Pandora’s acquisition of Ticketfly is part of a broader strategy: Diversify its revenue sources while keeping artists happy.
Pandora, the market leader in Internet radio, has been gobbling up companies left and right lately. But the 10-year-old music streaming service’s latest focus isn’t on snatching up machine learning tech and data scientist talent (it has plenty of that already). Instead, Pandora is ramping up its efforts to become an indispensable tool for artists themselves.
A big rival to website builders like Squarespace and WordPress, Wix just revamped its web design platform.
Wix, the popular website building and hosting service, rolled out a new version of its web design platform on Wednesday—with a bit of borrowed DNA from Facebook. The new version of Wix’s editor is based on React, an open-source JavaScript library developed by Facebook that also powers much of Khan Academy and Flipboard. Wix’s update signals the exact market it is trying to attract: small businesses that want to build websites in-house and would otherwise look to competitors like Squarespace or WordPress.
The Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch the world’s first private moon rover.
An Israeli company competing for Google’s Lunar XPrize has made it one small step closer to landing a rover on the moon. SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country’s almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world’s first private mission to the moon in 2017.
On Wednesday, Google announced its Accelerated Mobile Pages project, for which it has partnered with dozens of prominent publishers.
In May, Facebook lifted the curtain on Instant Articles, a native publishing platform that hosts articles directly on the social network. For Facebook, which already serves as the largest source of referral traffic for many online publishers, Instant Articles is a way to keep Facebook users from leaving the social network—and for Facebook users, the fast-loading pages are an attractive option, especially on mobile.
Founder Evan Williams unveiled a slew of new features and new publishing partners at an event in San Francisco last night.
Recognizing that people are increasingly on their mobile devices, Medium yesterday launched a slew of new features and major updates to its iOS and Android apps that make it easier for people to write, edit, comment, and share on the open publishing platform.
Billions of emails are sent every day, but that doesn’t mean we have any clue what we’re doing. Follow these steps to improve your messages.
Despite the rise of social media, instant messaging, and all manner of apps, reports of email’s death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, according to technology market research firm The Radicati Group, in 2015, roughly 2.6 billion people will use email—a number that will grow to more than 2.9 billion by the end of 2019.
The L16 promises great optical zoom, high resolution, terrific low-light capabilities, and substantial depth-of-field controls.
When shooting photos on the go, 16 lenses are far better than one.
Less than three months after its launch, the upstart Jet.com has ditched its paid, members-only business model.
Jet.com, the e-commerce site positioned as an Amazon competitor, is overhauling its business model, barely three months after its debut. The company is doing away with its Amazon Prime-style membership fee, opening up its steep discounts to all shoppers. Jet was previously members-only and charged its clientele a yearly subscription fee of $50—half of what Amazon charges its Prime customers.
That elephant you just colored is now a 3-D cartoon character, prancing around your iPad.
In the age of iPads and apps, coloring books are evolving from the go-to distraction for kids into a hobby for mindful adults. But Disney Research’s latest invention—bringing coloring books to life through augmented reality—might make the children’s version cool again.
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