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Coupa was off to the races when it went public on Thursday. The “spend management” software company priced its IPO at $18 and saw its shares almost double during its first day of trading. With clients like Nike and Toyota, Coupa helps companies keep tabs on everyday expenditures and competes with divisions of Oracle and SAP. Founded a decade ago, they claim they’ve saved… Read More... →

Kodak accidentally teased an upcoming phone today in a now-deleted tweet. Fortunately, the image accompanying the tweet is also easily found at Kodakphones.com. Read More... →

A group of Democratic senators asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate cell site simulators like Stingrays to determine if the surveillance devices used my local law enforcement agencies are disrupting cellphone service for ordinary consumers and 911 calls. The senators are also asking the FCC to look into whether Stingray use disproportionately affects people of color.… Read More... →

Как это поможет «Яндексу» с финансовой точки зрения? Кроме очевидного способа взимать комиссию за проведение платежей, «Яндекс» может предлагать преодолевать часть маршрута с помощью Яндекс.Такси.... →

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher. The company most-recently raised $1.8 billion in a financing round in May this year. The company has around 150 million daily active users, and leaked documents reported by… Read More... →

Oculus wants to make sure the next computing platform isn’t dominated by white males like the last ones. The company has announced it will put $10 million towards supporting VR app and video creators of diverse backgrounds, including women and people of color. This comes alongside over $250 million in investments from Facebook and Oculus to help developers accelerate the… Read More... →

VR has been pretty expensive to get going with, but it’s slowly getting cheaper. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced some changes to the minimum PC spec requirements required for Rift at the company’s developers conference, a move that will likely open up the platform to a much wider audience. Now, a PC with an Nvidia 960 graphics card and an Intel i3-6100 CPU will be able to… Read More... →

Новая 32-километровая линия квантовой связи проработала в полностью автоматическом режиме 22 дня... →

Разработчик приложения «Антиколлектор» Евгений Пятковский открыл в Новосибирске детский сад для взрослых «Город детства». Проект ориентирован в первую очередь на бизнесменов, рассказал его автор изданию VN.ru.... →

Art filter photo app Prisma is adding a big new feature to its iOS app in an update landing today: support for videos. The app, which lets people turn their selfies into cartoonies by using deep learning algorithms to process photos in various graphic styles, quickly surged to millions of downloads in a viral splash after launching this summer. And just as quickly spawning a rash of… Read More... →

Onstage at the Oculus Connect 3 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a Facebook Messenger video call from his wife while in the new social VR environment. It appears that Facebook is finally confident enough with its VR arm that it’s willing to promote cross-network compatibility. The Messenger video call which came from his wife Priscilla Chan while she was at work, popped… Read More... →

Ранее все автомобили обязали оснащать подушками безопасности.... →

По результатам можно будет устроиться на работу.... →

After making us wait more than 16 months, Oculus finally clued us into some more details on their Touch motion controllers for the Rift virtual reality headset. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced onstage at the company’s third annual Oculus Connect developer conference that Touch will be arriving November 23  for $199. with pre-orders going live October 10. Two Titles: VR Sports and… Read More... →

The internet was a revolution because it reorganized a large part of the economy and society around the network structure, becoming a fantastic medium for commerce, finance, power and culture. It also definitely changed our perception of time and space. We now live in a globalized and connected world where information flows at the speed of light. But what about data? Read More... →

Emburse launched last year seeking out businesses that wanted to handle one-time or a few expenses through issuing prepaid corporate debit cards. But it may be that the market, which is filled with a disparate different kinds of tools, needs a more generalized approach. So to move beyond that, Emburse said it is opening up its service to integrate with other operations, such as building bots… Read More... →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage today at the Oculus Connect developers conference and showed off a taste of the company’s mobile VR future. The hallmark feature of the new prototype standalone headset is positional tracking. In a brief demo video, the headset appeared to be a modified Rift with a compute module embedded into the back of the headset. This positional… Read More... →

Twitter has performed incredibly well on the stock market for the past couple of weeks. But the honeymoon is over as it’s back to reality and correction time. Twitter shares are currently down 20.06 percent to $19.88 compared to yesterday’s closing price of $24.87. So what happened? Recode has published multiple reports saying that many of the companies that were looking at Twitter… Read More... →

6 октября состоялся финал конкурса Gotech. Победителями стали проекты: Платформа виртуальной реальности Fibrum Platform (Москва) в категории «успешный бизнес». ALT: Anti-latency tracker (Воронеж) в разделе «прорывная технология». Компания разработала компактный беспроводной трекер, позволяющий создать MotionParallax3D дисплей на основе обычного 3D-монитора или 3D-телевизора. Победители получили возможность участвовать в акселераторе Starta Accelerator в Нью-Йорке, также смогут участвовать в крупнейших м... →

Today on stage at Oculus’ Connect conference, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated a new facial tracking social VR experience that overlays VR avatars of friends elsewhere on top of your vision. Zuckerberg said the first step to the VR revolution is “getting the basic hardware out there” which Oculus, HTC, and others are doing. He admitted the Rift rolled out with “a little bit… Read More... →