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Likability, intuition, and a strong work ethic is a potent combination in any business, and many in Silicon Valley think seed-stage investors Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson have all three in spades. They “complement each other,” says investor Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital, who invested in the Series A round of DoorDash, the restaurant delivery company, after they seeded… Read More... →

Intel moved full throttle into the VR space with the announcement of an all-in-one virtual reality headset alongside a new Intel Merged Reality platform at the Intel Developers Forum. An announcer teased the dramatic reveal with the phrase, “what if you could move freely without any restriction on what you do next?” Project Alloy is completely wireless, something that… Read More... →

За апрель-июнь 2016 года продажи смартфонов Xiaomi на китайском рынке упали более чем на треть, а сама компания опустилась с первого на четвертое место в списке крупнейших поставщиков смартфонов в Китае. Редакция vc.ru изучила западную прессу и выяснила причины, из-за которых компания потеряла лидерство в отрасли.... →

Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China. According to Reuters, he used this opportunity to announce that the company would build a new research & development center in China before the end of the year. Other than that, we don’t know much. It’s unclear what engineers in China will work on, but it’s safe to say that they might be better positioned to work on… Read More... →

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Microsoft wants everyone to know the joy that is low latency wireless gaming peripheral connections. The company is making the Xbox Wireless connection tech it uses between Xbox One and official controllers available to PC OEMs and accessory makers, starting with Lenovo’s new Cylon-like gaming rigs. Xbox One controllers can be used with PCs now, but you need a dongle to make them talk… Read More... →

В июле 2016 года в материале для издания «Коммерсантъ» представители компании «Вымпелком» (бренд «Билайн») спрогнозировали скорое наступление в России кадрового кризиса, спровоцированного демографическим кризисом 1990-х годов. Редакция vc.ru узнала у представителей отрасли, действительно ли индустрии грозит такой кризис и как к нему подготовиться.... →

Microsoft’s answer to Steam’s Early Access is coming to Windows 10. Xbox Game Preview will be available on Microsoft’s desktop OS beginning soon, staring with Rockfish’s Everspace later this year. Game Preview gives players a chance to try games while they’re still cooking, as work-in-progress titles complete with warts. It’s not something everyone enjoys,… Read More... →

Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but in addition, the company is also making a major update to its low-cost Nearline cloud storage service for cold data, making its disk volumes faster, and allowing its users to bring their own encryption keys to Cloud Storage. The overall message Google… Read More... →

Bugs be gone! That’s the philosophy behind Appknox, a mobile security startup from Singapore which has raised $640,000 in a pre-Series A funding round. Read More... →

Anonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is push a soft pivot towards connection with people close by. You can still share anonymous quips on the sagging college app, but now it wants you to post status updates about what you’re doing that day, and let you browse and contact nearby Yakkers. Changing course is critical for Yik Yak, which has declined… Read More... →

Если эксперименты пройдут успешно, Китай займется созданием глобальной сети квантовой связи... →

A startup called Polybit has introduced what it’s calling the Standard Library of the Internet in open beta, a resource to makes back-end coding easy for developers, even beginners. The Standard Library, or the “stdlib” as the startup is calling it, allows developers to upload the functions they write to the cloud, and make their “microservices” or logic portable,… Read More... →

Менеджер проектов Денис Янов составил для vc.ru список приложений для учета рабочего времени, которые могут использовать предприниматели.... →

You asked for an extension on cheap tickets to Disrupt SF 2016, and we delivered. But the clock is still ticking. You now have just four days left to save $1,000 by purchasing early-bird tickets to Disrupt for just $1,995 apiece, so get on over to our ticketing page to score your deeply discounted tickets before the price jumps to $2,995 after the 19th. Read More... →

Китайский поисковик Baidu совместно с автомобильным концерном Ford инвестировал $150 млн. в компанию-создателя лазерных радаров (LiDAR) Velodyne. Финансирование разработки будет способствовать развитию технологий производства беспилотных автомобилей. Компания трудится над созданием лазерных радаров с 2005 года. Ранее Velodyne специализировалась на производстве аудиосистем и сабвуферов для автомобильной индустрии. Интерес Baidu к разработкам во многом обусловлен тем, что сегодня […]... →

In what Edward Snowden deems “not unprecedented” hackers calling themselves the Shadow Brokers have collected NSA-created malware from a staging server run by the Equation Group, an internal hacking team. The Shadow Brokers published two chunks of data, one “open” chunk and another encrypted file containing the “best files” that they will sell for at least… Read More... →

Новосибирский стартап Neuromama, который его создатели называют «первым в мире поисковиком с искусственным интеллектом» за несколько месяцев увеличил капитализацию $90 тыс до $35 млрд, превысив рыночную стоимость Tesla..... →

В Москве открылся стационарный пункт для обмена криптовалют, пишет издание Forklog. На момент запуска обменник работает только с биткоинами.... →

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