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Миноритарных акционеров лишат возможности получать данные о своих компаниях. Такие поправки в закон об АО, касающиеся раскрытия информации акционерам, были одобрены комитетом по собственности Госдумы. Об этом пишут «Ведомости». Тем, кто владеет менее 25% голосующих акций, чтобы получить информацию, придется указывать деловую цель — доказать, что документы объективно необходимы для надлежащей реализации прав акционера. При этом компания может отказать, если сочтет, что акционер недобросовестный. Также отказа... →

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Revolut has raised a $66 million Series B round with Index Ventures leading the round, and existing investors Balderton Capital and Ribbit Capital also participating. The startup will also run another $5 million crowdfunding campaign in a few weeks. The company has raised $83 million in total. Revolut started as a mobile app that lets you send and receive money in multiple currencies. Over… Read More... →

Впечатления о жизни в России сооснователя языковой школы Futuresay Уильяма Блэнда.... →

Qloo, which bills itself as “the cultural artificial intelligence data platform,” has raised $6.5 million in additional funding from AXA Strategic Ventures and Elton John. Yes, that’s the Elton John who co-wrote and performed “Tiny Dancer” and “Candle in the Wind.” He’s actually not the first big name to back the New York startup — actor… Read More... →

Группа компаний Game Show привлекла $3,5 млн от инвесторов прошлых раундов. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Имена инвесторов не раскрываются. Привлеченные средства будут направлены на реализацию новой стратегии развития и на реструктуризацию компании. Game Show намерена закрыть офис в Вильнюсе и переехать в Москву в новую студию, которую планируют открыть этой осенью. В планах компании также расширение штата и редизайн киберспортивной платформы gsl.tv. Общий объем инвестиций, полученных с момента основа... →

Wiz Khalifa’s music video for “See you again” is the new most-viewed video on YouTube, Elon Musk buys back X.com domain name, Toyota launches an AI fund and Facebook tests display ads in Messenger. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

«Лаборатория» в ответ заявила, что: «каждая сторона пытается использовать компанию, как пешку в политической игре».... →

Posted by rjonesx.It's not very often that Moz as a company openly advocates for a particular political position. While we've always supported our employees' choices to be vocal about the issues for which they're passionate and have done our best to live by the TAGFEE values (as imperfect as that attempt may be), we have rarely directed the attention of our customers or our readers toward a particular end. Today, we break with that tradition to join hands with countless organizations across the web in a Day... →

Last summer LeEco announced it intended to purchase the US-based TV maker Vizio for $2 billion. The deal fell in March through amid a myriad of problems surrounding LeEco including a major cash crunch. Allegedly the deal including a $100 million buyer termination fee and now Vizio has filed suit in a California court to collect payment. Vizio claims that in liue of paying Vizio the fee, the… Read More... →

Daniela Rus’s morning is packed. My arrival appears to come as a bit of a surprise. She considers the situation for a moment before inviting me in. Rus has allowed me to sit in for a packed morning of meetings. It’s a generous gesture, but more to the point, it’s the only way to manage some face time with the head of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence… Read More... →

According to a new report from the Washington Post, Trump Hotels has been hacked again. The 14 affected properties include Trump Central Park, Trump Chicago, Trump Las Vegas and Trump DC with most of the hacks occurring between November 2016 and March 2017. The hack, confirmed by the luxury hotel chain, reportedly compromised the credit card numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers of… Read More... →

Logitech is expanding its territory in the rapidly growing gaming space with the acquisition of Astro Gaming, a younger company known for their high-quality headsets. The price: a highly respectable $85 million. Read More... →

Amazon’s decision to deeply discount its voice-powered Echo devices for Prime Day appears to be paying off for the online retailer. Though Prime Day is still underway this afternoon, Amazon has already sold more Echo devices than it did on Prime Day last year, it says. Specifically, it has sold more than twice as many Echo devices here in the U.S., compared with Prime Day 2016, and more… Read More... →

Co-founder Dan Siroker is stepping down as the CEO of Optimizely. He’s handing the role over to Jay Larson, who was previously CEO at Birst, as well as an executive at Mercury Interactive and Success Factors. “Optimizely is uniquely positioned to help every company use experimentation to increase the revenue generated by customer facing applications,” Larson said in the… Read More... →

Curious about what exactly has changed on the Tesla Model 3 now that we have our first look at the production vehicle? The original prototype was revealed back in May 2016, and it’s changed a bit since that pre-alpha design was shown off to a crowd at Tesla’s Hawthorne Design Studio. The design team at PartCatalog.com have created an visual that makes it easy to spot the… Read More... →

When we last checked in on Transfix in late 2015, the then two-year-old, 26-person, New York-based transportation startup was determined to use its tech to increasingly match customers needing interstate freight shipping with truck drivers needing to make deliveries. It wanted to cut out wasted travel, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. The company has been chugging along ever since… Read More... →

If you were holding out for one of those super cute autonomous pods from Google’s early days of researching self-driving vehicles, I have bad news. The autonomous division of the company is now Waymo (that’s not the bad news), and it announced that it is retiring the little white vehicles, known as “Firefly” inside the company. That, for those of us who liked the… Read More... →

It’s been pretty obvious for a few months now, but Google has finally admitted that its running its own investment fund targeting machine intelligence startups. The fund will go by the name Gradient Ventures and provide capital, resources and education to AI-first startups. Google isn’t disclosing the size of the fund, but the company told us that it’s being run directly off… Read More... →

Liquidity is a crucial metric for all marketplaces. But how can we truly evaluate this liquidity? The three keys to answering this question are density, appropriately balanced demand and supply and category concentration. Read More... →