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For advertisers, ad-blocking software is an annoyance. For IT administrators, it might just be the key to reducing network congestion.
A recent study (.pdf) by Simon Fraser University in British Columbia has found that installing ad-blocking software reduces ordinary Web-browsing bandwidth usage by 25 percent.… Story continues … “Blocking ads can cut network traffic 25% to 40%, study shows”
Everyone hates email. It wastes our time, too much of it is spam, it’s a to-do list that strangers can write on, it’s ugly, it’s slow, it’s unreliable. And did I mention the spam?
Perhaps the worst thing about email is the way it makes us unlikeable.… Story continues … “Email is broken, it needs to die, and we’ll be sorry when it’s gone”
EXCLUSIVE:
Jen Grant has joined Looker as its chief marketing officer. She was formerly a vice president of marketing at Box and a CMO at Elasticsearch.
Looker may not be one of the big names in data analytics, yet, but the company has impressive growth.… Story continues … “Fast-growing data analytics company Looker hires former Box exec Jen Grant (Q&A)”
Published June 29, 2015 in VentureBeat
Airtable, an online database service whose motto is “organize everything,” has closed a $7.6 million series A round of funding. On top of that, it has also landed a Facebook executive.
The new executive is Francis Larkin, who spent five years in various marketing roles at Facebook, most recently as director of product marketing.… Story continues … “Airtable lands $7.6M round to help build simple, extensible database apps”
Docker is hot. That much was clear from the buzz — and the news — around this year’s DockerCon. The evidence suggests that the billion-dollar company responsible for accelerating the “container revolution” is at a tipping point.
550 people attended DockerCon in 2014.… Story continues … “This could be the year that Docker hits the big time”
VentureBeat’s podcast, What to Think, is back — and this time, we’re trying something new.
In the first of a series of interviews with chief marketing officers, we sat down with Michael Williams, the CMO for Grand Prix of America.… Story continues … “The CMO’s Dilemma: Bringing Formula 1 to America (podcast)”
The “Internet of Things” is a trendy term that probably makes you think about connected toasters and smart refrigerators. But for GE, it also includes jet engines and power generators.
You might not think of these giant artifacts of industrial culture as part of the Internet of Things, but they will be — and their impact is going to be far bigger than adding some superfluous level of convenience to your dishwasher.… Story continues … “Here comes the industrial Internet — and enormous amounts of data”
SAN FRANCISCO — Like a coder, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer sees her company as a massive design and engineering problem.
That’s not too surprising for someone who studied computer science and spent years working on products at Google earlier in her career.… Story continues … “Marissa Mayer on coding, acqui-hiring, and whether Yahoo is a media company”
SAN FRANCISCO — Former Cisco chief technical officer Padmasree Warrior is a painter and a haiku poet, as well as one of the leading female executives in the technology world.
For her, art and technology are interlinked. Creating art — and she emphasized that she is an amateur artist — involves some of the same challenges of communication and innovation as creating new tech products, she said.… Story continues … “Ex-Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior uses haiku and painting to find balance in work, life”
SAN FRANCISCO — Dick Costolo didn’t know he would be replaced as Twitter chief executive until the three-hour meeting with the Twitter board in June at which his fate was decided.… Story continues … “Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down this month, but he only found out last week”