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Онлайн-кинотеатр Megogo готовит к запуску рекламную технологию распознавания образов в потоковом видео, основанную на компьютерном зрении и нейронных сетях. Это позволит показывать рекламу товара в момент появления в кадре аналогичного предмета во время просмотра фильма, рассказали «Коммерсанту» представители сервиса.... →

Онлайн-кинотеатр освоит распознавание образов в потоковом видео... →

Основатель агентства Crispin Porter + Bogusky Чак Портер, который однажды входил в состав жюри рекламного фестиваля «Каннские львы», порассуждал о ценности премии для небольших студий и крупных брендов.... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

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Госдума в третьем чтении приняла законопроект, обязывающий иностранные компании оплачивать НДС при продаже контента в России.... →

К открытию Евро-2016 вспомнаем наиболее яркие рекламные кампании в Twitter во время ЧМ-2014... →

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has agreed to acquire cloud-computing company Joyent. In a statement, the Korean tech giant said that the transaction (its financial terms were undisclosed) will allow it to grow its cloud-based services for its smartphones and Internet-connected devices. Read More... →

Traffic ticket fighting App Fixed acquired by law firm, Facebook suicide prevention tools are now worldwide, iOS apps are switching to HTTPS connections, Spotify and Bumble partner up, A new FB messenger soccer game. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Payoff, a 7.5-year-old Costa Mesa, Ca., startup that makes loans to help people pay off credit card debt, has just raised a bunch of money, and it’s looking to raise even more. According to a new SEC filing, the company has raised $46.7 million as part of a round expected to close at $67.4 million. The company had previously raised $38.4 million from investors, including FirstMark… Read More... →

Didi Chuxing, the largest ride-hailing app in China, confirmed today that it has closed a $7.3 billion financing round that includes its recent investments from Apple and China Life. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, whose sources say Didi Chuxing’s valuation is now pegged at more than $25 billion. Read More... →

I don’t want VR to be boring. It’s strange to think that something so futuristic and promising, something we’ve looked forward to for decades, could be boring, but I can’t deny it, since experienced it myself. The fact is that with hundreds of companies joining the VR gold rush, we’re going to be panning a lot of silt for every grain of gold. Read More... →

Performance Horizon, a company aiming to help advertisers manage their relationships with marketing partners, is announcing that it has raised $15.4 million in Series C funding. The company’ says that with its software, brands and agencies can bypass the affiliate networks that online publishers usually rely on to get paid by marketers for driving purchases or other consumer actions. Read More... →

Posted by RuthBurrReedy[Estimated read time: 16 minutes] On February 17th, sports news and opinion blog SB Nation posted a longform story titled “Who is Daniel Holtzclaw?” The story, which took a sympathetic viewpoint on convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, sparked a huge amount of controversy among SB Nation readers and garnered the blog a great deal of media attention. It took less than 24 hours for SB Nation to pull the piece, calling it “a complete failure.” In the aftermath, SB Nation’s parent company, V... →

We’ve become accustomed to staying connected whenever and wherever we are. All this connectivity is great, but it has also blinded us to the associated risks of being online at all times. Connected devices — especially smartphones — are vulnerable to cyber attacks, so security is of the upmost importance. Just a little further down the road is the next major connected device:… Read More... →

The FBI steadily, stealthily compiled a massive facial recognition database without oversight and in disregard of federal law, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. The bombshell report reveals that the FBI dipped into driver’s license photo databases from 16 states, as well as passport and visa photo databases from the State Department, feeding… Read More... →

The Apple Watch needs an action button. Something to allow you to confirm, acknowledge, activate and navigate using a physical press. There’s even a button right there, on the side, waiting for the task. The button, located right below the scroll wheel, was originally used by Apple for the People function. So few folks used this feature that Apple is canning it in watchOS 3 and replacing… Read More... →

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In these earliest days of commercial viability, virtual reality is running up against the same wall as so many technologies before it: how does a company translate it for the majority of consumers who won’t be able to demo it in the wild? HTC’s mixed reality is an interesting sort of work around, adding augmented reality to the equation, in order to offer a sort of voyeuristic… Read More... →

The very mention of e-sports tends to conjure up titles like Bethesda’s Quake, the arena shooter, or Valve’s Dota 2 and Riot’s League of Legends, both arena battle games, which are played by professionals for piles of cash with prize pools in the millions of dollars. But a San Francisco startup called Skillz paid out 21% of last year’s e-sports prizes worldwide, and is… Read More... →