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Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Soko Jewelry, с помощью которого пользователи могут приобрести ювелирные украшения, созданные в бедных регионах Африки.... →

"Российские железные дороги" уже создали рабочую группу с компанией Hyperloop One... →

Netflix запустил сервис, позволяющий измерить скорость интернет-соединения.... →

«Вымпелком» (бренд «Билайн») и «Мегафон», которым принадлежит по 50% «Евросети», ведут переговоры о разделении торговой сети, пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на собственные источники. Сам бренд ритейлера при этом может исчезнуть.... →

Apple CEO Tim Cook is having a busy week traveling to Asia’s two biggest countries. Last week, he was in China where Apple announced a landmark billion dollar investment in Uber rival Didi Chuxing, this week it is India where the announcements are continuing to flow. Read More... →

Troubled bio-tech startup Theranos has told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that it voided two years of results from the blood tests that it once staked its future on, reports the Wall Street Journal. All results taken from its Edison blood-testing devices in 2014 and 2015 were thrown out and updated reports sent to doctors. Read More... →

Корпорация объявила о делистинге... →

"МегаФон" и "Вымпелком" поделят "Евросеть" пополам... →

РЖД и Hyperloop One создали рабочую группу для обсуждения возможностей сотрудничества.... →

Gogoprint is a new company based in Thailand that wants to bring the benefits of the Internet to the printing industry in Southeast Asia. Read More... →

Tattoo culture has pretty much gone mainstream. Tattooing is the sixth fastest growing market in the retail industry with about 30% of Americans getting them now. Thus Tattoodo started out as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related,” with content, community and a marketplace. Think Pinterest for Tattoos, almost. Back in February we reported that the… Read More... →

Posted by Laura.Lippay[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] (header image photo by H.L.W. from the Blind Photographers Flickr Group.) Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 39 million people are blind. 285 million are visually impaired. 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — have some form of disability. Disabilities can come in many shapes and forms: physical, cognitive, visual, hearing. How does someone who is blind check their email? How does someone who can’t hear decipher any of the tens... →

Orion Health is a New Zealand-founded (now global) provider of technology products developed for the health sector. Orion’s founder and CEO, Ian McCrae, argues that current approaches to patient information are akin to the Victorian era, when a surgeon’s blood-stained uniform was a source of great pride because it showed medical expertise. In McCrae’s view, today’s… Read More... →

An accelerator called HAX held its eighth Demo Day for hardware startups in San Francisco yesterday. Best known for bringing companies in its portfolio to Shenzhen, China for about 15 weeks to get to know everything they can about manufacturing there, Hax is funded by SOS Ventures. The firm spins out accelerators to focus on different problems or technologies about every two years and is also… Read More... →

The HAX hardware accelerator held its 8th Demo Day in San Francisco yesterday. While all fifteen companies in the latest batch hold promise, and encompass some very wild ambitions, these three stood out thanks to creative applications of advanced tech to sometimes overlooked, but truly massive potential markets. Rovenso Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Rovenso is adapting technology created… Read More... →

Another year, another Google I/O Keynote slammed with back-to-back announcements. Miss our liveblog earlier? Don’t have time to catch up on every last bit of news? Don’t sweat it: we’ve compressed the most important bits into bite-sized morsels for lightning fast perusal. Ready? Read More... →

French startup Shift Technology just raised a $10 million Series A round from Accel, with existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris Capital also participating. Shift Technology uses big data and machine learning to detect patterns of fraudulent insurance claims. This way, insurance companies can save money. Read More... →

More evidence of European VC stocking up before a potential LP winter. This time it’s the turn of e.ventures, which has closed a new $150 million early-stage fund to invest in European startups. Read More... →

Ещё одной причиной увольнения ключевых редакторов из РБК стала иллюстрация к материалу про офшоры — на снимке был Путин, хотя его фамилии нет в "Панамском досье" .... →

Google announced its new messaging app Allo at its I/O developers conference today, and it looks pretty cool. It’s a feature-rich interface with graphics and doodles, and it works with Google Assistant to make suggestions and schedule plans. Allo even has an option for users to send their messages using end-to-end encryption, a security feature that has become increasingly popular and is… Read More... →