Websites are freaking out over billions in lost revenue and starting to fight back, but there are still legit reasons to block ads.
This January marked the 10th anniversary of AdBlock Plus, a browser plug-in that banishes ads from web pages. It isn’t the only ad blocker; but AdBlock Plus dominates, with 500 million downloads, according to Eyeo, the company behind the software.
Tech upstarts like Box and Etsy saw a steep decline in valuation after going public last year—and regulators want to understand why.
A number of tech companies with sky-high valuations prior to going public last year—Box, Square, and Etsy, to name a few—have since seen their worth drop significantly. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thinks the stockbrokers who advise investors may be to blame, according to Bloomberg.
Facebook’s mobile push continues to pay off: The company reported $4.5 billion in mobile ad revenue during its quarterly earnings call.
Back in 2012, Facebook was struggling to transition into a company with a strong mobile presence. Those days are long gone. In its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Facebook revealed that 80% of its advertising revenue could be attributed to mobile. In other words: Of the $5.6 billion ad dollars Facebook raked in during the last quarter, about $4.5 billion came from mobile advertising.
The clock is ticking for the medical-testing startup to rectify these issues.
The bad news keeps on coming for Theranos, the medical-testing startup with an eye-popping $10 billion valuation. U.S. government regulators said in a public letter to the company today that its deficiencies pose “immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.”
Project management, managing personalities, patience: There are a lot of ways parenting prepares you to succeed at work.
Talk to any entrepreneur or business leader and they’ll often admit that their company is their “baby.” They brought it to life, spent time raising it, and are emotionally invested in its growth. Entrepreneurs who are also parents to real babies say that many of the skills they use at home have enhanced their workplace.
The Silicon Valley blood-testing company has been on a rocky road since October.
“Serious deficiencies” have been found at one of Theranos’s labs in Northern California, which could see its blood tests suspended from the Medicare program, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing sources.
UX research isn’t about proving users hate carousels; it’s about embracing uncertainty, Airbnb’s Matt Gallivan writes.
When you spend your days studying how people use products, your intuition around such things gets pretty well-honed. You start to see patterns and themes. You reach a point where you can identity a behavior, ask “What might this mean?” and generate some great high-level and philosophical discussions with stakeholders. People start to seek you out for answers to questions about users, even when you haven’t done research that could answer those questions.
In a world of unlimited options, how can TV companies get consumers to watch a particular channel or show? Advertise it!
Traditional advertising is running into a problem: When it comes to television, more and more people are cord-cutters. According to a recent study, about 2.5% of Americans dropped their cable service in 2015, with many of them getting streaming television adapters such as the Google Chromecast, Apple TV, the Amazon Fire Stick, and Roku.
How the founder of Framebridge stumbled across funding and mentorship from the last person she expected.
When Susan Tynan joined LivingSocial in 2011, she was struck by its CEO, Tim O’Shaughnessy. She had known him a little bit back when they worked at another startup; O’Shaughnessy, though quite young then, was rapidly rising through the ranks. But now, as O’Shaughnessy addressed hundreds of employees at the first all-staff meeting Tynan attended at LivingSocial, she was struck by what a forceful and charismatic leader he had become. He communicated the company’s progress and mission with great clarity and precision. The whole staff listened, admiring and rapt.
As 2015 came to a close, FastCo was busier than ever before. ComScore puts our year-over-year unique visitor growth at 18% across the network. That’s fueled by a bunch of talented and truly dedicated writers, editors, and developers. Let me introduce you to our latest batch of hires.
As 2015 came to a close, FastCo was busier than ever before. ComScore puts our year-over-year unique visitor growth at 18% across the network. That’s fueled by a bunch of talented and truly dedicated writers, editors, and developers. Let me introduce you to our latest batch of hires.
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