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Сооснователь Copiny.com Дмитрий Чистов закрыл свой проект — систему обработки заявок по электронной почте для малого и среднего бизнеса Дмитрий рассказал Firrma, что причина закрытая в том, что «без личного участия не летит»: «Тут либо ты должен впрячься в свой проект фуллтайм и фигачить до победного, либо должен выступать в роли ангела/инвестора, когда есть готовый предприниматель со своей идеей. Иначе не работает.»  По словам Дмитрия Чистова, за год он сменил четыре руководителя проекта и потратил «нескол... →

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Без «помощи» Еврокомиссии Microsoft зарабатывал на классическом Android и поддерживал «собственный» Cyanogen, поэтому потеря интереса к проблемам «Яндекса» на Android выглядит логично.... →

Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look. Read More... →

Tech’s freshman class of diversity and inclusion leaders gathered at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s PUSHTech 2020 conference today to answer the question, “What now?” Within the last six months, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitter and Intuit have all hired employees charged with correcting their diversity problems. Read More... →

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NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne for a $67 million contract to develop an advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) system for future deep-space missions. In a press release, NASA stated that the propulsion system could be used on robotic missions to an asteroid and in other missions related to their Journey to Mars program. Compared to chemical propulsion (the type of propulsion that… Read More... →

Computers and mobile devices running rich operating systems have a plethora of security solutions and encryption protocols from which to choose that can protect them against the multitude of threats they face as soon as they become connected to the Internet. Such is not the case with IoT. Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

It has been a dry year for tech IPOs. Up until today’s SecureWorks offering, there had been zero in the U.S. in 2016. Zero. So tech investors and late stage private companies were watching SecureWorks closely, to see if the tech IPO window would reopen. It is one of the few indications we have right now to assess public investor appetite for tech IPOs. Unfortunately, SecureWorks… Read More... →

Swarms of drones flying in terrifyingly perfect formation could be one step closer, thanks to a control algorithm being developed at MIT. Read More... →

Few — though not most — see what’s coming next, too, and that’s women VCs, taking their place alongside men, in equal, or nearly equal, numbers. In fact, we’d argue that the shift will represent the biggest opportunity over the next decade. It may be hard to believe, given the wealth of attention paid to the low numbers of women playing a meaningful role in the… Read More... →

What if energy ‘agents’ could help us make better choices to cut costs and save the planet? Read More... →

Apple has historically doled out annual awards to those third-party app developers who it believes have created the best apps and games over the past 12 months. Now, Google is launching its own take on app awards with the debut of what it’s calling the “Google Play Awards.” But while familiar in concept, Google’s version will tweak the formula somewhat from… Read More... →

Геймдизайнер Nival Анатолий Шестов опубликовал в своём блоге перевод очередной лекции курса «Принципы игрового баланса» игрового дизайнера Яна Шрайбера, который работал над такими проектами, как Marvel Trading Card Game и Playboy: the Mansion.Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод с разрешения Шестова.... →

Intel is widely seen as a leader around corporate diversity in tech. But, it turns out some Intel employees are not happy with the company’s stance on it. In fact, there’s “been a bit of a backlash within the company” and even threats made towards the company’s senior leadership team, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told Rev. Jesse Jackson on stage at the… Read More... →

Некоторые компании выстраивают на провокациях всю маркетинговую и PR-стратегию, другие используют эпатаж время от времени. Редакция vc.ru рассмотрела примеры вызывающего креатива и узнала у специалистов по рекламе, когда стоит его использовать, а когда — нет.... →

It’s been exactly two years since Casper started selling mattresses, and CEO Philip Krim said it’s already turned into a big business, with $100 million in revenue (not to mention a $550 million valuation) in 2015. Next up is international expansion, with the New York City-headquartered startup opening an office in Berlin. That office currently has four employees, but Krim said… Read More... →

Не менее половины представителей малого бизнеса в США предпочитают продвигать свой бизнес на Facebook за счёт достижения органического охвата. При этом 61% из тех, кто всё-таки инвестирует в платную рекламу в социальной сети, тратят на неё менее $50 в месяц. К такому выводу пришло независимое аналитическое агентство Alignable, изучив статистику по 1 200 мелким и средним компаниям, ведущим свой бизнес преимущественно в Серверной Америке. Выяснилось, что большинство представителей малого бизнеса использует с... →