Destructive impact of coronavirus on SMBs greater than an ‘economic hurricane’   The roughly 30 million small businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. employ nearly 48% of all workers, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. The bulk of SMBs are very small and highly vulnerable to failure in the wake …

Mixed Directives: A reminder that robots.txt files are handled by subdomain and protocol, including www/non-www and http/https [Case Study] I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to …

Did you know that 92% of U.S. organic visits are produced by Google? Google reigns over organic search, we knew that. According to Merkle, in Q3 2019, Google produced 92% of total U.S. organic search visits (95% on mobile). With a dominant presence, it comes as no surprise that Google …

6 Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Be More Environmentally Friendly in 2020 With lockdown going on (and on, it seems), now is the ideal time to reflect on how we’ve treated our planet in recent years and how we could all make a few lifestyle changes to help it …

SpaceX Starship Prototype Finally Aces Pressure Test SpaceX is gearing up for its first crewed flight for NASA with the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft, but Elon Musk’s spaceflight firm is also planning for the future with the Starship. This vessel, previously known as the BFR, is an extremely ambitious …

Some Asteroids May Be Fragments of a Long-Lost Alien Solar System A new paper suggests that there may be 19 asteroids — all part of the Centaur family — that didn’t come from our own solar system at all. If this were proven true, it would mean we have ancient …

Bryce Roberts: Profitability is ‘more achievable than a Series A round’   Despite all evidence to the contrary, there’s more to building a startup than raising venture capital. Founders are finding success without overly relying on VC dollars; some are even sharing profits with their respective employees and customers without …

Deliver compelling digital experiences to modern users More than half of businesses around the globe struggle to deliver on customer expectations for digital experiences.  As a result, customers often look elsewhere and reward those companies that provide engaging digital experiences with their loyalty. Join us for this webinar to learn …

A team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has released a seamless, globally consistent, 1:5,000,000-scale geologic map of the Moon. Orthographic projections of the Unified Geologic Map of the Moon showing the geology of the …

Digits launches a free expense monitoring dashboard for small businesses, closes on $22M Series B Digits, a fintech startup hailing from the same team that built and sold Crashlytics to Twitter, is officially launching today after two years of development. It’s also announcing a $22 million Series B round of …