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For those who follow technological innovation, it can often seem like certain areas of investor enthusiasm come out of nowhere — suddenly and with huge momentum. The wave analogy is often used, and not incorrectly — fevered investment propels increasing interest and drives new opportunistic entrepreneurs into a specific industry area, building until it inevitably crashes as… Read More... →

Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, has partnered with NASA to fly and test technology payloads on suborbital flights with the New Shepard launch vehicle. Bezos’ company is the sixth partner that NASA has selected through the Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Flight and Payload Integration Services program. Blue Origin will compete with the other companies,… Read More... →

Cover up your webcam, disable microphone access, and put on your tinfoil hat — but it won’t make any difference, because the Illuminati can get at you through your phone’s vibration motor now. Well, kind of, anyway. Your best defense? Talk in a high voice. Read More... →

Posted by Laura.Lippay[Estimated read time: 12 minutes] (header photo is the search result for "scene" in the Blind Photographers Flickr photo pool.) In the first two posts in this series we covered site and page structure overlaps, and formatting and linking overlaps. In this final post we’ll cover accessibility and SEO overlaps when coding for media elements. Images and non-text elementsAs you can imagine, images online can be problematic for visually impaired visitors to decipher, but luckily we’re using... →

As two Senators battled in the 2008 Democratic primaries, several Silicon Valley CEOs and investors poured early financing into one particular candidate — Hillary Clinton. Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter, Uber, and Instagram also bet early on Clinton, contributing to her campaign in July 2006. Bill Gates and Sheryl Sandberg both contributed to Clinton in 2007, before… Read More... →

I can’t help but think about shock collars when I wrap the bright orange silicone around my wrist. They’ve always seemed fairly cruel. And yet, here I go, putting one on myself — not for barking or wandering out of the yard, but for the crime of having a hard time getting my butt out of bed at 6AM. And while I certainly have more agency in the matter, the comparison… Read More... →

Hibob — yes we’re running that low on company names — is a new U.K. startup building out a cloud platform that helps businesses manage their people. Read More... →

Watch out, global supercomputer top 5, there’s a new contender. Or at least there will be soon, once the $30 million Stampede 2 is up and running. With 18 petaflops peak processing capacity, the new system will stand shoulder to shoulder with Cray’s Titan and IBM’s Sequoia — though a good deal behind China’s Tianhe-2. Read More... →

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Figure1, which started out as a photo-sharing app for medical professionals, has quietly added direct messaging to its platform, showing signs the startup wants to be more of a Facebook and less of an Instagram in its field. Toronto and New York-based Figure1 only allows full access to its platform to users who are verified medical professionals or students including: doctors, nurses,… Read More... →

T-Mobile had another of its un-carrier events today, which now have so many regular giveaways they are starting to look like an episode of Oprah. First, the company announced that every current T-Mobile account holder on a postpaid plan will get one share of common stock in the company, which is currently worth about $43. New qualifying customers will also get one share once they sign up… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

«Бесплатные мессенджеры» в роуминге, вероятно, не каннибализируют выручку с существующей интернет-продвинутой аудитории Yota. В силу разницы между аудиториями у операторов, конкурентам пока нечем «ответить» Yota.... →

Образовательная программа Rusbase и EVA Fund для начинающих инвесторов... →

“Sometimes I think back on that moment and think I must have been utterly insane,” Kegan Schouwenburg says with a laugh. “In retrospect, we were bringing out a new product with a new method in the medical sector, and we were going to work with doctors and sell a product through an app in an entirely new way that people have never used to buy products before.” A veteran… Read More... →

Корпорация Microsoft представила новый сервис для своего пакета офисных приложений Office — менеджер задач Planner. Этот проект по внешнему виду и принципу работы напоминает популярный сервис Trello, отмечает TechCrunch.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение Dublway, с которым владельцы автомобилей и пассажиры могут найти попутчика для совместной поездки на работу, учебу, в аэропорт или в супермаркет. Передаем микрофон.... →

Российский ритейлер «Юлмарт» решил проводить аукционы на товары и сейчас ищет руководителя для этого направления. Об этом пишут «Ведомости».... →

Согласно отчету исследовательской компании Kauffman Index, 2015 год стал самым благоприятным для стартап-индустрии. Об этом свидетельствуют показатели роста проектов в 13 крупнейших городах США.... →

Еженедельная подборка новостей о российском венчурном рынке за прошедшие семь дней.... →