаров личной гигиены Always охватила 90 миллионов человек по всему миру и спровоцировала 12 миллиардов публикаций в соцсетях с хэштегом #likeagirl, в которых пользователи боролись с оскорбительным значением фразы.7 июля бренд запустил новую кампанию — Unstoppable. В ней он пытается разрушить представление о слабости женщин.... →

Language-learning startup Babbel has raised $22 million to help expedite product development and expansion across the Americas. Today’s announcement takes the company’s total known funding past the $30 million mark, including $10 million raised in 2013, though it did raise a “significant” undisclosed amount way back in 2008. The latest round was led by new investor […]... →

Создатель закрывшегося в 2010 году сервиса для управления личными финансами Wesabe Марк Хедланд написал заметку в своём блоге, в которой рассказал о том, почему проекту пришлось прекратить свою деятельность, и какие уроки он для себя извлёк.... →

Capital One has now made another acquisition aimed at improving its product design capabilities with today’s announcement that it has bought Oakland, California-based Monsoon, a design studio, development shop, marketing house and strategic consultancy. The 40-person Oakland team, which has done work developing apps and sites for companies like Yammer, Zazzle, the NBA, HP, Cisco… Read More... →

Long-time Google critic Consumer Watchdog has petitioned the US Federal Trade Commission to enact a European-style “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) in the US. The non-profit organization says the fact that it’s being done in Europe means it’s feasible in the US. The... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

DigitalOcean, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure service for developers, today announced that it has raised a $83 million Series B round led by Access Industries, with participation from previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $37 million Series A round last year. Access Industries previously invested in the likes of Rubikloud, ironSource, Beats and Cyanogen.… Read More... →

Ijji promises that buying and selling new or used games is easier on mobile.... →

Zoomcar, a Bangalore-based self-drive car rental platform, has picked up $11 million in fresh funding from Sequoia Capital, Empire Angels, and NGP. The new capital, which brings its total raised so far to $22 million, will be used by Zoomcar to add 7,000 new cars to its fleet, which currently numbers 1,500, and launch in 15 more cities. The company already has 250 pickup spots in Bangalore… Read More... →

Apester is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. We wrote about the company back when it was a social game startup called Qmerce. Now it offers tools for online publishers to create polls, surveys, personality tests and video quizzes, then embed them in their articles. Read More... →

Baidu has followed Google and Bing by abandoning the practice of including organic search query information in the http referrer.... →

Microsoft’s signaled and expected goodwill impairment, relating to its previous purchase of the majority of Nokia’s hardware assets, took place this morning — with the software company erasing $7.6 billion from its books. The firm’s efforts to elbow into first-party hardware have therefore received a massive setback, writing down the vast majority of the purchase… Read More... →

В России запустили "Бластим" – интернет-ресурс для поиска работы в сфере биотехнологий и научных позиций в области биоинформатики.... →

Aerserv announced programmatic access to its high-quality mobile video advertising inventory today. The move will enable brands to buy mobile video via real-time automated bidding, just like many already buy lower-quality display advertising. That’s a relatively new opportunity. While programmatic or automated real-time bidding and buying of ads has made huge inroads into lower-value display […]... →

Microsoft сократит 7,8 тысяч сотрудников из своего подразделения, которое занимается разработкой смартфонов на Windows Phone. Об этом сообщил в своём письме руководитель корпорации Сатья Наделла.... →

Online ticket retailer StubHub recently faced the challenge of updating its sites to optimize for mobile without taking a hit to its SEO ranking. Here's how they pulled it off.... →

Google изучил взаимодействие пользователей с прероллами YouTube... →

Back in 2009, Belinda Weaver had a decision to make. She loved marketing, but wasn't especially happy in her job as a marketing coordinator. She and her husband were thinking about starting a family. As Belinda says, "Change was afoot. I just didn't know how I wanted that change to take shape." Then she attended a one-day conference where she was hit by a figurative bolt of lightning after learning about copywriting . Welcome to the first post in our new series,... →

Three weeks after announcing a major executive shake-up, Microsoft has revealed another round of restructuring that will lead to “up to” 8,000 job cuts “primarily in the phone business” and plans to “restructure the company’s phone hardware business to focus and align resources.” Today’s news may not be entirely surprising, given that Stephen Elop, the […]... →