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This week, Yahoo came clean about a 2014 hack, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a huge investment to cure disease, rumors swirled around possible car tech acquisitions for Apple and the AI startup space continued to heat up with a few chat bot acquisitions. These are the top stories of the week. Read More... →

“The issue is being hugely overblown. Marketers do not care about it, and it has zero impact on spend.” That’s the response of Jason Stein, founder and CEO of 250-employee social marketing agency Laundry Service, to a Wall Street Journal report strongly criticizing an error in Facebook’s “average duration of video viewed” metric. The paper called the… Read More... →

Сервис Gett впервые в России проводит акцию по раздаче скидок на поездки, пишет TJ. Ранее аналогичные акции запустили Uber и «Яндекс.Такси».... →

Snapchat’s current geofilter product is a nightmare for event managers, brands, and any commercial business because anyone can coat-tail or hijack the space. Let’s say you’re holding a political rally at City Hall, and you want to buy a geofilter for the augmented Snapchat space at the event. When you go to purchase it from Snapchat, your plan gets rejected. Why? Someone… Read More... →

Skateboarders make great startup investors, according to Rob Dyrdek and Tony Hawk. The legendary skaters spoke to us about a mindset that helps them be on the lookout for the next big thing. “The skater mentality is you’re always looking at what’s next,” said Dyrdek. He also spoke of the “NBD” or “never been done” philosophy when it comes to… Read More... →

Uber is rolling out a new selfie security measure which will eventually cover the entire U.S. It’s a selfie system for drivers designed to help prevent driver fraud, so that you can more reliably count on the person who picks you up being the one whose picture you see in your app. The system is actually called Real-Time ID Check, and it uses Microsoft machine learning to compare a… Read More... →

Издательство Tribuna Digital (издаёт Sports.ru) запустило публичное тестирование спортивных чат-ботов в Facebook Messenger. С их помощью пользователи могут отслеживать новости любимых спортивных клубов, рассказал гендиректор Sports.ru Дмитрий Навоша.... →

Meet Henri, the middle malshi (a maltese/shih-tzu mix, I’m told) who shares a Manhattan apartment with our Senior Video Producer, Veanne. Being the urbane, city dwelling sort, Henri agreed to test out the latest offering from mattress-maker/podcast funder, Casper. Some background on Henri from the pup himself, “After decades of chasing squirrels, my joints ain’t what they used… Read More... →

Screening for language disorders is best done early and often, but it’s not always easy to get the equipment and staff to every kid in a timely fashion. At least a basic level of screening, however, may soon be able to be automated or done at home, if research out of MIT proves reliable. Read More... →

SpaceX has a few answers about what might have caused the explosion of one of its Falcon 9 explosion on September 1. The rocket blew up while going through pre-launch prep on a landing pad, and no one was injured, but SpaceX has had some difficulty figuring out the cause, and shared very little info before now. Today, an update on the SpaceX blog says that the results of an investigation… Read More... →

Редакция vc.ru попросила представителей российских рекламных агентств рассказать, как оценить эффективность рекламной кампании с блогерами. Сотрудники Leo Burnett, Jami, Reframe Group и Arena (Havas) рассказали, какие типы сотрудничества бывают и какие просчёты следует устранить на стадии планирования сотрудничества.... →

Сервис для заказа такси и курьерской доставки Gett откроет центр разработки в Москве для работы над технологиями искусственного интеллекта и беспилотных автомобилей, сообщает Firrma со ссылкой на компанию. Gett планирует открыть офис к зиме 2017 года.... →

Cuff, the smart jewelry maker that promised a line of fashion wearables capable of sending emergency alerts to trusted family and friends, shut down earlier this year leaving a number of customer orders unfilled and vendors unpaid. Now, the company is being named in a bankruptcy suit filed by five of its manufacturing partners. Read More... →

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Volkswagen Polo запустил в России digital-проект с хэштегом «ополоумел». По сюжету кампании, каскадеру Мартину Иванову предложили выполнить несколько трюков на «обычном автомобиле» в Калуге. Несмотря на странность ситуации, Иванов исполняет просьбу и говорит, что девять секунд, за которые разгоняется авто, — самые недорогие в его жизни. Сайт также содержит изображения машины и VR-ролик.Редакция vc.ru собрала другие примеры рекламы автомобилей, акцент в которой сделан на новые характеристики или функции.... →

Основатель американского агентства AE Marketing Group Брайан Уолкер поделился в блоге на Medium своими правилами ведения бизнеса. Его компания за пять лет прошла путь от небольшого агентства на окраине Чикаго до участника списка Inc 5000, который охватывает самые быстрорастущие компании США. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод записи.... →

В мессенджере Telegram Павла Дурова появилась функция наложения масок, стикеров и текста на фотографии и видео. Об этом говорится в официальном блоге проекта.... →

As we romp further into this silly and messy political season it’s come to light that Tyler Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift and the boy who was last seen floating in a tropical paradise on the cover of time magazine, was the money man behind a group of Trump supporters calling themselves Nimble America. They dedicated the non-profit to proving that “that shitposting is powerful… Read More... →

Drones might one day blanket cities dropping off Amazon goods, but in the short-term, there’s plenty of opportunity for them to help out in limited engagements, where delivery via other means would be difficult, impossible or just not quite expedient enough. UPS kicked off trials of deliveries of that kind this week, with a pilot flight to drop a small package (containing a… Read More... →

Bing, the search engine Microsoft pays you to use, is jumping on the AMP bandwagon. The open source AMP format is essentially Google’s version of Facebook’s Instant Articles and its stripped down format, which in some ways goes back to the early days of the web, ensures that mobile pages load extremely fast. Just like Google now highlights a variety of AMP pages in its mobile… Read More... →