WordPress now powers so many websites, it’s no surprise that it’s a favorite target for hackers. To keep its users safe, Automattic – the company behind both WordPress.com and the open-source WordPress project — today announced that it has acquired BruteProtect, a security and management tool for WordPress. The BruteProtect plug-in is currently used on...Read More
Most companies based in the United States focus on SEO on one or more of three levels: global, regional and local. At each level geographically specific keywords can be added to a company’s focus in order to optimize a website for terms that are more relevant to one’s business. A dentist in Chicago, for example,...Read More
Google plans to make about 100 of its prototype autonomous cars, whose speed will be capped at 25 mph. Google/Reuters Google Inc. GOOGL +0.02% Google Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $592.54 +0.12 +0.02% Aug. 22, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 867,901 AFTER HOURS $592.69 +0.15 +0.03% Aug. 22, 2014 7:44 pm Volume (Delayed...Read More
For those who use the popular WordPress content management system for blogging, there are a lot of iOS tools. In the OS X world, however, you’re generally content to use a Markdown tool that also happens to upload content to WordPress blogs. Blogo 2.0 (US$29.99, available at introductory price of $14.99) has been designed from...Read More
Image credit: sefati.net Integrating analytics to your search engine optimization campaigns is a major step that you can take in order to magnify the results of your SEO digital marketing system. Among the most valuable analytic tools in the industry today is the Google Webmaster Tool that has become the apple of the eye among...Read More
In Kansas City, Google divided the region into areas of a few hundred homes it called ‘fiberhoods’ and asked residents to preregister for service. The Kansas City Star/Zuma Press Frustrated by the hammerlock of U.S. broadband providers, Google Inc. GOOGL +0.02% Google Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $592.54 +0.12 +0.02% Aug. 22, 2014 4:00 pm...Read More
By Yosef Martin A new startup is born every day. In garages, dorm rooms, and basements all around the world, people are bringing their business ideas to life. But this surge of entrepreneurial energy isn’t limited to actual startups. Big brands like Coca-Cola and Red Bull are adopting lean and agile methods to mimic the flexibility and...Read More
When you activate a plugin that’s not compatible with your WordPress setup, it’s likely to be immediately apparent. If something’s not right, odds are your site will be broken in some way, right away. Themes are a bit more complex. If you install a theme and instantly discover it’s bad, consider yourself lucky. Because what a...Read More
“This,†wrote the Google Ventures general partner David Krane yesterday on Twitter. “10 years ago, today. A day I’ll never forget…†The object in question was the photo-of-a-photo seen above, of Google executives preparing to ring the opening bell of Nasdaq in New York on August 19, 2004. As Fortune wrote yesterday, Google GOOG was...Read More
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