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Alibaba’s Singles’ Day generates $3.9 billion in sales in the first hour
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it generated more than $3.9 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) within the first hour of its China’s Singles’ Day sale. This compares with $2 billion recorded in about an hour in the 2014 sales event, which is held...
Google, Facebook, SpaceX, OneWeb plan to beam Internet everywhere
About 57% of the world population is offline — mostly because of unavailable Internet in poor or rural countries. The United Nations set a goal of getting that number down to 50% by the end of 2020. But the U.N. now admits, that's not going to happen. In fact, overall...
The Threat is Closer than You Think
SITE BACKUPS ARE NOW EVEN BETTER!
One of the features our customers like the most on our platform is our automatic and on-demand site backups. And today we have some exciting news! The WP Engine R&D team has been hard at work over the past couple of months to make some significant improvements in...
Facebook Instant Articles Are Here – What Does It Mean For SEO?
Facebook announced a new feature—instant articles—months ago, but only now is it beginning to show its full capacity. Revealed to a handful of select publishers like Huffington Post and made available for a segment of mobile Facebook users, the new feature was a...
Beyond Storage: 6 Ways the Cloud Offers More
The tech experts at Mashable describe the cloud as a network of servers with each server having a different function. From delivering a service to running applications, the cloud offers more than just data storage. Surprisingly, cloud technology dates back to the...