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Google announced today that it will no longer allow payday lenders to advertise on its systems because the loans often come with high interest rates and quick repayment requirements that push borrowers into debt. “When reviewing our policies, research has shown that these loans can result in unaffordable payment and high default rates for users,” Google’s director of… Read More... →

Законопроект Олега Михеева не прошел даже первое чтение... →

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY we had Robyn Exton of Her, Dawoon Kang of Coffee Meets Bagel and Whitney Wolfe of Bumble discuss the latest trends in the mobile dating space. Two of the apps, Her and Bumble, both let you use their platform to find friendship as well as relationships. Whitney Wolfe of Bumble said that the feature has led to tremendous engagement, and is even showing signs of… Read More... →

В компании считают, что выдающие такие микрокредиты организации часто вводят заемщиков в заблуждение... →

Earlier this year, a report in The Information claimed that Google-owned Nest was working on a rival to Amazon’s Echo — a service that would bring together a number of other connected devices and services to help people organise and manage their homes alongside Nest’s own thermostats and other products. Now it appears that some of these developments are coming to pass.… Read More... →

Google is launching an update to its Translate apps for iOS and Android today. There are three main parts to today’s announcement: offline support for iOS, Tap To Translate on Android, and Word Lens support for Chinese across platforms. With this new version, the Translate team is bringing offline support to iOS. This feature, which comes in pretty handy when you are traveling and… Read More... →

Five years have passed since Soledad O’Brien covered race in Silicon Valley as part of her documentary series Black in America. Now she’s ready to take a second look. Today, O’Brien discussed the documentary and the broader issues it raised while on-stage as part of TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY conference. She said she’s encouraged by the way the conversation has… Read More... →

Компания Brainly, инвестором которой является  венчурный фонд Runa Capital, привлекла $15 млн от южноафриканского холдинга Naspers, владеющего контрольным пакетом в Avito. Brainly – это сервис для совместного решения домашних заданий, известный в России под брендом «Знания».  Средства пойдут на ускорение роста, на дальнейшее развития образовательного сообщества – в частности, на добавление машинного обучения.  Runa Capital инвестировал в  Brainly в 2014 году. Объём раунда составил $9 млн. В сделке также уча... →

Издание Selfmadetrip рассказало об условиях для бизнеса в Австралии, перечислило документы, которые потребуются для переезда, и основные бизнес-инкубаторы и акселераторы страны.... →

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says the company is cash flow positive in some of its early markets — but the company still has to invest in its growth. That’s the reason that the company raised $127 million in a new venture financing round. But it wasn’t without hiccups: DoorDash reportedly wasn’t able to get the $1 billion valuation it was looking for, and had to settle for a… Read More... →

4 years after her appearance at Disrupt SF 2012, Jessica Alba took the Disrupt NY stage to discuss The Honest Company’s latest news. Alba started by touching on the company’s early days, which was plagued with the usual technology issues faced by young startups, like website downtime and even occasionally having to process credit cards by hand. Alba and CMO Chris Thorne then moved… Read More... →

Полиция нагрянула с обысками в офисы во Франции, Бельгии и Люксембурге... →

Вице-президент по контенту закрывшегося в декабре 2015 года сервиса Pixable Крис Андерсон опубликовал заметку, в которой рассказал об успехах и неудачах сайта с месячной аудиторией почти в 9,5 млн пользователей. По словам владельцев компании, закрыть её пришлось потому, что руководство не смогло найти новых инвесторов для проекта.... →

Компания InfoWatch Наталии Касперской создала решение для прослушивания корпоративных телефонов. Разработка вызвала споры насчет своей законности.... →

Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck launched her anticipated new startup, a digital investment platform for women called Ellevest, this morning from the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 conference’s stage. Krawcheck is not your typical startup founder, which makes her entry in the investing space particularly interesting. Prior to Ellevest, she was the president of Global Wealth and… Read More... →

Instagram впервые радикально обновил иконки своих сервисов, а также изменил дизайн основного приложения на чёрно-белый. Разработчики решили унифицировать внешний вид проектов, рассказали TJ в компании.... →

Instagram’s new icon is pink. Well, it’s pink and purple and yellow and orange. It’s definitely different. And that’s not all the company has changed today. Instagram this morning is rolling out a radical redesign of its mobile application, which not only includes this new, brightly colored app icon but also a revamped user interface that does away with color in favor of… Read More... →

Фотосервис получил новую иконку впервые за пять лет, а также обновленный интерфейс... →

I can finally tick this one of my European VCs that are raising a new fund list. Cherry Ventures, the Berlin-based VC, has raised a new €150 million early-stage fund, its second fund since coming into existence. Read More... →

Главные выводы с конференции DroidCon... →