We’re all looking for ways to grow our audiences for our sites. Sometimes, we change our content to optimize it for search engines (here’s a shameless plug for our new SEO course). Other times, we find ways to reach new people, such as using tags so our blog posts show up in the Reader. Now,…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Climate change is hitting all over the world—even the parts not used to pumping AC to keep buildings livable. Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez on Unsplash Europe is facing another heat wave after July’s record-breaking bout of heat that caused deadly wildfires in the UK, France, and Spain. Seville, Spain, became the first city in the world to name a heat wave,…
United Airlines argues these tiny air taxis will help alleviate traffic congestion in major cities. Archer Aviation Personal flying cars remain a dream mostly relegated to science fiction, but the introduction of “air taxis” above our heads is starting to look far more likely—for better or worse. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported United…
Stack Commerce We rely on our smartphones more than ever nowadays, from work to play to running our businesses. If you’re one of those folks who use their phone for everything, why not get the app that bundles the tools you’ll need to turn your phone into a digital assistant? Right now, as part of…
No one expects every startup worth $1 billion to be ready to go public, but the collection of billion-dollar startups that are ready to list is larger than you might think. So much so that when the IPO window finally does reopen, we could be faced with a veritable torrent of public technology companies. A…
Unity announced this morning that it is committed to its merger with ironSource and will reject AppLovin’s $20 billion proposal. Last month, the news broke that Unity — a widely-used game engine — would merge with ironSource, a mobile app monetization and distribution company. But the Israeli company’s larger competitor AppLovin submitted an unsolicited takeover…
The U.K. government is rolling out a new scheme designed to create and promote cheaper broadband for lower-income households across the country. Several internet service providers (ISPs) in the U.K., including Virgin Media O2 and BT, already offer so-called “social tariffs,” which are cheaper broadband and phone packages for those who receive social security payments…
Hackers, researchers, cybersecurity companies, and government officials descended on Las Vegas last week for Black Hat and Def Con, a cybersecurity double-bill that’s collectively referred to as “hacker summer camp.” This year’s cyber gathering was particularly exciting: not only did it mark Black Hat’s 25th anniversary, but also the first time since the start of…
The Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 is set to be our most epic yet. This year’s competitors, selected from our handpicked cohort, the Startup Battlefield 200, are some of the most promising, imaginative startups in tech. We’re excited to begin announcing the innovators and investors who will judge this world-renowned pitch competition…
In this gig economy day and internet age, no writer is just a writer anymore. A writer is also an idea collector, a pitcher, a negotiator, an SEO specialist, a proofreader, a self-promoter, and a professional invoice-sender. They might even be a full-on brand at this point, depending on whether they buy into the Twitter…