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The Mi Box is Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s play to take on devices like Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV. Priced at only $69, and sporting features like integrated Google Cast and voice search, the 4K- and HDR-supporting device seems worth a look. But at the end of the day, Mi Box is still an Android TV player, and subject to limitations of that platform, which are… Read More... →

New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based LittleBird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. LittleBird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given subject via Twitter. It raised $4.8 million in venture capital to build its analytics platform from Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Oregon Angel Fund and… Read More... →

Apple has opened up registration for its Hour of Code workshops in partnership with Code.org. This year, Apple will host Hour of Code workshops every day for one week — in conjunction with Computer Science Education Week — from December 5 to December 11 at all of its nearly 500 Apple retail stores across the world. In the past, Apple offered just one day’s worth of… Read More... →

Всемирный банк опубликовал большой ежегодный отчет о лучших местах в мире для того, чтобы быть предпринимателем. В топ-20 вошли Новая Зеландия, Грузия, Эстония, Финляндия.... →

Совладелец онлайн-ритейлера «Юлмарт» Дмитрий Костыгин объяснил акционерный конфликт отсутствием денег на развитие бизнеса у другого акционера компании, Михаила Васинкевича. Об этом он заявил в интервью изданию «Секрет фирмы».... →

Another day, another seemingly random location drop for Snapbot, your friendly neighborhood Snapchat Spectacles vending machine. Today’s lucky destination is Santa Monica, bucking the recent trend of out-of-the-way spots for one just up the coast a bit from its original Venice Beach location in LA. Snap, Inc. began selling Spectacles without much in the way of warning last Friday,… Read More... →

Google’s smart virtual helper Google Assistant is finding its way into everything from the company’s chat app Allo to Pixel smartphones and its Amazon Echo rival, Google Home. Now it appears that Apple is considering following suit in at least one of those areas. A newly unearthed Apple patent indicates the company is looking into integrating Siri into its own messaging platform… Read More... →

Раньше он выбирался по желанию, теперь стоит автоматически... →

The adoption of the Cloud is booming (of course). But at the same time SaaS services are exploding. That means companies need developer resources to integrate all these inter-locking services. But there’s a problem. They spend huge amounts of time and money manually transferring data between services and are, once again, hamstrung by a lack of developer resources. Playing in this… Read More... →

Uber’s trip data tells it a lot about how to optimize its services, including routing and pickup spots, but the info also reveals incidental patterns that don’t necessarily apply to its core goals of delivering transportation services, but that are useful nonetheless. That’s why it’s putting some of its data to work with its new Uber Restaurant Guide, a Michelin for… Read More... →

Slow Ventures — a previously small-ish fund founded by former Facebook employees — is raising a much larger fund as it looks to grow into something more like a traditional venture firm. Founded by Kevin Colleran and Dave Morin — with former Facebooker Sam Lessin also recently joining — Slow Ventures has raised $145 million for its latest fund. While Slow will continue… Read More... →

Managed By Q, the office management platform for products and services, has today inked a new deal with Staples. As part of the partnership. Staples customers will now have access to Managed By Q’s full suite of services, including IT specialists, handyman, cleaning services and even workplace yoga. The idea here is two-fold: Staples’ small- and medium-sized business clients will… Read More... →

CodeFights brings together coding challenges and skills-based recruiting. The company, which competes with the likes of HackerRank, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round led by e.ventures. As CodeFights CEO and founder Tigran Sloyan told me, the company’s user base has grown 10x since it announced its $2.4 million seed funding round last April. He attributes… Read More... →

Google разместила баннеры на сайте Mashable со словами: «Pixel, телефон от Google. Наслаждайтесь своим любимым контентом без рекламы». Почти во всех версиях издания нет рекламы кроме баннеров с Pixel.... →

Google AdSense объявил, что в ближайшие дни все пользователи сервиса будут автоматически переведены на новый интерфейс. Вернуться к старой версии UI можно будет в настройках. Однако в начале 2017 года она будет отключена. Google представил обновлённый интерфейс AdSense в прошлом месяце. Сначала его можно было активировать по желанию. Теперь он будет включен по умолчанию. Среди основных […]... →

Как китайский телеком-гигант выводил свой планшет на мировой рынок... →

За последний год мы внедрили в MegaIndex множество современных и модных алгоритмов, которые помогают оптимизатору (LSI, LDA, word2vec и т.д.) Все эти параметры и алгоритмы сложны для понимания, но их было необходимо использовать для достижения высокого качества оптимизации документов. Теперь мы постарались связать все эти параметры и показать Вам одно разумное значение, которое позволит оценить эффективность оптимизации страницы под выбранное семантическое ядро. Для этого мы несколько месяцев исследовали ко... →

Читатель vc.ru Илья Каныгин прислал в редакцию письмо о том, как он переехал в Израиль с семьёй — описал особенности жизни в новой стране, включая сложности с трудоустройством, медицину и плохой сервис, а также достоинства — климат, безопасность и отношение к бюрократии.... →

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong just announced internally that there will be layoffs across AOL’s global workforce (AOL is TechCrunch’s parent company). The company will focus on mobile, video and data across two business units — media and platforms. While the company doesn’t say exactly how many people will be affected by these layoffs, it is going to impact different teams… Read More... →

Директор по маркетингу и развитию бизнеса соцсети «Одноклассники» объявил о своём уходе из компании. Об этом он сообщил на своей странице в Facebook.... →