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It’s time. The TC Pitch-offs are just a couple short weeks away, and applications for the competition close on Friday. That means you have only two days to get in on the action. Ten companies will be given 60 seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of judges, including TC editors and local VCs. The judges, along with the audience, will help determine three winners. First place gets a… Read More... →

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said today on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference that Peter Thiel would remain on the company’s board of directors despite the controversy surround his involvement in a lawsuit against Gawker. It was revealed that Thiel was backing Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit against Gawker that’s raised questions about future of free… Read More... →

Игра TurnOn от пермской студии Brainy Studio вчера поступила в продажу на Xbox One и в Steam. Это первая русская игра для приставки от Microsoft.... →

Online harassment is no good. Unfortunately, 40 percent of all people on the Internet report experiencing some form of harassment online and 70 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 24 have been targeted, according to Pew Research Center. “A young person who was being bullied a few generations ago could escape the abuse by going home,” Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s… Read More... →

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has come out and said that racism and discrimination is not allowed on the platform. This comes after an Airbnb host in North Carolina canceled on a black person and sent her a slew of racist insults. Chesky also said Airbnb has permanently banned the host. “The incident in NC was disturbing and unacceptable,” Chesky wrote in a tweet today. “Racism… Read More... →

Американский актер и сценарист Джерри Сайнфелд заявил на одном из своих шоу, что публичные выступления являются людским страхом №1, и даже смерть находится на втором месте. Чтобы побороть эту боязнь и сделать своих сотрудников более уверенными во время презентаций перед клиентами, руководители американского агентства Horizon Media устраивают в офисе классы импровизации с приглашением разных стендап-комиков. Редакция vc.ru узнала, какие приемы используют российские рекламные компании, чтобы развиваться в нов... →

Часть стоимости дорогой "Porsche Panamera" или Audi автоконцерну заплатит владелец машины. Недостающую часть Volkswagen заплатят пассажиры Gett.... →

There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Google will end up building its own phone. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had sort of an answer on stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference: “Our plan is still to work with OEMs to make phones.” That’s not entirely a yes or a no, but for the most part, it seems like Google isn’t yet ready to reveal its cards when it… Read More... →

Facebook has started rolling out a more diverse set of emojis to its Messenger service on the web, iOS and Android. With the update, you’ll have access to over 1,500 new emojis — 100 of which were designed “to better reflect gender and skin tones” with gender-agnostic options and multi-colored emojis. “We’re diversifying the genders to create a more… Read More... →

Такси-сервис Gett и автоконцерн Volkswagen обсуждают создание нового приложения для заказа поездок. Об этом сообщает газета Financial Times.... →

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Apple has just issued invites for its next press event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Like in previous years, the event is going to happen on June 13 at 10 AM PT on the first day of WWDC. As always, it’s unclear what the company is going to announce. But there are some likely possibilities. Read More... →

Google Fiber, the company’s steadily expanding gigabit internet service, will now more easily work with Google Cast – the technology that powers Chromecast – the company announced this morning. Instead of requiring subscribers to use a device like Chromecast, Google Cast will actually be integrated directly into their Fiber TV Box, says Google. This allows customers to… Read More... →

Поможет ли относительно новый тренд преодолеть среднему и малому бизнесу очередной финансовый коллапс? Как «примерить» на себя это тренд интернет-магазинам?.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — iOS-приложение Shaker. Оно помогает пользователю, который уже находится в баре, выбрать лучший для него бар в пешей доступности, а затем строит маршрут или предлагает вызвать Uber. Передаем микрофон.... →

TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on June 16th! Pejman Nozad, Mar Hershenson, Ajay Kamat and Neda Blocho from Pejman Mar Ventures, along with Adam Plotkin from ffVC, will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to… Read More... →

Apple rolled out a small but interesting change to its Apple TV App Store Top Charts recently, which, for the first time, are now personalized to the individual user. Instead of simply showing a list of the Top Paid, Top Free and Top Grossing apps on the platform, the charts are now hiding listings for those TV apps you already have installed. The change was initially noticed by app… Read More... →

CoreOS today announced the launch of Torus, its latest open source project. Just like CoreOS’s other projects, Torus is all about giving startups and enterprises access to the same kind of technologies that web-scale companies like Google already use internally. In the case of Torus, that’s distributed storage. The idea behind Torus is to give developers access to a reliable and… Read More... →

Руководство Instagram задумалось о введении системы денежных поощрений для пользователей. Об этом пишет Bloomberg со ссылкой на вице-президента по глобальным маркетинговым решениям Facebook (материнской компании Instagram) Кэролин Эверсон.... →

The fastest way to learn everything going on in tech is to read this report. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker has become a legend for publishing these compilations of the most critical stats and trends about how technology is evolving. From the funding climate to smartphone adoption to the tech giants to cutting-edge inventions, the Mary Meeker Internet Trends report has it all.… Read More... →