This year’s f8 didn’t see comedian Andy Sandberg bumbling around on stage parodying Mark Zuckerberg. And that was smart, because Facebook is no joke to the millions of developers that earn their livelihoods on the social network. Instead, f8 focused on washing away the perception of Facebook’s platform as hostile and unpredictable for developers and giving […]
Google is giving US veterans find jobs that fit the skills they learned in the military, and highlighting veteran-led businesses in searches. Those who’ve been in the military can now search ‘jobs for veterans’ in Google, then use their military job codes — such as MOS, AFSC or NEC — to narrow down the job […]
Push notification company Urban Airship is announcing a partnership with Gimbal, the beacon technology company that spun out of Qualcomm earlier this year. The end result, according to Urban Airship CMO Brent Hieggelke (who answered my questions via email), is a more precise approach to targeting promotional push notifications, one that uses Gimbal’s proximity beacons […]
Contributor Contributor More posts by this contributor The dinner that destroyed Gawker Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success” Are social media companies overvalued? The question is not just a matter of revenue multiples (low or high), but rather whether that revenue is actually generating new sales for advertisers. Google convinced the world […]
AI is now helping bust people who smoke at gas stations. Microsoft and Shell are collaborating on a pilot project to integrate artificial intelligence tools into gas stations, starting with one in Thailand and one in Singapore. The Shell stations are using video cameras and a device inside the station that runs Microsoft’s […]
WhatsApp has always said that it has no plans to put ads into its own app, but this is not stopping Facebook, which now owns WhatsApp, from figuring out other ways of monetizing the hugely popular messaging service, which has around 1 billion daily users. Today, Facebook is launching a new ad unit that will […]
Feeling passionate about a cause? Facebook is launching a tool that lets users post and sign online petitions right in their news feeds. The social network will start rolling ‘Community Actions’ out to its US users on Monday. It’s been testing the feature for several weeks in a couple of markets, TechCrunch first reported Sunday, […]
The Apple Store is iconic. Microsoft, Samsung, and Razer have a smattering of stores too. And now, the Chicago Tribune reports that maybe — just maybe — Google will finally get in on the brick-and-mortar retail game, too. According to the publication, Google is planning to open a two-story, 14,000-square-foot retail flagship store in Chicago’s […]
In a huge Ebay auction, the BRAUN design collection designed by famous designer Dieter Rams is for sale. The collection consists of approx. 1000 different pieces, mainly from the years between 1955 and 1985. It is probably one of the most complete private collections of this period. Minimum asking price for
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that lets you strike a better balance between maintaining privacy and breaking websites. Firefox 65 updates its controls for how the web browser manages content like tracker software and cookies — small text files a website can store on your computer that are handy for […]
