It all starts in 2018 NFL free agency, where Minnesota’s top three quarterbacks from 2017 Case Keenum, Sam Bradford and Teddy Bridgewater are set to become unrestricted free agents. With offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur gone to become head coach of the Giants and replaced by former Eagles quarterbacks coach John …

Rand Fishkin, the co-founder of Moz, announced his new company after officially leaving his day-to-day operations at Moz yesterday. He is starting a company named SparkToro, a technology platform in the influencer and audience intelligence marketing space. Fishkin started the well-known SEO platform over a decade ago with his mother, …

Google has been rolling out many new search features over the past few months related to images, featured snippets, and the knowledge graph. Today the search giant released another feature called “multifaceted featured snippets.” Multifaceted featured snippets will be surfaced for queries that are sufficiently broad enough to allow for …

A strong understanding of the economics of any business unit is absolutely critical to any digital marketing campaign managed against non-brand key performance indicators (KPIs) in a search engine marketing (SEM) campaign. One would think any reasonably large and successful business would have a good handle on their unit economics, …

Photo: lights on Instagram  Canadian music lovers can officially expect to get ready for a busy month, as March is set to be a fast-paced four weeks of concerts and pumping beats across the country. As we prepare to say goodbye to the frigid temperatures with the hopes of milder weather, some …

Photo: Twenty20 Plantar fasciitis can happen in a snap. You get out of bed one morning, and the minute you set one heel down on the floor, it starts throbbing. You did a tough workout the day before and had some heel pain but nothing serious. Weird, right? Plantar fasciitis …

According to a study published in the journal PLoS Biology, two closely related great ape species — the bonobo (Pan paniscus) and the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) — share not only the physical form of the gestures but also many gesture meanings. Chimps and bonobos use gestures to initiate and …

Dr. Christine Beeton from Baylor College of Medicine and colleagues have found that iberiotoxin — one of the components in the venom of a scorpion species called the Eastern Indian red scorpion (Buthus tamulus) — can reduce disease severity in a rat model of rheumatoid arthritis. The Eastern Indian red …

Julie Ruvolo, a former writer for TechCrunch, is the head of editorial content for the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Latin America is emerging as the new battleground for the global tech giants, and some of Silicon Valley and Asia’s biggest investors—from Sequoia Capital to SoftBank—are taking …

Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. The new funding adds to its available cash and will make it possible for the young startup to scale more quickly, but Aurora CEO Chris Urmson told me …