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Popular task manager Todoist just received a major Android update with a completely overhauled user interface and very efficient new features. First, the company switched to Material design in order to make a more polished app that fits in better in Google’s operating system. Second, the company added natural language processing as well as intruitive gestures in order to manage your… Read More... →

U.S. telecom giant Verizon has announced the completion of its AOL acquisition, as expected, for $50.00 per share. This effectively means that AOL shares are no longer being traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and AOL is officially a Verizon subsidiary. Breaking, refresh for updates…... →

That was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash. As Verizon said at the time of its original announcement that it was buying AOL just over a month ago, Tim Armstrong, AOL’s CEO, will continue to lead AOL operations, with Bob Toohey, president of Verizon Digital… Read More... →

It's a no-brainer that more and more people are embracing visual content. Studies are showing just how important this format is for our content campaigns. The post 25 Great Design Resources for Your Content Campaigns by @IAmAaronAgius appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Редакция SEOnews подготовила дайджест вакансий SEO-компаний... →

Google announced the launch a new site called Google News Lab, which is designed to be a home on the web for reporter resources. The post Google Launches Google News Lab, A New Home on the Web for Reporters by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Electric car manufacturer Tesla has announced that Tesla S drivers have now clocked up one billion road miles around the world.... →

Китайский интернет-магазин JD.com, который официально открылся в России 18 июня, обвинил своего основного конкурента AliExpress в недобросовестной конкуренции на российском рынке и нелегальном распространении смартфонов Nubia, сообщает издание «Рамблер-Новости».В свою очередь, JD.com столкнулся с аналогичной претензией от китайской Lenovo — компания заявила, что не давала интернет-магазину разрешения на продажу своих устройств в России. Китайская торговая площадка выразила «удивление» по этому поводу.... →

Jelli, makers of an ad platform for radio broadcasters to digitise how they fill space on their airwaves — think “AdWords for audio” — has raised a $21 million round of funding to grow its business as it prepares to expand to other kinds of audio services — specifically streamed music. The Series B round comes from a mix of strategic backers and top shelf VCs… Read More... →

Цвет логотипа, торговых точек и продуктов компании играет большую роль в позиционировани бренда, а иногда определенный оттенок становится отличительной чертой марки.ЦП перевел материалы ресурса Future и издания Business Insider, где эксперт по цветам в бизнесе Карен Маллер (Karen Haller) объяснила, как те или иные оттенки могут влиять на отношение потребителей к компаниям, манипулирующим клиентами с помощью цвета.... →

PRESS RELEASE: MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced it has teamed with Google Cloud Platform to provide $500 of credit to spend on Google Cloud Platform services for each registrant...... →

Olapic, which helps brands boost sales with user-generated images from social media, has raised $15 million in new funding. Olapic aggregates images submitted by users on various social media channels such as Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. Then, using a curation algorithm and human editors, Olapic identifies which images are best suited to specific use-cases for each brand. Read More... →

Digital advertising is so rampant with fraud, it’s a wonder we don’t see FBI agents raiding programmatic platforms.... →

AtScale, a tool that aims to provide the "glue" between Hadoop and traditional business intelligence tools, has raised a $7 million Series A round.... →

Goodservice wants to give users in India a personal assistant in their smartphone. The Mumbai-based app just scored seed funding of $1.6 million from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to increase the size of its engineering and operations teams. Read More... →

The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial oversight body which handles complaints relating to domestic intelligence agencies, has ruled that GCHQ acted unlawfully in the handling of intercepted communications data in another case brought by civil liberties groups, including Liberty, Privacy International and Amnesty International. Read More... →

Envoy, a company that provides an iPad-based sign-in system for office reception desks, has raised $15 million from a single funder: Andreessen Horowitz. Office reception desks might seem like a dry topic for a startup, but Envoy has seen enviable uptake among hot Silicon Valley companies — and well beyond. Customers include Airbnb (its first customer), Pandora, Heroku, […]... →

Жители полуострова опровергли сообщения московских СМИ — доступа к закрытым санкциями интернет-сервисам из Крыма нет.... →

Лаборатория искусственного интеллекта Facebook разработала экспериментальный алгоритм распознавания личности. Новая технология позволяет идентифицировать людей на фото, даже если их лица ясно не видны. Алгоритм определяет личность человека, анализируя различные признаки: одежду, причёску, фигуру и позу. Руководитель лаборатории Ян Лекун (Yann LeCun) отметил: «Узнать Марка Цукерберга очень легко – он всегда носит серую футболку». Люди также часто могут узнать других, не видя их лица. По с... →

Though Google's position that great content will result in links works for large companies, it doesn't always work that way for small and medium businesses.... →