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Forget food delivery. Just the organic slice of the grocery delivery business remains competitive in the U.S. with giants from the brick and mortar world, tech titans and upstarts all muscling in for a piece of an annual market that sees more than $40 billion in sales domestically. Some have flamed out, like Farmigo, which recently closed shop. And others done some belt-tightening, like… Read More... →

Игорь Косырев покинул МегаФон.... →

Regardless of whether you’ve seen Netflix’s original show Stranger Things (you should go start after you read this post if you haven’t), watching the video above with any kind of 360 VR viewer, like Google Cardboard or Gear VR (or even just, is quit the experience. Stranger Things is a perfect starting point for Netflix to dabble in VR, given how atmospheric, immersive and… Read More... →

Соцсеть Facebook объявила о новых изменениях в лентах новостей пользователей, направленных против статей с неинформативными (кликбейтовыми) заголовками. Такие статьи теперь будут получать меньший охват среди пользователей соцсети, говорится в сообщении компании.... →

Popular password manager 1Password is trying a new distribution model. Instead of letting you pay for the 1Password app on your Mac or PC and pay again to upgrade to a new major version, AgileBits now has a new plan — for $2.99 per month, you can download and use all the 1Password apps for as long as you subscribe. Read More... →

Twitter представил новый вид рекламы — Instant Unlock Cards. Для того, чтобы пользователь узнал более подробную информацию о продукте или смог посмотреть продолжение видео, он должен сначала опубликовать что-то под определенным хэштегом или ретвитнуть сообщение бренда. Об этом компания сообщила в своем блоге. Издание The Next Web сравнило функцию с кликбейтом.... →

Jim Prosser, Twitter’s head of corporate, revenue, and policy communications, is leaving the company. He’s headed over to SoFi to run communications and policy, he said on Twitter. It’s noteworthy that three of Twitter’s top communications executives have left in the past three months. The highest profile departure in the past few weeks was longtime Apple veteran… Read More... →

Выходец из Forbes переведёт РБК c информационной новостной повестки к сторону интерактивных форматов для бизнес-аудитории.... →

Facebook Pages and websites that frequently withhold, exaggerate, or distort information in their link headlines will disappear from News Feed thanks to a new anti-clickbait algorithm. Facebook manually classified tens of thousands of headlines with a clickbaitiness score to train the new algorithm. Now it can detect headlines like “When She Looked Under Her Couch And Saw THIS… I… Read More... →

Video has generally been available — and is often shared — on Pinterest, but it hasn’t quite received the same treatment that the company’s traditional content has seen. Over the next few months, however, that will be changing. Pinterest is starting to test ways to get video running directly on its services, including building a native video player. And beyond that… Read More... →

LinkedIn announced today that it is open sourcing a tool called Test Butler, which was developed in-house to overcome limitations on Android app test emulators. As LinkedIn was developing its latest Android app, it decided to completely overhaul the way it develops and tests apps, but it ran into a huge testing limitation, one that was slowing it down it in an unacceptable way. “We… Read More... →

По итогам сделки индонезийский сервис по заказу мототакси Go-Jek был оценен в $1,2 млрд, пишут СМИ... →

Say what you will about OnePlus’ now-defunct invite system – it certainly helped the company control its supplies and gauge demand. The launch of the OnePlus 3 marked a brave new, invite-free world – one that’s apparently come with a few growing pains as the company works to meet demand. Co-founder Carl Pei took to the company’s forums to announce that it will… Read More... →

Более ста представителей дизайн-сообщества США подписали экспертное заключение, в котором выразили поддержку Apple в патентном споре с Samsung, передаёт Reuters. Этот документ будет передан в суд, который рассматривает дело против Samsung о краже элементов дизайна iPhone.... →

Совладелец стартапа Teachbase Владимир Щербаков вложил 3 млн рублей в «Смарт Платформу», которая предлагает площадку для дистанционного образования. Об этом сообщает издание «Деловой Петербург». Teachbase также предоставляет платформу для онлайн-обучения. По условиям сделки, компании будут работать над объединенным программным продуктом. Предполагается, что общий оборот бизнеса составит 3,5 млн рублей в год. Ближайший год компании Teachbase и «Смарт Платформа» юридически будут работать как отдельные организ... →

Apple’s forthcoming reality TV show just scored itself some big-time Hollywood star power: according a report out this morning from Variety, actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow will serve as a mentor to the contestants on the new series, “Planet of the Apps.” The show, which is debuting next year, will also see Gary Vaynerchuk and will.iam join the show as advisors,… Read More... →

In the 80s, there were dozens of 1-900 hotlines that anyone could call to chat about a certain topic. These ranged from phone sex lines to WWF chats to fan hotlines for stars like The New Kids On The Block and Hulk Hogan. Chatrooms eventually ended this lucrative industry, until now. Unmute, an app that lets users make and listen in on live phone calls, is today unveiling v2 of the product… Read More... →

Most of my analogies revolve around sports. The concept of “attribution” in business is similar to giving credit to a player for assisting another player in achieving an objective. The purpose of this post is to explain the analogous concept of multi-channel attribution in digital marketing: That is, which channels should get rewarded when a user clicks through to buy something. Read More... →

Издание First Round Review поговорило со специалистами из технологической отрасли и попросило их назвать книги, которые они рекомендовали бы прочитать своим коллегам и предпринимателям. Редакция vc.ru выбрала самые интересные рекомендации.... →

Kyna and Conan Fong were at dinner trying to convince their father, who ran a medical practice, to try something different than just keeping paper records. There’s a good reason for that — they’re slow, they’re hard to transfer and share (often requiring paper delivery or faxes), and there’s a lot of information that can be lost along the way. But despite that being… Read More... →